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).
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