After finishing his schooling from Narendrapur Ramakrishna Mission, one of the best residential schools of West Bengal as well as India (awarded in 2017), he completed his MBBS in 1995 from R. G. Kar Medical College, Kolkata which is one of the oldest medical colleges in India and also recently awarded as the best medical college in West Bengal.

After taking a primary training in Anesthesia he was working with his father, Late, Dr. Prabhat Kumar Mallick, a well-known Gynecologist in Burdwan (WB). From the beginning of his career he was always inclined to Pain management & Regional Anesthesia.

He completed his Diploma in Anesthesia in 1999 from MGM Medical College, Navi Mumbai and started freelancing Anesthesia and Pain management practice in different hospitals of Navi Mumbai. He recently completed his MD in Anatomy for deeper study in and teaching in Pain therapy.

His caring and dedicated nature for all types of acute pain, like, trauma pain, post-operative pain, painless delivery, Pain management in ICU, etc, helped him to develop interest in chronic pain management, where millions of people are suffering with different types of chronic pain like, back pain, Neck pain, Tail bone pain, neuropathic pain, Trigeminal neuralgia, cancer pain, post-herpetic neuralgia, headache etc.

Today he is the only dependable doctor in this field in Navi Mumbai.

Interventional Pain Management is a discipline of medicine devoted to the diagnosis and treatment of pain-related disorders through minimally invasive techniques in day-care basis to help the patients return to their everyday activities quickly and without heavy reliance on medications. Interventional pain management has recently emerged as a rapidly developing specialty in our country, though it has shown its presence in the western world for over 30yrs.

He has taken training on Interventional Pain Management in Mumbai, Hyderabad, Delhi and Lucknow & Ahmadabad under the guidance of eminent Pain Specialists of India, Australia, Thailand, UK & USA and He also had done Post-graduate Diploma on Pain Management in 2006 form Hyderabad under the eminent Pain Physician, Dr Murlidhar Joshi.

He has given several paper presentations and guest lecturers in different national as well as International conferences all over India and also published several papers in National and International Journals.

Besides his regular busy schedules, he is very much interested in social awareness in Pain management. He has been running his Painless Delivery clinic in MGM Hospitals, Fortis Hospital and Anurag Hospital, Nerul since year 2000 where mothers are getting trained regarding Labor pain relief (Painless Labor). He is running lot of training programs for doctors and paramedical in different hospitals to increase patient care.

He has taken the maximum efforts with Dr Surekha Patil, Dean of Dr D. Y Patil Medical College to start City Branch of Indian Society of Anesthesiologists, to continue updated medical education for better quality anesthesia & Pain Management in Navi Mumbai.

He is a life member of Indian Society of Anesthesiologist, Association of Obstetric Anesthesiologist of India (ISA), and Indian Society for Study of Pain (ISSP) & World Institute of Pain (WIP), USA and International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP).

He believes “Real pain relief is A Basic Human Right”, that's why his mission is to dedicate himself in the enjoyment of relieving Pain in our society with his level best effort.

EXPERIENCES

Pioneer in Painless delivery in Navi Mumbai and running antenatal class since 1999

Started Anesthesia Association (City Branch, India Society of Anesthesiologists) in Navi Mumbai in 2004

Pioneer in Interventional Pain Therapy in Navi Mumbai

Fellowship in Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP) in Budapest, Hungary on September’2011

Fellow of Indian Academy of Pain Medicine (FAIPM), Bangalore, July’2018

First Cadaveric workshop On Interventional Pain therapies in MGM Medical College, Navi Mumbai

Pioneer in teaching Fluoroscopy in Anesthesia practice for complicated Spine deformity and Obese patients.

Certified Interventional Pain Sonologist (CIPS) exam cleared in Taiwan in Jan’2025

PAPER PRESENTATIONS

Paper presented on “HIGH RISK BREAST SURGERY UNDER THORACIC PARAVERTEBRAL BLOCK” in ISSPCON 2006 (National Pain Conference, Ahmadabad)

Paper presented on “HIGH RISK HIP SURGERIES UNDER LUMBER PLEXUS AND SCIATIC BLOCK” in ISACON 2007 (National Anesthesia Conference, Visakhapatnam)

Guest lecture on “BASIC PRINCIPLE OF PHERIPHERAL NERVE STIMULATION” in ISSPCON 2007 (National Pain Conference, SGPGI, Lucknow)

Paper presented on “TECHNIQUES FOR GIVING SPINAL/EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA IN OBESE PATIENTS IN LATERAL POSITION” in FNCOA 2008 (National Obstetric Anesthesia Conference, Chennai)

Guest lecture on “HOW TO DEVELOP LABOR ANALGESIA PRACTICE IN URBAN AREAS” in ISACON 2008 (National Conference, Jodhpur)

Panel discussion on “POST DURAL PUNCTURE HEADACHE” in (National Anesthesia Conference, Lucknow) ISACON 2010

Paper presented on “CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY UNDER CERVICAL EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA” in (National Anesthesia Conference, Lucknow) ISACON 2010

Paper presented in 7th South Asian Regional pain Society Congress, 2014, Ahmedabad on “RADIOFREQUENCY ASSISTED LUMBER SEMI-ENDOSCOPIC MANUAL DISCECTOMY USING DISC-FX SYSTEM”

Poster presentation in 1st Anatomy State Conference in Nagpur on “Relation between Lateral Atlanto-Axial joint with Cervicogenic Headache” – MAHACON 1- 2014

