Dr Deepak Ravindran
Clinical Lead in Pain Medicine, Royal Berkshire Hospital
Speaker's biography
Dr Deepak Ravindran is a boundary spanning ‘upstreamist’ with a trauma informed approach to pain practice. He has over 20 years of experience in Pain Management and is Clinical Lead in Pain Medicine at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, Berkshire, UK. He is one of the very few consultants in the UK who holds certification in musculoskeletal medicine, pain medicine and board certified in lifestyle medicine. He lectures nationally and internationally on issues in long COVID, Pain Medicine and Trauma informed practice and has regularly spoken to the media and television on these issues.
He has had a longstanding interest in Fibromyalgia and has worked with FMA UK and also the local FM patient support group. He secured funding and organised 2 awareness days for FM in Berkshire in 2018 and 2019. He helped establish the community pain service in Berkshire (IPASS) in 2015 and more recently helped set up and operationalise the Berkshire long COVID Integrated Service (BLIS) in 2020. He initiated Pain research in his department and is an active part of the Pain Research Network at the University of Reading. He has been recently completed his degree in Management at the Henley Business School.
Dr Ravindran is part of the scientific advisory board at Curable, MyPain and also part of the Footsteps Festival team and a FlippinPain Friend. He is also an advisor to UK’s first Online Pain Clinic The Leva Clinic.
Dr Deepak Ravindran is the author of Amazon Best Seller “The Pain Free Mindset” released in 2021. This book is aimed at patients suffering with pain, but is also immensely useful for all healthcare professionals in understanding recent advances around pain management in a trauma informed manner.