Christopher Paul, MD

Christopher Paul, MD serves as Medical Director of Webinar Education and Creation for the American Society of Pain & Neuroscience (ASPN), where he helps lead the society’s webinar programming, including the ISPN Young Innovators webinar series aimed at early-career pain physicians, trainees, and fellows. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), practicing at the UAB Pain Center at UAB Hospital-Highlands and UAB Pain Treatment at Medical West in Bessemer, Alabama.

Dr. Paul earned his medical degree from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine and completed his anesthesiology residency at Saint Louis University. He went on to complete two fellowships at UAB: one in Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain, and a second in interventional chronic pain medicine, with his training emphasizing ultrasound-guided injection techniques. He is board certified by the American Board of Anesthesiology in both Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine.

Clinically and academically, Dr. Paul’s focus is neuromodulation in the treatment of chronic pain, with particular interest in expanding indications for spinal cord stimulation. He has participated in multiple national clinical trials, including studies evaluating spinal cord stimulation for painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy, and collaborates with UAB colleagues in Neurosurgery and Neurology to investigate the physiologic mechanisms underlying spinal cord stimulation’s effectiveness. Within ASPN, he has also appeared as a host and Q&A moderator for the ISPN Young Innovators webinar series, covering topics such as spinal cord stimulation, vertebrogenic pain, and restorative multifidus stimulation.