13 Facts About Paul Rolan

Paul Edward Rolan was born on January 1956 and is an Australian physician, medical researcher, academic, and public health advocate.

Paul Rolan specializes in the management of chronic pain and headache, and development of novel treatments.

Paul Rolan jointly established the university's Pain and Anaesthesia Research Clinic.

Paul Rolan holds several consultant and board positions, and is Vice President of the Friends of Science in Medicine.

Paul Rolan studied medicine at the University of Adelaide, receiving his MBBS in 1979.

Subsequently, Paul Rolan moved to the UK, where he spent nearly 20 years developing new medicines in the pharmaceutical industry.

Paul Rolan has been Principal Investigator in over 700 clinical research studies.

Paul Rolan partnered with Guy Ludbrook, Professor of Anaesthesia at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, to research links between chronic pain and the immune system.

Paul Rolan was a member of the National Medicines Policy Committee and represented it at the Asia-Pacific regional level.

Paul Rolan consults as a pain physician to Wellend Health, and since 2018 a Pain Management Senior Consultant Physician at the Specialist Ambulatory Rehabilitation Centre, Modbury Hospital.

Paul Rolan is a non-executive Director of Lipotek, a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of GPN Vaccines, and a Committee member of the Australian Pain Relief Association.

Paul Rolan's expertise is utilized on matters of alternative health practices and scams, such as alkaline water which he described as "a nine or 10 on the Richter scale of BS", or the billions of dollars Australians are spending on unproven vitamins and nutrition supplements.

In 2019 Paul Rolan took on the role of Vice President of the "Friends of Science in Medicine", which the University of Adelaide says "promotes evidence-based medicine and opposes the uncritical spread of unproven alternative therapies".