Dr Arun Bhaskar

Pain management specialist in London

MBBS MSc FRCA FFPMRCA FFICM FIPP

GMC: 4761448

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Dr Arun Bhaskar is a leading consultant in pain medicine in London, who holds a special interest in complex pain, including neuropathic pain, cancer pain, visceral and pelvic pain, pain interventions and neuromodulation. He also holds a particular interest in opioid management in complicated cancer pain, and opioid dependence and its management in the pain patient population. He practices in three clinics across London: The London Clinic, The OAD Clinic, and HCA at the Shard.

Dr Bhaskar, upon graduating from the University of Kerala, started his consultant career at The Christie in Manchester where he has been involved with several clinical trials in cancer pain and neuropathic pain in cancer, including chemotherapy-induced neuropathic pain and developed novel techniques for interventional treatment of pain. Dr Bhaskar is on the faculty and examiner for many courses, including the European Pain School and the World Institute of Pain and regularly mentors colleagues, nationally and internationally. He publishes extensively, writes regularly on pain matters and serves as peer reviewer and section editor in several reputable journals. Dr Bhaskar is the Immediate Past President of the British Pain Society and has served two terms as an elected member of the Council of the British Pain Society and also chairs the Communications Committee, and additionally contributed to BPS’s ‘cancer pain management’ document in 2010. He is also the Honorary Secretary of the Neuromodulation Society of UK and Ireland and the Chairman of the UK Section, World Institute of Pain.

He is currently the co-chair of the Committee for the Cancer Pain Management Guideline and he is also the co-chair of the Neuromodulation Guidelines Committee. He also represents UK as Councillor at the European Pain Federation and is 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.

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GMC: ‍4761448

Professional experience

• More than 15 years of experience
• Consultant in pain medicine, London Bridge Hospital (present)
• Consultant in pain medicine, The OAD Clinic (2017 – present)
• Consultant in pain medicine, KIMS Hospital, Maidstone, Kent (present)
• Consultant in pain medicine, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (2017 – present)
• Consultant in pain medicine, Leva Clinic (2021 – present)
• Advisor, Cellen (2021 – present)
• Consultant in pain medicine, anaesthetisa, and critical care (2006 – 2014)

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Sub-specialties

• Arm pain
• Back pain
• Botulinum toxin injections (non cosmetic)
• Cancer Pain
• Chronic fatigue
• Chronic pain
• Diabetes pain
• Epidural infiltration
• Epidurolysis
• Facial pain
• Fibromyalgia
• Frozen shoulder
• Headache
• Herpes pain
• Hip pain
• Infiltration ultrasound-guided and fluoroscopy
• Interventional pain management
• Joint injections
• Joint pain
• Lidocaine administration
• Low back pain
• Lumbar herniated disc
• Musculoskeletal pain
• Myofascial pain
• Neck pain
• Neuropathic pain
• Orofacial Pain
• Osteoarthritis
• Pain pelvic floor and perineal
• Pain treatment
• Pathologies of pain
• Peripheral arterial disease
• Peripheral nerve block
• Plantar fasciitis
• Radiofrequency denervation
• Radiofrequency treatment
• Reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome (RSD)
• Rhizotomy
• Sciatica
• Second medical opinion
• Spinal stenosis
• Sport orthopaedic
• Temporomandibular joint disorder (TMJ)
• Transcutaneous stimulation (TENS)
• Trigeminal neuralgia
• Vertebroplasty
• Whiplash

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Positions in public associations

• Immediate Past President, The British Pain Society (2023 – present)
• President, The British Pain Society (2019 – 2023)
• Councillor, European Pain Federation EFIC (2019 – 2023)
• Co-chair, Cancer Pain Management Guidelines Committee
• Co-chair, Neuromodulation Guidelines Committee
• Chair, British Pain Society Communications Committee
• Honorary secretary, Neuromodulation Society of the UK and Ireland (NSUKI).
• Chairman (UK), World Institute of Pain
• Co-chair, OPEN Consensus group for opioid analgesic dependency
• Immediate past chair, Northwest Pain Group

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Education

• MSc in Pain Medicine, Cardiff University (2016)
• FIPP Passed in Budapest (2011)
• FFICM Conferred in London (2011)
• FFPMRCA Conferred in London (2008)
• Final FRCA Exam, Passed in London (2003)
• MBBS University of Kerala, India (1995)

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Publications and conferences

• Contributing author to various textbooks and journals including book reviews and articles; also peer reviewer and an editorial member for several articles on pain and palliative care and anaesthesia for various organisations including NICE, NIHR, F1000 as well as several journals.
• Section Editor for Cancer Pain in Journal of Observational Pain Medicine (JOOPM)
• Regular Column in European Pain News, Newsletter for European Pain Federation
• Regular Column in Pain News, Newsletter for British Pain Society
• Regularly lectures both nationally and internationally
• Contributing author, British Pain Society’s ‘cancer pain management’ document (2010)

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Prizes and awards

• Cancer Team of the Year, for the pioneering work in treating peritoneal metastasis of colorectal origin with Cytoreduction and Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (Clinical Lead for PTS Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine), The BMJ Awards, London (2013)
• Most Compassionate Junior Doctor, Sulabh C Arya Award, New Delhi, India (1995)

Professional membership

• Fellow of Royal College of Anaesthetists
• Fellow of Faculty of Pain Medicine, RCoA
• Fellow of Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, RCoA
• Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice, World Institute of Pain
• The Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland
• Neuromodulation Society of United Kingdom & Ireland (Hon. Secretary)
• International Association for Study of Pain (IASP)
• European Pain Federation (EFIC)
• International Neuromodulation Society
• Spine Intervention Society (International Education Committee Member)
• Intensive Care Society
• International Association of Substance Abuse and Chemical Dependency
• Royal Society of Medicine
• Manchester Medical Society
• NICE GDG – Care of the Dying in Adults (Co-opted Member)
• NICE committee on Interventional Procedures
• Council of London Pain Forum
• Northern England Pain Society
• Northwest Society of Palliative Care Physicians
• Council of the British Pain Society

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Languages spoken

English
Hindi
Malayalam
Tamil
Urdu