NHS and Clinical Partners
University researchers work closely with many clinics across Oxford, in particular at the John Radcliffe, Nuffield Orthopaedic and Churchill Hospitals. Many of these clinics also deliver research. The central pain service at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH) is the Oxford Pain Management Centre, and the Optimise program, but pain experts also work in multiple speciality clinics, and links to some of these are below.
Clinical colleagues
Nilay Chatterjee
Consultant, Oxford Pain Management Centre (OUH)
Interest in: My area of clinical interest is interventional pain management, particularly for chronic back and neck pain, as well as cranial neuralgias.
Tamara Edwards
Advanced Clinical Practitioner working within acute and chronic pain service (OUH)
Katie Gore
Clinical Specialist Pelvic Physiotherapist and Doctoral Researcher
Interest in: chronic pelvic pain and pelvic health physiotherapy
Alex Green
Consultant Neurosurgeon (OUH)
Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences
Interest in: I treat chronic pain using neuromodulation (implanting electrodes) including spinal cord and deep brain stimulation. Relating to the latter I am interested in chronic post-stroke pain and am investigating the use of DBS and focussed ultrasound.
Leila Heelas
Consultant Physiotherapist (OUH)
PhD Researcher, Social Biobehavioural Research group (UCL)
Interest in: Psychologically-informed physiotherapy and group-based pain rehabilitation programmes.
Jonathan Nicholas
Advanced Practice Physiotherapist, Optimise Pain Rehabilitation Unit (OUH)
Interest in: Chronic Pain Rehabilitation
Jane Quinlan
Consultant in Anaesthetics and Pain Management (OUH)
Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Interest in: acute and inpatient pain, opioid stewardship, and prescribed opioid dependence.
Richard Sawyer
Consultant in Anaesthesia & Pain Medicine, and Faculty Tutor in Pain (OUH)
Interest in: psychosocial aspects impacting on complex chronic pain clinical presentations & factors associated with patients struggling to improve their pain self management.
Tauheed Shiakh
Consultant in Pain Medicine and current Lead for Bucks NHS Trust
Interest in - major joint pain, spinal pain and regenerative medicine
Amanda Wall
Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist (OUH)