Lesley Colvin

Professor
ANAESTHESIA, CRITICAL CARE AND PAIN MEDICINE
The University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom

Professor Anesthesiology
Biography

Lesley currently works full time in the Lothian Chronic Pain Service and the University of Edinburgh, and is chairing the new Service Improvement Group for Chronic Pain. She became a Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists in 1994, then completed a PhD thesis on the spinal mechanisms of neuropathic pain at the University of Edinburgh in 1997, under the supervision of Professor Arthur Duggan. She has a particular interest in translational research in pain and has several collaborations with the aim of rapidly translating exciting basic science findings into clinical developments.

Research Intrest

Cancer pain, cancer induced bone pain, acute and chronic neuropathic pain, phantom limb pain, opioids in chronic pain, pain and drug dependency and pain assessment

List of Publications
Management of cancer pain: Basic principles and neuropathic cancer pain
General infl ammatory reaction and cachexia in cancer : Implications for hyperalgesia
Randomised double-blind trial of pregabalin versus placebo in conjunction with palliative radiotherapy for cancer-induced bone pain.
Brainstem processing of peripheral punctate stimuli in patients with and without chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy: a prospective cohort functional MRI study
Association of neuropathic limb pain in multiple sclerosis with cognition , behaviour, and measures of brain structure: a case-control MRI neuroimaging study