Lecture on “Chronic pain & Genetics” in International Conference on Recent Advance in Pain in Kolkata 2015 (ICRA-Pain 2015)

Lecture on “Applied anatomy of Lumbar Spine” in TSSULA 2018, Dehradun, Cadaveric workshop. Feb’2018

PUBLICATIONS

Santanu M. “Lateral atlanto-axial joint block for cervical headache”. Indian J Pain 2013;27:103-7

Santanu M. “Lateral atlanto-axial joint block for cervical headache”. Indian J Pain 2013;27:103-7

Santanu M, Sawant V G. Bilateral “Carotico-clinoid Foramen” With “Sella Turcica Bridge” -----A Case Report. Anat Physiol 2015, 5:S5

Santanu M, Sawant V G. Chronic pain, sodium channel and gene mutation. SAS J Med, Volume 1, Issue 3 (Sept-Oct 2015); p 102-107

Santanu M, Sawant V G. Correlation of Lateral Atlanto-axial Joint with Cervicogenic Headache – A Case Report. International Journal of Current Research Vol. 7, Issue, 11, pp.22728-22733, November, 2015

Santanu M. Radiofrequency-assisted minimally invasive manual lumbar discectomy using Disc-F System: Outcome of nine cases. Journal on Recent Advance in Pain, Jan-April 2017; 3(1):7-13

Mallick SP. Intractable Headache due to Spontaneous Dural Leak Treated with Fluoroscopic-guided Epidural Blood Patch: Two Case Reports. Journal on Recent Advances in Pain, September-December 2018;4(3):105-109

Mallick SP. Magnetic resonance imaging scan of the dimensions of normal lumbar intervertebral foramina - An observational study. Indian J Pain 2021; 35:34-41.

Shantanu M. Comparison of clinical effectiveness between the management of cervical and lumbar disc herniation with percutaneous laser disc decompression followed by cervical epidural and lumbar transforaminal epidural steroid injection respectively. Indian J Pain. 2023; 37:173-83

COURSES ATTEND FOR PAIN THERAPY

NATIONAL

Post Graduate Certificate Course in Pain Management under Medvarsity, Hyderabad, Aug’2006

Comprehensive Interventional Pain Management Course (CIPM – III), under Indian Society for Study of Pain, in Rajeev Gandhi Medical College, Thane. March’2010

Comprehensive Interventional Pain Management Course (CIPM – IV), under Indian Society for Study of Pain, in Rajeev Gandhi Medical College, Thane. January’2011

Young Pain Physician programme under Indian Society for Study of Pain in Tata Memorial Hospital, October’2011

26th Nation Conference of Indian Society for Study of Pain in PGI Chandigarh, February’2011

2nd International Conference on Interventional Pain Management & FIPP review Course (ICIPM 2012) in AIIMS, Delhi, August’2012

New Look at pain Relief in Cancer under Indian Society for Study of Pain (ISSP), Jupitar Hospital, Thane, Mumbai, April’2012.

“Comprehensive Interventional Pain Management Course (CIPM –V) and Advanced Course in PG Education in Pain” under Indian Society for Study of Pain, in Rajeev Gandhi Medical College, Thane. March’2012

Global Update on Pain (V) under Pain Management & Research Foundation – India in Lilavati Hospital, October’2012

“Evidence based use of Radiofrequency in Pain Management” under Indian Society for Study of Pain in Jagjivan Ram Hospital, Mumbai Central, August’2012

Training on Pain Management under Dr Neeraj Jain in Sri Balaji Action medical Institute, Delhi, September’2012

28th National Conference of Indian Society for Study of Pain in Nagpur, February’2013

7th South Asian Regional Pain Society Congress in GCS Medical College, Hospital & Research Centre, Ahmedabad, August’2014

29th National Conference of Indian Society for Study of Pain in Dr. D Y Patil Medical College, Hospital & Research Centre, Mumbai, February’2014

Education In CANCER pain in Tata memorial Hospital, Mumbai, August’2014

“Comprehensive Interventional Pain Management Course (CIPM –VIII) and Advanced Course in PG Education in Pain” under Indian Society for Study of Pain, in DR D Y Patil Medical College, Navi Mumbai, September’2014

International Conference on Recent Advances in Pain under DARADIA Pain Foundation in Kolkata, August’2015

GLOBAL UPDATE on PAIN (VI) under Pain Management & Research Foundation – India in Lilavati Hospital, November’2015

Transforaminal Spinal Surgical Under Local Anesthesia, Cadaveric workshop, Dehradun, Feb’ 2018

Transforaminal Spinal Surgical Under Local Anesthesia, TSSULA Cadaveric workshop, MGM Medical College, June’ 2018

INTERNATIONAL

16th Annual Advanced Interventional Pain Conference and Practical Workshop, Budapest, Hungary, August’2011

2nd International Conference on Interventional Pain Management & FIPP review Course (ICIPM 2012) in AIIMS, Delhi, August’2012

Educational Workshop on DISC-FX, a minimally invasive spine system in King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Thailand under Stefan Hellinger, July’2013

7th South Asian Regional Pain Society Congress in GCS Medical College, Hospital & Research Centre, Ahmedabad, August’2014

International Conference on Recent Advances in Pain under DARADIA Pain Foundation in Kolkata, August’2015

International Transforaminal Endoscopic Spinal Surgical Conference, TSSULA, Hyderabad, January 2018

7th WIP Taipei Interventional Pain Workshop at NTUH International Convention Center & National Taiwan University College of Medicine. 16th to 19th January 2025