Dr Sunil Dasari
Qualifications
MBBS, MD, FRCA, FCAI, FFPMRCA, EDPM, PG Cert(Pain Medicine)
GMC number: 6059768
Practising since: 1997
Specialties
Pain Management Anaesthesia
Consultation times
- Fortnightly Tuesday morning clinics at the Cardiff Bay Hospital
- Overview
About
Dr Sunil Dasari is a chronic pain specialist working as Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine at University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff. He has vast experience of more than 20 years as an anaesthetist and his expertise lies in medication management and pain intervention injections and radiofrequency denervation for low back pain, leg pain,neck pain and major joints pain e.g. knee, hip and shoulder pain.
He is also experienced in pain management of different painful conditions like fibromyalgia, complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), chronic pain after surgery, nerve pain due to entrapment, sciatica, piriformis syndrome, diabetic neuropathic pain, visceral and pelvic pain due toendometriosis, whiplash injuries, sport injuries, and cancer pain.
Dr Dasari has expertise in doing different pain management intervention procedures like facet joints injections, medial branch block injections, sacroiliac joint injections, epidural steroid injections, trigger point injections with steroids and botox for localised pain, genicular nerve injections for knee and hip pain, nerve injections for shoulder pain, injections for groin pain, greater occipital nerve injections for headaches, injections for cancer pain and radiofrequency denervations.
Dr Dasari believes in a holistic approach in Pain Management and aim at helping to improve functionality and self management.
In addition to his clinical work, he is deputy lead for learning and a faculty tutor for the faculty of Pain Medicine of Royal college of Anaesthetists. He oversees Pain Medicine training and teaches trainees and other health care professionals on different aspects of Pain Medicine at University Hospital Of Wales, Cardiff. He is also Tutor for University of South Wales on the MSc Pain Management course. He is the Lead for the Ultrasound guided nerve injections course and honorary lecturer for Cardiff University.
He is the Chair of Welsh Pain Society and chaired the working group on writing opioid guidance. He has given presentations at National and International conferences on Pain medicine topics and has many publications.
Special interests
- Chronic low back pain
- Knee Pain and Hip Pain
- Neck and Shoulder pain
- Chronic widespread pain including fibromyalgia
Other interests
Pain Management of different painful conditions like fibromyalgia, complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), chronic pain after surgery, nerve pain due to entrapment, sciatica, piriformis syndrome, diabetic neuropathic pain, visceral and pelvic pain due to endometriosis, whiplash injuries, sport injuries, and cancer pain.
Personal interests
He enjoys cricket, travelling and cooking
Languages spoken
English, Hindi, Telugu
Treatments and tests offered by Dr Sunil Dasari at Nuffield Health
- Pain clinic
Locations Dr Sunil Dasari works with
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Cardiff Bay Hospital, Dunleavy Drive, Cardiff, CF11 0SN
Related experience
Research
Principal Investigator for the Multicentre POPPY study on patient reported outcomes and pain management after day surgery. SSC project on “Evaluating patient outcomes: The impact of lumbar facet joint denervation on patients with chronic low back pain”
Memberships
- General Medical Council(GMC)
- Faculty of Pain Medicine, RCOA
- Fellowship In Pain Medicine, Royal College of Anaesthetists (FFPMRCA)
- Welsh Pain Society(WPS)
Other posts held
- University Hospital of Wales,Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine
Declaration
Dr Sunil Dasari does not hold a share or financial interest in this hospital, another Nuffield Health hospital or the company.
Dr Sunil Dasari does not have a share or financial interest in equipment used at this hospital or another Nuffield Health hospital.
Dr Sunil Dasari does not hold any paid advisory role(s) at this hospital or on behalf of Nuffield Health.