Consultant Profile

Dr Raju Bhadresha MB Chb, FRCA

Practising at: Ashford, Canterbury and Margate

Specialties: Anaesthesia, Pain Management Medicine

Special clinical interests:
Back and neck pain
Interventional therapy
Radio frequency denervation
Spinal cord stimulation
Pain medicine
Anaesthesia
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

Current NHS and /or university posts: Pain Medicine and Anaesthesia Consultant - EKHUFT

Year of first medical qualification and medical school attended: 1987, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff

Current membership(s) of professional, national and regional bodies:
Member Royal College Of Anaesthesist
Member European Society Of Anaesthesialogist
Member British Pain Society
Member World Institute Of Pain

Background Information

Dr  Bhadreha qualified in medicine at the University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, in 1987.

He trained in Anaesthesia, Pain Medicine and Neuromodulation in the UK (London, West Midlands and the South East of England) and In the Unites States (Richamond, Virginia).

Mr Bhadresha has been a Consultant in Pain Medicine and Anaesthesia for East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust since January 1998.

Mr Bhadresha's special interest is within the Pain field and includes low back pain, neck pain and interventional treatment for these including radiofrequency denervation, implantation of spinal cord stimulators and intrathecal pumps.

Mr Bhadresha's other pain interests include Complex Regional Pain Syndrome and head and neck pains including trigeminal neuralgia.

Mr Badresha is a member of the world Institute of Pain and has specialist Training in Interventional Pain and has been awarded the Fellowship in Interventional Pain Medicine.