PUBLICATIONS

  1. Engel, A, King W, Schneider B, Duszynski B, Bogduk N. The Effectiveness of Cervical Medial Branch Thermal Radiofrequency Neurotomy Stratified by Selection Criteria: A Systematic Review of the Literature. Pain Med. 2020;21:2726-2737.

  2. Smith C, Schneider B, McCormick Z, Gill J, Loomba V, Engel A et al. Risks and benefits of ceasing or continuing anticoagulant mediation for image-guided procedures for spine pain: A systematic review. Pain Med. 2018;19:438-448.

  3. Bogduk N, Kennedy D, Vorobeychik Y, Engel A. Guidelines for Composing and Assessing a Paper on Treatment of Pain. Pain Med. 2017;18:2096-2104.

  4. Engel A, Kreiner D, Stojanovic M. Finding an Answer: Comments on a Randomized Trial of Epidural Glucocorticoid Injections for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis. Pain Med. 2017;18:204-210.

  5. Engel A, Bogduk N. Mathematical Validation and Credibility of Diagnostic Blocks for Spinal Pain. Pain Med. 2016;17:1821-1828.

  6. Engel A, Rappard G, King W, Kennedy D. The effectiveness and risks of fluoroscopically-guided cervical medial branch thermal radiofrequency neurotomy: a systematic review with comprehensive analysis of the published data. Pain Med. 2016;17:658- 669.

  7. Stojanovic M, Engel A. An Expedited Diagnostic Algorithm for Lumbosacral Pain: “The Best Likelihood Scenario Approach”. Pain Med. 2015;16:2271-2276.

  8. Kennedy D, Engel A, Kreiner D, Nampiaparampil D, MacVicar J. Fluoroscopically-Guided Diagnostic and Therapeutic Inter Articular Sacroiliac Joint Injections: A Systematic Review. Pain Med. 2015;16:1500-1518.

  9. Engel A, MacVicar J, Bogduk N. A Philosophical Foundation for Diagnostic Blocks, with Criteria for Their Validation. Pain Med. 2014;15:998-1006.

  10. Engel A, King W, Macvicar K; Standards Division of the International Spine Intervention Society. The Effectiveness and Risks of Fluoroscopically Guided Cervical Transforaminal Injections of Steroids: A Systematic Review with Comprehensive Analysis of the Published Data. Pain Med. 2014;15:386-402.

  11. Engel, AJ. Utility of Intercostal Nerve Conventional Thermal Radiofrequency Ablations in the Injured Worker after Blunt Trauma. Pain Physician. 2012;15;E711-718.

PUBLISHED LETTERS

  1. Meeting Parents’ Expectations. Pain Med. 2018;19:2094-2095.

  2. High-pressure Discography May Injure Discs. Spine J. 2017;18:612-613.

  3. Differing Philosophical Approaches to Treating Patients. Pain Med. 2016;17:1781-1783.

  4. The Risk Benefit Ratio: Why Perform A Cervical Epidural Steroid Injection? Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine. 2016;41:789-790.

  5. All Injections Still Aren't the Same. Pain Med. In press. Engel AJ.

  6. All failures count. Pain Med. 2015;16:404. Engel AJ.

  7. Something for the pain. The New Yorker. 2014, May 19:9. Engel AJ.

  8. Not all injections are the same. Anesthesiology. 2014;120:1282-3. Engel AJ, Kennedy DJ, Macvicar J, Bogduk N.

  9. A Response to Two Recent Reviews of Epidural Steroid Injections. Pain Med. 2013;14:954-5. Nampiaparampil DE, Engel AJ.

  10. Letter to the Editor: Epidural Corticosteroid Injections in the Management of Sciatica: A Systemic Review and Meta-analysis. Ann Intern Med 2012 Nov 29 [Epub]. Nampiaparampil DE, Engel AJ.

INVITED LECTURES

  1. 2016 Moderated Mechanism of Action and Duration of Action of Local Anesthetics and Steroids, SIS ASM, New Orleans, LA

  2. 2016 Medical Legal Issues in Pain Management, SIS ASM, New Orleans, LA

  3. 2015 What Outcome(s) Matters, ISIS ASM, Las Vegas, NV

  4. 2014 Contrast Media Allergies, ISIS ASM, Orlando, FL.

  5. 2014 Philosophy of Diagnostic Blocks, ISIS ASM, Orlando, FL.

  6. 2014 Review of Cervical Transforaminal Steroid Injection, ISIS ASM, Orlando, FL.

  7. 2014 Moderated Epidural Access, ISIS ASM, Orlando, FL.

  8. 2013 Moderated Safe Injection Technique, ISIS ASM, New York, NY.

  9. 2013 Published Complications Associated with Cervical Transforaminal Injection of Steroid, ISIS ASM, New York, NY.

BOOKS

  1. Ballantyne J, Fishman S, and Rathmall J (ed). Bonica’s Management of Pain. Chapter on neck pain. Wolters Kluwer, 2018.

  2. Matthews A and Fellers J (ed). Treating Comorbid Opioid Use Disorder and Dependence in Chronic Pain. Chapter on interventional spine and surgery. Springer, in press.

  3. Bogduk N (ed). Practice Guidelines for Spinal Diagnostic and Treatment Procedures. 2nd edn. International Spine Intervention Society, San Francisco, 2013.

CME LECTURES

  1. June 2014 “What can a pain doctor do for me?” Resurrection Medical Center, Chicago, IL

  2. April 2014 “What can a pain doctor do for me?” St. Mary’s Elizabeth Medical Center, Chicago, IL

  3. Feb 2014 “What can a pain doctor do for me?” Weiss Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL

REVIEWER

  • 2014 - Pain Medicine

  • 2015 - PM&R

SOCIETIES

  • 2014 - 2015 Co-vice chair ISIS Standards Division

  • 2012 - 2015 Chairman ISIS Patient Safety Committee.

  • 2007 - 2020 International Spine Intervention Society, member Standards Division

  • 2010 - 2011 American Society of Interventional Pain physicians

  • 2003 - 2007 American Society of Anesthesiology

  • 2003 - Spine Intervention Society (formerly International Spine Intervention Society)