Jane Quinlan studied medicine and trained in anaesthesia in London before moving to Oxford. She is a consultant in anaesthesia and pain management at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and is an honorary senior clinical lecturer at the University of Oxford. She is past secretary of the Acute Pain Special Interest Group (APSIG) for the International Association for the Study of Pain and past chair of APSIG of the British Pain Society.
Jane has an interest in prescribed opioid dependence and runs a clinic supporting pain patients to reduce long-term high-dose opioids. She also has an interest around the safe prescribing of opioids in postoperative pain to avoid the conversion to long-term use. She lectures nationally and internationally on opioid stewardship. She sits on the editorial board of the British Journal of Pain and is on the organising committee of the National Acute Pain Symposium.
