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Biography
Dr Arun Bhaskar graduated from the University of Kerala medical school, India. He subsequently completed his specialist training at the north west deanery, UK in 2006 and started his consultant career at the Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester. In addition to Royal College fellowships in anaesthesia, pain medicine and intensive care, he also has a fellowship in interventional pain practice. Dr Bhaskar has special interests in complex pain, including neuropathic pain, cancer pain, visceral and pelvic pain, pain interventions and neuromodulation.
Dr Bhaskar also has a specific interest in opioid management in complicated cancer pain, as well as opioid dependence and its management in the pain patient population. He has been involved with several clinical trials in cancer pain and neuropathic pain in cancer including chemotherapy-induced neuropathy. He has been involved in developing novel techniques for interventional treatment of pain including intractable cancer pain.
Dr Bhaskar is on the faculty of many courses, including the European Pain School. He is an examiner for the European Diploma in pain medicine and also the FIPP examination for the World Institute of Pain. He writes a regular column in the European Pain News and serves as section editor for the Journal of Observational Pain Medicine. He is an elected member of the Council of the British Pain Society and is also the executive liaison for the Society’s interventional pain special interest group (SIG), neuropathic pain SIG and cancer pain committee. He also chairs the communications committee.
Dr Bhaskar is the honorary secretary of the Neuromodulation Society of UK and Ireland. He is also the co-chair of the neuromodulation for pain guidelines committee of the British Pain Society and NSUKI. He is the present chairman of the UK section of the World Institute of Pain. Dr Bhaskar advises NICE on interventional procedures, cancer pain and was a co-opted member of the GDG for care of the dying.
Dr Bhaskar has been a contributing author towards the British Pain Society’s ‘cancer pain management’ document in 2010 and is currently the co-chair of the committee for the cancer pain management guidelines of the British Pain Society. He is also a member of the European Pain Federation Task Force on cancer pain management. Dr Bhaskar is the co-chair for the OPEN Consensus group for opioid analgesic dependency. He is also the immediate past-chair of the Northwest Pain Clinicians, UK, and was a member of the steering group of the Northern England Pain Society. Dr Bhaskar was also part of the scientific committee for European Pain Federation, EFIC 2017 and is also the co-chair of the International Meeting of the Spinal Interventional Society, London 2018 and President-elect of the British Pain Society.
Additional languages spoken: Hindi, Malayam, Tamil, Urdu
Biography
Dr Stephen Humble is a consultant and honorary senior lecturer at Charing Cross Hospital and St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust London. His principle specialist focus is interventional techniques for the treatment spinal pain and he has performed thousands of epidurals and other spinal procedures over the last 16 years or so. He qualified in medicine at the University of Aberdeen in 2000 and trained in major centres in both Scotland and Australia. In addition, he completed a MSc from the University of Edinburgh in 2010 and a PhD in neuroscience in 2012.
Dr Humble was featured on the BBC1 Programme ‘Health: Truth of Scare’ and has published numerous medical and scientific papers in high-level journals and spoken about his work at many conferences and meetings.
His specialist interests include the management of neuropathic pain as well as local anaesthetic and steroid injections for joint pain and spinal pain. He has published numerous medical and scientific papers in high-level journals and spoken about his work at many conferences and meetings. Through his research he has adopted cutting edge techniques that are only performed by a small number of specialised doctors such as radiofrequency therapy for spinal pain and nerve entrapment syndromes as well as capsaicin patch therapy for painful peripheral neuropathy. Dr Humble is also a medicolegal expert witness for the courts and has advised on a number of complex cases related to his area of work.
Dr Humble is registered with all the main insurance companies and is a member of numerous professional organisations such as the Spinal Intervention Society, Harley Academy, International Association for the Study of Pain, British Pain Society, London Pain Forum, Fellow of the College of Anaesthetists, Royal College of Surgeons Ireland, Associate Fellow Faculty of Pain Medicine RCoA, British Medical Association, European Society of Regional Anaesthesia & Pain Therapy and the Association of Anaesthetists of GB & Ireland.
