PANEL OF EDUCATORS
Contributors and Educators include for the NSANZ March Cadaver Workshop include:
Dr Dan Bates (B.Med, BSc, HONS, FACSEP) – Brief Bio. Dan is a Sports and Exercise physician working full-time in chronic musculoskeletal and neuropathic pain. He is one of the directors at Metro Pain Group and Monash House Private Hospital. He has published broadly across management of osteoarthritis, neuropathic pain, examination techniques, and multiple interventions including biologics and neuromodulation. He enjoys learning and teaching in pain and musculoskeletal medicine and has 3 kids and a very tolerant wife. |
Tillman trained as an anaesthetist at the RPA Hospital in Sydney, followed by the pain fellowship with Professor Sundaraj at Nepean Hospital. He now runs a large group pain practice with locations in the inner and outer west of Sydney. His interests are medical education and neuropathic pain therapies. He has recently adopted novel SCS implantation techniques together with his neurosurgical colleague Professor Antonio Di Ieva at Macquarie University Hospital. |
Dr Green is a qualified Pain and Rehabilitation Medicine Specialist Physician with post graduate qualifications and experience in Musculoskeletal and Interventional Pain Medicine (FFPMANZCA, FAFRM, Grad Dip MSK, FIPP, BMBS). Having worked for over 19 years in the Pain Medicine field, Dr Green’s practice is centred around a Specialist Multidisciplinary Team, with Experienced Physiotherapists, Psychologists and Nurses, he is the current Director of PainMedSA. Undertaking a wide variety of interventional pain procedures that include Regional Blocks / Radiofrequency Neurotomy / Neuromodulation (including SCS / DRG / PNFS / Reactive8 devices). Dr Green is also the Director at Cercare, a clinical research organisation - team, focusing on improving delivery of evidence based treatments for Chronic Pain and other related conditions. |
| Dr. Tim Ho is a Rehabilitation and Pain Specialist. He has an interest in interventional pain medicine, and is teaching for the faculty for Abbott neuromodulation training and mentoring program. Dr. Ho graduated from medicine from the University of New South Wales. He subsequently qualified as a Rehabilitation Medicine physician, before he undertook further specialist training in pain medicine. Dr. Ho currently works with a team of pain specialist, psychologist and physiotherapy in Newtown and Penrith. He provides pain service to MUH, amputee/limb reconstruction clinic, aged care facility, and spinal cord injury rehabilitation service. He also runs a Mandarin speaking pain clinic in Hurstville. He also has a passion in pain education and advocacy and is currently the NSW director of Australian Pain Society. He also works as a specialist in Addiction Medicine Centre in Sydney. |
| BSc (Hons) MB ChB FANZCA FFPMANZCA Dr. Lewis Holford is the Director of the Northern Pain Centre in Sydney. He completed his medical degrees and internship in the United Kingdom before undertaking postgraduate Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine training in Australia and New Zealand, obtaining Fellowship of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists in 2006 and Fellowship of the Faculty of Pain Medicine in 2007. His fields of interest include the use of neuromodulation, radiofrequency procedures and regenerative therapies in the treatment of a comprehensive range of pain conditions as a component of a multidisciplinary approach to the treatment of persistent pain with the goal of relieving pain and improving function and quality of life. |
Dr Romil Jain is the founder and Director of ACT Pain Centre. Dr Jain is a qualified Specialist Pain Medicine Physician and Interventional Pain Specialist. Dr Jain believes in comprehensive care of chronic pain patients in multidisciplinary environment. He is an ‘Interventional Pain Specialist’ and uses Pain Procedures as part of Biopsychosocial model of Pain. |
Associate Professor Khor is currently a Senior Staff Specialist and Director of Department of Pain Management in Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney, Australia. His main interests are management of persistent pain in a multidisciplinary setting; application of interventional techniques such as nerve blocks and implantable therapies for chronic non-cancer and cancer pain using neural stimulators and intraspinal analgesic pumps as well as management of the complex acute postoperative pain. Associate Professor Khor also maintains his interest in research and teaching with UNSW Prince of Wales Clinical School and the pain medicine training program with Faculty of Pain Medicine, ANZCA. |
Dr Vahid Mohabbati is a Specialist Pain and Palliative Medicine Physician and a Pain Interventionist. His procedural work has been endorsed by Faculty of Pain Medicine and he has been approved as a Procedural Supervisor by FPM. Dr Mohabbati is the Medical Director of Sydney Pain Management Centre, a Tier 1 FPM accredited training multidisciplinary Pain Centre and also Director of Sydney Pain Research Centre. Dr Mohabbati is the Head of Departments of Pain and Palliative Medicine at Sydney Adventist Hospital- the largest tertiary teaching private hospital in NSW. He has offices in Wahroonga, Parramatta and Campbelltown. |
Dr Alan Nazha is the co-founder and director of Sydney Pain Specialists. He has private hospital appointments at The Sydney Adventist Hospital, Norwest Private Hospital, The Northern Beaches Hospital and The Mater Hospital. Dr Nazha has a special interest in the utilisation of Peripheral Nerve Stimulation in the treatment of persistent post-surgical pain, neuropathic pain, CRPS. |
Dr Marc Russo, MBBS, DA (UK), FANZCA. FFPMANZCA, is a Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists and a Fellow of the Faculty of Pain Medicine. He is the Director of the Hunter Pain Specialists, Hamilton Day Surgery, Genesis Research Services and Co-Director of the Innervate Pain Management Program. Hunter Pain Specialists in Newcastle is a Tier 2 training facility for Faculty of Pain Medicine, and we are also a Certified ISO 9001 business. Dr Russo provides a multidisciplinary approach to pain management. He believes that clinical diligence, early intervention, education and research in the field of pain management are integral to successfully treating patients suffering from chronic persistent non cancer and cancer pain. |
| Dr Paul Verrills |
Dr. Wright matriculated at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston Texas as a presidential scholar in 1983 completing his M.D. degree in 1987. His residency was in anesthesiology with fellowship in chronic pain management at the University of Utah. After four years in the US Air Force, he founded Denver Pain Management and contributed to evolving national standards of care in interventional pain management. In the early 2000’s Dr. Wright assisted with the first standardized guidelines on interventional pain management while co-directing the emerging pain clinic at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. Over the past two decades Dr. Wright developed novel techniques and technologies for the field of pain management; he co-invented the DekompressorTM percutaneous discectomy probe for the minimally invasive treatment of disc herniation and invented the Nimbus ConceptsTM Multi-Tined Expandable RF Electrode as a more effective device for radiofrequency-based therapies. He is a Diplomat of the American Board of Pain Medicine and Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice. Currently he is a Pain Physician in the SIMG pathway at Sydney Pain Management Centre. |
Dr. James Yu is the Medical Director of Sydney Spine and Pain with several multi-disciplinary pain centres across Sydney. He is also the director of SSP Rehab and REGAIN multidisciplinary pain management program. In 2016, he established Australian Medical Research (AMR), a private clinical research facility in Sydney. AMR is working closely with several pharmaceutical and medical device companies to coordinate and conduct high quality clinical studies. He is an examiner and training unit assessor for the Faculty of Pain Medicine. He has been certified and awarded the Fellowship in Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP) in 2015. Dr Yu is an executive board member of the Neuromodulation Society of Australia and New Zealand (NSANZ). He has been the organiser and moderator for the NSANZ cadaver workshops for the last 4 years. He is trained in all areas of pain medicine with clinical expertise in interventional pain procedures including spinal cord stimulation and intrathecal pump implant. |
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