Royal College of Anaesthetists
Faculty Pain Medicine
British Pain Society
International Association for Study of Pain (IASP)
IASP Neuropathic Pain Specialist Interest Group
Ranked in the top 5% of research outputs by social media altmetric score
Achieved the top FFPMRCA exam score in 2012, earning the faculty of pain medicine exam prize
Research on chronic pain phenotypes cited over 850 times
BIO
Dr Alan Fayaz is substantive consultant in Pain Medicine, Anaesthesia and Perioperative Care at the University College London Hospital NHS Trust. His clinical interests include the management of patients with neuropathic pain, pain relating to neurological disease, complex general pain, spinal and musculoskeletal pain as well as the use of medical cannabis in pain management.
Dr Fayaz studied preclinical Medicine at the University of Cambridge and clinical medicine at Imperial College London. In 2012, the Faculty of Pain Medicine awarded him the Examination Prize, for achieving the top score at the FFPMRCA examination. He has also been awarded the Nuffield Gold Medal, from the Royal College of Anaesthetists, for performance in the primary FRCA examination.
In 2017 Dr Fayaz obtained his doctorate in medical research from Imperial College London, after successfully submitting his Thesis on Pain Epidemiology. His research outputs include a contemporaneous assessment of the prevalence of chronic pain phenotypes in the United Kingdom, published in the British Medical Journal. The article has been cited over 850 times since publication, and boasts a social media ‘altmetric’ score in the top 5% of all research outputs scored to date. Dr Fayaz is an Honorary Associate Professor at University College London, and the lead for the Pain Education Research Centre PERC@UCLH. His current research interests include the perioperative care of complex pain patients, advanced treatments for chronic neuropathic pain, and the role of cannabis based medicinal products in chronic pain management.
Dr Fayaz is the acting chair of the communications committee and also the media liaison for the British Pain Society; his remit is to raise public awareness of chronic pain, and to facilitate engagement between pain clinicians and patients/allied health professionals. He has strong links with undergraduate and postgraduate education. He has worked with the Faculty of Pain Medicine, and Mercy Ships to deliver EPM (Essentials of Pain Medicine) training to healthcare professionals in Africa, and to medical students and junior doctors in the United Kingdom, and is currently serving as the ‘Regional Lead’ for EPM in London.
SPECIAL INTERESTS
Perioperative care of complex pain patients
Advanced treatments for chronic neuropathic pain
The role of cannabis based medicinal products in chronic pain management
Anaesthesia
Lower back pain
Facet joint pain
Sacro iliac joint pain
Degenerative discogenic pain
Vertebrogenic pain
Pain related to multifidus instability
Persistent spinal pain syndrome type 1
Persistent spinal pain syndrome type 2 (failed back surgery syndrome)
Leg pain
Radicular pain (sciatica)
Pain relating to prolapsed disc
Complex regional pain syndrome
Neuropathic pain
Painful peripheral diabetic neuropathy
Chemotherapy induced painful neuropathy
Post surgical pain
Traumatic nerve lesion
Post-herpetic pain
Phantom pain
Stump pain
Brachial plexus injury without root avulsion
Small fibre neuropathy
Pelvic pain
Shoulder pain
Knee pain
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