Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine

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+Professor Ian Power BSc (Hons) MD FRCA FFPMANZCA FANZCA FRCS Ed FRCP Edin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Professor Ian Power graduated in both Science (Physiology) and Medicine from the University of Glasgow, and trained in Anaesthesia in the Western Infirmary in Glasgow in the United Kingdom. His academic career commenced at Edinburgh University as Lecturer and Senior Registrar at the Royal Infirmary (where he did his higher degree studies), and continued in Cardiff as Senior Lecturer and Consultant in the Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine of the University of Wales College of Medicine. In 1994 he joined the Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Management in Sydney, as Associate Professor at Sydney University and director of the acute pain program at the Royal North Shore Hospital. His research interests comprise both basic scientific and clinical studies of pain relief. Ian is a Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists of the United Kingdom and the Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists, the Australian Society of Anaesthetists, and the International Association for the Study of Pain. He is a Board Member of the British Journal of Anaesthesia, has served a member of the Australian Drug Evaluation Committee, is co-editor of the textbook Medicine for Anaesthetists 4th Edition, and is the co-author of a new text to be published this year, Principles of Physiology for Anaesthetists. Professor Power has recently had the honour of being appointed to the Chair of Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine in the University of Edinburgh.

 

Professor Ian Power - Biographical details