Roger Howard Coletti, MD, FACC, FASNC, FSCAI was born in 1945 in New York City, New York. He graduated from Georgetown University College of Arts and Sciences. He received a Master of Arts in Natural Sciences from Hofstra University. He did one year of bench research on drug metabolism when enrolled in a PhD program in Pharmacology at New York University Medical School. He transferred to State University of New York at Downstate where he completed the four-year curriculum for his MD. Dr. Coletti’s medical internship and residency was performed at Nassau County Medical Center in East Meadow, NY. He did two years of cardiology fellowship at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and then transferred to Westchester County Medical Center where he completed one year of Interventional Cardiology fellowship. He has done clinical research and publication in the field of alternative treatment of chronic pain secondary to chronic muscle spasm. He authored a book “Chronic Muscle Spasm and Pain – Discoveries in the Etiology, Identification and Treatment of Chronic Muscle Spasm and Resultant Chronic Pain” and published several articles, the most notable of which is “The Ischemic Model of Chronic Muscle Spasm”.