Dr Ilan Lieberman, Consultant in Pain Medicine
Dr Ilan Lieberman
Consultant in Pain Medicine
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About Dr Ilan Lieberman
GMC number: 3493757
Year qualified: 1990
Place of primary qualification: University of London
Dr Ilan Lieberman works as a Pain Medicine Consultant and Clinician with The University Hospitals of South Manchester (UHSM). Between 2004 and 2014 he was the Clinical Lead for the Pain Medicine Service in UHSM. In December 2013 he was appointed as the Director of UHSM Academy, the learning and development arm of UHSM. His areas of special interest include back pain management and interventions, chronic pain syndromes after surgery, trauma, injury or infection, complex regional pain syndrome, fibromyalgia, neuropathic pain, pain management in multiple sclerosis, refractory angina pain and whiplash.
Dr Lieberman qualified from The London Hospital Medical College in 1990 with a medical degree from the University of London, MBBS. After working for a while in and around London, he moved back to Manchester and trained as an anaesthetist, gaining a fellowship from the Royal College of Anaesthesia, FRCA in 1996, subspecialising in pain medicine and extending his training by a year as a Macmillan Pain Medicine Fellow at the Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery in Liverpool. He was awarded FFPMRCA, the Fellowship of the Faculty of Pain Medicine in 2002. He was appointed as an NHS Consultant in Anaesthesia & Pain Medicine at The University Hospitals of South Manchester (UHSM) NHS Trust in 2001.
Dr Lieberman is a council member of the Royal Society of Medicine’s Telehealth Committee. He also lectures in major global seminars on pain management.
Areas of expertise
- Alternative pain management
- Back pain
- Chronic pain
- Complex regional pain
- Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS)
- Facet denervations
- Fibromyalgia
- Knee pain
- Management of neuropathic refractory angina
- Management of scar pain
- Medical cannabis
- Medicolegal
- Mirror box therapy
- Neck pain
- Neuromodulation
- Neuropathic pain
- Opioid management
- Pain management
- Pain medicine
- Radiofrequency denervations and pulsed radiofrequency to nerves
- Reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD)
- Refractory angina management
- RF denervation for back pain
- Scar denervation
- Shoulder pain
- Stellate ganglion blocks
- Sympathectomies
- Syndrome neuropathic pain
- Therapeutic cervical
- Whiplash