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ASM 2016 Perth – National Speaker: A/Prof Helen Slater
Associate Professor Helen Slater is a clinical researcher and senior academic in the School of Physiotherapy at Curtin University. Helen’s key area of interest is translational musculoskeletal pain...
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ASM 2016 Perth – Inaugural APS Rising Star Award Speaker: Dr Tasha Stanton
Dr Tasha Stanton is a Senior Research Fellow at The University of South Australia, Adelaide and Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney. Dr Stanton currently holds an NHRMC Early Career Fellowship...
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ASM 2016 Perth – National Speaker: Dr Chris Vaughan
Dr Chris Vaughan is head of the Cellular Research Group at the Pain Management Research Institute, University of Sydney. Dr Vaughan’s research has focussed on the mechanisms underlying chronic pain and...
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ASM 2016 Perth – National Speaker: Prof Benedict Wand
Professor Ben Wand is currently the coordinator of musculoskeletal studies for the Physiotherapy program at the University of Notre Dame Australia. He completed his original physiotherapy degree, as...
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ASM 2016 Perth – National Speakers
Associate Professor Andrew Briggs Associate Professor Andrew Briggs’ career has included senior roles in clinical practice, research and health policy. He co-leads a team whose programme of research is...
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2016 Sunderland Lecture: Professor Frank Birklein
Background: The Sir Sydney Sunderland Named Lecture is offered to an international guest speaker. The Sunderland Lecture was instituted at the 1987 meeting of the Australian Pain Society in recognition...
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2016 Tess Cramond Lecture: Professor Benedict Wand
Background: The Professor Tess Cramond Named Lecture is offered to an Australian researcher in the early part of their career. The Lecture is a relatively recent initiative of the Australian Pain...
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2016 Bonica Lecture: Dr Chris Vaughan
Background: The John Bonica Named Lecture is offered to an Australian guest speaker. The Bonica lecture has been a feature of the Australian Pain Society scientific meeting since 1984. John Bonica...
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2016 Annual Scientific Meeting: Named Lecturers
2016 Sunderland Lecture: Professor Frank Birklein Background: The Sir Sydney Sunderland Named Lecture is offered to an international guest speaker. The Sunderland Lecture was instituted at the 1987...
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Meet the Speakers Breakfast
Are you a junior researcher, PhD student or post doctorate fellow? Would you like the opportunity to gain career advice and guidance from some of the most respected leaders in their fields? Don’t miss...
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2016 Distinguished Members
At our Annual Scientific Meeting in Perth in March 2016 we inducted two new Distinguished Members: Professor Stephen Gibson Professor Philip Siddall Below are the biographies of these esteemed...
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2016 Combined Boards Breakfast
This year in Perth we had a record 6 boards represented for our Annual Combined Boards Breakfast. The Australian Pain Society (APS) Board and Office Bearers were delighted to host representatives from:...
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La Doulou (Provençal word for pain)
By John Quintner and Melanie Galbraith “I only know one thing, and that is to shout to my children ‘long live Life!’. But it’s so hard to do, when I am ripped apart by pain.” From his anecdotal journal...
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National Pain Week 2016: 25-31 July
The National Pain Week campaign, an initiative of Chronic Pain Australia (CPA), aims to: De-stigmatise the experience of chronic pain; Promote current thinking that explains chronic pain to the wider...
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Professor Michael Cousins AO Retires
Professor Michael J Cousins AO has devoted his entire career and much of his personal life to improving the lives of people living with pain. His selfless commitment to this goal over the past four...
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Announcing the new APS/APRA/Seqirus #1 PhD Scholar
We are pleased to announce our newest PhD Scholar, Sherelle Casey. Sherelle was recently awarded the APS/APRA/Seqirus #1 PhD Scholarship and commences her studies in August 2016. Sherelle’s research...
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President’s Report – September 2016
Spring has sprung from Parliament House, or maybe it’s a sprung spring. Suggestions about how to use these tensions to further the community recognition and awareness of pain and its efficient...
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The Work Injury Screening and Early intervention (WISE) study
A brief report on preliminary results by Professor Michael Nicholas The study was led by Michael Nicholas, Director of Pain Education and Pain Management Programs at the Pain Management Research...
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APS/APRA/CFK #1 Clinical Research Grant – Deadline 30 November 2016
The Australian Pain Society (APS) is a multidisciplinary organisation aiming to relieve pain and related suffering through advocacy and leadership in clinical practice, education and research. The...
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ASM 2017 Adelaide – International Keynote Speaker: Professor Stephen Hunt
Please welcome Professor Stephen Hunt. Professor Stephen Hunt has been Professor of Molecular Neuroscience at University College London since 1998. Before that he was at the MRC Laboratory of...
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