Dr Mark Alexander-Williams FRCA FFPMRCA
Consultant in Anaesthesia & Pain Management, Mid Essex Hospitals NHS Trust, Chelmsford, Essex
Diagnosis and treatment of low back pain and sciatica
Post-surgical pain
Chronic Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (CRPS)
Chronic pelvic and abdominal pain
Vulvodynia
Chronic prostatitis
Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (FRCA)
General Medical Council (GMC)
Medical Defence Union (MDU)
Medical degree from London Hospital Medical School
Previous Clinical Director of Anaesthesia, Mid Essex Hospital NHS Trust
Associate Medical Director at MedTel International
Dr Alexander-Williams has been a consultant anaesthetist with an interest in pain medicine at Broomfield and St John hospitals for 10 years. Prior to that, he trained in London, East Anglia, Leicester and Melbourne, Australia. During this time, he had the opportunity to work under many inspiring leaders in the field of pain and anaesthesia.
He has developed his interest in pain medicine over the last 8 years and this has been in direct response to the patients seen, no more so than with pain of urogenital origin and Chronic Pelvic Pain.
Dr Alexander-Williams is a member of both the British Society for the Study of Vulval Disorder (BSSVD) and the chapter for Pain of Urogenital Origin (PUGO) of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), who had their inaugural meeting in Glasgow last August.
Patients suffering with pelvic pain are often mistreated and misdiagnosed. Any consultation involves a clear history from direct questioning and filling in questionnaires. Examination often identifies possible muscular triggers for the pain and investigations include MRI, ultrasound and occasionally some diagnostic nerve blocks performed either under ultrasound or X-ray guidance help further to reach a diagnosis.
For any treatment of pelvic or urogenital pain to be successful it requires a multifaceted, multidisciplinary approach, including clinical nurse specialist input and physiotherapist and the close relationship with Essex Urology.