Laxmaiah Manchikanti

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| birth_place = Bodangparthy, Princely state of Hyderabad of British India now (Telangana, India)

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| field = Anesthesiology, Interventional Pain Management, Pain Management Centers of America, Paducah, KY

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Laxmaiah Manchikanti (born 10 July 1947) is an Indian American physician and anesthesiologist specializing in interventional pain management, professor, philanthropist, and author. He is the founder of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians{{cite web|url=http://www.asipp.org |title=American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians |publisher=American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians |date= |accessdate=8 July 2013}} (ASIPP), the Society of Interventional Pain Management Surgery Centers (SIPMS) and the Pain Physician, a newspaper owned by his organization,{{cite web|url=http://www.painphysicianjournal.com |title=Pain Physician |publisher=American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians |date= |accessdate=8 July 2013}} Manchikanti has served as clinical professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. He has served as chairman of the board and chief executive officer of ASIPP since 1998. He has been medical director of the Pain Management Centers of Paducah, Kentucky and Marion, Illinois and the Ambulatory Surgery Center in Paducah, Kentucky since 1992. He co-founded a multistate national company, Pain Management Centers of America (PMCOA), in 2019 with Mahendra Sanapati, MD.

Dr, Manchikani was the owner of the private Alben W. Barkley School of Law when it closed in 2008.{{Citation | first = Andrew | last = Wolfson | title = For-profit law school sold, settling suit | page = 1B. |newspaper=The Courier-Journal | location = Louisville, Kentucky | date = 16 February 2008 }}