Kendall Hansen, MD President

Kendall Hansen, MD     President

One of the first Interventional Pain Specialists in the country.

Dr. Hansen was an original board member of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians.

Board certifications include:  American Board of Anesthesiology with certificate of added qualifications in Interventional Pain Management, American Board of Pain Medicine, and is a Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice from the World Institute of Pain.

He is the founder and CEO of a large pain group with 50 employees, .......2 locations in Northern Kentucky and one in Cincinnati. 

Dr. Hansen trained at Indiana University and was Vice President of his medical class.

Kendall is also an Eagle Scout and serves of the board of the Humanitarian League, a non profit charity.

He also has additional understanding of pain from a patient's perspective, having had 4 back operations and several successful interventional pain procedures. 

Dr. Ballard Wright, M.D., Anesthesiology

Medical School

University of Kentucky College of Medicine

Lexington, Kentucky

Degree: Doctor of Medicine

Internship – Medical/Surgical

Wilford Hall USAF Hospital

San Antonio, Texas

Residency – Anesthesiology

Wilford Hall USAF Hospital

San Antonio, Texas

Fellowship – Research

Department of Clinical Psychology and Anesthesiology

University of Uppsula

Uppsula, Sweden

Certifications

American Board of Anesthesiology

American Board of Anesthesiology/Pain Management

American Board of Independent Medical Examiners

Diplomate: American Board of Pain Medicine

Diplomate: American Board of Forensic Medicine

JEFFREY P. OKESON, DMD

JEFFREY P. OKESON, DMD

 

Professor and Chairman, Department of Oral Health Science

Director, Orofacial Pain Program

University of Kentucky College of Dentistry

Lexington, KY  40536-0297

Dr. Okeson is Professor, Chairman of the Department of Oral Health Science and Director of the Orofacial Pain Center at the University of Kentucky College of Dentistry, which he established in 1977. The Center represents a multidisciplinary effort in the management of chronic orofacial pain problems. Dr. Okeson has developed several post-graduate training programs in the Center, including a Master of Science Degree in Orofacial Pain.  Dr. Okeson has more than 200 publications in the area of occlusion, TM disorders and orofacial pain in various national and international journals.  The sixth edition of Dr. Okeson's textbook Management of Temporomandibular Disorders and Occlusion is published by C. V. Mosby Publishers.  This text is used in most of the United States dental schools as well as in many other countries.  It has been translated into eleven different foreign languages. In addition to this text, Dr. Okeson has authored the sixth edition of Bell’s Orofacial Pains which is published by Quintessence Publishing Company.  This text is being widely used in orofacial pain programs throughout the world.

 

Dr. Okeson is an active member of various TMD and orofacial pain organizations holding many offices and serving on numerous committees and boards. He is a past President of the American Academy of Orofacial Pain and Past President and founding Diplomate of the American Board of Orofacial Pain. He has been active in the American Academy of Orofacial Pain developing treatment and curriculum guidelines for TM disorders and orofacial pain. He edited third edition of the AAOP guidelines entitled: “Orofacial Pain: Guidelines for Classification, Assessment, and Management published by Quintessence Publishing Company. Dr. Okeson has presented more than 650 invited lectures on the subject of TMD and orofacial pain in 48 different states and in 42 foreign countries. He has also received several awards from dental students for outstanding teaching including the University Great Teacher Award. He also received the first ever Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Kentucky College of Dentistry.

Reny de Leeuw, DDS, Ph.D.

Reny de Leeuw, DDS, Ph.D. – 

Chief, Division of Orofacial Pain

 

Dr. de Leeuw is a graduate of the University of Groningen, School of Dentistry in Groningen, The Netherlands. She completed a five-year Ph.D. Program at the University of Groningen in 1994. Her dissertation investigated the long-term outcome of osteoarthrosis and internal derangements of the TMJ.  In 1998, Dr. de Leeuw completed a 3-year residency program in Orofacial Pain at the Orofacial Pain Center of the University of Kentucky, after which she joined the faculty of the Orofacial Pain Center full-time in 1998. She is currently associate professor and chief of the division of the Orofacial Pain Center. She has published several research articles in peer-reviewed international journals.  She is the editor of the 4^th edition of the American Academy of Orofacial Pain’s guidelines on orofacial pain.  She is past President and Fellow of the American Academy of Orofacial Pain.  Her present research interests focus on the relationship between estrogen and pain in chronic orofacial pain patients as observed with functional MRI, and post traumatic stress disorder.

My current research involves the imaging of brain structures engaged in trigeminal pain processing.  In my first project, brain activity, upon stimulation of the lower jaw with painful heat, was investigated.  It was demonstrated that painful trigeminal stimulation activated brain structures similar to those that are implied in the pain pathways of other body parts.  At this time, I am evaluating whether there are differences in location and extent of brain structures activated by painful stimuli between chronic face pain patients and pain free individuals.  At the same time, I am investigating the role of estrogen level on the processing of painful stimuli in chronic face pain patients and pain free individuals.  This project is funded by COBRE/WH.

John F. Peppin, D.O.,F.A.C.P.

