Pain School for Translation and ResearchpainSTAR 202410 - 14 November 2024 | Novotel Barossa Valley Resort, SA

South Australian Chronic Pain Statewide Clinical Network

SA Australia

Anne is the Lead for the South Australian Chronic Pain Statewide Clinical Network (CEIH: Commission on Excellence and Innovation in Health), Co-Director - Psychology (CALHN: Central Adelaide Local Health Network) and Past President (2019-2021) of the Australian Pain Society. She is also a Clinical Professor with the University of Adelaide (where she completed her PhD studies in the area of chronic pain) and a registered Clinical and Health Psychologist with dual endorsement in both areas of specialist practice. Anne has supervised and conducted research in the areas of forensic and clinical health psychology, with her primary research interests being the management of pain and other chronic health conditions, the impact of waiting for services, clinical workforce issues, and health service design and delivery.

University of Adelaide

SA Australia

Professor Rainer Viktor Haberberger is the Wood Jones Chair of Anatomy at The University of Adelaide, where he also heads up the Peripheral Pain Laboratory. Previously he was Professor of Anatomy & Histology, Head of the Pain & Pulmonary Neurobiology, and Convenor of the Centre for Neuroscience at Flinders University. He studied Human Biology (Medical Research) at the Philipps-University in Marburg, Germany and has been a Senior Scientist and Lecturer at the Institute for Anatomy and Cell Biology, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany until 2005.

His main areas of research interest are novel signalling mechanisms in pain transducing cells and how to utilize those to create a “pain-measurement device”. He received the Collaborative Research Grant of the International Society for the Study of Pain (IASP) 2006 & 2010, the Decima Strachan and Claire Lilia Wooton Estates “Spinal Cord Research Award” of the Australian Brain Foundation 2008 and the Australian Lung Foundation “Ludwig Engel Grant-in-Aid” for Physiological Research 2011. In 2017 he was chief investigator of an application that received the “John Boyd Craig Research Award”, Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists.

Monash University

VIC Australia

Wendy Imlach is the head of the Pain Mechanisms lab at Monash University, in the Department of Physiology and Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute.  Wendy and her team investigate changes in the nervous system that drive and maintain chronic pain states. Wendy’s work focuses on the excitability and control of neuronal signalling within spinal cord pain pathways to understand the origin and persistence of pathological pain. Her goal is to identify novel therapeutic targets and more effective treatments for neuropathic pain conditions.

James Cook University

QLD Australia

A/Professor Ernie Jennings is Director of Preclinical studies and currently Head of Dentistry (Acting) for the Dentistry Course at James Cook University, QLD. His group studies cellular mechanisms of orofacial and dental pain and looks more broadly at more knowledge, attitudes, and practice of dentists in the treatment of pain. 

Australian Pain Society

QLD Australia

Ms Trudy Maunsell (RN RM NUM Cert B Health Management MScMed (Pain Management) Clinical Nurse Consultant) has a broad range of clinical experience in rural, remote and metropolitan hospitals as a Registered Nurse and Midwife and has been involved in pain management as a Clinical Nurse Consultant for the past 28 years after becoming interested in pain whilst a Nursing Unit Manager of an acute surgical ward in a regional referral hospital.

University of South Australia

SA Australia

A/Professor Tasha Stanton is the co-Director and Osteoarthritis Research Theme Lead for IIMPACT in Health at The University of South Australia, Adelaide. She also leads the Persistent Pain Research Group at the South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute. She is a clinical pain neuroscientist, with original training as a physiotherapist. She has a specific interest in chronic pain, including pain education, osteoarthritis, low back pain, cortical body representation, somatosensation, and body illusions using virtual and mediated reality.  She has received >$7.8m in competitive research funding, has published >110 peer-reviewed journal articles, has authored a book on Pain Science Education for Osteoarthritis (EPIPHAKnee) and she has been a keynote/invited speaker at >100 national and international conferences. Her research has won both national and international awards, including the World Congress of Pain Ronald Dubner research award, the Australian Pain Society Rising Star Award and the Australian Physiotherapy Association Best New Investigator Award. She has been recognised by the field for her scientific communication including ABC RN’s Top 5 under 40 scientific communicators and AIPS Young Tall Poppy of the Year (SA).