Daniel L. Kirsch, Ph.D, F.A.I.S
Chairman of the Board
Dr. Kirsch has over three decades of experience in the electromedical field, including extensive clinical practice experience. Throughout his career Dr. Kirsch has designed medical instrumentation and their applications and developed clinical systems for implementing pain and stress control technologies.
From 1985 to 1993 he served as Dean of the Graduate School of Electromedical Sciences at City University Los Angeles where he was instrumental in developing M.S. and Ph.D. programs for licensed health care professionals.
In 1992 he was a guest of His Excellency the Minister of Public Health, Dr. A. Wahab Al-Fawzan of Kuwait , where he presented a three day post-traumatic stress and pain management program titled, Electromedicine: The Other Side of Physiology to 400 physicians. While in Kuwait , Dr. Kirsch also gave multiple grand rounds at eight hospitals over a month long period.
Dr. Kirsch served as Clinical Director at the Sports Medicine Group in Santa Monica , California in association with Karlis Ullis, M.D. from 1988 – 1989, and in 1985 – 1986 as Clinical Director at the Center and Laboratory for Pain and Stress Related Disorders at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York in association with Kenneth Greenspan, M.D.
In 1981, he founded Electromedical Products, Inc. in Hawthorne , California . The name of the company was changed to Electromedical Products International, Inc. in 1986. The company moved to Texas in 1994.
From 1980 to 1981 he was Vice President of McCall’s Research Laboratories in Reseda, California where he wrote all of the marketing support materials and consulted with engineers on the development of a specialized electromedical device. During that time he also served as Clinical Director of Electro-Acutherapy Pain Center in Palm Springs .
He was Director of Education and Research for Biomedical Affiliated Services/Biomedical Design Instruments in Burbank from 1978 to 1980 where he contributed to the design and introduced an electromedical device to the market.
He was Clinical Director of Electro-Acutherapy Medical Group in Laguna Beach from 1979 through 1980 in association with F. P. Meyer, M.D.
While a graduate student, he was proprietor of two small businesses engaged in the sales and training of electromedical devices. During this time he gave 84 weekend seminars in electromedicine.
After attending Queens College of the City University of New York (philosophy major for 3 years), Los Angeles City College (premed major for 2 years), he earned a bachelor of science in biology from Southern California University of Health Sciences in 1979, and a doctorate in neurobiology from City University Los Angeles in 1981 where he served as a professor of electromedical sciences from 1985 until he moved to Texas in 1994. In 1990 Dr. Kirsch was board certified as a Diplomate in pain management by the American Academy of Pain Management. In 1997 he was recognized as a Fellow of the American Institute of Stress. In 1999 he became the only American ever awarded an Honorary Membership in Inter-Pain (the Germany-Swiss pain oganization for physicians). In 2005 he was appointed a Member of the President’s Council at the University of North Texas . He is also a member of the International Society for Neurotherapy and Research and the Biofeedback Society of California.
He was the First Editor of the American Journal of Electromedicine, and has been on the Board of Directors of two non-profit organizations in the field: the National Institute of Electromedical Information in New York City and the International Society of Bioelectricity in Shreveport . He was also a Patron Member of the National Chronic Pain Outreach Association and served on the Advisory Boards of The Canadian Journal of Clinical Medicine and Practical Pain Management, and served as guest editor for the journal NeuroRehabilitation, Vol. 17, No. 1, 2002. He is currently on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Neurotherapy and is the Electromedical Department Editor of Practical Pain Management.
Dr. Kirsch has been on the faculty of several medical specialty boards annual relicensing conferences including the American Academy of Pain Management, American Academy of Orthopedic Medicine, Inter-Pain, American Institute of Stress, International Society for Neuronal Regulation, American Association for Sensory Medicine, American Society for Pain Management Nursing, and American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine. In 2003 he organized and was moderator for a full day track on electromedicine at the American Academy of Pain Management’s annual meeting with 8 health care professionals lecturing (available on DVD). He is an expert research consultant at the Houston VAMC, Brooke Army Medical Center and the US Army Institute for Surgical Research. In 2005 he was the first speaker at the 3rd annual Complementary and Integrative Medicine conference at William Beaumont Army Medical Center , Ft. Bliss . In 2006 he lectured at the VA Employee Education System’s 2nd annual Pain Management Symposium. In 2007 he presented at the 13th Annual San Antonio Trauma Symposium in COL Gaylord’s mental health track, at the 10th Annual Force Health Protection Conference with COL Platoni and he conducted Grand Rounds at US Army, VAMC and civilian medical institutions nationwide. In 2008 he presented at the American Veterinary Medical Association annual meeting, Walter Reed Army Medical Center , and at the Nanjing College of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Dr. Kirsch is listed in Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who of Emerging Leaders in America , Two Thousand Notable Americans, The International Directory of Distinguished Leadership (U.K.), Men of Achievement and other biographical reference books. He was recognized as the 2007 International Health Professional of the Year in Stress Medicine by the International Biographical Centre in Cambridge , England . Dr. Kirsch is the recipient of the American Academy of Pain Management’s 2008 Richard S. Weiner Pain Education Award. This award is given to an individual who has contributed to the advancement of the field of interdisciplinary pain management through the training of pain management professionals. The author of four books and several scientific articles, he is frequently interviewed on television, newspapers and magazines and has been a guest on hundreds of radio programs. Dr. Kirsch was awarded 2 US Army Coins in 2006, and a Navy Coin in 2007.
He is author of the chapters, Electromedicine: The Other Side of Physiology, and A Practical Protocol for Electromedical Treatment of Pain in the American Academy of Pain Management’s textbook, Pain Management: A Practical Guide for Clinicians (CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 2002), and the chapter Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulation for Anxiety, Depression, Insomnia, Cognitive Dysfunction, and Pain in the textbook, Bioelectromagnetic Medicine (Marcel Dekker, 2004). The most recent books by Dr. Kirsch are The Science Behind Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulation (Medical Scope Publishing, Edmonton, Alberta, 2nd Ed. 2002), and Schmerzen lindern ohne Chemie CES, die Revolution in der Schmerztherapie (Internationale Ärztegesellschaft für Energiemedizin, Austria 2000; in German).
