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John H. Knab, MD, is a board certified anesthesiologist and is fellowship trained in pain management, with Added Qualifications in Pain Management from the American Board of Anesthesiologists. After attending medical school at the University of Vermont, he completed his residency in anesthesiology at the Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. He then completed a fellowship in Interventional Pain Management at the University of California at San Diego. He has practiced pain medicine exclusively at the Center for Pain Management since 2000, where he is currently the Medical Director. Dr. Knab specializes in all aspects of interventional pain medicine, and has a special interest in percutaneous disc decompression, neuroablative techniques, and spinal cord stimulation. He has spoken professionally on behalf of many pharmaceutical companies, and has helped to contribute to the advancement of the field of pain medicine by publishing articles in a number of peer-reviewed medical journals.

Sunil K. Arora, MD, is a board certified anesthesiologist with Added Qualifications in Pain Management from the American Board of Anesthesiology. He has completed a Pain fellowship at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and also an Interventional Pain Fellowship at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Dr. Arora has more than twenty years experience in treating acute and chronic pain. He came to Wilmington in 2000 and has been at The Center for Pain Management since then. His emphasis is on restoring function and quality of life through comprehensive multimodality treatment. He performs the full range of the latest interventional pain procedures and techniques, and his areas of interest are back pain and cancer pain. His philosophy is that optimum outcomes conic from careful patient assessment and individualized care planning.

Ashley Grimsley, MHS, PA-C, a nationally certified physician assistant, has joined the Center for Pain Management staff from Duke University Medical Center. At Duke, she worked in the Division of Orthopaedic Surgery for three years. Prior to working at Duke, Mrs. Grimsley completed a surgical residency at Duke University Medical Center. Mrs. Grimsley received her Bachelor of Science degree in Public Health with a concentration in Nutrition from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1999. She also obtained a Bachelor of Science in Physician Assistant Studies from East Carolina University and a Masters in Health Science from Duke University in 2002. Her pain management interests include medication management, trigger point injections, and intrathecal pump management. She has relocated from Durham, NC with her husband, Richie, and daughter, Alissa.