Dr. Mark Swerdlow FFARCS, DA (1918–2003) was a British consultant anaesthetist, said to have "created the speciality of pain medicine in Great Britain".
[1] Swerdlow trained at the University of Manchester,[2] and afterwards served in the Royal Army Medical Corps.
[3] He developed his interest in pain management while working as a consultant anaesthetist at Salford Royal Hospital from 1951 to 1980.
[2] He set up the North West Regional Pain Relief Centre, one of the UK's first, in 1959.
[2] After formally retiring, he worked as an advisor to the World Health Organization on the WHO analgesic ladder.