BPS Council
The British Pain Society Council is made up of up to six Officers and up to nine Council Members. The Council also has the power to co-opt any person to provide expertise in a particular area as may be deemed necessary.
Dates of future Council meetings can be found at the bottom of the page.
If you would like to contact the President, Honorary Secretary or the Honorary Treasurer of the Society, you may send an email using the following addresses:
- President: president@britishpainsociety.org
- Honorary Secretary: secretary@britishpainsociety.org
- Honorary Treasurer: treasurer@britishpainsociety.org
To contact any other Council member, please email info@britishpainsociety.org
The current Members of Council of the British Pain Society are listed below.
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Officers
| Dr Arun Bhaskar President |
Prof. Roger Knaggs President Elect |
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Qualifications: MBBS FRCA FFPMRCA FFICM FIPP |
Qualifications: BSc(hons) MRPharms PhD BMedSci Term of office: 2022-2023 |
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Dr Ashish Gulve |
Dr Ayman Eissa |
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Qualifications: FFPMCAI, Dip Pain Med FCARCSI MD DNB FCPS DA MBBS |
Qualifications: MBBCh, MSc, FRCA, MD, FFPMRCA Term of office: 2019-2023 |
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Dr Neil Collighan |
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| Qualifications: MBChB FRCA Term of Office: 2022-2023 |
Elected members of Council
Dr Tacson Fernandez
Qualifications: MBBS FRCA FFPMCAI FCARCSI FIPP RYT
Term of office: 2021-2025
Dr Sumit Gulati
Qualifications: MBBS, FRCA, FFPMRCA, MD
Term of office: 2022-2026
Mr Martin Hey
Qualifications:GDip Physio MSc
Term of Office: 2019-2023
Dr Ramanarayanan Krishnamoorthy
Qualifications:
Term of Office: 2022-2026 (2nd term)
Ms Celia Manson
Qualifications: Registered Nurse - adult.
Term of office: 2020-2024
Dr David Pang
Qualifications: FFPMRCA
Term of Office: 2022-2026 (2nd term)
Dr Amelia Swift
Qualifications: PhD, MSc, PGN, PHCE(HE), SFHEA
Term of Office: 2019-2023
Co-opted members of Council
Victoria Abbott-Fleming MBE
Chair, The Patient Voice Committee (TPVC)
Term of office: 2020-2023
Mr Neil Betteridge
Representative of the Chronic Pain Policy Coalition (CPPC)
Term of office: 2019-2022
Ms Felicia Cox
Editor, British Journal of Pain
Term of office: 2014-2022
Dr Lorraine de Gray
Representative: Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Royal College of Anaesthetists
Term of office: 2022-2025
Dr Andreas Goebel
Chair, Science & Research Committee
Term of office: 2019-2022
Leila Heelas
Representative: Physiotherapy Pain Association
Term of office: 2019-2022
Dr Patrick Hill
Respresentative: British Psychological Society
Term of office: 2019-2022
Dr Martin Johnson
Representative: Chronic Pain Policy Coalition & Royal College of GP's
Term of office: 2019-2022
Dr Rajesh Munglani
Editor, Pain News
Term of office: 2019-2022
Dr Stephen Ward
Chair, Scientific Programme Committee
Term of office: 2019-2022
Dates of future Council meetings
The British Pain Society Council usually meets four times a year at the Society’s headquarters in London.
2022?
- 7th December
2023
- 7th February
- 28th June
- 28th September
- 5th December