McGill University
Canada
Jeffrey S. Mogil, PhD, FCAHS, FRSC, is currently the E.P. Taylor Professor of Pain Studies and a Distinguished James McGill Professor at McGill University. Dr. Mogil has made seminal contributions to the fields of pain genetics, sex differences in pain, and pain testing methods in the laboratory mouse. He has published over 270 manuscripts and book chapters and currently has an h-index of 99. He is the recipient of lifetime achievement awards from the American and Canadian Pain Societies and the Canadian Psychological Association, and is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Research and the Royal Society of Canada. He has served as Neurobiology Section Editor at the journal, Pain, as a Councilor at the International Association for the Study of Pain, and was the Chair of the Scientific Program Committee of the 13th World Congress on Pain. He is also the founder and director of the North American Pain School.
University of Sydney
NSW Australia
Fiona is Professor of Public Health and Pain Medicine at the University of Sydney. She is a public health physician and pain epidemiologist. She is also a Principal Hospital Scientist (fractional) at the RNSH Pain Management and Research Institute in the Northern Sydney Local Health District. Fiona is currently the Topical reviews Section Editor for the journal PAIN and is also a member of the IASP Council.
Fiona is internationally recognised for her body of work that positions chronic pain conditions as a major public health problem and contributor to the global burden of disability. In 2018 she was made a Member in the General Division of the Order of Australia (AM). In May 2018 she was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the Australasian Faculty of Pain Medicine.
She has close collaborative links with local and international groups researching healthy ageing, arthritis/musculoskeletal conditions, and comorbidity/multimorbidity. Fiona also works in health policy areas (global and national pain policy; promoting the use of research evidence in health policy).
She has been involved in studies of chronic pain epidemiology for almost twenty years, including large prospective cohort studies, RCTs, pharmaco-epidemiological studies, and health services research using linked routinely collected datasets. She is internationally recognised for her work conceptualising pain as a public health problem. She has authored or co-authored >270 peer-reviewed articles.
Neuroscience Research Australia
NSW Australia
Dr Aidan Cashin (PhD, BExPhys) is a NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow, Deputy Director of the Centre for Pain IMPACT at Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) and a Conjoint Senior Lecturer in the School of Health Sciences at the University of New South Wales. Prior to commencing research, Aidan pursued a successful clinical career as an Accredited Exercise Physiologist, practicing primarily in the field of chronic musculoskeletal pain.
University of South Australia
SA Australia
Dr Jane Chalmers is a Senior Lecturer in Pain Sciences at the University of South Australia. She is the leader of the pelvic pain theme under the Innovation, Implementation and Clinical Translation in Health (IIMPACT) research concentration at the University of South Australia. Her research focuses on understanding pelvic pain in both women and men. Her work ranges from basic science through to implementation research and she is particularly interested in the role of pain education and other physiotherapy interventions in recovery from pelvic pain. Jane has a passion for science dissemination, regularly writing pieces for The Conversation, giving media interviews, and presenting at conferences on the topics of pelvic pain and women's health.
SA Health and Medical Research Unit
SA Australia
Dr Anna Dawson is a Senior Research Fellow at the Wardliparingga Aboriginal Health Equity Unit at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute. She has a background in physiotherapy and has been working in health research for the last two decades. Her mixed method research focuses on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' health and wellbeing, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander workforce, health services research and research translation. Anna has been fortunate to work in intercultural teams and learn from exceptional cultural mentors.
Faculty of Pain Medicine
SA Australia
Dr Kapur joined the FPM Board from May 2022 and was elected to the role of FPM vice-dean. Dr Kapur currently also holds the roles of:
Dr Kapur was previously an elected member of the board in 2013 and served from 2013 – 2015. During this time he held the following roles:
Dr Kapur has broad experience of pain medicine through a long career in the discipline. His previous work with FPM and ANZCA has furthered his insight into the challenges that face both the college and the faculty.
University of South Australia
SA Australia
Emma is a Physiotherapist and Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Innovation, Implementation and Clinical Translation (IIMPACT) in Health research group at the University of South Australia. She has extensive experience as a clinician and clinical educator and in 2015 commenced a PhD as the first Allied Health recipient of the Dawes Scholarship. Her PhD thesis was awarded the 2019 Ruth Grant Prize. She has received over $450K (as CIA) in competitive research funding; her research has been widely cited and continues to directly impact clinicians, students, consumers, administrators and industry. Her current research interests relate to the role of the social determinants of health in persistent pain, and enhancing health equity in pain research and practice. She currently leads an international group of pain and equity experts and key interest holders in a project to develop a minimum dataset to facilitate the routine collection of 'equity-relevant' data in all human pain research (www.isshoos.org).
