Dr. Alan Fayaz

Dr Alan Fayaz is an experienced Consultant in Anaesthetics and Pain Medicine. He studied preclinical Medicine at the University of Cambridge and clinical medicine at Imperial College London. As a result of his high academic achievement, 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.

Dr Fayaz is active in research and in 2017 he obtained his doctorate (MD) in medical research from Imperial College London, after successfully submitting his Thesis on Pain Epidemiology. He has numerous publications in areas including the assessment of the prevalence of chronic pain phenotypes in the United Kingdom, published in the British Medical Journal. 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.

In addition to his clinical work, Dr Fayaz is an Honorary Associate Professor at University College London, and the lead for the Pain Education Research Centre PERC@UCLH.

Dr Fayaz is the acting chair of the communications committee and also the media liaison for the British Pain Society; he is working to raise public awareness of chronic pain, and to facilitate engagement between pain clinicians and patients/allied health professionals, creating better outcomes for his patients.

Dr. Fayaz is involved in education and 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.