Dr A T Arasu Rayen is a Consultant in Pain Management based at Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust, Birmingham. He has more than 20 years’ experience in treating wide variety of chronic pain conditions such as complex regional pain syndrome, neuropathic pain, lumbar spinal pain & sciatica, thoracic spinal pain, cervical spinal pain & whiplash, shoulder pain, pelvic pain, pain after surgery & trauma, fibromyalgia and complex headaches.

After his MBBS degree in 1991, Dr. Rayen completed his postgraduate training programme in Anaesthesia. He later gained a further Diploma in Anaesthesia in 1997 and was awarded Fellowship of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (FRCA) in 1998. In 2007, he was granted Fellowship of the Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (FFPMRCA), followed by a Master of Science (MSc) in Pain Management from University of Leicester in 2008.

Dr Rayen has a longstanding passion for medical education and training. He continues to teach medical students, junior doctors, GPs, consultants, nurses, and allied healthcare professionals. For more than a decade, he has served as an instructor on Advanced Life Support courses delivered by the Resuscitation Council UK. He has also taught on the Generic Instructor Course, delivered by the Resuscitation Council UK and Advanced Life Support Group, which prepares clinicians to become instructors in life support training and focuses on the principles of adult learning. In 2014, he was awarded a Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Education by University of Dundee and was subsequently recognised as a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

Dr Rayen has held prestigious examiner roles with the Royal College of Anaesthetists, serving as a Primary FRCA Examiner from 2012 to 2015 and as a Final FRCA Examiner since 2015.

He has presented and chaired sessions at local, national, and international meetings for the Royal College of Anaesthetists, the Faculty of Pain Medicine, and the British Pain Society. He has also taught widely on courses covering interventional pain management techniques using fluoroscopy and ultrasound guidance.

Dr Rayen is the founder and regular faculty member of the Birmingham Ultrasound in Regional Anaesthesia course, established at City Hospital Birmingham in 2005. He also founded and directed the Conscious Sedation Course and the Radiology for Anaesthetists Course at City Hospital. Since 2015, he has been a faculty member on the Coventry Regional Anaesthesia Workshop and Lectures (CRAWL) course, teaching ultrasound-guided regional anaesthesia techniques. He was also the founding Chair of the West Midlands Pain Forum, a professional network of Pain Management Consultants across the region.

Dr Rayen has published extensively in national and international journals on chronic pain management. He served as Editor of Pain News, the official newsletter of the British Pain Society, and was a co-opted member of the Society’s Council from 2014 to 2018. Prior to this, he was a regular columnist for Pain News, contributing articles on a wide range of pain management topics between 2010 and 2013.