John F. Peppin, D.O.,F.A.C.P.,

Director Clinical Research Division
The Pain Treatment Center of the Bluegrass

Completed an Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Wisconsin, Marshfield Clinic and is board certified in Internal Medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine, in pain medicine by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, the American Academy of Pain Management, and the American Board of Pain Medicine, and in Hospice and Palliative Medicine through the American Board of Hospice and Palliative Care Medicine.  He is a certified EPEC trainer.  He was elected a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and practices pain, palliative and internal medicine in Lexington Kentucky.  He is Associate Medical Director for Hospice of the Bluegrass and Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Kentucky, College of Pharmacy.  He has published articles in the fields of pain management, palliative care and bioethics and edited a number of books and has given numerous lectures, papers and posters at conferences.  In addition, he has an active and ongoing clinical and academic research program.

Kenneth L. Kirsh, Ph.D.

Dr. Kirsh Ph.D.

Brief Biosketch

 

Kenneth L. Kirsh, Ph.D.

 

Dr. Kirsh is an assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science at the University of Kentucky (UK). A licensed clinical psychologist, his areas of interest include chronic pain management, pain and its interface with abuse and addiction, and symptom management and palliative care issues in cancer populations.

 

Dr. Kirsh is a frequent speaker at national symposia, lecturing on chronic pain, cancer, and addiction. Before coming to the UK College of Pharmacy, he was the assistant director for Symptom Management and Palliative Care at the UK Markey Cancer Center. In addition to being a Board Member of the Kentucky Pain Society, Dr. Kirsh is a member of the National Association of Drug Diversion Investigators (NADDI) and a reviewer for numerous journals, including the Journal of Opioid Management, Journal of Pain & Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy, Pain Medicine, Pain, The Journal of Pain, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, and Psycho-Oncology. Dr Kirsh has published more than 60 refereed journal articles and 30 book chapters on assessing and managing pain.

 

Dr. Kirsh completed a psychology internship at the Louis Stokes ClevelandVeterans AffairsMedical Center in Cleveland, Ohio, and received his doctorate in Clinical Rehabilitation Psychology from Indiana University–Purdue University, Indianapolis. Currently, he chairs the Hospice of the Bluegrass Research Committee and The Pain Treatment Center of the Bluegrass (PTC) Pain Committee. He also sees patients at The Pain Treatment Center of the Bluegrass. Most recently, he has been named an NIH Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) Program Scholar and is completing an NIH-funded study exploring aspects of drug abuse and diversion from the homes of hospice patients.

Robert J. Klickovich, M.D.

 

Interventional Pain Specialists   

340 Thomas More Parkway, Suite 260

Crestview Hills, KY 41017

(859) 957-0700

rjklickovich@gmail.com                       

 

Dr. Klickovich is from Louisville, Kentucky where he completed high school at St. Xavier High School.  While completing graduate and medical education at the University of Pennsylvania,  University of Oxford, National University of Singapore,   Northwestern University, and Harvard University, he has been awarded the Harry S. Truman Scholarship, William J.  Fulbright Scholar - Singapore, 1997-1998, The  Sir John and Lady Thouron Scholarship for Post-Graduate Study in the United Kingdom, and the American Pain Society Scholarship.

            Dr. Klickovich is board certified by the American Board of Anesthesiology with additional board certification in Pain Medicine by the American Board of Anesthesiology.  He has also completed certification with the World Institute as a Fellow of Interventional Pain Medicine as well as certified with the American Board of Interventional Pain Physicians.

            His research interests include neuropathic and cancer pain states, interventional modalities of treatment, opioid pharmacology, and palliative care.  His sociocultural research has focused on the interaction of ethnic belief and conventional health systems, specifically, cultural thanatology (grief and bereavement); family dynamics of illness; ethics of physician-patient relationship

            He is currently an instructor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Harvard University) and is in Private Practice with Interventional Pain Specialists in Northern Kentucky.  

 

EDUCATION:

HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL:  BRIGHAM & WOMEN’S HOSPITAL, 

Fellow in Pain Medicine - Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine

Clinical Fellow of Harvard Medical School,  July 1,  2006-June, 30 2007

 

HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL:  BRIGHAM &WOMEN’S HOSPITAL, 

Resident - Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine

Clinical Fellow of Harvard Medical School, July 2003-July 2006

 

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: EVANSTON NORTHWESTERN HEALTHCARE, 

Internal Medicine Preliminary Internship, June 2002 - June 2003 

 

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: FEINBERG SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, M.D. 

Doctor of Medicine  - 1998-2002

 

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA:  THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES,

Ph.D. Candidate, 1991-1998

Department:  Folklore and Folklife.

Concentration:  Health Belief Systems (Cultural Thanatology)

Dissertation: Studies of the Concept of Hospice in Cross-Cultural Palliative Care Settings of the U.S. and Asia.

 

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE: THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES,

Visiting Scholar, 1997-1998

Research Toward Completion of  Ph.D.

 

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD: CHRIST CHURCH COLLEGE,

Honours B.A., M.A. Oxon, 1994-1996

Department: Physiology

Concentration: Neurosciences

Dissertation: A History of Buprenorphine: an Opioid Partial Agonist-Antagonist

 

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES,

M.A., 1994

Department:  Social Gerontology

Concentration:  Social Policy & Aging

Thesis:  Health Needs of Rural Elderly Residents of Pennsylvania

 

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA:  THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES,

B.A., 1994

Major: Individualized (Medicine in Society)

 

Steven Robert Marcum, P.T., CSCS, CDEII, CELE

Steven Robert Marcum, P.T., CSCS, CDEII, CELE

Diplomate, American Board of Quality Assurance

And Utilization Review Physicians

Certified Manual Trigger Point and Dry Needling Therapy