NORTH AMERICAN PAIN AND DISABILITY GROUP
Gerald M. Aronoff, M.D., DABPM, FAAEP

Medical Director

• Doctor of Medicine from the New Jersey College of Medicine
  
• Residency at Harvard Medical School's McLean Hospital
  
• Fellowship in Psychosomatic/Consultation Psychiatry, Boston University Medical Center
  
• Adjunct Associate Professor at Duke Univeristy Medical Center, 2005-2009

Dr. Aronoff and consultants from NAPDG specialize in the Evaluation and Comprehensive Treatment of Chronic Pain and Disability from; Chronic Spinal Pain, Myofascial Pain and Fibromyalgia, Neuralgias, Peripheral Neuropathies and other non-cancer pain syndromes from personal and work related injuries.

Present and Past Appointments:

• 2005 Recipient GERMAN PAIN AWARD for his Contributions to the filed of Pain Management
• Medical Director, Presbyterian Center for Pain Medicine (1996-2000)
  
• Chairman, Department of Pain Medicine at Presbyterian Hospital (2002-2005)
  
• 2008 Assisted Developing guidelines for Managing Pain for Injured Workers
  
• Past President, North Carolina Pain Society
  
• Past President, American Academy of Pain Medicine
  
• Director of the Boston Pain Center (1976-1994)
  
• Past President, New England Pain Association, Eastern Pain Association, NC Pain Society
  
• Past Chairman of the American Pain Society's committee on Pain Centers
  
• CARF National Advisory Committee for Pain in 1982, 1987, and 1998
  
• Chaired the AAPM Committee looking at pain care at the end of life to establish guidelines for Euthanasia and Physician assisted suicide and served on the NC End of Life Task Force
  
• Consultant to the Worker Compensation NC I.A.B Task Force
  
• Pain Consultant to FDA Arthritis Advisory Committee (1988-1992)
  
• Honorary Chairman Republican Party Physicians Advisory Board
  
• Pain Consultant American College of Occupational and Enviroment (ACOEM)

Dr. Aronoff is the Author/Editor of 7 books and 80+ Scientific Articles on Chronic Pain. Past Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Journal of Pain; Executive Editor, PAIN PRACTICE

Dr. Aronoff is certified by:

• American Board of Pain Medicine
  
• American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
  
• American Board of Independent Medical Examiners (CABIME)
  
• American College of Forensic Examiners
  
• American Academy of Disability Physicians (AADEP)

Carolina Pain Associates
1900 Randolph Road, Suite 606
Charlotte, North Carolina 28207
Phone 704-347-3447, Fax 704-347-3440