Dr. Arun Bhaskar

Dr. Arun Bhaskar is a leading consultant in pain medicine based in London, specialising in complex pain conditions. His areas of interest include neuropathic pain, cancer pain, visceral and pelvic pain, as well as pain interventions and neuromodulation. He also focuses on managing opioid use in patients with complicated cancer pain and opioid dependence.

Dr. Bhaskar graduated from the University of Kerala, India, and completed his specialist training in the UK at the Northwest Deanery. He began his consultant career at The Christie in Manchester, where he established the Pain Service. Since then, he has been involved in several clinical trials in cancer pain and neuropathic pain related to chemotherapy, and has helped develop new interventional techniques for managing intractable cancer pain.

An active educator, Dr. Bhaskar is on the faculty of many courses, including the European Pain School, and serves as an examiner for the European Diploma in Pain Medicine and the FIPP examination for the World Institute of Pain. He has held leadership roles such as past Chair of the Northwest Pain Clinicians, and has contributed to scientific committees for the European Pain Federation (EFIC 2017) and the International Meeting of the Spinal Interventional Society in London 2018. He has also represented the Faculty of Pain Medicine on the Palliative Medicine SAC at the Royal College of Physicians.

Dr. Bhaskar writes a regular column in Pain News and is a section editor for the Journal of Observational Pain Medicine. He regularly publishes in peer-reviewed journals and has contributed to several guidelines on the interventional management of pain, opioids, and cannabinoids.

Currently, Dr. Bhaskar is based in the south of England with practices in London, where he serves as the Head of Service at the Pain Management Centre at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.