About Us
Contact us today to learn more about out multidisciplinary inpatient outpatient pain management programs and how we can help you or your loved ones find relief from chronic pain.
Resources
Below are sources where you could seek information to further educate ourselves about everything regarding Pain:
The IASP is a global multidisciplinary organisation dedicated to advancing pain research, education, and management. Its website offers resources for pain medicine professionals, including research article and educational resources.
The NSANZ is a not-for-profit multidisciplinary body dedicated to promoting research, knowledge and awareness of neuromodulation. NSANZ advocates for safe and professional practice of neuromodulation and its use and application in the treatment of chronic pain and other disease. Â
Australia’s leading pain advocacy body working to improve quality of people living with pain, their families and carers.
Director
Dr. Charles Chou is a board-certified Specialist Pain Medicine Physician accredited by the Faculty of Pain Medicine under the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists. He had also participated in the pilot Procedure Endorsement Program innovated by the Faculty of Pain Medicine to solidify his clinical expertise in a wide array interventional management of pain, such as nerve blocks, joint injections, radiofrequency ablations, spinal cord stimulations, etc.
Dr. Charles Chou is also a Rehabilitation Medicine Consultant Specialist board-accredited by the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine.
As a dual-specialist – Dr. Charles Chou is able to utilize the combination of his clinical expertise in both fields to deliver gold standard interdisciplinary pain management care and programs.
Dr. Charles Chou provides his service from Northern Gold Coast through Northern New South Wales. Dr. Chou’s special interests lies in: - Low Back Pain, Neck Pain, Complex Spinal Pain
- Shoulder Pain, Chronic Hip and Knee Pain
- Persistent Post Operative Pain, Post-Laminectomy Pain (previously known as Failed Back Surgery Syndrome)
- Neuropathic Pain, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
- Headache
- Fibromyalgia
- Orthopedic/Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation
- Neurological Rehabilitation
- Cancer Pain, Oncology Rehabilitation
Member of:
Qualifications:
- MBBS
- FAFRM (RACP)
- FFPMANZCA
Dr Alana Kearsley
Dr. Alana Kearsley is a rehabilitation physician with a fellowship from the Australasian Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine. She brings over a decade of experience in managing complex rehabilitation cases, with a focus on spasticity management, pain relief procedures, musculoskeletal medicine and patient-centered care.
Dr. Kearsley has worked across multiple inpatient and outpatient settings, including leading health care facilities and rural and Indigenous health services, where she is known for her commitment to improving patient outcomes. In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Kearsley contributes to medical education by mentoring junior physicians and presenting on rehabilitation best practices. She is committed to enhancing the standards of rehabilitative care and remains actively engaged in professional development, regularly participating in advanced workshops and masterclasses.
Post nominals: MBBS, FAFRM (RACP), M.Chiro.
Advanced Occupational Therapist
Sharna is a Registered advanced Occupational Therapist with over a decade of clinical experience working in rural, remote and metropolitan centres in Queensland as well as internationally in the United Kingdom. Sharna’s clinical experience includes acute hospital care, inpatient, outpatient and community based rehabilitation, developmental paediatrics, home modifications and equipment prescription. Sharna has special interests in neurological and pain rehabilitation and has completed a graduate certificate in clinical rehabilitation.
Qualifications:
- B. Occ Thy, Grad Cert Clin Rehab
Clinical Pain & Rehabilitation Nurse
Samantha completed her registered Nurse training in England in 2012 and went on to obtaining further qualifications in Advanced Nurse Practitioning, leading multiple multidisciplinary Rehabilitation Units. Since arriving in Australia in 2021 Samantha has been working as a Rehabilitation Clinical Nurse and Clinical Nurse Educator before joining us at GCPain.
Samantha has always had a special interest in the management of acute and chronic pain and understands that each patients experience of pain is different, therefore dedicates her clinical practice to providing person centred care, and creating management plans specific to the needs of each of our patients.
Having experience in both Rehabilitation and Pain management Services Samantha is able to use clinical knowledge in both fields to support the delivery in both Pain management and Rehabilitation programs.
