Dr Kavita Poply, MBBS, FRCA, FPM RCA, PhD

Profile

Dr Kavita Poply is serving as a consultant in Pain Medicine and Neuromodulation at St Bartholomew's Hospital and Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London. She has dedicated her career to advancing medical education and research in neuromodulation and pain management.

Following undergraduate medicine degree (MBBS), she was accredited with Fellowship of Royal College of Anaesthetics and Faculty of Pain medicine (FRCA, FPM RCA), London. She earned Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from Queen Mary University of London for her novel and ground-breaking research on “Dynamic brain imaging (PET) response to SCS Differential Frequencies: A double blind RCT”, which has contributed significantly to understanding the effects of spinal cord stimulation treatment algorithms at the brain level in an endeavour to explore objective outcome biomarkers. She is running various research projects including NIHR trial and has been serving as Deputy director at Pain Research Centre (PaRC), St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. 

She is the founder and Program lead of first ever accreditation-“Post Graduate Certificate (PGcert) Course in Neuromodulation and pain management”. She is successfully running this program with the international faculty collaboration from Europe, India, UAE, Australia, and US.

Dr Poply's dedication to medical education extends her role beyond the geographical boundaries as a member of the Education Committee, North American Neuromodulation Society (NANS) and as an associate editor, Pain Practice journal, where she contributes her expertise to serve the field internationally.  
 

Research

Group members

Dr Vivek Mehta; Anthony Mathur; Amrita Ahluwalia; Parjam Zolfaghari; Rupert Pearse; Gareth Ackland; Qasim Aziz

Summary

I am the Deputy Director for Pain Research Centre at Barts Health NHS trust since 2020. Current grants (2023) are as follows:

Principal Investigator

1. PILOW Wave-writer: gov NCT03818074 Investigator Grant £188,000. Boston Scientific.  
2. Multifidus PET study: gov NCT04327817 Investigator Grant £298,000 Mainstay.  

Co-Investigator

1. Site co-investigator for NIHR RADICAL study: Radiofrequency denervation for chronic and moderate to severe low back pain: The RADICAL trial Award ID: NIHR127457
2. Site co-investigator for NIHR PHANTOM HTA Trial The Efficacy of Combined Dorsal Root Ganglion and Spinal Cord Stimulation in the Management of Severe Phantom Limb Pain: A Multicentre, Randomised Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Study (PHANTOM). NIHR-HTA 19/74
3. TruBurst  study: The True Efficacy of Burst Spinal Cord Stimulation in the Management of Failed Back Surgery Syndrome: Abbotts Multicentre trial IRAS 316297- ethics under progress.
4. HIDENS study gov NCT03716973; Investigator Grant £226,719, Medtronic. Study completed.   radiculopathy - HIDENS Study. Pain Pract. 2021 Oct 24. doi: 10.1111/papr.13087.
5. Reactivate B study Clinical Trials.gov NCT02577354: Investigator Grant £409,000, Mainstay Top recruiter in Europe. FDA trial.  
6. DEFY-PET study: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03716557. Investigator Grant £167,000. Boston Scientific.
7. RELIEF global outcome study: Investigator Grant £80,000 Boston Scientific. Real world outcome data. Published on behalf of Relief investigators.  
8. Clinical Outcomes in Neuromod Investigator Grant £250,000 Medtronic

Publications

• Alamgir A, Ahmad A, Sharma S et al. (2024). ID: 317876 Real World SCS Outcomes in the Pandemic: 12-month prospective single centre data.

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/j.neurom.2024.06.040

  
  

  QMRO:
• Wodehouse T, Poply K, Bahra A et al. (2024). ID: 332285 Central Sensitisation Response following Occipital Nerve Stimulation: 9-year follow-up.

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/j.neurom.2024.06.134

  
  

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• Elyas A, Nikolic S, Ellamushi H et al. (2024). ID: 332988 A Case Series of Patients Undergoing Spinal Cord Stimulation for Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome.

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/j.neurom.2024.06.143

  
  

  QMRO:
• Nikolic S, Elyas A, Ellamushi H et al. (2024). ID: 333485 Pancreatic Pain in a Patient Treated with Evoked Compound Action Potential Spinal Cord stimulation.

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/j.neurom.2024.06.144

  
  

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• Bajaj G, Poply K, Mehta V et al. (2024). ID: 335318 Real World Outcome Data for Spinal Cord Stimulation – Ethnic Minorities and Social Deprivation.

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/j.neurom.2024.06.482

  
  

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• Khilji MY, Elyas A, Ahmad A et al. (2024). ID: 335557 Pre-Emptive Use of Lidocaine-Patches Following SCS-Implant to Prevent Postoperative-Pain And Hypersensitivity: 6 Month Prospective Data.

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/j.neurom.2024.06.164

  
  

  QMRO:
• Bajaj G, Russo M, Nikolic S et al. (2024). ID: 338115 Post-Graduate Certification in Neuromodulation and Pain Management (PGCert) – University Accreditation in Neuromodulation.

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/j.neurom.2024.06.463

  
  

  QMRO:
• Bajaj G, Poply K, Ahmad A et al. (2024). ID: 344162 A Prospective Single Centre Study Investigating 1KHz/FAST/Microburst Neurostimulation's Effects on PSPS Type-1 Over 24 Months.

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/j.neurom.2024.06.240

  
  

  QMRO:
• Bajaj G, Poply K, Haroon A et al. (2024). ID: 345381 One Year Outcomes -18FDG-PET-CT Assessment of Multifidus Activity and Radiomics-Based Heterogeneity Analysis During Restorative Neurostimulation.

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/j.neurom.2024.06.354

  
  

  QMRO:
• Carayannopoulos A, Johnson D, Lee D et al. (2024). Precision Rehabilitation After Neurostimulation Implantation for Multifidus Dysfunction in Nociceptive Mechanical Chronic Low Back Pain.

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/j.arrct.2024.100333

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/100707

Collaborators

• Professor Babita Ghai, ghaibabita1@gmail.com
  Head of Anaesthesia, PGI Chandigarh, India
• Dr Paresh Doshi, Dr._Paresh_Doshi@mail.vresp.com
  Head of Neurosurgery, Jaslok hospital, Mumbai, India
• Dr Phillipe Rigoard (Neurosurgeon), philipperigoard@yahoo.fr
  Head of Spine Surgery  & Neurostimulation, Poitiers University Hospital, Institut P', UPR 3346, CNRS
• Dr Lawrence Poree, Lawrence.poree@ucsf.edu
  Director of Neuromodulation services UCFS, California
• Alaa Abd-Elsayed, abdelsayed@@wisc.edu  
  Medical Director Pain services, University of Wisconsin, USA
• Salim Hayek, salim.hayek@uhhospitals.org, Professor of Anaesthesiology, Case Western Reserve university
• Ahmed Raslan, raslana@ohsu.edu, Professor of Neurological Surgery, Oregon Health and Science University
• Sam Eldabe, seldabe@mac.com, Professor and consultant in pain medicine, James Cook University Hospital
• James Fitzgerald, James.Fitzgerald@ouh.nhs.uk, Neurosurgeon, Oxford University hospitals
• Stana Bojainic, Stana.Bojanic@ouh.nhs.uk, Oxford University hospitals
• Chris Gilligan, cgilligan@bwh.harward.edu
• Frank Huygen, f.huygen@erasmusmc.nl
• Jan willem Kallewaard, jkallewaard@rijnstate.nl