Andy King qualified from King’s College Hospital School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, in 1992. He completed higher specialist training in Anaesthetics and Pain Management at St Thomas’ Hospital becoming accredited in 2000. His next year was spent as a post-accreditation Clinical Fellow at the world famous INPUT Pain Management Unit at St. Thomas’. In 2002 he joined Ashford and St Peter’s NHS Trust as a consultant and has worked full time in Pain Management for the last six years. During his time as lead clinician for the service it developed into one of the largest and most popular services in the South East which regularly scored highly for ratings of patient satisfaction and clinical effectiveness. This has been achieved by building a strong multidisciplinary team which emphasises the use of evidence based and proven treatments. Andy is a Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and a Fellow of the Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Royal College of Anaesthetists. He is actively involved in teaching and has lectured at regional and national level. Away from medicine he spends what little spare time he has reading about the hobbies he used to pursue before the arrival of his young family put a stop to all that sort of thing. Dr (Joseph) Andy King BSc MB BS FRCA FFRMRC Consultant in Pain Medicine