about

Michael is a pain management specialist based in Ballarat, Victoria. 

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Michael graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) with honours from Monash University in 2001. 

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Michael is a Fellow of the Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (FFPMANZCA), as well as a Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (FANZCA).  He continues to attend regular pain conferences and workshops both in Australia and internationally.

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Michael is a current member of the following societies:

• Australian Medical Association (AMA);

• International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP);

• Spinal Intervention Society (SIS);

• International Neuromodulation Society (INS).

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Michael's interests include:

• interventional pain medicine;

• neuromodulation (spinal cord stimulation);

• chronic spinal pain;

  • cervical

  • thoracic

  • lumbar

• persistent post surgical pain;

  • Back;

  • Post joint replacement surgery (hip and knee);

  • Shoulder; 

• complex regional pain syndrome;

• headache;

• pelvic pain;

• fibromyalgia.

Michael's private practice is based at St John of God Hospital Ballarat and he provides services to public patients at East Grampians Health Service (Ararat Hospital)

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