Prof Farnad Imani is currently Chair of Pain Research Center in Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS), with twenty-eight years' experience in academic postgraduate teaching in anesthesiology and pain medicine. He is founder of academic pain fellowship in Iran at 2006. His research interest includes chronic and acute pain managements, and has a special interest in the percutaneous, endoscopic, and minimal invasive procedures for spinal pain, and has more than hundred published papers in this field. Prof Imani is founder and past Editor in Chief of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine journal from 2011-2022.