Mr Jonathan Rajan
Consultant in Pain Medicine Mb CHB BSc (Hons) FRCA FFPMRCA PGCERT (Med Ed)
Dr Rajan qualified in 2006 from The University of Edinburgh and has trained in Edinburgh, London and the North West. His NHS post is as a Consultant in Pain Medicine and Anaesthesia where has practised since 2015.
Dr Rajan’s consultant practice involves conducting a range of interdisciplinary pain medicine clinics with interventional practice including radiofrequency, coeliac plexus blocks, nerve root blocks and epidurals. He works assessing both secondary and tertiary pain medicine referrals I work as an integral part of an interdisciplinary pain management team, aiming to maximise patient involvement and satisfaction.
Dr Rajan has an interest in metabolic medicine patients with chronic pain (working in one of only two national centres that specialise in such disease) and have lectured to both specialist groups and patient groups on the subject of chronic pain in metabolic disease regionally. He conducts acute pain ward rounds in both NHS and private hospitals and see both chronic and cancer pain patients.
Dr Rajan has spearheaded various projects as a consultant aimed at raising the standard of pain training as well as maximising engagement with the public. He is the Head of the Essential Pain Medicine Steering Group for the University of Manchester and has developed the first multicentre structured pain teaching, for undergraduates, in the North West region. Dr Rajan has co-authored national guidance on best practice for spinal interventions for the British Pain Society.
Dr Rajan has experience of pain management rehabilitation following or as part of a medicolegal claim for personal injury. He has attended the Bond Solon Expert Witness Programme and offers expert witness medicolegal reports for personal injury cases involving chronic pain.