The Adventures of Hayley, Queen of the Desert: A Chat with Pain Researcher...
Hayley Leake (@HayleyLeake) is a physiotherapist currently completing her PhD with Professor Lorimer Moseley AO at the University of South Australia. Her PhD research focuses on investigating pain...
View ArticleAustralian Pain Society 2022 Rising Star Winner: A Chat with Adrian Traeger
Adrian Traeger, PhD, is a research fellow at the Institute for Musculoskeletal Health, a division of the School of Public Health, University of Sydney. His research centres around developing strategies...
View ArticleAPS2022: History, Serendipity, and Neuropathic Pain: A Chat with Andrew Rice
Andrew Rice, MD FRCP, FRCA is a Professor of Pain Research at Imperial College and Honorary Consultant in Pain Medicine at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. He is a clinical academic active in...
View ArticleAPS2022: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and van Gogh’s Sister-in-law: A Chat...
Beverly Thorn, PhD, ABPP, is Professor Emerita of Psychology at the University of Alabama. Thorn obtained her PhD in Bioclinical Psychology from Southern Illinois University in 1980 and worked at the...
View ArticleAPS2022: Understanding and Reducing Drug-Related Harms: A Chat with Suzanne...
Associate Professor Suzanne Nielsen, PhD MPS, is the Deputy Director of the Monash Addiction Research Centre in Melbourne and an NHMRC Career Development Fellow. Nielsen has been a registered...
View ArticleAPS2022: Plenary Session Summary
Looking for a little more information on what exactly is going to be discussed in each plenary session? Monday We have a great lineup of plenary speakers for our 2022 Annual meeting. The conference...
View ArticleAPS2022: Debate: Will a Cannabis Crisis Replace the Opioid Crisis?
The following is a summary from the 42nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian Pain Society, which took place from April 10-13 in Hobart, Tasmania. This year, the Meeting featured a new item on...
View ArticleAPS2022: IASP Global Year Lecture: Complexity of Pain Underlies Importance of...
The following is a summary from the 42nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian Pain Society, which took place from April 10-13 in Hobart, Tasmania. Since 2019, the Meeting has featured a named...
View ArticleAPS2022: Topical Session 2C: How Can we Help Children Better Cope with Pain?
The following is a summary of a topical session from the 42nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian Pain Society, which took place from April 10-13 in Hobart, Tasmania. The session—focusing on...
View ArticleAPS 2023: Pain in the Media – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The following is a summary from the 43rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian Pain Society, which took place in Canberra from April 2-5, 2023. This session explored all things ‘pain in the...
View ArticleAPS 2023: Annual Scientific Meeting Travel Grant Recipient Report
Author name: Shania Liu Author biography: Shania is a PhD candidate from the University of Sydney involved in research to improve the safe use of opioid analgesics among patients receiving hip or knee...
View ArticleAnnual Scientific Meeting Travel Grant Recipient Report
Author name: Ria Hopkins Author biography: Ria is a PhD candidate and Senior Research Officer at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW Sydney. Her interests include pharmacoepidemiology,...
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Author name: Nell Norman-Nott Author biography: Nell is a clinical researcher and a PhD candidate at the School of Psychology, UNSW, Sydney. She is affiliated with the Centre for Pain IMPACT at...
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Author name: Jayden O’Brien Author biography: Jayden is a late-stage PhD candidate at the University of Sydney. His thesis investigates the cellular heterogeneity of the immune system in human chronic...
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APS2024: Spend the ANZAC Day Long Weekend in Darwin Written by Alex Robertson, APS Conference Manager, DC Conference & Association Management While the highlight of my role as the Australian Pain...
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Author name: Nicole Pope Author biography: Nicole is an RN and a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Melbourne. Her doctoral research is broadly focused on the use of digital health technologies to...
View ArticleAn Introduction to pain in the disability sector
Author name: Emily Moore Author: Emily is a doctoral candidate at the University of South Australia, supported by the Australian Pain Society (APS). Her research aims to investigate how to better...
View ArticleAPS2023: Annual Scientific Meeting Travel Grant Recipient Report
Author name: Nicole Rickerby Author: Nicole is a PhD candidate in the School of Psychology at The University of Queensland. Nicole’s PhD research focuses on investigating mind-body therapies...
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Author name: Rebecca V Robertson Author biography: Rebecca is completing her PhD in the Faculty of Medicine & Health at the University of Sydney, under the supervision of Professor Luke Henderson....
View ArticleBack Up: Why back pain treatments aren’t working and the new science offering...
Author: Liam MannixDate published: August 2023Publisher: NewSouth PublishingISBN: 9781742238081 Reviewer: Lincoln TracyDr Lincoln Tracy is a researcher and writer based in Melbourne, Australia, and the...
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