President, Paolo Procacci Foundation (FPP), Rome, Italy;
Coordinator, VIBRA Group (Visionary International Board for Research and Analgesia), Research Department of the Paolo Procacci Foundation; 
Honorary Professor of Pain Medicine, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq.

Giustino Varrassi is a physician-scientist and former Full Professor and Chair of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the University of L’Aquila, Italy. His academic and scientific activity has focused on anesthesiology, perioperative medicine, and pain medicine, with extensive experience in international scientific leadership, research, medical education, and scientific publishing. He currently serves as President of the Paolo Procacci Foundation, coordinates its VIBRA research group, and is Editor-in-Chief of Pain and Therapy and Anesthesiology Insights.

Advisory Board Member: New York School of Regional Anesthesia (NYSORA)
Co-founder: Middle East Pain Academy (MEPA)
Vice President: Medical Ozone Society
Executive Board Alternate Member: Turkish Multidisciplinary Ultrasound Society
Editorial Board Member: Anesthesia, Pain & Intensive Care
Editorial Board Member: Advancements in Health Research
Scientific Board Member: Morphological Madrid Research Center (MoMaRC)
Faculty: Gulf Pain School
Faculty: International Diploma of Interventional Pain Medicine, Univ. of Montpellier
Examiner: COMSK 

Former Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs, Chief Academic Officer, and Provost;
Pain Fellowship Director, Vice-Chair Research, Tenured Professor, Departments of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology, Toxicology, & Neurosciences;
Editor-in-Chief: Pain Physician Journal and Current Pain and Headache Reports-Pain Section

Head of Anesthesiology Department, Hellenic HealthCare Group Institution (HHG), Heraklion, Crete, Greece;
President Elect, European Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Therapy (ESRA);
Vice Chair, ESRA Hellas;
Former ESRA Treasurer and ESRA Board Member;
EDRA Diplomat and EDRA Examiner;
Section Editor (Regional Anaesthesia), Signa Vitae Journal;
Editorial Board Member / Reviewer: Pain Practice, Journal of Minimally Access Surgery, Journal of Anesthesiology & Clinical Pharmacology, Cureus Journal, Clinical Pharmacology and Pain Research & Treatment Journal;
PhD (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), MSc Health Care Management (University of Cyprus)

From a University Perspective

• University Professor Lleida University (UDL).
• Director of the Department of Surgery of the University of Lleida. Spain

From a Clinical Perspective

-Former:

- Head of Department of the Anesthesiology, Resuscitation and Pain Clinic of the University Hospitals:

• Can Ruti. Badalona  
• Bellvitge. Barcelona
• Arnau of Vilanova. Lleida
• Former coordinator of the Musculoskeletal Pain Training Group of the Spanish Pain Society. Madrid. Spain

-Actual:

• Territorial Director of Pain Treatment. Lleida. Spain
• Director of the Pain Clinic at the HLA Hospital in Lleida.

From an Academic Perspective:

• Acadèmic Numerari Electe of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Catalonia. Barcelona.

From a scientific point of view:

• Professor of more than 160 courses and seminars.
• Author to 32 book capitols.
• Principal investigator in 22 multicentric clinical trials in pain
• Author of 79 articles in national and 33 international magazines
• Presentations at national and 48 international conferences.
• Director of 11 Doctoral Theses.

From the Society point of view

• Member of the Spanish Pain Society
• IASP Membership
• Member of the European Regional Analgesia Society
• Member of the Spanish Society of Anesthesiology and Pain Treatment
• Past President of the Catalan Pain Society

Physician-scientist, pain researcher, clinical trialist, editor, educator, and healthcare executive with more than 25 years of experience spanning pain medicine, anesthesiology, critical care, clinical pharmacology, perioperative safety, opioid-related harm, and translational research. More than 300 peer-reviewed publications; h-index reported as 67 in the April 2026 academic CV; recognized in 2024 on the Elsevier/Stanford list of the world's top 2% most-cited scientists. Thirteen years as Editor-in-Chief of The Clinical Researcher; longstanding editorial and Peer-Review service across pain and clinical research journals; and Chair of PAINWeek scientific poster and abstract activities, 2008-2026.

EDITORIAL LEADERSHIP & PEER REVIEW 
2000–2013  Editor-in-Chief, The Clinical Researcher, REMEDICA Publishing Ltd., London
2005–Present  Section Editor, Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, The Scientific World Journal
2007–Present  Clinical Research / Pain Section Editor, Pain Medicine News
2007–Present  Honorary Editorial Board, International Journal of Nanomedicine
2008–Present  Guest Editor / Reviewer, Pain Medicine

PAIN SCIENCE, EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP
2008–2026  Chair, PAINWeek scientific poster and abstract activities; multidisciplinary pain-science review and programming.
2014–2021  Chair, PAIN Clinical Trials educational program, PAINWeek: Building a Better Analgesic Research Team.
2012–2014  Co-Chair, Analgesic Clinical Trials CME, PAINWeek.
2009–2014  Facilitator and U.S. Board Member, CHANGE PAIN- Chronic Pain international initiative.
2013–2016  Facilitator and U.S. Board Member, CHANGE PAIN - Acute Pain international initiative.
2010–2016  U.S. National Faculty, Pathophysiology of Pain: Mechanism and Manifestations.
2015–Present  Pain Research Forum Advisory Panel, Harvard NeuroDiscovery Center / Harvard Medical School.
2023–Present  College on Problems of Drug Dependence, Regular Member.
2023–Present  Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation advisory work addressing opioid-related harm.

FEDERAL SCIENTIFIC, REGULATORY & REVIEW SERVICE 
2024–Present  NIH/NIDA SBIR/STTR Special Emphasis Panel reviewer.
2023–Present  National Institute on Drug Abuse / NIH Grant Reviewer.
2025  NIH HSR-5 Reviewer.

CURRENT & SELECTED PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2020–Present  Chief Research and Development Officer / senior clinical-development leadership, Enalare Therapeutics Inc.
2004–Present  Founder / Owner, NEMA Research Inc.; clinical research organization supporting multi-site clinical development.
2001–Present  Senior Partner / Owner, Pain Medicine, Naples Anesthesia and Pain Associates, Naples, Florida.

Dr. Martina Rekatsina, MD, MSc, PhD, ESRA-DPM, FFPMRCA, is Assistant Professor of Anaesthesiology & Pain Management at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Honorary Associate Professor at University College London. She completed her anaesthesiology training in Greece and her advanced pain training in London, followed by a Fellowship in Neuromodulation in Essex, UK, and holds the Fellowship of the Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Royal College of Anaesthetists. Since returning to Athens in 2022, she leads clinical and academic work in interventional pain medicine. She is an ESRA-DPM examiner and a board member of ESRA-DPM, ESRA Hellas and the Hellenic Society of Algology and Palliative Care (PARHSYA). Her research focuses on chronic and cancer pain, neuromodulation and regional anaesthesia, and she has co-authored international evidence-based guidelines on spinal procedures for chronic pain.