Bruce Mitchell

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About Bruce Mitchell

Associate Professor Dr Bruce Mitchell Sports and Interventional Pain Physician MBBS FACSM FACSP FASMF MPainMed FIPP Associate Professor Bruce Mitchell is a Senior Partner of Metro Pain Clinics, where he works as a Sports and Interventional Pain Physician. He is also currently Chair of Monash Clinical Research and the Sports Medicine Australia Research Foundation, and is on the Board of the Pain Research Foundation. He is the past co-chair of Pelvic Pain Vistoria He is a former National and State President of Sports Medicine Australia former President of the ASMF Fellows, and a former AFL Club doctor. He has Fellowships of the Australasian College of Sports and Exercise Physicians, The American College of Sports Medicine, The Australian Sports Medicine Federation and a Fellowship of Interventional Pain Practice. He has completed a Masters in Pain Medicine. He has a special interest in the management of pelvic and groin pain, as well as the constantly evolving therapeutic field of neuromodulation. He is an active researcher and has published extensively on these topics and on sports medicine more broadly since 1991. In the last ten years he has been an Investigator in 23 Closed Studies and 13 Current Studies and Principal Investigator in 8 closed studies and is the Principal Investigator in 8 current studies. He has a long history of research in Hip, Pelvic Girdle Pain and Low back pain He has also been the initial proceduralist on several “First-in-man” Techniques and Technologies. Assoc Prof Mitchell graduated from Melbourne University in 1985 and received his Diploma in Sports Medicine in 1989. He further qualified as a Sports Physician in when he was the winner of the ACSP medal. He has been a clinical research Fellow at the Austin & Repatriation Medical Centre, a Fellow of the Centre for Health, Exercise & Sports Medicine, University of Melbourne (a position from which he resigned in 2011) and has worked as a clinician at Reservoir Sports Medicine Centre (1989 to 2004), Olympic Park Sports Medicine Centre (1994 to 2005) and Metro Spinal Clinic (since 2003) as a Director with Dr Paul Verrills and Dr David Vivian. He recently attained a Clinical Associate Professorship at The University of Adelaide. Clinical Specialties • Pelvic pain and instability • Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome • Neuropathic pain • Spinal procedures • Neuromodulation procedures • Microbiome • Interventional pain management • Central sensitisation • Regenerative medicine