Accident and Injury Experts is directed by Dr. Gurpreet Singh Padda, MD, MBA, MHP. In a personal injury case the treating physician’s credentials are not a formality — they are what an insurer’s reviewer, a defense expert, and ultimately a jury will weigh. This page sets those credentials out plainly so they can be checked.
Board certification
Dr. Padda holds five American board certifications:
- Anesthesiology — American Board of Anesthesiology
- Interventional Pain — American Board of Interventional Pain Physicians (ABIPP), Certificate No. 229
- Pain Medicine — American Board of Pain Medicine
- Addiction Medicine — American Board of Addiction Medicine
- Obesity Medicine — American Board of Obesity Medicine
He is also a Fellow of Interventional Pain Physicians (FIPP) and a Certified Physician Executive (CPE).
Why this matters in an injury case
Injury claims are argued over medical questions: did this collision cause this pain, how much function was actually lost, and is the treatment reasonable. Those questions get answered by whoever has the standing to answer them.
Two of these certifications carry particular weight here. Interventional pain means the pain generator can be identified with a diagnostic block rather than inferred from a description of symptoms — a finding that survives cross-examination far better than a subjective pain score. Addiction medicine means that when an injured patient needs pain controlled, it is controlled by someone trained in dependence, so treatment does not create a second problem that the defense will later point to.
This is a medical practice. It does not provide legal advice or representation, and nothing here should be read as such.
Independent medical evaluations
An independent medical evaluation is impartial by definition. It is not an advocacy document, and a genuine IME can land in favor of either party. That is the point of it — an evaluation that always reaches the same conclusion is worth nothing to anyone.
The practice provides IMEs, functional capacity evaluations, causation opinions, and electrodiagnostic testing.
Training
- BA in Biology and MD — University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Medicine
- General Surgery residency — Cook County Hospital / University of Illinois at Chicago
- Anesthesiology residency — Illinois Masonic Medical Center
- Anesthesiology residency — Washington University / Barnes Hospital, with pediatric anesthesia at St. Louis Children’s Hospital; Chief Resident, 1991–92
- MBA — Saint Louis University
- Certified Physician Executive — American College of Physician Executives
Academic and professional appointments
- Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology (1992–99) and of Pediatrics (1993–99), Saint Louis University / Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital
- Associate Director of Pediatric Anesthesiology and Director of the Pediatric Acute Pain Service (1995–99)
- Faculty, Kansas City University / Freeman Health System psychiatry residency — pain and addiction (2024–present)
- President, Missouri Society of Interventional Pain Physicians
- Board Member and Examiner, American Board of Interventional Pain Physicians
Hospital affiliations
- Anderson Hospital, Maryville, Illinois — full staff privileges
- SSM Health St. Clare Hospital, Fenton, Missouri
Credential verification
These credentials can be checked independently. Dr. Padda is licensed in Missouri and Illinois.
- National Provider Identifier: 1427035955 — verify in the NPPES registry
- Missouri medical license: MD 100572
- Healthgrades profile
- Doximity profile
Other practices under the same physician
Accident and Injury Experts is one of several practices directed by Dr. Padda. For chronic and interventional pain generally, the affiliated practice is the Padda Institute, which shares this building. A full list is on our affiliated practices page.
Contact
Accident and Injury Experts
4477 Woodson Rd
St. Louis, MO 63134
(314) 887-5866
Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.