Charles E. Argoff, MD, is professor of neurology and director of the Comprehensive Pain Program at Albany Medical Center in New York. Dr. Argoff received his medical degree from Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois. He completed an internship in the Department of Medicine and a residency in the Department of Neurology at the State University of New York in Stony Brook and a fellowship in developmental and metabolic neurology at the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NIH/NINDS).

Dr. Argoff is a member of the International Association for the Study of Pain and the American Academy of Neurology, among other professional organizations. He has served as a guest editor for and published articles in the Clinical Journal of Pain and Current Pain and Headache Reports, among other peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Argoff had an active role in the development of the diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain guidelines published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, and he has contributed to other published neuropathic pain treatment guidelines. He is one of the editors of the textbook Raj’s Practical Management of Pain, Fourth Edition. He has also published the third edition of Pain Management Secrets.