Ramo K. Naidu, MD (also published as Ramana K. Naidu), serves as a Director at Large for the American Society of Pain & Neuroscience (ASPN). He is a board-certified anesthesiologist and pain medicine physician who serves as Medical Director of Pain Management at MarinHealth Medical Center and Medical Director of the Marin Specialty Surgery Center, practicing at the MarinHealth Spine Institute, a UCSF affiliate, in Larkspur, California.
Dr. Naidu earned his medical degree at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, completed his anesthesiology residency at the University of Washington in Seattle, and completed a pain medicine fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where he subsequently practiced for five years as an assistant professor. He is board certified by the American Board of Anesthesiology in both Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine. He was also a Fulbright Scholar in public health, working with the World Health Organization’s Regional Office for Europe in Copenhagen, Denmark, on hospital-acquired infection prevention.
His clinical and research focus centers on neuromodulation, including spinal cord stimulation, dorsal root ganglion stimulation, and peripheral nerve stimulation, alongside minimally invasive spine procedures and a multidisciplinary, opioid-sparing approach to chronic pain. He has co-authored multi-society consensus and best-practice publications on spinal cord stimulation technique and device management, and has contributed to peer-reviewed reviews of emerging neurostimulation systems.
Dr. Naidu is a co-founder of the Pacific Spine & Pain Society, where he has served in senior leadership roles including President. He is a member of numerous professional societies spanning anesthesiology, pain medicine, and neuromodulation, and is a recurring faculty member and session moderator at ASPN’s annual scientific meetings.