Dr Suzanne Cartwright graduated from Flinders University Medical School in 2006, having undertaken her medical training in a variety of locations, including 18 months in regional areas of SA, NT, and Victoria. She completed her junior doctor years at the Royal Adelaide Hospital then undertook training in anaesthesia Adelaide. She then trained in pain medicine in Geelong and Melbourne. She was awarded a Merit award at the 2014 Faculty of Pain Medicine examination.
Dr Cartwright sees patients with all types of persistent pain and aims to work with patients to help them achieve better function and quality of life relevant for the individual. She utilises interventional, pharmacological, psychological and physical strategies along with working with allied health practitioners to enhance the psychological and physical strategies.
She has a particular interest in seeing patients with existing persistent pain or who are at risk of persistent pain prior to surgery. As an anaesthetist as well as a pain medicine specialist she is well equipped to work with the patient, surgeon and anaesthetist to develop and assist with executing a pain management plan from pre surgery through to rehabilitation.
Dr Cartwright provides a range of procedures at Tamara Private Hospital including diagnostic and therapeutic blocks, radiofrequency denervation (thermal and pulsed), spinal cord stimulation, and intrathecal pump management. She also provides anaesthesia and acute pain management services at both Tamworth Hospital and Tamara Private Hospital.
Dr Cartwright is an active participant in the training of anaesthetists and in the work of the Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists.