Devi Nampiaparampil Loses Long Shot Bid For New York City Public Advocate to Incumbent Jumaane Williams
- A pain physician for the past 20 years, Nampiaparampil has her own private practice in the Financial District in New York City.
Indian American Republican Dr. Devi Elizabeth Nampiaparampil has lost her long shot bid for New York City’s Public Advocate to incumbent Jumaane Williams. According to news reports, Williams got 406,805 or 68.1percent of the votes to Nampiaparampil’s 147,436 or 24 percent.
The Public Advocate is an independent statutory officer appointed under the Guardianship and Administration Act 1990 to promote and protect the rights of adults with decision-making disabilities to reduce their risk of neglect, exploitation and abuse.
A pain physician for the past 20 years, Nampiaparampil has her own private practice in the Financial District in New York City and is an associate professor at NYU School of Medicine.
She is also an actor and appears on television frequently as a medical contributor. She appeared as a physician on the daytime soap opera, “General Hospital,” before becoming a physician in her real life. She intermittently appeared on the show between 2002 and 2005. She made her debut as a medical expert on television on “The Dr. Oz Show” when she demonstrated Botox injections for chronic migraine pain in front of a live audience.
Nampiaparampil began working for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in 2008 and started the Brain Injury Clinic at the VA Central California in Fresno. She moved to New York City in 2009 to direct and develop the Pain Management program at the VA Hudson Valley. She served as the head of the regional Pain Management program for the New York/New Jersey region but stepped down to further develop the VA’s Interventional Pain Management program in New York City. She established the Veterans’ Hospital in Manhattan (the VA New York Harbor) as a referral center for invasive pain procedures.
She was an assistant professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at NYU School of Medicine from 2009 to 2015 and then was promoted to associate professor. In 2015, Nampiaparampil was elected to the board of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians. She is also an editor for Pain Physician, an academic journal for pain management specialists.