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Introduction
Ihsan Fahmi Shanti is a medical doctor practicing interventional pain medicine in Amman Jordan.

Early Life and Family Background
He was born in 1962 in Casablanca, Morocco into a middle class family who migrated from Palestine to Morocco. The majority of his family background was and is in Journalism. “Addefaa” Newspaper was family owned and operated by the Shanti family. It had the second largest circulation in Palestine and Jordan in the 1950s’.

Ihsan's father Dr. Fahmi Shanti was educated in Cairo’s’ Alazhar University in early 1950. This University has gained a great reputation in the Islamic world for the Excellency of its graduates. Dr. Fahmi Shanti later completed his PH.D in Arabic literature. A degree that landed him a teaching position in several Moroccan Universities. Dr. Fahmi Shanti has authored at least 45 books in many disciplines and subjects, some of which were taught in various schools in Morocco. Ihsan's father passed away in Amman Jordan in 2017.

Ihsan's mother, Darifa Shanti, is also highly educated. She continued her school in Morocco after she gave birth to five children: Sondos, Sanaa, Ihsan, Abdallah, and Bilal. Darifa completed her Masters in Arabic literature and later taught in the University. Both parents later retired and founded two private schools in Casablanca, Morocco.

Ihsan Shanti is married and is father to 4 children.

Education
Ihsan completed high school in Casablanca, Morocco with distinction; He was offered a government scholarship to study in France, however he chose to complete his education in English language.

He arrived to California in 1981 for his undergraduate degree. After that he gained a scholarship to join the prestigious King Edward medical college in Lahore, Pakistan under a specially-created presidential seat by the late president of Pakistan. Ihsan excelled in medical school and became very popular among his classmates. After his graduation, he returned to the United States of America and specifically to Boston. He joined Harvard Medical School, department of Neurosurgery, and started research projects mainly Brain tumors research, under the auspices of Dr. Peter Black, MD. He then joined Department of Surgery at St Elizabeth Medical center in Ohio and Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York to complete anesthesiology residency. Dr. Shanti was attracted to the specialty of Pain Management throughout his medical career, although it was a new specialty. He decided to join Pain management fellowship program at the prestigious Baylor College of Medicine in Houston Texas. Dr. Shanti has also earned his PH.D degree from Southwestern University in Health management. After completing his fellowship in Pain Management, Dr. Shanti joined a private practice that highly specialized in the treatment of complex and chronic Pain. The practice was one of the most reputable in the industry. Only after few months, Dr. Shanti became the medical director for more than twenty-five health workers.

Dr. Shanti was appointed and served as a representative of Moroccan Scientists in the U.S and was listed as a scientist of excellence by the Moroccan government. The purpose was then to encourage science and technology to Morocco through expatriates who would act as experts in their fields.

In 1999, Dr. Shanti became Board certified by the American Board of Anesthesiology, and in 2000 He became board certified in Pain Medicine by the same board. In 2001, Dr. Shanti founded his own private practice that specialized in Chronic Pain. His practice grew from one employee in 2001 to more than 25 within five years. In 2002, it was the only private clinic in Houston to register with the World Institute of Pain.

Professional Career
Dr. Shanti served as clinical assistant professor at Baylor College of medicine, department of Anesthesia, and was in teaching staff at Texas Institute for Rehabilitation and research, one of the top institutions in the world in Rehabilitation Medicine. Dr. Shanti authored numerous research papers, abstracts, and articles published in various scientific meeting and magazines https://actascientific.com/ASNE/pdf/ASNE-03-0195.pdf Dr. Shanti was elected “best doctor” in his specialty in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006 in Houston Texas. He was also “commanded” by the American Medical Association in 2007 for excellence in Education. Dr. Shanti was interviewed and featured many times in local and foreign radio talk and TV shows in the US and overseas by Al Jazeera news and Al Arabiya news channel and multiple radio news networks.

In 2005, Dr. Shanti was invited to join the American Moroccan Professionals Association, AMPA. The Association was founded based on the vision that successful Moroccan professionals in the US and beyond can unite to create unprecedented synergy and value. Dr. Shanti was also one of the founders of the Moroccan Society of Houston in 2005 and acted as one of its advisors. Its main objective was to strengthen, understand, coordinate, communicate, enhance, share and succeed in building a stronger Moroccan American community. In 2008, Dr. Shanti founded the Jordanian American Medical Society. The purpose of which is to unite Jordanian American doctors and health professionals in the US and to have an impact on the decision-making in health care industry in Jordan. In 2009 Dr. Shanti founded The American Clinic for Interventional Pain and Spine, the first-ever comprehensive clinic in Amman – Jordan. This practice sees patients with all sorts of pains.

Dr. Shanti has pioneered and developed a few procedures in interventional pain, such as the use of radiofrequency thermocoagulation in the treatment of cervicogenic, tension and stress headaches. He has also advanced the treatment of post-herpetic neuralgia by blocking the nerves involved using radiofrequency thermocoagulation techniques as one of the treatment modalities.

In 2018 he was appointed as a professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Management at Xavier University medical school – New York. He is currently a reviewer of many medical journals such as; Journal of Royal Medical Services, International Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Journal of Neurorestoratology. In 2018 he was elected as an honorary member of the Jordanian Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Society.