Personal Profile
Dr Paisley completed Advanced Pain Medicine training in 2017, gaining specialist skills in interventional pain medicine such as lumbar radiofrequency ablation for chronic low back pain. He was appointed as a Consultant in Anaesthesia & Pain Management in Glasgow in 2018. In 2019, he underwent additional specialist training in radiofrequency ablation for chronic knee pain at the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf in Germany. In 2021, he joined the interventional cancer pain service at Beatson West of Scotland cancer centre and is one of two regional experts in percutaneous cervical cordotomy.
He is an expert on radiofrequency ablation for a variety of conditions such as low back pain, shoulder pain and peripheral neuropathies.
Since 2019, Dr Paisley has also been both the Regional Advisor for Pain Medicine of the Royal College of Anaesthetists, and Deputy Training Programme Director for Anaesthetics for the West of Scotland region.
He has presented internationally on chronic pain management and is the first author on a number of publications in his field, some of which have been cited in national guidance.
Dr Paisley offers a holistic assessment of chronic pain conditions such as low back pain, nerve root pain, sciatica, chronic shoulder and knee pain, neuropathic pain, complex regional pain syndrome and fibromyalgia.
