Dr Sibtain Anwar

Profile

Sibtain (Sibs) Anwar read Neuroscience alongside Medicine at the University of Cambridge receiving First Class Honours for his research thesis on the effects of melatonin on excitatory projections within the brain. He completed clinical training at Imperial College London, while also pursuing his research interests as an Honorary Fellow of the Academic Cardiology Unit at The National Heart and Lung Institute. He investigated the effects of autonomic nervous system activation on the QTc interval, under the supervision of Professor Desmond Sheridan.

After completing specialist medical training in Australia and at the University College London Hospitals, Sibs received advanced training in Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine. This was followed by fellowships at Harefield Hospital, The Royal Marsden, The Royal Brompton, St.Thomas’ and the Guy’s Thoracic Unit.

He also spent four years as a Research Fellow at the William Harvey Research Institute where he studied the Systems Neuroscience of Persistent Postsurgical Pain. His work culminated in the award of a PhD from the University of London and the Young Investigator Award from the American Pain Society. This was followed by an invitation to speak at the ‘Rising Stars of Anaesthesia’ Jubilee Symposium of the National Institute of Academic Anaesthesia.

Sibs is now a Senior Lecturer and Consultant in the Department of Perioperative Medicine at the Barts Heart Centre - Europe’s largest cardiovascular institution. He also sits on the Pain Medicine Council at the Royal Society of Medicine.

Memberships and awards

• Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists
• Member of the Royal College of Physicians
• Member of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland
• Member of the Association of Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Critical Care
• Member of the European Association of Cardiothoracic Anaesthesiologists
• Member of the International Association for the Study of Pain
• Member of the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists
• Member of the International Anaesthesia Research Society
• Member of the Intensive Care Society
• Member of the American Pain Society
• Fellow of the Faculty of Pain Medicine
• Fellow of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine
• Fellow of the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management
• Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine

Research

Group members

• Professor Charles Hinds
• Professor Mark Griffiths

Publications

1. Anwar S, Cregg R, Farquhar-Smith P. Persistent postsurgical pain. Curr Opin Support Palliat Care. 2013; 7(2): 144-52
2. Anwar S, Langford R. Prolonged use of opioids after surgery. BMJ 2014; 348: 1280
3. Dean C, Dragnea D, Anwar S, Ong C. The VivaSight-DL double-lumen tube with integrated camera: A case series. Eur J Anaesthesiol 2015; 32: 1–4
4. Railton KL, Anwar S. Feasibility study questions for a randomised study to assess a novel strategy to rationalise fluid in patients after cardiac surgery. Br J Anaes. 2016; 117(1): 140-141
5. Anwar S. Landmark Papers in Pain. Oxford University Press 2016
6. Book Chapter. Prediction of chronic post-operative pain: pre-operative DNIC testing identifies patients at risk. 
7. Wickham A, Highton D, Martin D and the Pan London Perioperative Audit and Research Network. Care of elderly patients: a prospective audit of the prevalence of hypotension and the use of BIS intraoperatively in 25 hospitals in London. Perioper Med (Lond). 2016; 5: 12.
8. Dean C, Dragnea D, Anwar S, Ong C. The VivaSight-DL double-lumen tube with integrated camera. Eur J Anaesthesiol. 2016; 33(4): 305-8.
9. Anwar S, Rahman J, Sharma C, Taylor R, Langford R. Taking a systems neuroscience approach to persistent postsurgical pain: diagnosis, mechanisms and predictive tools. Journal of Pain 2016; 17(4): S22
10. Lambert J, Anwar S. Sedation for transfemoral aortic valve transplantation (TAVI). Anaesthesia. 2016;71(11):1376 -77.
11. Post B, Anwar S. The effects of on-pump and off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery on metabolic profiles in the early postoperative period. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2017 (In press.)
12. Price Y, Anwar S. Response to the use of cerebral oximetry during cardiac arrest. Critical Care Med 2017 (In press.)
13. Anwar S, O’ Brien B. The role of intraoperative interventions to minimise Chronic Postsurgical Pain. Br J Pain 2017 (In Press)

Collaborators

External

• Professor Desmond Sheridan
• Professor Sir Ara Darzi
• Professor Richard Dyball
• Professor Richard Langford
• Professor Qasim Aziz
• Professor John Gribben
• Professor Rod Taylor

News

• Persistent pain following cardiac surgery can be predicted and reduced (American Society of Anesthesiologists), October 2013

Teaching

• Lecturer: Queen Mary University of London, MSc Critical Care 2015-
• Lecturer: University College London, MSc Perioperative Medicine 2013-
• Lecturer: Imperial College London, BSc Surgery and Anaesthesia 2013-
• Faculty: One Lung UK Thoracic Simulation Course at the Barts Heart Centre 2013-
• Interviewer: Medical School Entry Interviews at Barts and The London School of Medicine 2012-
• Organiser and presenter: Royal Society of Medicine Annual Careers Fair for Medical Students 2011-
• Author: Fundamentals of Pain Medicine: a guide for trainees. Oxford University Press (in press)