Our Story

Sydney Pain Centres was founded by Tony Merritt and Tillman Boesel in 2015. Tony and Tillman are two of Australia’s most experienced pain management clinicians. Tony is a Clinical Psychologist and Tillman is a Consultant Pain Management Specialist with outstanding skills in interventional pain management. Between them they have almost fifty years’ experience in the field.

Tony and Tillman had worked together for several years prior to 2015 and had during that time been joined by a small group of like-minded people. As a team they were focused in providing high quality, accessible care for people in pain. There were also all united in idea that high quality care meant having a respectful and engaged relationship with their patients, referrers, and colleagues.

They decided to formalise things and within a few years the team had grown rapidly, and they had opened several practices. The growth has continued and now Sydney Pain Centres has one of the largest and most diverse pain management teams working in private practice in Australia. Their success is founded on providing evidence-based care, whether that is interventional pain management or group-based pain programmes, delivered by multidisciplinary teams, and supported an outstanding administrative team.