Pankaj Mehta, MD

Pankaj Mehta, MD, serves the American Society of Pain & Neuroscience (ASPN) in a dual leadership capacity: as Ex Officio Advisor to the President and Chairman, and as Vice President of Membership and Member Engagement. He is Chief Medical Officer of Pain Specialists of America, Pain Specialists of Austin, and Central Texas Pain Center, overseeing clinical activities across a multi-site network of clinics and ambulatory surgery centers in the Austin, Killeen, and Georgetown, Texas area. He also serves as Medical Director of the PSA Surgery Center of Killeen and as Director of Research, Clinical Training, and Surgical Services across PSA’s ambulatory surgical centers.

Dr. Mehta is a board-certified anesthesiologist (Diplomate, American Board of Anesthesiology) and a Diplomate of the American Board of Pain Medicine. He trained at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where he was also awarded a Harvard fellowship supporting NIH-sponsored research into chronic opioid therapy, before completing an interventional pain fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic.

His clinical and research focus centers on neuromodulation and minimally invasive interventional therapies for spine and neck pain, spinal stenosis, headache, abdominal and pelvic pain, and complex regional pain syndrome. He leads PSA’s Minimally Invasive Spinal Therapy Team, lectures nationally on advances in interventional pain care, and holds professional memberships in the North American Neuromodulation Society, the International Neuromodulation Society, and the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians. In 2020, ASPN recognized him with its Clinical Excellence Award. He has been named a regional “Top Doctor” in multiple consecutive years.