Skip to main content
56th ASAM Annual Conference Main banner
Final Program


Preview Program
Back

Ajay Manhapra, MD, FASAM

Section Chief, Pain Medicine, Dept. of Physical Med & Rehab Services
Hampton VA Medical Center, Hampton, VA
Norfolk, Virginia

Dr. Manhapra completed his M.B.B.S. degree from Government Medical College, Thrissur, India and Internal Medicine residency from Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI. He was a practicing internist for over a decade and then completed VA Advanced Inter-professional Fellowship in Addiction Treatment at West Haven VA Medical center, CT, affiliated to Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine. He has been a clinician, researcher and scholar focused on recovering people with pain and addiction for the past decade. He is currently the Section Chief of Pain Medicine at Hampton VA Medical Center, Hampton, Virginia and runs an interdisciplinary clinic helping people with complex chronic pain and multimorbidity find a path to functional recovery. Dr. Manhapra and colleagues pioneered the concept of complex persistent opioid dependence/opioid induced chronic pain as an explanation of ineffectiveness of long term opioid therapy and its deprescribing. Dr. Manhapra also advanced the treatment of ineffective long term opioid therapy and failed opioid taper using buprenorphine based pharmacobehavioral approaches.

Presentation(s):