15+ years
Dr. Mahesh Menon is a Lead at the Department of Pain & Palliative Care at Sir H. N. Reliance Foundation Hospital. He is an academician with dual proficiency in chronic pain and palliative medicine.
Dr. Menon is a founding member, secretary, and director of Academics and Training, Society of Integrated Pain and Palliative Care (SIPP). Between 2021 and 2023, Dr. Menon served as a Consultant at the largest tertiary care oncology centre in Bahrain where he was involved in setting up palliative care services at a national level. In 2008, Dr. Menon set up one of the earliest pain clinics in a private hospital in Navi Mumbai (Mahatma Gandhi Mission [MGM] Hospital, Vashi, Navi Mumbai). Further, he established the Department of Pain and Palliative Care Services at Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital (Mumbai and Navi Mumbai).
Furthermore, Dr. Menon is a certified Trainer for the Traveling Pain School—an initiative by the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthesiologists—and Education in Palliative and End of Life Care (EPEC) Programme.
Additionally, Dr. Menon serves as a Trainer for the training programmes conducted by the Pain Institute of Spain (PioS). Dr. Menon also serves as an Examiner and conducts internal assessments at the Palliative Medicine Department of Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai.
As an academician, Dr. Menon has published several papers on chronic pain and palliative medicine. Further, he has given many presentations on the same. In addition to these accomplishments, Dr. Menon also helps people with chronic pain issues and those requiring palliative care services in remote locations via health camps and visits.