Tony Pickering BSc, PhD, MBChB, FRCA

Tony Pickering is an expat Geordie Anaesthetist with a research focus on Pain and Autonomic control. His undergraduate Medical training in Birmingham was interrupted by the Award of a Wellcome Prize PhD studentship in the lab of Steve Logan which spawned his interest in sympathetic neurophysiology. After graduating in Medicine he trained in Anaesthesia in London and Bristol before establishing his research lab in the School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience at Bristol while funded as a Wellcome Trust Clinical research fellow.

His group studies the brainstem and spinal cord circuits that modulate pain perception and bodily homeostatic control. Much of the current work is on neuromodulation with a focus on Noradrenaline and its long range influences on pain perception. He leads the academic foundation program in Severn and the INSPIRE program for Medical and Dental students. He continues to practice as a consultant Anaesthetist and Pain clinician. The goal of his research activity is to identify new targets and methods for therapeutic intervention.