Timothy R. Deer
Editor-in-chief
Michael S. Leong
Associate Editor-in-chief
Asokumar Buvanendran • Vitaly Gordin
Philip S. Kim • Sunil J. Panchal • Albert L. Ray
Associate Editors
2013
A brand new textbook is a testament to many things—an editor’s vision, many authors’individual and collective expertise, the publisher’s commitment, and all told, thousands of hours of hard work. This book encapsulates all of this, and with its compendium of up-to-date information covering the full spectrum of the fi eld of pain medicine, it stands as an authoritative and highly practical reference for specialists and primary care clinicians alike. These attributes would be ample, in and of themselves, yet this important addition to the growing pain medicine library represents a rather novel attribute.