Liverpool University, UK

Andreas Goebel was born and raised in Wiesbaden/Germany, trained in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine in Wuerzburg/Germany, and in the UK (Oxford, UCL), and studied post-trauma immunology at Harvard Medical School, Boston, US.

Appointed Consultant in Pain Medicine at the Liverpool/UK Walton Centre in 2007, the largest UK pain Management Centre where he works with 50% of his time.

Andreas is Chair of Pain Medicine at the University of Liverpool and Director of the University’s Pain Research Institute.

Andreas’ research has focused on the role of the adaptive immune system in causing chronic pain. He first proposed in 2004 that ‘unexplained’ chronic pain may be caused by non-destructive, non-inflammatory, ‘functional’ IgG autoantibodies, and that passive transfer experimental approaches can be used to investigate this.

His recent research outcomes in Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS) together with collaborators have been voted a 2021 Guardian Top 10 Science Story.

Andreas has been chairing the UK Royal College of Physicians Guideline groups on Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) and FMS. He has chaired the Valencia group which has produced the text underpinning the ICD-11 entry on CRPS.