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Senior Lecturer, Department of Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Liverpool

Dr. Andreas Goebel was born and raised in the Rhein-Main area in Germany. He trained in Anaesthesia / Pain Medicine in both his home country (in Wuerzburg), and the UK (Oxford, UCL), and received further training in post-trauma immunology at Harvard Medical School, Boston, US.
He has been appointed Consultant in Pain Medicine at the Liverpool Walton Centre in 2007, and Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University of Liverpool in 2008.

Dr. Goebel’s research has focused on the role of the immune system in causing chronic pain. Based on his laboratory work he has developed the idea of ‘autoantibody-pain’, a conceptual framework for explaining Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS). He has been successfully testing innovative immune-modulating treatments, particularly for the group of patients with longstanding CRPS.

Dr. Goebel has initiated, and has been leading the UK interdisciplinary CRPS Guidelines Group, under the Umbrella of the UK Royal College of Physicians, which has published its first guidance in May 2012 endorsed by 21 UK professional organisations and Royal Colleges. He is Council member of the Special Interest Group 'CRPS' of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP).

Experience

  • –present
    Department of Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Liverpool