Fabrício Dias Assis

Fabrício Assis, MD is the president of the Brazilian section of the World Institute of Pain (WIP). He is also a member of the Board of Examination and member of the New Projects Development Committee, both for WIP. He is one of the founders of the Brazilian Society of interventional Pain Physicians (SOBRAMID) and its first president from 2013-2015. Dr. Assis is involved in lots of educational projects and had trained physicians in interventional pain all over the world in the last 10 years. Six years ago he started a very successful training program in Interventional Pain in Brazil, where physicians from all over Brazil and neighboring countries from Latin America come once a month during a year.

Dr. Assis became a certified pain specialist at the Universidad de Barcelona, Spain, in 1998. Since that he began his work in interventional pain management and focused his work mainly on chronic pain patients, performing all kinds of procedures. He had participated in courses and traineeships in Hungary, England, Turkey, the Netherlands, the US, and several other countries. In 2007 he became a WIP-certified Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP). Today Dr. Assis works at Singular – Pain Management Center, an EPP (Excellence in Pain Practice) Center in Campinas, SP, and is a member of the pain team at the Albert Einstein Israelite Hospital in São Paulo.