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 Vice President |
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Qualifications: MBBS FRCA FFPMRCA FFICM FIPP |
Qualifications: BSc(hons) MRPharms PhD BMedSci Term of office: 2019-2021 |
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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 Term of office: 2020-2023 |
Qualifications: MBBCh, MSc, FRCA, MD, FFPMRCA Term of office: 2019-2022 |
Elected members of Council
Prof. Sam Ahmedzai
Qualifications: BSc Hons MBChB FRCP
Term of office: 2018-2021 (2nd term)
Dr Peter Brook
Qualifications: BSc MBBS MRCP FRCA
Term of Office: 2018-2021
Dr Neil Collighan
Qualifications: MBChB FRCA
Term of Office: 2018-2021
Mr Martin Hey
Qualifications:GDip Physio MSc
Term of Office: 2019-2022
Dr Ramanarayanan Krishnamoorthy
Qualifications:
Term of Office: 2018-2021
Dr Sarah Love-Jones
Qualifications: BSc MBBS FRCA FFPMRCA
Term of office: 2018-2021 (2nd term)
Ms Celia Manson
Qualifications: Registered Nurse - adult.
Term of office: 2020-2023
Dr David Pang
Qualifications: FFPMRCA
Term of Office: 2018-2021
Dr Amelia Swift
Qualifications: PhD, MSc, PGN, PHCE(HE), SFHEA
Term of Office: 2019-2022
Co-opted members of Council
Victoria Abbott-Fleming
Chair, The Patient Voice Committee (TPVC)
Term of office: 2020-2021
Dr Chris Barker
Representative: Royal College of GPs
Term of office: 2019-2020
Mr Neil Betteridge
Representative of the Chronic Pain Policy Coalition (CPPC)
Term of office: 2019-2020
Ms Felicia Cox
Editor, British Journal of Pain & Royal College of Nursing
Term of office: 2014-2020
Dr Andreas Goebel
Chair, Science & Research Committee
Term of office: 2019-2020
Leila Heelas
Representative: Physiotherapy Pain Association
Term of office: 2019-2020
Dr Patrick Hill
Respreentative: British Psychological Society
Term of office: 2019-2020
Dr John Hughes
Representative: Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Royal College of Anaesthetists
Term of office: 2019-2022
Dr Martin Johnson
Representative: Chronic Pain Policy Coalition
Term of office: 2019-2020
Dr Rajesh Munglani
Editor, Pain News
Term of office: 2019-2020
Dr Stephen Ward
Chair, Scientific Programme Committee
Term of office: 2019-2022
Dr Amanda C de C Williams
Representative: Science
Term of office: 2016-2020
Dates of future Council meetings
The British Pain Society Council usually meets four times a year at the Society’s headquarters in London.
2020
- 13th February
- 16th June
- 25th September
- 3rd December