Our Mission
- To provide exemplary clinical care in prevention and treatment of debilitating pain states.
- To continually improve pain management through research
and education.
Our Values
- We understand that each individual's experience of pain is unique, affecting their relationships and work life in a complex
manner.
- We believe in a wide interdisciplinary perspective on the understanding and treatment of pain.
- We value evidence-based practice.
- We support the
ongoing search for and dissemination of knowledge in pain management.
- We promote self-management strategies.
Our Goals (2012-2016)
- To develop patient
care pathways for chronic pain e.g. peripheral neuropathic pain, post-herpetic neuralgia, complex regional pain syndrome, failed back surgery, fibromyalgia, and post-surgical pain syndromes.
- To shift pain clinic role to a consultant's service where our recommendations would be made to the referring doctor utilizing the care plan framework.
- To gain accreditation as a
Royal College Pain Medicine Residency Training Program.
- to be known nationally and internationally as a centre that provides excellent undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in Pain
Medicine.
- To increase research output in our focus areas.
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Manikandan Rajarathinam
MD
