Lingard Private Hospital
Anaesthesia/Pain
Dr Marc Russo is the Director of Hunter Pain Clinic, Sydney Pain Specialists, Hamilton Day Surgery Centre, Genesis Research Services and Co-Director of the Innervate Pain Management Program. He founded Hunter Pain Clinic in 1999, Hamilton Day Surgery and Hunter Specialist Medical Centre in 2001, Hunter Clinical Research (now Genesis Research Services) in 2005, and Sydney Pain Specialists in 2016. He also founded NAPS (Newcastle Anaesthetic Peri-operative Services).
Dr Russo's vision was to provide a multidisciplinary approach to pain management and developed Australia’s first successful multidisciplinary pain management model. Using this approach with clinical diligence, early intervention, education and research in the field of pain management, he successfully treats patients suffering from chronic persistent pain.
Dr Russo specialises in spinal cord stimulator implantation and completed two successful world first spinal cord stimulator device implantations in Newcastle, NSW, Australia in 2011, establishing him as a leader in his field. He has also conducted first-in-man pain and device studies. He treats patients with a wide range of interventional pain medicine approaches, including a combination of pharmacotherapy and systems approaches.
Dr Russo has a special interest and expertise in treating and researching Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. He has been a principal investigator of numerous clinical trials assessing new treatments for CRPS.
Dr Russo's current external appointments include:
MBBS BMedSc (Hon), FFA RACS, FANZA, MMed(Pain), FFPMANZCA, Grad Dip Musk Med, DipAAPM, FIPP
MBBS, FANZCA
