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Dr Alan Fayaz MD(Res) MRCP FRCA FFPMRCA

Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine; University College London Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Honorary Associate Professor; University College London

Interests

Clinical: Chronic pain, chronic neuropathic pain, chronic pain in the context of neurological disease

Pain Research: Chronic pain epidemiology, chronic pain engagement, risk stratification, clinical pharmacology, treatment of chronic neuropathic pain

Pain education: Essentials of pain medicine

Selected
Publications

Prevalence of chronic pain in the UK: a systematic review and meta-analysis of population studies. Fayaz A, Croft P, Langford RM, Donaldson LJ, Jones GT. BMJ Open. 2016;6(6).

The Association Between Chronic Pain and Cardiac Disease: A Cross-sectional Population Study. Fayaz A, Watt HC, Langford RM, Donaldson LJ. The Clinical Journal of Pain. 2016;32(12):1062-8.

Assessing the relationship between chronic pain and cardiovascular disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Fayaz A, Ayis S, Panesar S, Langford RM, Donaldson LJ. Scandinavian Journal of Pain. 2016 Oct;13:76-90

Address

National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery at Cleveland Street
5 Cleveland St, Fitzrovia, London W1T 4AJ

Other Roles

Acting media liaison for the British Pain Society
Member of the Scientific Committee for the Medical Cannabis Working Group

Member of the scientific oversight board for the National Twenty21 project
Regional Lead (London North and Central) for Essential Pain Management Advisory Group (EPMAG)
UK Pain Module Lead Morpheus POM Fellowship

MD 

Publications from my Doctorate include a contemporaneous assessment of the prevalence of chronic pain in the United Kingdom, published in the British Medical Journal. This paper has been cited over 190 times since publication in 2016, and boasts an altmetric score in the top 5% of all research outputs scored to date.

https://bmj.altmetric.com/details/8933137

email

alan.fayaz@nhs.net