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Dr Sibtain Anwar

Consultant and associate professor of cardiac anaesthesia, intensive care and pain medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital and The Cleveland Clinic, London.

Work Experience

15+ years in annaesthesia, intensive care, and pain medicine

Career Highlights

Leads the Pain Service at Barts Heart Centre — Europe's largest cardiovascular insitution — where he is also the local lead for perioperative care.
President of the Pain Medicine Council at the Royal Society of Medicine
Awarded Visiting Professorship at Harvard University in 2017
Editor for the Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anaesthesia
Executive Scholar at the European Society of Cardiology and The London School of Economics to study the long-term impact of major surgery

Education

Graduated from University of Cambridge with First Class Honours in 1999, having read Neuroscience alongside Medicine
Completed clinical training at Imperial College London in 2002
Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Fellow at Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals from 2009 to 2010
Completed his PhD in Systems Neuroscience of Persistent Postsurgical Pain at the William Harvey Institute in 2014
Executive Masters in Health Economics and Management from The London School of Economics and Political Science in 2022

Publications

"Persistent postsurgical pain", 2013, DOI: 10.1097/SPC.0b013e328360b09e
"The role of intraoperative interventions to minimise chronic postsurgical pain", 2017, DOI: 10.1177/2049463717720640
"Opioid-Based Anesthesia and Analgesia for Adult Cardiac Surgery: History and Narrative Review of the Literature", 2019, DOI: 10.1053/j.jvca.2018.05.053
"Averting a UK opioid crisis: getting the public health messages 'right'", 2022, DOI: 10.1177/01410768221089015
"Seven-year follow-up of persistent postsurgical pain in cardiac surgery patients: A prospective observational study of prevalence and risk factors", 2021, DOI: 10.1002/ejp.1794
"Taking a Systems Neuroscience Approach to Persistent Postsurgical Pain: Mechanisms, Prediction Tools and Preventive Strategies", 2016