Dr Anand Natarajan

MBBS; FANZCA

Dr Natarajan is a specialist in the management of Anaesthetics and Pain Management. He started his career as a consultant in Anaesthesia in India after he had obtained a MD in the year 2000. At a young age he was the Anaesthetic Department in charge of Tertiary Medical College teaching Hospital in Perundurai India, where he gained a lot of experience and also started the Intensive Care Unit there. He soon moved to the United Kingdom to expand his knowledge and skills. For 16 years since then he has worked for the NHS. During this period, he acquired the Fellowship of the Royal College of Anaesthetics, FRCA. Soon after that he qualified and acquired the Diploma of the European Society of Anaesthesia and Intensive care. He later went on to do the Fellowship in Pain Management at the Wirral University Teaching Hospitals and Walton centre. He has also trained in the Pain management departments of Salford Royal Foundation Trust and Lancaster Royal Infirmary. He then acquired the Fellowship of Faculty of Pain Medicine- Royal College of Anaesthetics. He has also been awarded the FANZCA Fellowship of Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetics and FFPMANZCA Fellow of the Faculty of Pain Medicine Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetics.

Dr Natarajan was the lead in Pain Medicine at the Wirral University Teaching Hospitals. He has equal interest in interventional and noninterventional aspects of pain management. He believes that multidimensional management of pain is important and takes into consideration the biopsychosocial profile of his patients. He was the lead interventionalist in the Department of Pain Management at Wirral University Teaching Hospital. He also was the lead Consultant of the Pain Management Programme there.

As an anaesthetist he has worked in Leading centres like St Marks Hospital London for Colorectal surgery, for Airway training and Maxillofacial surgery & anaesthesia in tertiary referral centres like, Northwick Park Hospital, Manchester Royal Infirmary and Aintree Hospital, Liverpool. Maternity In Northwick Park, Liverpool Women’s Hospital and St Mary’s Hospital Manchester.