THE AUTHOR
Dr. Gurpreet Singh Padda, MD, MBA, MHP
Author of The Brain series. Interventional pain physician and anesthesiologist, board certified in addiction medicine and obesity medicine, practicing in St. Louis.
What he got wrong first
For twenty years he told patients with prediabetes that their A1C was not too bad. The guidelines backed him, his training backed him, and he was wrong. For years he was also a strict vegetarian defending those same guidelines. That ended with a bite of beef on bun at Gates Bar-B-Q in Kansas City.
He changed his mind because the physiology told him to, and he says so in front of the colleagues he once agreed with. The Humbled Brain is the fifth and final book in The Brain series: on limitation, and the admission that we are not in charge. It is being written now, and it will not be rushed.
Training
- BA in Biology and MD, University of Missouri–Kansas City (1982–88)
- General surgery residency, Cook County Hospital and the University of Illinois–Chicago (1988–89)
- Anesthesia residency, Illinois Masonic Medical Center (1989–90)
- Anesthesia residency, Washington University–Barnes Hospital (1990–92), with pediatric anesthesia at St. Louis Children’s Hospital; Chief Resident 1991–92
- MBA in International Business Studies, Saint Louis University (1996–98)
- Certified Physician Executive, American College of Physician Executives (1998)
Board certification
Anesthesiology, pain medicine, interventional pain management, addiction medicine and obesity medicine. He is also a Metabolic Health Practitioner and a Fellow of Interventional Pain Physicians.
Teaching and leadership
- Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology (1992–99) and of Pediatrics (1993–99), Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital and Saint Louis University
- Deputy Director, Saint Louis University Institutional Review Board (1998–99)
- Faculty, KCU Freeman Health System psychiatry residency, pain and addiction (2024–present)
- President, Missouri Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (2002–10 and 2023–present)
- Two keynotes to the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians: Treating Metainflammation and Interventional Pain (2020) and Metabolic Inflammation and the Hedonic Treadmill (2021, New Orleans)
Credential verification
Licensed in Missouri and Illinois. National Provider Identifier 1427035955. Missouri medical license MD 100572.
Published research. His peer-reviewed record is registered under ORCID 0009-0001-0166-3186 and indexed at PubMed, OpenAlex and Semantic Scholar. His biographical record is Wikidata Q141049117.
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Board certifications and professional affiliations
Dr. Gurpreet Singh Padda, MD, MBA, MHP holds five board certifications and maintains the professional affiliations below.
He treats patients at the Padda Institute in St. Louis.