About the FPM

The Faculty was established in April 2007 in order to appropriately represent the professional, educational and training needs of Pain Medicine doctors. The Faculty evolved from the Pain Management Committee which had previously acted as the central focus for pain-related issues within the College.

The Board of the Faculty of Pain Medicine

• Professor Dave Rowbotham (Dean)
• Dr Mark Taylor (Vice-Dean)
• Dr Beverly Collett
• Dr John Goddard
• Dr Kate Grady
• Dr John Hughes
• Dr Hywel Jones
• Professor Ian Power
• Dr Karen Simpson
• Dr Stephen Ward
• Dr Emma Baird (Co-optee: Trainee Representative)
• Dr Stephen Gilbert (Co-optee: Lead Clinician for Chronic Pain - Scotland)
• Ms Carol Green (Co-optee: Lay representative, Patient Liaison Group)
• Professor Richard Langford (Co-optee: President, British Pain Society)
• Dr Barry Miller (Co-optee: Chair, Regional Advisors in Pain Medicine)

FPM Board Minutes can be found at the bottom of the page.
 

FPM Professional Standards Committee
The FPM Professional Standards Committee is responsible for Pain Medicine matters relating to the website, policy endorsement, good practice documentation, revalidation and events, and policies relating to patient safety, competencies, clinical audit and doctors in difficulty.

• Dr Karen Simpson (Chair)
• Professor Dave Rowbotham (Ex-officio: Dean)
• Dr Mark Taylor (Ex-officio: Vice-Dean)
• Dr Beverly Collett
• Dr Lesley Colvin
• Dr Tony Davies
• Dr Andy Nicolaou
• Dr Cathy Price
• Dr Robert Searle
• Dr Cathy Stannard
• Dr Anna Weiss
• Dr Paul Wilkinson
• Ms Carol Green (Lay Representative: Patient Liaison Group)
• Dr Sanjeeva Gupta (Co-optee: Educational Meeting Advisor)
• Dr Shyam Balasubramaniam (Co-optee: Deputy Educational Meeting Advisor)
   

FPM Training and Assessment Committee
The FPM Training and Assessment Committee is responsible for Pain Medicine matters relating to the curriculum, assessment tools, the logbook, e-learning, examinations, specialty area training, recruitment and selection, the EWTD and quality assurance.

• Dr Kate Grady (Chair)
• Dr Barry Miller (RAPM Chair)
• Professor Dave Rowbotham (Ex-officio: Dean)
• Dr Roger Okell
• Professor Ian Power
• Dr Nicholas Plunkett
• Dr Mark Taylor
• Dr Stephen Ward
• Dr Emma Baird (Co-optee: Trainee Representative)
• Dr Jeremy Cashman (Co-optee: Lead FPM Examination question writer)
• Dr Mark Jackson (Co-optee: Examinations Tutorial Advisor)