Chronic pain team

• Kristina Hobbs – senior paediatric occupational therapist in chronic pain

Pain can impact motivation to engage in daily activities that your child needs, wants or has to do. Occupational therapy helps people take part in daily living to improve health and wellbeing. We work with young people and their family to plan ways to manage sleep, daily routines, and educational activities.

• Aditi Surelia-Chauhan – clinical specialist paediatric physiotherapist in chronic pain
• Abi Aston-Payne – senior specialist paediatric physiotherapist in chronic pain

Chronic pain may have reduced your child's ability to participate in physical activities. Physiotherapy helps your child improve their strength and stamina to achieve their goals and participate in exercise that they enjoy. We can also support with managing their extertion levels to help them get back to physical activities that are important to them.

• Dr Alexandra Orchard – lead clinical psychologist in chronic pain and rheumatolog
• Dr Alexandra Burdass – clinical psychologist in chronic pain and rheumatology

We understand living alongside chronic pain can be challenging and affect how a child and their family feel and act. It can get in the way of daily life and a number of factors can impact a young person's chronic pain rehabilitation.

We aim to help children, young people and families to

• engage with rehabilitation, including occupational therapy and physiotherapy
• support emotional wellbeing, coping and overcome daily challenges in the face of pain
• enable young people and families to live alongside pain
• grow life outside chronic pain

This may be through joint appointments with occupational therapy and physiotherapy, workshops, individual or family appointments.

• Dr Sreena Das – consultant paediatrician
• Dr Charlene Foley – consultant paediatric rheumatologist
• Dr David Pang – consultant anaesthetist

Doctors can explore medical concerns and support our team. Doctors work with local services and may recommend input from local medical teams. For the most part we do not prescribe medicine.

• Michael Leonard – service manager
• Sampras Banumoorthy – assistant service manager
• Tashna Bowley – patient pathway coordinator
• Sade Quintyne – patient access officer
• Patricia Romero Fayos – patient access officer
• Agnes Sajti – patient access officer (team lead)
• Shelly Khendria – medical secretary

You can contact our appointments team if you want to change or cancel your appointment:

• Phone: 020 7188 4000
• Email: PaediatricAppointmentsRheumatology@gstt.nhs.uk

Secretaries support answering phone calls and communicating between families and the clinical team. If you want to reach a member of the team, you can contact:

• Phone: 020 7188 7188 ext 58200
• Email: gst-tr.EvelinaChronicPain@nhs.net