Gary W. Jay, MD, DAAPM, FAAPM Neurologist/Independent Consultant

Gary W. Jay, MD, DAAPM, FAAPM Gary W. Jay, MD, DAAPM, FAAPM Dr. Jay has worked in Pain medicine since 1980, before it was thought of as a specialty. He worked with Pharma as a consultant, PI and KOL for the first 25 years of his professional career; during that time he was a private practitioner running a tertiary care interdisciplinary pain center. He joined Pharma full time in 2005. He was one of the original thirty founding members of the American Academy of Algology, now the American Academy of Pain Medicine in 1983, and helped to develop the subspecialty of Pain Medicine. Along with Pain, he has multiple certifications including NeuroRehabilitation and Forensic Medicine. Gary founded and was the first president of the Southern California Pain Society (1981). He has served on the Board of Directors of the American Association for the Study of Headache (AASH) (now the American Headache Society- 1988-1990) and the Eastern Pain Association (current). Gary is past president of the Florida Academy of Pain Medicine (2002-2003) and was elected President of the American Academy of Pain Management (2004). He has published over 75 medical textbook chapters and medical articles in peer reviewed journals dealing with headache, pain of all types, the autonomic nervous system and mild traumatic brain injury. He has published 3 textbooks (CRC Press and Informa Healthcare): The Headache Handbook: Diagnosis and Treatment (1998); Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (2000); and Chronic Pain (2007). His fourth and fifth textbooks, which he is editing (and contributing 17 chapters), Practical Guide to Chronic Pain Syndromes and Clinicians Guide to Chronic Headache and Facial pain will be published in November, 2009 by Informa Healthcare. He has lectured nationally and internationally for 29 years. His current position at Archimedes is Chief Medical Officer and Vice President.

Gary Jay Chief Medical Officer Gary W. Jay, MD, DAAPM, FAAPM, Chief Medical Officer at Archimedes Pharma, joined the company in August 2010. He has global responsibility for the company's medical function. Dr Jay is a neurologist who has specialized in pain management since 1980. Prior to joining Archimedes Pharma, Dr. Jay was the Clinical Disease Area Expert-Pain at Pfizer, Inc. Preceding Pfizer, Dr Jay held the role of Medical Director Pain, Schwarz Biosciences in North Carolina. Dr Jay was involved in pharmaceutical drug development for 25 years while still practicing medicine and held a number of senior roles before joining the pharmaceutical industry full time in 2005. Dr Jay was trained in Neurology at Northwestern University in Chicago, Ill. He was one of 30 founders of the American Academy of Algology (now Pain Medicine) in 1983, which helped enable the beginning of the medical sub-specialty of Pain Medicine and helped with the growth of the American Academy of Pain Management, from its origin, in 1988. He has been on the Board of Directors of the American Association for the Study of Headache; President of the Southern California Pain Society; The Florida Academy of Pain Medicine, and elected President of the American Academy of Pain Management. He is currently Treasurer and a member of the Executive Board of the Eastern Pain Association. Dr Jay has lectured extensively and published 75 peer-reviewed journal articles, medical text-book chapters (for other authors), and monographs. He has also published five textbooks on pain.

Gary W. Jay, MD - President and Chief Medical Officer of the National Center for Pain Management, Lake Mary, FL. He is immediate Past President of the Florida Academy of Pain Medicine.