Dr Dhan Senaratne

Dr Dhan Senaratne is a Specialty Registrar in Anaesthesia & Chronic Pain and a Clinical Fellow on the Multimorbidity PhD Programme for Health Professionals. This is a Scotland-wide initiative funded by the Wellcome Trust that recruits healthcare professionals from a range of clinical backgrounds to address the substantial challenges posed by increasing multimorbidity in Scotland, with the support and resources of the Universities of Glasgow, Dundee, Edinburgh, and St Andrews.

Dhan studied Medicine at the University of Cambridge. He spent five years working in the Oxford region, a year in New Zealand, and three years in Glasgow, before joining the University of Dundee and NHS Tayside in November 2022.

Current Projects

The ACE-MAP Study – a study looking at the impact of adverse childhood experiences on sensory thresholds in adults living with chronic pain and multimorbidity.

Recent Publications

Senaratne DNS, Koponen M, Barnett KN, Smith BH, Hales TG, Marryat L, et al. Impact of adverse childhood experiences on analgesia-related outcomes: a systematic review. British Journal of Anaesthesia. 2025 Feb 1;134(2):461–91. View this publication.

Senaratne DNS, Smith BH, Hales TG, Marryat L, Colvin LA. Impact of adverse childhood experiences on sensory thresholds in adults living with multimorbidity and chronic pain (the ACE-MAP study): protocol for an observational feasibility study. BMJ Open. 2025 Jan 1;15(1):e091053. View this publication.

Senaratne DNS, Thakkar B, Smith BH, Hales TG, Marryat L, Colvin LA. The impact of adverse childhood experiences on multimorbidity: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Medicine. 2024 Aug 15;22(1):315. View this publication.

Senaratne DNS, Colvin LA. Chronic pain associated with temporomandibular disorders. BMJ. 2023 Dec 15;383:p2877. View this publication.

Nicolson KP, Mills SEE, Senaratne DNS, Colvin LA, Smith BH. What is the association between childhood adversity and subsequent chronic pain in adulthood? A systematic review. BJA Open. 2023 Jun 1;6:100139. View this publication.

Recent Presentations

Senaratne DNS. Multimorbidity and chronic pain. Nepal National Pain Symposium (invited speaker), Nepal Association for the Study of Pain, Kathmandu, Nepal.

Senaratne DNS, Singleton S, Hales, TG. Adverse childhood experiences and chronic pain in octogenarians in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936. CAPE/Alleviate Annual Conference, Advanced Pain Discovery Platform, Dundee, UK.