Editorial: Pain Medicine Training in Latin America

Rodrigo Díez-Tafur,1,2,* Matthew Slitzky,3,* Carlos Guerrero-Nope,4 Ricardo Plancarte-Sanchez,5 Jesús Medina-Rascon,6 Carlos Eduardo Restrepo-Garces,7 Juan Felipe Vargas-Silva,8 Carlos Marcelo de Barros,9 Fabricio Dias Assis,9 Camila Lobo,9 Andrés Rocha-Romero,10 Juan Pablo Paladino,11 Wendy Rojas-Gareca,12 César R Carcamo-Quezada,13 Juan Carlos Sosa Nicora,14 Angie Navarrete,15 Soraya Mariuxi Cruz Loor,16 Claudia B Cruz-Ayala,17 Lisbeth Godinez Ortiz,18 Sudhir Diwan,19 Michael E Schatman,20,21 Christopher L Robinson,22 Victor M Silva-Ortiz23 1Pain Management Unit. Clínica Angloamericana, Lima, Perú; 2Centro MDRS: Sports, Spine & Pain Centers, Lima, Perú; 3Burke Rehabilitation, Montefiore Health System, White Plains, NY, USA; 4Pain Management Unit. Hospital Fundación Santa Fe, Bogotá, Colombia; 5Pain and Palliative Care Department. Instituto Nacional de Cancerología - INCAN, Ciudad de México, México; 6Medina Medical Specialties, Baja California, Mexico; 7Chronic Pain Unit. UROGINE, Medellín, Colombia; 8Interventional Pain Management Unit. Hospital Pablo Tolón Uribe, Medellin, Colombia; 9Singulair Pain Management Center. Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brasil; 10Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine. National Rehabilitation Center, San Jose, Costa Rica; 11Centro Medico Villegas, Buenos Aires, Argentina; 12Aliviar: Centro Especializado en Dolor, Santa Cruz, Bolivia; 13Pain and Palliative Care Unit. Hospital, Del Salvador, Providencia, Chile; 14Clinica San Giovanni, Asuncion, Paraguay; 15Pain Unit, Hospital Escuela Carlos Roberto Huembes, Managua, Nicaragua; 16Centro Especializado para Tratamiento del Dolor - CETDOL, Guayaquil, Ecuador; 17Centro Integral Para Manejo Del Dolor. Instituto Salvadoreño de Bienestar Magisterial, San Salvador, El Salvador; 18Hospital General de Enfermedades (IGSS), Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala; 19Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA; 20Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Care and Pain Medicine, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA; 21Department of Population Health - Division of Medical Ethics, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA; 22Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; 23Pain Unit, Hospital Zambrano Hellion. Monterrey, Nuevo León, México*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Christopher L Robinson, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA, 02118, USA, Email [email protected]