Dr Senthil Jayaseelan

Dr Senthil Jayaseelan is a consultant in anaesthesia and pain management in Merseyside. He specialises in the treatment of musculoskeletal pain, including back and leg (sciatic) pain, neck and arm pain, arthritis related pain of various joints, fibromyalgia, nerve pain, pain affecting internal organs of the body and cancer pain.

Dr Jayaseelan qualified in 2002 from the Madras Medical College and completed clinical training in anaesthesia and pain management across the East Midlands, Scotland, and Mersey Deaneries, during which he also completed two pain management fellowships at the National Refractory Angina Centre and the Walton Centre. With these fellowships, he gained skills in managing general pain, cancer pain and specialised cardiac-related pain i.e. refractory angina and in utilising multidisciplinary approaches to pain management. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Anesthetists, both in the UK and in Ireland, and he is one of the first pain specialists in the UK to be awarded the Fellowship of the Faculty of Pain Medicine by Examination, which is the highest assessment qualification for pain specialists in the UK. He is also a fellow of Interventional Pain Practice of the World Institute of Pain.

Dr Jayaseelan is the Lead for Interventional Pain Management at the St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, and when not in the clinic, he is active in medical education and research. He is a tutor for the Faculty of Pain Medicine at the aforementioned NHS Trust and serves as an Honorary Clinical Lecturer at the University of Liverpool as well as an examiner for the final year clinical examinations in the MBChB programme, the Faculty of Pain Medicine exam of the Royal College of Anaesthetists, and the Diploma of Pain Medicine of the European Society of Regional Anaesthesia. He is an Advanced Life Support Instructor since 2015, contributing to national courses, and is an author within the Pain Management e-Learning Programme of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.