Dr. Andreas Goebel was born and raised in the Rhein-Main area in Germany. He trained in Anaesthesia / Pain Medicine in both his home country (in Wuerzburg), and the UK (Oxford, UCL), and received further training in post-trauma immunology at Harvard Medical School, Boston, US. He has been appointed Consultant in Pain Medicine at the Liverpool Walton Centre in 2007, and Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University of Liverpool in 2008.