IMRAT SOHANPAL, MBCHB, FRCA, FFPMRCA, FRCP

About

Dr. Sohanpal was trained in Anesthesia and Pain Medicine at the University College London Hospital, where he later worked as Consultant before moving to Toronto in 2014. He regularly provided group exam teaching on basic sciences, acute and chronic pain, regional and pediatric anesthesia. He also spent 1 year at the University of Michigan Hospital at C. S Mott Children’s Hospital as an Attendee specializing in pediatric Neuroanesthesia, pediatric acute pain and regional anesthesia. Dr. Sohanpal has continued his interest in education as part of the faculty for pain residents of the University of Toronto Pain Program. He has keen interest in regenerative therapy and has presented his research at Internationally renowned pain conferences. His goal is to continue to provide high standard of care using evidence-based medicine and to contribute to research and education in pain medicine.

Appointments and Privileges
University of Toronto Lecturer in Anesthesia and Pain Medicine 
Anesthesiologist Scarborough Health Network
Education
Fellow of the Royal College and Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
Fellow of the Royal College of Anesthetists, UK
Fellowship of the Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Royal College of Anesthetists, UK
Bachelor of Medicine – University of Liverpool Medical School, UK
Research Interests
• Regenerative Therapy 
• Radiofrequency Ablation (Platelet Rich Plasma and Stem Cells)
• Prolotherapy
Clinical Interests
• Spinal Pain 
• Regenerative Therapy in Spinal and MSK pain
• Fluoroscopic and Ultrasound Guided Interventional Pain Management 
• Teaching 
Recent Publications
Medical Cannabis for the Management of Pain and Quality of Life in Chronic Pain Patients: A Prospective Observational Study. Ramin Safakish, Gordon Ko, Vahid Salimpour, Bryan Hendin, Imrat Sohanpal, Gena Loheswaran , Sun Young Rosalia Yoon Pain Med. 2020 Nov 1;21(11):3073-3086. doi: 10.1093/pm/pnaa163.
A Retrospective Study of Quality of Life and Outcome Measurement in Prolotherapy for Sacroiliac Joint Pain. Sohanpal I, MD,Safakish R MD, Babazadeh S. Clinical Research Associate. World Institute of Pain Annual Congress 2017.
Pulsed Radiofrequency of Stellate Ganglion Using Ultrasound Guidance for Pain Control In Patients With Upper Limb Complex Regional Pain Syndrome: A Retrospective Observational Study. Sohanpal I MD, Babazadeh S. 18th Annual Pain Medicine Meeting of the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
A novel approach for postoperative pain management after discharge, Imrat Sohanpal MD, CAN J SURG April 01, 2021 64 (2) E242-E243. Letter response to Author Dr. Rozario D.
Book chapter contributor. Essentials of Pain Management. Case scenario on functional restoration for pain.
Vadivelu, Nalini; Urman, Richard D.; Hines, Roberta L. (Eds.) 1st Edition. 2011, XXIII, 832 p. 114 illus. ISBN: 978-0-387-87578-1. Published March 2011
The prevalence of pain in patients attending sarcoma outpatient clinics,
Ping-Yi Kuo, Jonathan TC Yen, Gillian M Parker, Suzanne Chapman, Subhash Kandikattu, Imrat Sohanpal, Yolanda Barbachano and John E Williams. Sarcoma, vol. 2011, Article ID 813483, 6 pages, 2011.
Prevalence Of Pain In Patients Attending Melanoma Outpatient Clinics. P. Kuo, J.T. Yen, A. Gubbay, S. Chapman, S. Kandikattu, I.S. Sohanpal, R. Gupta, J.E. Williams: The Internet Journal of Pain, Symptom Control and Palliative Care. 2012 Volume 9 Issue 1
Performance on a probabilistic inference task in healthy subjects receiving Ketamine compared to patients with schizophrenia. Simon Evans, Basil Almahdi, Pervez Sultan, Imrat Sohanpal, Brigitta Brandner, Tracey Collier, Sukhi S Shergill, Roman Cregg and Bruno B Averbeck, Excepted for publication – Journal of Psychopharmacology
Book review of Essentials of Pain Medicine (3rd ed) By I Sohanpal
Author H T Benzon, S N Raja, S M Fishman, S Liu, S P Cohen Publishers Elsevier; 2011 ISBN 978 1437722420. Anaesthesia June 2012 Volume 67, Issue 6 Pages 571–694

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