Dr Alan Fayaz

Dr. Alan Fayaz, MD(Res) MRCP FRCA FFPMRCA is a consultant in pain medicine, anaesthesia and perioperative care at UCLH, and honorary associate professor, University College London.

His clinical interests include the management of patients with neuropathic pain, pain relating to neurological disease and complex general pain.

Alan studied preclinical Medicine at the University of Cambridge and clinical medicine at Imperial College London. In 2012, the Faculty of Pain Medicine awarded him the Examination Prize, for achieving the top score at the FFPMRCA examination. He has also been awarded the Nuffield Gold Medal, from the Royal College of Anaesthetists, for performance in the primary FRCA examination.

In 2017 Alan obtained his doctorate in medical research from Imperial College London, after successfully submitting his thesis on pain epidemiology. His research outputs include a contemporaneous assessment of the prevalence of chronic pain phenotypes in the UK, published in the British Medical Journal. The article has been cited over 200 times since publication, and boasts a social media ‘altmetric’ score in the top 5% of all research outputs scored to date.

Alan is the acting media liaison for the British Pain Society; his remit is to raise public awareness of chronic pain, and to facilitate engagement between pain clinicians and patients/allied health professionals. He has strong links with undergraduate and postgraduate education. He has worked with the Faculty of Pain Medicine, and Mercy Ships to deliver EPM (Essentials of Pain Medicine) training to healthcare professionals in Africa, and to medical students and junior doctors in the United Kingdom, and is currently serving as the ‘Regional Lead’ for EPM in London.

He has completed a Generic Instructor Course, and subsequently taught on a number of Advance Life Support Courses in the UK.