Dr Michelle O'Brien (Anaesthetist)
- Name
- Dr Michelle O'Brien
- Qualifications
- MBBS University of Queensland 1993
- FANZCA 2018
- Occupation
- Pain Medicine Specialist
- Anaesthetist
- Gender
- Female
- Languages Spoken
- English
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Medical Specialties
- Pain Medicine
- Anaesthesia
Dr Michelle O’Brien grew up and attended public schools in regional Queensland (Australia). Not one to ever let things hold her back and against her father’s wishes, Dr. O’Brien went on to study medicine at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, graduating in 1993.
Dr. O’Brien then trained in the specialty of anaesthesia at a number of major hospitals in Brisbane and regional Southeast Queensland, and went on to work as a consultant anaesthetist publicly at The Prince Charles Hospital and also in private practice.
From 2011 Dr. O’Brien lived in Jakarta, Indonesia for three years where she became further interested in pain, returning to undertake formal specialist training with the Faculty of Pain Medicine at the prestigious Professor Tess Cramond Multidisciplinary Pain Centre at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, and then St. Vincent’s Private Hospital, Brisbane.
Dr O’Brien has worked in the private sector of pain medicine since 2017, and in July 2020 started her own practice - “Specialists in Pain”.
Dr. O’Brien works exclusively in pain and has a firm commitment to the multidisciplinary approach to pain management - practicing “slow medicine” - taking time to really listen to and connect with patients, and maintaining patient centred care.
Dr. O’Brien has a keen and ongoing passion for neuromodulation, including Spinal Cord Stimulation.
- Affiliated Clinics
- SINP
- Affiliated Organisations
- International Neuromodulation Society
- Neuromodulation Society of Australia and New Zealand
- Medical Conditions
- All forms of pain
- Medical Interventions
- Interventional pain procedures - neuromodulation
- Populations Treated
- All non-paediatric ages
- Topics
- "Slow medicine" - multidisciplinary pain management, wholistic care
Practice Locations
Brisbane
- SINP: Specialists IN Pain
- Consulting at Northwest Private Hospital, EVERTON PARK St. Vincent’s Private Hospital KANGAROO POINT Hillcrest Private Hospital, ROCKHAMPTON
- Address
- 411 Main Street
Kangaroo Point QLD 4169
Australia
- Phone
- 07 3518 3330
- Fax
- 07 3532 0275
