Dr Vivek Mehta
Consultant in Pain Medicine and Neuromodulation, Honorary Reader
Email: vivek.mehta@nhs.net
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Dr. Mehta is currently the Clinical Network Director of Pain Services Barts Health NHS Trust, a combination of several hospitals and community care services in London, one of the largest institutions in the UK. He also heads the Academic Pain Medicine division of the Trust and is Honorary Reader at William Harvey Institute and Queen Mary University, London. He has been awarded the Bronze award by National Clinical Excellence Awards committee in 2021 a public acknowledgment of his professional expertise and sustained and dedicated contribution to the NHS over and above his contractual requirements. Dr. Mehta has been appointed as the Vice Chair of the Examinations Board at the Fellowship of Pain Medicine (FFPM), Royal College of Anaesthesia (RCOA). He has been elected Treasurer of NSUKI (Neuromodulation Society of UK and Ireland). He has been involved in supporting and drafting commissioning policies for neuromodulation by NHS England, particularly for headache services. He is an eminent speaker and has lectured at over 200 clinical and academic meetings. He has published extensively in the field of pain. His work on functional and restorative neurostimulation has been recognised by the international neuromodulation society and received one of the top 5 research in World Congress for 2017. His multicentre three-year outcome data on multifidus stimulation was one of the top 5 research in the UK for the year 2022.