Fausto Morell-Ducos

Dr Fausto Morell-Ducos is a Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine. He has extensive experience in the management of complex acute, chronic and acute-on-chronic pain conditions including neuropathic pain, pain in patients with hypermobility/Ehlers-Danlos, pain in sickle cell disease, functional abdominal pain disorders and fibromyalgia. He is also highly experienced in the interdisciplinary management of chronic pain in the presence of significant polypharmacy, mood disorders, personality disorders, complex PTSD, autistic spectrum disorder and functional neurological disorders.

Alongside his private practice, he is Clinical Lead for Pain Management Services at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, including the Complex Pain Team and Cancer Pain Interventions Team at University College Hospital. He is co-Chair of the Trust’s Pain Steering Group and Opioid Stewardship Committee.

Dr Morell-Ducos graduated with honours from Leeds University medical school and trained in general internal medicine, obtaining MRCP in 2007 prior to commencing anaesthetics specialty training at the North Central London School of Anaesthesia. He subsequently completed an advanced pain medicine fellowship at St Bartholomew’s and the Royal London Hospitals, carried out additional training in psychiatry in North East London Foundation Trust and worked at a hospital in Northen Ethiopia training anaesthetic practitioners.

Dr Morell-Ducos is an Honorary Lecturer at UCL and is actively involved in postgraduate education, having led the development of curriculum material for new MSc modules. He also developed an innovative massive open online course—Opioids and Surgery--for UCL Digital Education involving collaboration with internationally recognised experts in pain medicine.

During his specialty training Dr Morell-Ducos was awarded a Biomedical Research Centre Studentship to complete a research Master’s degree, awarded with distinction, in Clinical and Experimental Medicine at University College London.

His current research interests include persistent postoperative opioid use and opioid stewardship, ketamine-assisted psychological therapy and greater occipital nerve blocks in the management of chronic migraine. He is author of a number of peer-reviewed publications, book chapters and abstracts, and has presented his work internationally. He is a regular peer reviewer for research-focused journals.