Regenerative medicine physician · St. Louis
Dr. Gurpreet Singh Padda MD, MBA, MHP, DABIPP, CPE
The physician who built Regen.MD around one belief: pain is a signal. Lasting recovery starts by fixing the body’s terrain first. That means structure, metabolism, and the nervous system. Only then does any regenerative procedure come in.
Three decades of interventional practice. Five board certifications. A competency certification in Regenerative Medicine in Interventional Pain Management. Dr. Padda’s work sits where orthobiologics, metabolic medicine, and neuromodulation meet. Those are the fields that decide whether injected tissue actually heals.
Why a regenerative practice needs this background
Most letdowns with orthobiologics are not a failure of the shot. The shot went into a terrain no one measured. Picture a joint given PRP or bone-marrow concentrate. The body carries insulin resistance, gut-driven inflammation, or a nervous system stuck in fight-or-flight. That shot is an order sent to cells that cannot obey it. Dr. Padda is trained and certified in the exact fields that govern that terrain: anesthesiology and interventional pain for image-guided delivery, addiction and obesity medicine for the metabolic and neurochemical drivers, and a dedicated competency certification in regenerative medicine for the biology of repair. That mix is why Regen.MD measures and fixes the terrain first, then treats.
Board certification & specialized training
Five board certifications
Diplomate of the American Boards of Anesthesiology, Pain Medicine, Interventional Pain Management (DABIPP), Addiction Medicine, and Obesity Medicine.
Regenerative medicine
Competency Certification — Regenerative Medicine in Interventional Pain Management (2024). Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP).
Metabolic & executive
Metabolic Health Practitioner (Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners); Certified Physician Executive (CPE), MBA in International Business, Saint Louis University.
Licensed in Missouri (MD 100572) and Illinois. Individual NPI 1427035955.
Education & training
- 1982–88 BA in Biology & MD — University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Medicine
- 1988–89 General Surgery Residency — Cook County Hospital / University of Illinois–Chicago
- 1989–90 Anesthesiology Residency — Illinois Masonic Medical Center
- 1990–92 Anesthesiology Residency — Washington University–Barnes Hospital; Pediatric Anesthesia at St. Louis Children’s Hospital; Chief Resident, 1991–92
- 1996–98 MBA, International Business Studies — Saint Louis University School of Business
- 1998 Certified Physician Executive — American College of Physician Executives
Academic appointments & leadership
Faculty
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology (1992–99) and of Pediatrics (1993–99), Saint Louis University / Cardinal Glennon. Associate Director of Pediatric Anesthesiology and Director of the Pediatric Acute Pain Service. Deputy Director, SLU Institutional Review Board. Current faculty, KCU–Freeman Health System psychiatry residency (pain & addiction).
Society leadership
President, Missouri Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (2002–2010; 2023–present). Board member and examiner, American Board of Interventional Pain Physicians (2007–09). Board of Directors, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (2008–10).
National presentations
- 2021 ASIPP Keynote — “Metabolic Inflammation & the Hedonic Treadmill,” Annual Conference, New Orleans
- 2020 ASIPP Keynote — “Treating Metainflammation & Interventional Pain,” Virtual Annual Conference
- 2023–25 Invited main-stage lectures, Symposium for Metabolic Health (LowCarbUSA / Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners) — including “The Hormesis Paradox” and “Reimagining Metabolic Health: Scaling Technology-Enabled Solutions”
These keynotes on metabolic inflammation are the thinking behind the Regen.MD terrain-first model.
Publications & scholarship
Peer-reviewed author across Neuromodulation, Pain Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, Anesthesia & Analgesia, Ophthalmology, Paediatric Anaesthesia, Dermatologic Surgery, Southern Medical Journal, and Pain Physician. Review editor for PharmacoEconomics. Co-author of Next Level Your Life (2023).
Hospital affiliations
Beyond the Regen.MD clinic on Woodson Road, Dr. Padda holds hospital staff posts across the St. Louis region. They are in Missouri and Illinois:
Anderson Hospital
Maryville, Illinois — full staff privileges.
SSM Health St. Clare Hospital
Fenton, Missouri — staff appointment; draw area includes Chesterfield.
Verify these credentials
Regen.MD publishes verifiable credentials, not marketing claims.
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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In the press
- Dr. Gurpreet Singh Padda, MD Puts the New Low-Carb Guideline to Work in Pain Care: Medicines Change Before Pain Does
EIN Presswire, October 7, 2026. How he pairs injection care with the new Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners low-carb guideline, since tissue repairs better once the metabolic terrain that sensitized it starts to change.
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Work directly with Dr. Padda
Regen.MD begins with a physician-led Clinical Evaluation. It is a careful review of your history, imaging, and metabolic data. It is not a sales pitch.
Board certifications and professional affiliations
Dr. Gurpreet Singh Padda, MD, MBA, MHP holds five board certifications and maintains the professional affiliations below.
