Our consultants
Chronic pain
Dr Attam Singh
Name, qualifications:
Dr Attam Singh MBBS FFRCA FFPMRCA
Practising at:
Watford General Hospital and St Albans Hospital
Specialty:
Anaesthetics
Sub-specialty:
Acute and Chronic Pain
Special clinical interests:
Musculoskeletal and Neuropathic pain
Year of first medical qualification:
1999
Current posts
Dr Singh is a Consultant in Pain Medicine and Anaesthesia at the West Herts NHS trust. He is the Lead in Acute Pain medicine and the Lead for Perioperative Medicine for the Department of Anaesthesia.
Contact details:
- Secretary's name: Sam Ward
- Secretary's telephone number: 01727 897526
- Specialty’s generic email address: sam.ward@whht.nhs.uk
Background
Professional profile:
Dr Attam Singh is a Consultant in Pain medicine who is an expert in his field. He completed his anaesthetic training at the University College/Royal Free Hospital, London training school in 2013 and his Pain Medicine training was established by experience gained in variety of centres based in the UK and USA. He completed his Pain training at The Royal Free Hospital, London (FFPMRCA 2011) and consequently in 2012 he undertook a year’s fellowship at the prestigious University Hospital in Michigan, USA.
He is currently the pain Acute lead at the West Hertfordshire Trust and has vast experience in dealing with common and obscure ailments related to pain. His specialist interests within the field of medicine are musculoskeletal disorders and neuropathic pain, however he offers a holistic service that includes interventional pain management, analgesia optimisation and physical rehabilitation.
Personal profile:
Dr Singh's research interests lie with new treatments for neuropathic pain and Fibromyalgia. He continues to talk at national and international conferences and publishes in current newspapers as well as medicaljournals.
In his free time, he plays football and golf whilst enjoying the more simpler things in life.
