About Us

This website is managed and updated with content created by the Group of Regional Anaesthetists (GORA), Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne. 

We are all actively practicing regional anaesthetists, and we are all passionate about teaching and training in this subspecialty. To facilitate the dissemination of skills and knowledge and to raise the profile of regional anaesthesia in Newcastle, we have created this website. We hope it will grow to serve as a valuable resource for all interested anaesthetists, patients, and trainees rotating to the RVI to undertake a module of training in RA.

Some of the members of the group are shown below, although there are many other anaesthetists heavily involved in regional anaesthesia provision and training at the RVI.


Dr Adnaan Qureshi

Consultant Anaesthetist

NUSGRA Director

DECT 29987

[email protected]

Dr Jonathan Womack

Consultant anaesthetist

Clinical lead for RA

DECT 29822

[email protected]

Dr Henrietta Dawson

Consultant anaesthetist

DECT 29727

[email protected]

Dr Shahram Khan

Consultant Anaesthetist

DECT 29831

[email protected]

Dr Sameer Ahmed

SASG Doctor

DECT 29687

[email protected]

Dr Mike James

Consultant anaesthetist

DECT 23904

[email protected]

Dr Ben Goodman

Consultant anaesthetist

DECT 21823

[email protected]

Dr Lewis Gray

Consultant anaesthetist & intensivist

DECT 39798

[email protected]

Dr David Buckley

Consultant anaesthetist

DECT 29821

[email protected]