Early Career Council:

• Ambassador Role: Council Ambassadors perform serve on an IPSIS Committee or Division in a non-voting capacity, provide early career viewpoints on the Division/Committee that they serve on, and report to the rest of the Council on their Committee/Division’s activities.
• Executive Council Role: The Council’s Executive Committee performs governance, steering, and administrative functions, provide input, and maintain communication with the executive leadership of IPSIS.

*For ECC volunteer applications, please specify the role you are interested in being considered for in your letter of interest.

Education Development Committee:

• Develops new curriculum for fluoroscopically-guided and ultrasound-guided techniques in the spine and other regions.
• Records and/or reviews lectures for the online learning system.
• Assesses and ensures quality of existing learning material via periodic review.
• Attend an IPSIS Bio-Skills Lab within one year of appointment.

Division membership requires prior IPSIS Evidence-Based Medicine Part 1 completion or completion during your volunteer term (includes completion of six online learning modules and one two-hour virtual discussion session).

Advocacy Committee:

• Address issues related to promoting access to interventional pain procedures, scope of practice, legislative and regulatory affairs, and lobbying.
  

Coding and Reimbursement Committee:

• Answering coding and reimbursement questions or issues submitted by IPSIS members.
• Proactively develop coding guides, as needed.
• Provide code set guidance with IPSIS Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) advisors to the American Medical Association (AMA).
• Provide guidance with IPSIS advisors to the AMA Relative Value Update Committee (RUC) on the resources required to provide physician services which the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) considers in developing Relative Value Units (RVUs).
  

Coverage Committee:

• Review and comment on draft coverage policies for interventional pain procedures.
• Advocate for appropriate changes to current coverage policies.
• Proactively develop coverage policy recommendations, as needed.
• Reach out to payers to promote the implementation of appropriate coverage policies.
  

Practice Management Committee:

• Develop and promote practice management materials for use by IPSIS members.

Division membership requires prior IPSIS Evidence-Based Medicine Part 1 completion or completion during your volunteer term (includes completion of six online learning modules and one two-hour virtual discussion session).

International Division:

• Serve the international member community by identifying, prioritizing, and addressing issues and needs from various regions.
• Implement and manage an open call for IPSIS Outreach Course proposals, review the proposals, and make recommendations to the Board of Directors.
• Identify opportunities for international membership growth.
• Select the European Congress Program Committee to prepare each year’s program, in collaboration with the IPSIS Education Division.

Division membership requires prior IPSIS Evidence-Based Medicine Part 1 completion or completion during your volunteer term (includes completion of six online learning modules and one two-hour virtual discussion session).

Research Division:

• Evaluate research grant applications and make funding recommendations to the IPSIS Board.
• Develop research protocols to address important gaps in the evidence base.
• Select the highest quality research abstracts for presentation at the IPSIS Annual Meeting, Winter Seminar, and European Congress.
• Promote active participation in conducting and critically analyzing research, and provide mentorship to new investigators.

Division membership requires Evidence-Based Medicine Part 1 and Evidence-Based Medicine Part 2 accreditation or accreditation during your volunteer term (includes six online learning modules for EBM 1 and three online learning modules for EBM 2, one two-hour virtual discussion session for EBM 1 and one two-hour virtual session for EBM 2, and successful completion of both accreditation exams).

Evidence Analysis Committee:

• Assess evidence and publish systematic reviews.
• Selectively review and provide commentary on external practice guidelines and publications.
• Requirement for membership:
  • Division membership requires Evidence-Based Medicine Part 1 and Evidence-Based Medicine Part 2 accreditation or accreditation during your volunteer term (includes six online learning modules for EBM 1 and three online learning modules for EBM 2, one two-hour virtual discussion session for EBM 1 and one two-hour virtual session for EBM 2, and successful completion of both accreditation exams).

Patient Safety Committee:

• Develop and promote best practice recommendations to help ensure the safety of patients undergoing interventional pain procedures.
• Requirement for membership:
  • Division membership requires Evidence-Based Medicine Part 1 and Evidence-Based Medicine Part 2 accreditation or accreditation during your volunteer term (includes six online learning modules for EBM 1 and three online learning modules for EBM 2, one two-hour virtual discussion session for EBM 1 and one two-hour virtual session for EBM 2, and successful completion of both accreditation exams).

Guidelines Committee:

• Develop and update IPSIS’s clinical practice guidelines.
• Requirements/Qualifications for Membership:
  • IPSIS EBM 1 and 2 Accreditation
  • Current or previous service on an IPSIS division/committee or as an IPSIS instructor
  • Interested volunteers will meet individually with Standards Division leadership at the Annual Meeting (or via phone if not attending the Annual Meeting) to discuss the opportunity/expectations and their qualifications.