2014 WorkSafe Victoria, Transport Accident Commission: Independent Medical Examiner
2015 Master’s degree in Medical Law Programme, University of Melbourne
Training
Advanced training in Pain Medicine: Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Brisbane and Taunton and Somerset Hospital, UK
Advanced Training Anaesthesia and Intensive Care: Bristol UK, and The Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane.
Current Positions
Senior Specialist Multidisciplinary Pain Centre, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital
Senior Visiting Medical Officer, Department of Anaesthesia Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Greenslopes Private Hospital, and Mater Hospitals Brisbane
Deputy Chair Human Research Ethics Committee, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital
Independent Expert Medical Examiner (Litigation, AHPRA Insurance Court Evidence)
Independent Expert Experience
17 years and current experience as a pain medicine physician and anaesthetist
Independent Medical Examinations
Impairment determinations
Expert Witness (District Court, Supreme Court, Coroners Court in person and telephone)
Critical Incident Root Cause Analysis (Queensland Health)
Clinical Expertise
Chronic Non-Malignant Painful Conditions, e.g. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), painful neuropathies, Neuropathic Pain and Nerve Entrapment Syndromes using a combination of drug and interventional treatments.
Spinal Pain that is not amenable to surgery such as Failed Back Surgery Syndrome, arachnoiditis, degenerative spinal conditions using a number of treatment modalities including drug treatments, injection techniques, radiofrequency nerve ablation and “advanced” pain therapies, such as spinal cord stimulation and intrathecal drug therapy.
Pain Syndromes in which an individual’s pain is disproportionate to any physical condition by determining the contribution of physical (organic) and psychological (non-organic) components of their pain.
Multidisciplinary Pain Management teams of allied health professionals in pain management programs in which cognitive and behavioural therapy is used to assist individuals with pain better self-manage their condition.
Adult Anaesthesia for all surgical specialties, including day case anaesthesia, spinal and epidural anaesthesia, nerve blocks, pre and post-operative care and pain management.