Clinical leadership
Dr. Gurpreet Singh Padda, MD, MBA, MHP
Chief Medical Officer, Valor Villages
“We believe you. We’re not going to make you prove it first. We start by believing you, and then we measure — because you deserve both.”
Role
Dr. Padda serves as Chief Medical Officer of Valor Villages. His responsibility in the partnership is the medical side of a very hard situation: the serious comorbidities our patients carry, and the conditions stacked on top of them.
His clinical position is that medicine delivered above someone’s circumstances does not work. You cannot treat a man’s back if he is sleeping in his car, and you cannot correct anyone’s metabolism from a bus stop.
Clinical focus
- Interventional pain management, with a practice built on reducing opioid burden
- Metabolic inflammation and its role in chronic pain, depression and addiction
- PTSD and trauma, assessed by measurement rather than impression
- Addiction medicine, including the hedonic mechanisms underneath substance use
Education and training
- BA Biology and MD, University of Missouri–Kansas City
- General Surgery residency, Cook County Hospital / University of Illinois–Chicago
- Anesthesia residency, Illinois Masonic Medical Center
- Anesthesia residency, Washington University–Barnes, with pediatric anesthesia at St. Louis Children’s Hospital; Chief Resident
- MBA, Saint Louis University
- Certified Physician Executive, American College of Physician Executives
Academic appointments
- Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Saint Louis University / Cardinal Glennon
- Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Saint Louis University
- Associate Director, Pediatric Anesthesiology; Director, Pediatric Acute Pain Service
- Deputy Director, Saint Louis University Institutional Review Board
- Faculty, Kansas City University / Freeman Health System psychiatry residency — pain and addiction (2024–present)
Professional leadership
- President, Missouri Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (2002–2010; 2023–present)
- Board Member and Examiner, American Board of Interventional Pain Physicians
- Board of Directors, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians
National presentations
Dr. Padda has twice delivered the national keynote at the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians: Treating Metainflammation and Interventional Pain (2020) and Metabolic Inflammation and the Hedonic Treadmill (2021, New Orleans).
Publications
His peer-reviewed work appears in Neuromodulation, Pain Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, Ophthalmology, Anesthesia & Analgesia, Paediatric Anaesthesia, Dermatologic Surgery, Southern Medical Journal and Pain Physician. He is a review editor for PharmacoEconomics and coauthor of Next Level Your Life.
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.
Credentials
| Degrees | MD, MBA, MHP |
|---|---|
| Individual NPI | 1427035955 |
| Licensure | Missouri, plus Arizona, New Mexico, Georgia, Florida and Illinois |
| Role here | Chief Medical Officer, Valor Villages |
Watch
Dr. Padda on the soil terrain, the human terrain, and why year one looks like failure.
Clinical practice
Dr. Padda’s interventional pain practice operates separately from this nonprofit program. Valor Medica does not bill patients for charitable care.
Board certifications and professional affiliations
Dr. Gurpreet Singh Padda, MD, MBA, MHP holds five board certifications and maintains the professional affiliations below.
