Mohammed I. Ranavaya is Associate Dean and Professor of Occupational Medicine at the Marshall University School of Medicine in West Virginia. He currently serves as Director of the Appalachian Institute of Occupational & Environmental Medicine in West Virginia. He is a consulting physician & American board certified in Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
Prof. Ranavaya is the section editor and primary author of several chapters of the American Medical Association's Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (AMA Guides 6th ed). Prof. Ranavaya has performed several thousand independent medical evaluations and is an internationally recognized expert on the AMA Guides and has taught, globally, over ten thousand physicians skills for performing independent medical evaluations and how to be more
effective in the use of the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment.
Prof. Ranavaya has authored over 20 chapters in various internationally recognized textbooks on physical medicine and rehab, chronic pain management and disability medicine. He has also
authored numerous articles regarding AMA Guides, disability guidelines, Medicolegal issues involving expert witnesses and independent medical evaluations, Return to work assessments etc.
Prof. Ranavaya has served as the chair of the editorial board of the Medical Disability Advisor, a book on workplace disability duration guidelines for various injuries and diseases and has served as the senior medical editor for Official Disability Guides. He also served on the senior editorial advisory board of the AMA Guides 5th Edition and is a contributor to the AMA Guides 5th Edition. He recently authored Physician's Guide to Medicolegal Practice, a 300-page book published by AMA press.
Prof. Ranavaya is the past President of the American Academy of Disability Evaluating Physicians. He is one of the founding fathers and current President of the American Board of Independent Medical Examiners (ABIME) and has helped develop the certifying exam for physicians seeking credentialing as Certified Independent Medical
Examiners (CIME).As a practicing consultant physician Prof. Ranavaya advises the US Federal Government Department of Labor.
He has been an advisor to several states, including Ohio & California,
on work place injury issues and disability management. He has served as consultant to many multinational insurance companies and businesses, advising them on injury management, rehabilitation, and return to work issues.
Multiple national and international governmental departments and agencies, including Worker's Comp and Motor Accident compensation systems from Australia, Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East, and North America have consulted with Prof. Ranavaya and have retained his services to advise and train the personnel in impairment and disability assessment as well as strategies in return to work.