2024 Scientific Planning Committee

Aneta Capraru, AGACNP-BC, BSN, RN, Swedish Hospital/Endeavor Health System 

LuAnn Cathers, RN, Clinical Nurse Manager, Outpatient Center for Pain Medicine, Royal Oak, Inpatient Acute Pain Management Team, Beaumont Health, Royal Oak, MI

Oscar Coppes, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesia, Pain Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

Alyson Engle, MD, Assistant Professor or Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

Lindsay G. Flegge, PhD, HSPP, SPC Co-Chair, Clinical Psychologist, IUHP Psychiatry/Pain Rehabilitation Program, Indianapolis, IN 

Rebecca Fleming, BS in Business Administration, U.S. Pain Foundation, Patient Panelist, Chicago, IL

Ann Marie Flores, PT, MSPT, MA, PhD, Certified Lymphedema Therapist, Associate Professor, Director of Cancer Rehabilitation, Cancer Survivorship Institute, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University; Department of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences, Department of Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

Monica L. Foster, PhD, Senior Associate Consultant, Psychiatry and Psychology & Pain Rehabilitation, Mayo Clinic Health System, La Crosse, WI

Kellie Gates, MD, Anesthesiologist and Interventional Pain Management Physician, Illinois Bone and Joint Institute, Glenview, IL

Sara Gehrig, ThD, Assistant to the Director of Mental Health and Support, U.S. Pain Foundation, Patient Panelist

Zahra Khudeira, PharmD, MA, BCPS, CPPS, PMP, Pharmacist, Mount Sinai Hospital, Chicago, IL

Alexandra Roybal, MD, Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology, Northwestern Medicine, Chicago, Il

Crystal Tracy, M.S, Psychology Graduate Student, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN

Veronica Zador, BSc., CIAYT, RYT500, SPC Co-Chair, Program Director, International Institute of Yoga Therapy, Detroit, MI