August 28, 2023: Foundation and Board are created by the founder Dr Krishnan Chakravarthy after the inaugural Empower You Conference 2023 in San Diego, California
September 2023: Foundation Elects its first executive leadership board with the addition of Dr. David Lee MD as a Director of Physician Engagement, and Dr. Kavya Kannan MD as Director of Cancer Pain.
September 2023: Foundation launches official website and membership with patient resources.
About our Founder
Dr. Krishnan Chakravarthy, MD, PhD, is an interventional pain and spine surgeon. He shares a deep passion in expanding access to healthcare and patient education. His belief that without investing in patient access, advocacy, community, and education no great change can be made has been at the heart of the Empower You Foundation Mission. He and his family live in San DIego CA.
Dr. Chakravarthy also serves as President and Founder of the Coastal Research Institute in San Diego California. The Institute is the largest in Southern California focusing on pain and neuroscience research.
Dr. Chakravarthy is an affiliate Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, and Affiliate Professor in the Department of Nanoengineering at UCSD Health and VA San Diego Healthcare. Dr. Chakravarthy instructs medical students, residents and fellows at UC San Diego School of Medicine, in addition to running his own institute and clinical work at the VA hospital. His research interests include incorporating new technology into advancing pain care. His research work has been featured in national and international venues and has been published in top journals, including Anesthesiology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, and Pain. He has to date lectured in over three hundred regional, national, and international venues, and has more than hundred published works. Expertscape's PubMed-based algorithms placed Dr. Chakravarthy in top 0.1% of scholars writing about Pain Management over the past 10 years defining him as a "World Expert.”
He has won numerous national and international awards for his clinical and research work, most notable include the American Society of Pain and Neuroscience Young Innovator Award. He is considered an international thought leader in the pain space and serves on the advisory board of several major companies as well as editorial board of several national and international journals. He has been involved in pioneering several first clinical cases in the United States and has been a founding faculty member of “Restorative Neurostimulation”.
An entrepreneur, Dr. Chakravarthy is a founder of several biotechnology startup companies. He has served as chair on several committees and executive officer positions in organizations such as the International Neuromodulation Society, Pacific Spine and Pain Society, and American Society of Pain and Neuroscience.
Currently he is President-Elect of the American Society of Pain and Neuroscience.
