2023 Australian Pain Society 43rd Annual Scientific MeetingIn the IASP Global Year for Integrative Pain Care02 - 05 April 2023 | National Convention Centre Canberra, ACT

Curtin University

WA

Professor JP Caneiro is a Specialist Sports Physiotherapist (as awarded by the Australian College of Physiotherapists in 2013) and a PhD in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy. JP is a researcher at Curtin University, where he also lectures in the Clinical Masters in Physiotherapy. He has published several research papers and presented his work internationally.

University of Melbourne

VIC Australia

Professor Denise Harrison is a Registered Nurse and Midwife and a Professor at the Department of Nursing, University of Melbourne, Australia.  She leads the Be Sweet to Babies program of research which focuses on improving pain management for neonates, infants and young children in partnership with parents, clinicians, interdisciplinary researchers and students.

From 2008 to 2019 this work was conducted in Canada, firstly, during a postdoctoral fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto, then while holding the Nursing Research Chair at the University of Ottawa and Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO). During this time her team co-produced a series of publicly accessible knowledge translation videos in multiple languages. These include: i) a parent-targeted newborn pain video, showing ease and effectiveness of performing heel lancing or venipuncture while babies are being breastfed, held skin-skin and given sucrose https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L43y0H6XEH4&feature=youtu.be); ii) a series of vaccination videos showing breastfeeding and sucrose during vaccination, and iii), a clinician-targeted video demonstrating best ergonomics for performing heel lancing while babies are being breastfed or held skin-skin (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpZNwP7bnkg&feature=youtu.be). Denise continues her work in Australia, in partnership with parent groups, including the Miracle Babies Foundation (https://www.miraclebabies.org.au/), professional organizations and healthcare organizations. She is a Faculty member of Pain in Child Health (PICH) and supports graduate students’ participation in this international research training consortium.   

Monash University

VIC Australia

Richelle Mychasiuk is a Professor within the Department of Neuroscience at the Central Clinical School, Monash University. She oversees an internationally recognized laboratory for the study of neurodevelopmental plasticity. Her laboratory uses extensive behavioural, epigenetic, imaging, and neuropathological techniques to examine the influences of early experiences on long-term outcomes. We are particularly interested in understanding how early environmental manipulations (i.e. stress, drug exposure, diet) modify brain development and recovery from brain injury, as well as the risk for chronic pain and mental health disorders. In addition, she is the lead Neuroscientist in an extensive collaboration with the departments of Gastroenterology and Immunology which forms the exciting GIN Hub initiative. The GIN Hub is designed to further understanding of the brain-gut-immune axis and rapidly translate research from the bench to the bedside.  

University of Calgary
Canada

Dr. Noel is passionate about partnering with people with lived experience to transform how we understand and treat people with pain. She is an advocate for the use of developmentally tailored interventions for pediatric pain management and serves on committees to promote and implement evidence-based interventions within her children’s hospital and beyond. As an evidence lead on the Help Eliminate Pain in Kids and Adults team, Dr. Noel co-authored clinical practice guidelines for pain and fear management for vaccine injections. Many of these recommendations were adopted by the World Health Organization.

University of Texas
United States of America

Theodore (Ted) Price PhD is the Ashbel Smith Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at University of Texas (UT) at Dallas. He is the Director of the Center for Advanced Pain Studies. His lab is interested in molecular mechanisms driving the transition to chronic pain with a focus on drug development for chronic pain. He has won numerous awards including the Patrick D. Wall Young Investigator Award from IASP. Ted has published more than 160 peer reviewed studies, and has been continuously funded by NIH for more than 10 years. He is co-founder of many companies, including 4E Therapeutics and Doloromics.