Business Profile
Rotorua Pain Specialists is run by Dr. Stephan Neff, Consultant Anaesthetist, Pain Physician and Hyperbaric Physician, is constantly updated and reflects my commitment to Pain Medicine in New Zealand.
Company Information
About Us
- What is a Pain Physician?
- Pain Information
- Brief CV of Stephan Neff
- Acknowledgements
- Disclosure of Funding Sources
- References
What is a Pain Physician?
A Pain Physician is a doctor who has undergone Specialist training in the assessment and management of pain patients.
Pain Medicine is indeed a very young field within Medicine but has been formally recognised in Australia as an independent Medical Specialty in 2005. This formal recognition is due to the tremendous efforts of The Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists and the submission to the Australian Medical Council gives an excellent insight into the state of Pain Medicine within Australia. Many of the facts mentioned can equally be extrapolated to New Zealand and indeed an application is pending in New Zealand for recognition of Pain Medicine as a succinct Specialty.
A Fellow of the Faculty of Pain Medicine has undergone at least one year of Specialist Training in Pain Medicine in an accredited pain clinic within Australasia and has fulfilled all requirements including a written and oral exam.
Pain Information
As a Pain Physician I learn more about pain every day and whatever insights I acquire I put onto this web site (given the spare time).
Many pages remain to be written and many facts to be uncovered - it will always continue to grow as long as myself or future contributors add their time and efforts.
Brief CV - Stephan Peter Willi Neff
Nationality
- German, Permanent Resident of New Zealand
Registration
- New Zealand Medical Council (22329)
Born
- 1966
University & Degree
- Heidelberg, Germany 1992
Qualifications
- MD 1996
- Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists 2003
- Fellow of the Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists 2003
- Diploma in Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine 2003
Pain Training
- Training in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine, 1994-2003
- Pain Fellow at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia 2002-2003 - Affiliations International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP)
- Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists
- New Zealand Pain Society
- European Society for Regional Anaesthesia
- South-Pacific Underwater Medicine Society
Special Interests
- Management of Neuropathic Pain
Research Interests
- Use of Ascorbic Acid in CRPS
- Clonidine for Neuropathic Pain
- Epidemiology of Pain amongst Maori
- Pain Thresholds in Maori and Melanesians compared with
Personal Interests
- My Family
- Armed and Unarmed Self-Defense
- Hunting and Marksmanship
- Scuba-Diving
Acknowledgements
- My work on this web site has been influenced by Dr. Richard Walker, Consultant Pain Physician in Coventry, UK. His web site does indeed come very close to my own vision of what I wanted to create for New Zealand. A visit to his site will provide you with a great insight into a UK version of Pain Medicine.
- My vision of this web page is to grow into a web page similar to that of Kerry Brandis, Consultant Anaesthetist in Queensland, Australia who has been instrumental in providing examination information for anaesthetic registrars throughout Australasia.
- Dr. Sarah Andreae-Jones has kindly given me the permission to use her astonishing work on Arachnoiditis to be used on my web page. I am indeed grateful since Sarah has put in a tremendous amount of work and I am honored to have worked along side of her in Plymouth, UK.
Disclosure of funding sources
This is a personal website and the author does not receive any external funding.
References
- Cohen M, Goucke R. Pain Medicine recognised as a specialty in Australia. Pain Medicine 2006; 7:473.