Podcast and media guest booking · Interventional pain

Book Dr. Padda for your podcast

Book Dr. Gurpreet Singh Padda, MD, MBA, MHP, a St. Louis interventional pain physician and author of The Brain book series, as a podcast or media guest. Pick a time in the calendar below on a Friday from 9 AM to 4 PM or a Saturday or Sunday from 8 AM to 4 PM, Central Time. Other times can be made available as needed.

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When can Dr. Padda record?

Other times can be made available as needed. If none of these slots fits your recording schedule, book the closest one and add your preferred times in the notes, or reply to your confirmation email. Interviews run 30, 45, 60 or 90 minutes. He records remotely by Zoom or on your own recording link (Riverside, StreamYard or another platform), and in person in St. Louis by arrangement.

What can he talk about?

Ten questions hosts can ask

  1. If my MRI shows a bad disc, why do you say that is not why it hurts?
  2. You call dementia a metabolic disease of overnutrition. What does that mean for what I eat today?
  3. Is dopamine really the pleasure chemical?
  4. Why do you call the gut the first brain?
  5. What is metainflammation, and why do pain, addiction, obesity and diabetes share it?
  6. How do you get someone off long-term opioids without making their pain worse?
  7. Can PRP keep someone off the knee replacement list?
  8. What did an MBA teach you that medical school never did?
  9. Follow the incentive and you find the disease: who profits when we stay sick?
  10. What does a pain doctor eat, and what would you never put on your plate?

Who is Dr. Padda?

The disc is where it hurts. It is not why it hurts. Dr. Gurpreet Singh Padda, MD, MBA, MHP has spent more than three decades placing needles exactly where pain lives, and the work taught him something most of medicine still misses: chronic pain is usually a metabolic problem the scan cannot see.

He trained in general surgery at Cook County Hospital and in anesthesiology at Washington University–Barnes Hospital, where he was Chief Resident, spent seven years on the faculty of Saint Louis University School of Medicine, and founded the Padda Institute Center for Interventional Pain Management in St. Louis. Most clinics split the patient among four specialists. He treats the pain, the opioids attached to it, the weight and the blood sugar driving it as one problem.

Metabolism. He calls the shared engine metainflammation: the low-grade inflammation that links chronic pain, opioid dependence, obesity, type 2 diabetes and dementia. He has keynoted the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians on it twice and has lectured every year since 2020 at the Symposium for Metabolic Health.

Regenerative medicine. Medical Director of the Center for Regenerative Medicine since 2004, with a regenerative medicine competency certification from the American Board of Interventional Pain Physicians. He uses PRP and other orthobiologics to repair joints and tendons and to keep patients off the surgical list where he can.

Addiction. A lifetime diplomate of the American Board of Addiction Medicine, he weans patients off long-term opioids that stopped working, argues that processed food is addictive by design, and teaches pain and addiction to psychiatry residents.

Business. An MBA and Certified Physician Executive, he won an SSM Best Practice Quality Award for redesigning a hospital preadmission program, directed an ambulatory surgery center, built clinics, a nonprofit foundation and a commercial real estate company, and sat on the boards of two real estate development funds. He reads medicine the way an investor reads a market: follow the incentive and you find the disease.

What are his credentials?

What has he written?

The Brain series argues that the brain's biggest problems start in the body: dementia as a metabolic disease of overnutrition, chronic pain as a metabolic disease the scan cannot see, the gut as the first brain, and dopamine as the chemistry of wanting rather than pleasure.

His peer-reviewed work appears in Neuromodulation, Pain Medicine, Pain Physician, Critical Care Medicine, Ophthalmology, Anesthesia & Analgesia, Anesthesiology, Paediatric Anaesthesia, Dermatologic Surgery and the Southern Medical Journal.

Where has he spoken?

Which podcasts has he been on?

He has appeared on dozens of podcasts and shows since 2019; 47 are listed in his CV. Recent episodes:

His press releases have been picked up by AP News, The National Law Review, FOX 2 St. Louis, WGN-TV Chicago, PIX11 New York, KRON 4 San Francisco, the Detroit Free Press, The Detroit News, The Indianapolis Star and The Tennessean.

Follow his CV updates

New books, podcast appearances, press releases, presentations and publications are published as they are added to his curriculum vitae in the CV updates RSS feed. Add it to any feed reader to follow along.

Frequently asked questions

How do I book Dr. Padda for a podcast?

Pick a time in the calendar at the top of this page. Fridays run 9 AM to 4 PM and Saturdays and Sundays run 8 AM to 4 PM, Central Time. Add your show name, a link to the show and the topic you have in mind.

What if none of the open times work for my show?

Other times can be made available as needed. Book the closest slot and list your preferred times in the notes, or reply to the confirmation email, and the time will be adjusted.

Does he record remotely or in person?

Both. He records remotely by Zoom or on your own recording link, such as Riverside or StreamYard, and in person in St. Louis by arrangement.

How long is an interview?

Choose 30, 45, 60 or 90 minutes when you book.

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