Dr John Hughes

Co-opted member of Council representing the Faculty of Pain Medicine

Qualifications

MBBS FRCA FFPMRCA

Hospital

The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough

Biography

John Hughes trained in London and the South East, Baltimore and Newcastle before becoming a consultant at The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough.

Over the years he developed a special interest in chronic abdominal and pelvic pain and became a full time pain consultant in 2014.

His non clinical interests include introducing pain to the undergraduate curriculum for phase 1 medical students at Durham University and he was one of the original RAPM’s, going on to be chair and then co-opted to the Training and Assessment Committee. He was a member from 2013 to 2015 and later became Chair of the Clinical Reference Group Specialised Pain Services NHSE from 2015 2019.

Has been Chair of Pain of Urogenital Origin (PUGO), a SIG of the IASP renamed SIG of Abdominal and Pelvic Pain and a Member of the IASP Education Working Group. He is currently a member of the European Association of Urology Chronic Pelvic Pain Working group and chair of the BPS/MoM Chronic Pelvic Pain Patient Pathway working group.

He was elected to the board of FPM 2013, Vice Dean between 2017- 2019 and Dean from 2019-2021.

Register of Interests

Chair of the Clinical Reference Group Specialised Pain Services NHSE 2015-19
Current member of the European Association of Urology Chronic Pelvic Pain Working group (2006-date)
Past commercial (pharmaceutical industry multiple companies) sponsorship for travel and meetings, none in last 5 years
Consultancy agreement with Bayer Aktiengesellschaft for ERG membership of a non product project. There will be a financial benefit for the work undertaken.