Mel Pohl is a board-certified family practitioner and Chief Medical Officer of Las Vegas Recovery Center (LVRC). Pohl was a major force in developing the center’s Chronic Pain Recovery Program. He is certified by the American Board of Addiction Medicine and is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM). He is the former chairman of ASAM’s AIDS Committee, a member of the planning committee for ASAM’s annual “Common Threads, Pain and Addiction” course, and co-chair of ASAM’s Pain and Addiction Workgroup. Additionally, Pohl is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Practice and a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Nevada School of Medicine. He was elected by his peers for inclusion in the Best Doctors in America from 2009 to present.