Dr Nicholas Christelis (Pain Medicine Specialist)
- Name
- Dr Nicholas Dimitri Christelis
- Qualifications
- Bachelor of Medicine / Bachelor of Surgery University of the Witwatersrand South Africa 1995
- FANZCA Australia 2011
- Occupation
- Pain Medicine Specialist
- Gender
- Male
Victoria Pain Specialists Director and Co-Founder Dr Nick Christelis holds two specialist medical qualifications (Fellowships) in pain medicine: one from the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (FFPMANZCA), for which he received with a Merit Award and the other, from the Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (FFPMRCA) in London (UK).
He is a compassionate, professional and highly experienced specialist doctor, working daily to relieving pain and get his patients back to doing the things they love to do with their lives and loved ones.
Victoria Pain Specialists was founded with the aims of bringing medical excellence and effective pain relief to as many people as possible, with thousands of patients already being treated by this group.
Dr Christelis is trained in all aspects of pain medicine including interventional pain medicine techniques. His expertise covers most types of chronic pain like spinal pain and neuropathic pain that is proving difficult to treat by other specialists. He is also specialised in advanced pain interventional techniques like nerve and joint blocks, epidural injections, radiofrequency ablation, spinal cord stimulation and other advanced neuromodulation techniques. He has particular expertise in managing lumbar pain and sciatica, neck, shoulder and arm pain, facial pains/headaches.
Originally from South Africa, he completed his medical training before moving to the United Kingdom, where he completed his specialist training in pain medicine and anaesthesia at London’s prestigious Imperial School of Anesthesia.
He worked as a pain consultant for almost 2 years in the pain management unit located at The Chelsea & Westminster Hospital in London before moving to Melbourne in 2009 to take up appointments as Consultant in Pain Medicine, Head of Pain Service and Anaesthetist at The Alfred Hospital. He is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at Monash University.
He is a Director and co-founder of Victoria Pain Specialists, a specialist pain management group and is a Visiting Pain Specialist in a number of Melbourne hospitals.
He has published pain-relevant research. He is a reviewer for the British Journal of Anaesthesia (BJA). He is part of an Alfred-Monash based research collaboration focused on translational pain research. He teaches extensively in pain medicine both to his patients and training pain doctors.
- Affiliated Clinics
- Pain Specialists Australia
- Affiliated Organisations
- Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA)
Practice Locations
VIC
- Pain Specialists Australia
- Address
- Level 4
600 Victoria St
Richmond VIC 3121
Australia
- Phone
- 1300 798 682
- Fax
- 1300 798 385
