Speaker Profile

Nelson Hendler
Former Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,

Nelson Hendler The instructor is a former assistant professor of neurosurgery and psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He was past president of the American Academy of Pain Management, and the Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Association of America. He has published 5 books, 33 medical text-book chapters, and 75 articles. He has been asked to testify on medical issues before the US Senate on three occasions. He has testified in 300 depositions and 75 trials in 10 states, for both the plaintiff and defense, and lectured at over 60 medical schools and hospitals in 10 countries, including KEMPORAN, the consortium of health care carriers in Japan, Al Kaharj Military Hospital in Saudi Arabia, at the invitation of the Minister of Health, and was the first honorary member of the Israeli Pain Society. He has also been on the board of directors of two multi-billion dollar public companies -a bank and an insurance company.