Recent publications
Humble SR Mitochondrial dysfunction in diabetic neuropathy may be involved in the development of neuropathic pain via a reduction in neurosteroid synthesis. F1000 Research 2017 In Press
Kailainathan P, Humble S, Dawson H, Cameron, F, Gokani S, Lidder G. A National Survey of Pain Clinics within the United Kingdom and Ireland focusing on the multidisciplinary team and the incorporation of the extended nursing role British Journal of Pain 2017 In Press
Humble SR The global year against pain after surgery Expert Witness Institute Magazine Mar 2017
Humble S, Smith D, Bhaskar A. Apps, bots and Wearables: the future is here at present. Pain News Dec 2016 Vol 14(4) 173-176
Humble SR Neurosteroids are reduced in diabetic neuropathy and may be associated with the development of neuropathic pain F1000 Research 2016, 5:1923 (doi: 10.12688/f1000research.9034.1)
Humble SR Chronic postsurgical pain and consent Expert Witness Institute Magazine Aug 2016
Smith D, Humble S, Bhaskar A. Social media for professionals in Pain Medicine – Part 2: the good, the bad and the ugly. Pain News June 2016 Vol 14(2) 64-67
Humble SR What is a Pain Medicine Specialist Expert Witness Institute Magazine Mar 2016
Smith D, Humble S, Bhaskar A. Social media for professionals in Pain Medicine – an introduction and Twitter Pain News Mar 2016 Vol 14(1) 24-27
Humble S, Li L, Dalton A. Author’s reply to the comment by Chow. Eur J Pain. 2015 Nov;19(10):1564. doi: 10.1002/ejp.772
Humble SR Could hot chilli pepper consumption reduce the prevalence of chronic pain? Rapid Response to Lv et al., Consumption of spicy foods and total and cause specific mortality: population based cohort study. BMJ 2015;351:h3942
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h3942
http://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h3942/rr-12
Humble SR, Dalton A, Li L A systematic review of therapeutic interventions to reduce acute and chronic post-surgical pain after amputation, thoracotomy or mastectomy. Eur J Pain. 2015 Apr; 19(4):451-65. doi: 10.1002/ejp.567
Biography
Dr Christopher Jenner undertook his undergraduate training at Bart’s and The Royal London Hospital Medical School. He completed his postgraduate training on the west London training scheme, including St Marys Hospital, Charing Cross Hospital and The Royal Marsden Hospital.
Biography
Dr Sunny Nayee trained at Cambridge University Medical School. He has completed training rotations in some of the top teaching hospitals in the United Kingdom including the well-renowned Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in West London where he carries out his NHS practice. He also works at the BlackBerry Clinic in Milton Keynes which treats professional footballers including Steven Gerrard and Rio Ferdinand.
Dr Nayee has a special interest in all types of complex spinal pain. He is one of the few doctors within the University Hospital who can perform Radiofrequency Denervation of the facet joints. He can also perform epidurals for both acute and chronic symptomology. He is also accomplished at performing targeted nerve root and peripheral nerve injections to help pain in specific areas. These procedures are often xray or ultrasound guided. Dr Nayee is one of the few doctors in London who is able to use the new “cooled radiofrequency” technology. Using this he is able to help patients with shoulder, hip and knee pain by stunning the nerves the affected joint. His patients are therefore able to obviate or delay the need for more invasive surgery.
Dr Nayee has a prize-winning career having been awarded the top prize from the Strategic Health Authority’s Dragon’s Den competition which was covered extensively in the national press. He has an interest in patient safety and communication and has presented at the National Patient Safety Conference, Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCOA) and submitted publications in various journals and books.
Dr Nayee regularly presents at national and international meetings. He regularly attends cadaveric workshops in the United States and the Netherlands to learn and implement cutting-edge techniques in the UK. He has submitted articles in multiple esteemed journals. He is a member of multiple professional bodies including the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland, British Pain Society, Spinal Interventional Society, World Institute of Pain and European Pain Federation.
Dr Nayee and his team pride themselves on being able to offer to the quickest access to the highest quality care in Interventional Pain Medicine.