Doctor Details

Dr Navid Amirabadi has completed three specialist trainings in Rural General Practice, Palliative Medicine and Pain Medicine and also completed a fellowship in Interventional Pain Practice across several hospitals in Western Australia, New South Wales and Queensland. He is currently a visiting specialist in pain medicine and palliative medicine at multiple hospitals across Queensland and New South Wales including St Stephen’s Hospital. He’s been a medical educator and medical speaker since 2008, running several courses and speaking in many medical events all around Australia as well as being actively involved in training junior doctors.

He strongly believes that each patient is unique and therefore it’s critical to attentively listen to the patient simply because the patient often gives better clues than anyone else as what the problem is. He is an advocate for using a collaborative multidisciplinary approach via physical and psychological education and empowering, medication optimisation, interventional techniques including but not limited to diagnostic blocks, radiofrequency treatments and spinal cord and peripheral stimulators and targeted delivery instruments to improve the quality of life of his patients.

Areas of Interest:

• Spinal pain (neck, thoracic and lumbar) and persistent post-spinal surgery pain
• Chronic and subacute pain in large joints (including but not limited to knee, hip, shoulder and sacroiliac joints advanced osteoarthritis or traumatic chronic pain)
• Chronic headaches (including intractable migraines, head and neck neuropathies and neuralgias)
• Cancer pain (pharmacological and procedural interventions including visceral blocks, chemical and radiofrequency neurolysis and implants)
• Treatment-resistant PTSD in collaboration with a specialist psychiatrist and a clinical psychologist team (offering bi-level cervical sympathetic block +/- pulsed RF)
• Chronic visceral pain, Widespread pain and fibromyalgia syndrome

Being a keen aviator, he tries to combine his hobby as a pilot and his profession as doctor and to fly to rural and regional areas from time to time and offer his skills and abilities as a specialist to minimise his patients’ sufferings and help them to have the quality of life they deserve, keeping this old saying in mind that “Though pain might be inevitable in life, suffering is optional”.