Maged N. Guirguis, MD, is Director of Centers of Excellence for the American Society of Pain & Neuroscience (ASPN). He serves as System Chair of Interventional Pain Management at Ochsner Health in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he also holds the role of Senior Physician-System Chair of Anesthesiology for the Baptist region. Dr. Guirguis is an Associate Professor with the University of Queensland-Ochsner Clinical School, where he directs the pain and palliative medicine rotation, and a Clinical Assistant Professor at Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans.
Dr. Guirguis earned his medical degree from Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt, and completed an internal medicine residency in Egypt before joining the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, where he completed a research fellowship in pain medicine, an anesthesiology residency, and a clinical fellowship in pain management. He is triple board-certified in anesthesiology, pain medicine, and headache management.
His clinical and research interests center on neuromodulation and ultrasound-guided interventions for acute and chronic pain, including spinal cord stimulation, high-frequency (10 kHz) stimulation therapies, cooled radiofrequency ablation, and treatment of painful diabetic neuropathy. He was a co-author of a randomized clinical trial on high-frequency spinal cord stimulation for painful diabetic neuropathy published in JAMA Neurology, part of a broader body of peer-reviewed research papers, book chapters, and conference presentations at national and international meetings.
Beyond his role at ASPN, Dr. Guirguis is a faculty member and meeting chairman for the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, a faculty member of the pain education committee for the American Society of Anesthesiologists, and a member of the research and education committees of the International Neuromodulation Society and the North American Neuromodulation Society.