Dr. Shantanu Mallik

Dr Shantanu Mallick is the first Pain Physician in Navi Mumbai as well as in the whole Konkan belt of Maharashtra to get the FIPP (Fellowship In Interventional Pain Practice) Degree from World Institute of Pain, UK. It is one of the highest milestones in the field of pain management. He is successfully practicing in Navi Mumbai since 2000 in different hospitals i.e. Fortis hospital, MGM hospital, Vashi, Swaraj Vinamra Hospital, Vashi, MITR Hospital, Kharghar, etc.After finishing his schooling from Narendrapur Ramakrishna Mission, one of the schools of West Bengal, he completed his MBBS in 1995 from R. G. Kar Medical College, Kolkata which is one of the oldest medical colleges in India.After taking a primary training in Anesthesia he was working with his father, Dr. Prabhat Kumar Mallick, a well known Gynecologist in Burdwan (WB). From the beginning of his career he was always inclined to Pain management & Regional Anesthesia. He completed his Diploma in Anesthesia in 1999 from MGM Medical College, Navi Mumbai and started freelancing Anesthesia and Pain management practice in different hospitals of Navi Mumbai. His caring and dedicated nature of all types of acute pain i.e. trauma pain, post-operative pain, painless delivery, helped him to develop interest in chronic pain management, where millions of people are suffering with different types of chronic pain i.e. back pain, neuropathic pain, cancer pain, post-herpetic neuralgia, headache etc. Today he is the only dependable doctor in this field in Navi Mumbai.Pain Management is an upcoming specialty of Medicine, recognized as 34th specialty of medicine in USA. There are lots of advancements in this branch of Medicine are seen and new modalities of pain management have evolved along with many conventional methods. Interventional pain management is a discipline of medicine devoted to the diagnosis and treatment of pain-related disorders through minimally invasive techniques to help the patients return to their everyday activities quickly and without heavy reliance on medications. Interventional pain management has recently emerged as a rapidly developing specialty in our country, though it has shown its presence in the western world for over 30yrs. He has taken training on Interventional Pain Management in Mumbai, Hyderabad, Delhi and Lucknow, Ahmadabad, Thailand, Hungary under the guidance of eminent Pain Specialists of India, Australia, UK & USA and completed Pain fellowship under Indian Society of Study of Pain (ISSP) which is a part of International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP). He also had done Post-graduate Diploma on Pain Management in 2006 from Hyderabad under the eminent Pain Physician, Dr Murlidhar Joshi. He has given several paper presentations and guest lecturers in different national conferences all over India. Besides his regular busy schedules, he is very much interested in social awareness in Pain management. He is running lot of training programs for doctors and paramedical in different hospitals to increase patient care. He is a life member of Indian Society of Anesthesiologist, Association of Obstetric Anesthesiologist of India, and Indian Society for Study of Pain & World Institute of Pain, USA. He believes “Real pain relief is A Basic Human Right”, that's why his mission is to dedicate himself in the enjoyment of relieving Pain in our society with his level effort.