Hemant Kalia, MD

Hemant Kalia, MD, MPH, FIPP, FAAPMR, serves as Vice President, Office of Reimbursement & Regulatory Affairs for the American Society of Pain and Neuroscience (ASPN), where he also co-chairs the Advocacy & Policy Committee and the Cancer Pain Committee. He is Founder and Medical Director of Savya Neuroscience Institute in Rochester, New York, a practice focused on interventional spine, pain, and regenerative medicine that he has led since 2007.

Dr. Kalia earned his medical degree from Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College in Indore, India, and a Master of Public Health from Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky. He completed dual residencies at the University of Rochester Medical Center — in Preventive Medicine & Public Health and in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation — followed by an ACGME-accredited Pain Medicine fellowship, also at the University of Rochester. He subsequently earned Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP) certification from the World Institute of Pain. He is board certified in Pain Medicine and in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation.

His clinical practice centers on interventional spine care, cancer-related pain management, and advanced neuromodulation, including spinal cord stimulation, dorsal root ganglion stimulation, peripheral nerve stimulation, and intrathecal drug delivery; he is credited as the first physician to perform dorsal root ganglion and peripheral nerve stimulator implants in upstate New York. He holds academic appointments as Clinical Instructor in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Rochester and as Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Beyond ASPN, Dr. Kalia serves as Co-Chair (Vice Chair) of the Education Committee for the North American Neuromodulation Society and holds leadership roles with the Monroe County Medical Society and the New York Society of Interventional Pain Physicians. He is a co-author of ASPN’s consensus guidelines on peripheral nerve stimulation and of the North American Neuromodulation Society’s educational curriculum for peripheral nerve stimulation, and serves as a section editor for the journal Pain Practice.