Dr Vivek Mehta has been a Consultant in Pain and Neuromodulation at St Bartholomew’s Hospital since 2006 and has been an Honorary Reader at Queen Mary University, London.
Dr Vivek Mehta has been a Consultant in Pain and Neuromodulation at St Bartholomew’s Hospital since 2006 and has been an Honorary Reader at Queen Mary University, London. He is the Director of the Pain Research Centre at St Bartholomew’s Hospital London, Clinical Network Director for Pain at Barts Health NHS Trust, and recipient of the National Bronze Award 2021. He is Co-Director for The Education Programme in Neuromodulation, with international faculty collaboration from Europe, India, Australia and the US and he is also the Co-Programme Director for the first Postgraduate Certification in Neuromodulation with Queen Mary University, London, affiliation. He has been appointed as the Vice-chair for the Examinations for the Fellowship of the Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (2022).
He has a strong academic footprint as one of the very few NHS-based clinical academics in the country. He has undertaken numerous research projects and has authored pain chapters in key surgery text books, as well as producing 60 academic papers. The focus for his research has included multifidus stimulation for low back pain, which won an award for it abstract at the World Congress in 2017. Dr Mehta assesses over two thousand chronic pain patients a year, and he performs one hundred and twenty implants a year at the Neuromodulation Centre at Barts Health. His medicolegal expertise includes whiplash injury, back and neck pain, complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), neuromodulation and complex pain conditions.
He developed the Neuromodulation Centre at Barts Health in 2014. This has evolved into one of the biggest centres of academia and training in Europe. He has been a faculty for cadaver workshop courses at Budapest and Oxford, teaching and mentoring colleagues in these techniques, besides proctoring complex pain procedures including percutaneous spinal cord stimulators occipital nerve stimulator implants, besides pulsed and traditional radiofrequency techniques. He is supervisor for the London Deanery Advanced Pain Training and Commonwealth Fellowship. His contributions have been recognised by the International Neuromodulation Society (INS) and he has been incorporated in the Research and Scientific Oversight, Interim Meetings, Biennial Congress Program, Public Education, Outreach and Website committees of the INS and the Education Committee at North American Neuromodulation Society.
He has been providing medicolegal examinations and reports since 2012 and his medicolegal areas of expertise include whiplash injury, back and neck pain, complex regional pain syndrome and neuromodulation and complex pain conditions.
Dr Mehta joined Pain Expert in October 2023 and is available to take on claimant, defendant and joint instructions in chronic pain cases.
Our chambers team will review your instruction, and connect you with the consultant pain expert. We’ll arrange a short call to agree scope, timelines, and fees from the outset – so the evidence is first-time-right and compliant with CPR Part 35.
Every enquiry is handled in confidence and in line with GDPR.
Our chambers team will review your instruction, and connect you with the consultant pain expert. We’ll arrange a short call to agree scope, timelines, and fees from the outset – so the evidence is first-time-right and compliant with CPR Part 35.
Every enquiry is handled in confidence and in line with GDPR.