Dr. Michael Serpell
e-mail: Michael.Serpell@Glasgow.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 141 211 4625
Fax: +44 (0) 141 211 1191
University Section of Anaesthesia, Pain & Critical Care Medicine
Flat 2, No. 30 Shelly Court,
Gartnavel General Hospital,
1055 Great Western Road,
Glasgow, G12 OYN
Name: Michael Serpell
Qualifications: B.Sc.(Hons), M.B.Ch.B., M.R.C.P., F.R.C.A.
Present Appointment (from February 2007):
Senior Clinical Lecturer in Anaesthetics / Specialist Registrar, Western General Infirmary, Glasgow
Pharmacological and regional analgesia management of acute and chronic pain. Particularly interested in the diagnosis and early treatment of neuropathic pain. Leading the Clinical Trials Unit at the Pain Clinic in Gartnavel, which runs both acute and chronic pain studies. Undertaken over 40 commercial studies over the past eight years, and is on the Advisory Board of 4 commercial companies.
- Chairman of the Research and Priority Programme for Pain & Acute Medicine for the Greater Glasgow Acute Hospitals Trust.
Chairman of the Local Arrangements Committee for the IASP World Congress on Pain held in Glasgow, August 2008.
Chairman of the Neuropathic Pain SIG (British Pain Society).
Examiner for the Primary FRCA.
Secretary of the Glasgow & West of Scotland Society of Anaesthetists.
Previous Secretary and Treasurer of the North British Pain Association 1997-2000 & 2002
Previous Secretary of the West of Scotland Pain Group 1996-2000.
GWCL0404-A multicentre open label follow-on study to assess efficacy and safety of sativex in the treatment of subjects with Neuropathic.Pain.
2006 - 2007
Funded by:
G W Pharmaceuticals plc
A multi centre randomised double blind placebo controlled trial to assess the efficacy and safety of 400mg/day lacosamide
2006 - 2007
Funded by:
Schwartz Biosciences GmbH
GWCL0405 - A dble blind, randomised, placebo controlled, parallel group study of sativex in the treatment of subjects with peripheral pain.
2005 - 2006
Funded by:
G W Pharmaceuticals plc
GWCL0305 - A dble blind randomised placebo controlled parallel group of sativex in the treatment of subjects with pain due to diabetic....
2005 - 2005
Funded by:
G W Pharmaceuticals plc
The Impact of neuropathic pain on physical and psychological quality of life
2005 - 2006
Funded by:
The British Pain Society
Effect of intravenous fluids and sodium restriction on patient recovery following major abdominal surgery - a single blind pragmatic randomised clinical trial.
2003 - 2005
Funded by:
North Glasgow University Hospitals NHS Trust Scottish Executive Health Department