Health Translation South Australia
SA Australia
Since 2018, Wendy Keech has been Executive Director of Health Translation SA, SA’s NHMRC accredited Research Translation Centre. In this role, Wendy brings together the expertise and strengths of 11 health service and academic partner organisations to accelerate the rate of research translation in the health system to positively impact patient outcomes. She connects nationally with the 13 other accredited Research Translation Centres across Australia.
Prior to this role Wendy’s career has included working in the non-government and research sectors, focusing on Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer Prevention, Research, and Support Services; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Research; Clinical Trials; Public and Population Health; and Primary Prevention focusing on physical activity, tobacco control, and nutrition. She has held roles across Australia and the USA along with chairing and supporting community boards in SA.
Wendy’s extensive experience in healthcare, research and advocating for system improvement underscores her commitment to delivering better outcomes for the community.
South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI)
SA Australia
Eldine is an Adnyamathanha Arabana man who grew up in remote central Australia, spending most of his life in Coober Pedy, South Australia. He has worked as an Aboriginal Health Practitioner, in project management roles, and currently as the Senior Engagement and Program Coordinator within Wardliparingga Aboriginal Health Equity at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute.
University of South Australia
SA Australia
Brendan is a practising Accredited Exercise Physiologist in Adelaide, Australia. For over ten years, Brendan has been a director of multiple private practices in Melbourne and has delivered continuing education internationally since 2016. More recently, in late 2023, Brendan joined the team at Noigroup as CEO.
Brendan’s master’s research (exploring how visual sensory information influences the perception of effort during exercise) and his clinical experience working as an Exercise Physiologist in the musculoskeletal injury and pain field inspired him to pursue a PhD. His doctoral research focuses on how beliefs, behaviours, and perceptions (especially during clinical interactions) impact patients’ recovery from pain, their perception of body, and their engagement with healthcare and physical activity. These research interests underpin Brendan’s passion for education and translating clinical research into practice.
Flinders University
SA Australia
Associate Professor Amy Reynolds is a clinical epidemiologist and provisional psychologist with research expertise in the relationships between non-standard work schedules (particularly shift work), health and safety. She is also a patient research partner, living with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and antiphospholipid syndrome (APS). She is a member of the BMJ’s International Patient Advisory Panel, which informs the BMJ about patient preferences and priorities. Their most recent international collaboration has focussed on patient partnership in healthcare.
She is the current co-lead of the insomnia, shift work and body clock disruption theme at Flinders University’s Helath and Medical Research Institute (FHMRI: Sleep Health (formerly Adelaide Institute of Sleep Health)). A/Prof Reynolds’ clinical research was showcased on the SBS 3 part documentary, Australia’s Sleep Revolution with Dr Michael Mosley, which can be found on SBS On Demand.
RSL Australia
NSW Australia
Pete Rudland has had nearly three decades of experience in the Australian Army and is a qualified counsellor and fitness instructor who now provides assistance to veterans with post-traumatic stress and physical injuries.
He is a passionate advocate for veterans and their families bringing to the fore his lived experience from his time during service and on deployment to Cambodia, East Timor Iraq and Afghanistan
Pete was medically separated from the Defence Force following a 2010 Blackhawk helicopter crash in Afghanistan that left him with skeletal injuries and a traumatic brain injury.
As part of his rehabilitation, he has gone on to represent the Australian Defence Force in three Invictus Games including one as Australian co-captain. An incredibly versatile athlete, he won two Invictus gold medals in recumbent cycling and one in wheelchair rugby. He also competes in Ironman and marathon events, including the 2023 Gold Coast Marathon as part of the continued evolution of his rehabilitation.
Pete is an Ambassador for RSL Australia, a Pain Champion for Pain Australia, an Ambassador for the Kokoda Project at Liverpool Plains and a board member for RedSix, an app created to assist in defence and veteran mental health. He is also a member of the Australian War Memorial Gallery Redevelopment Advisory Committee and is on the Advisory Committee for the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide.
Monash University
VIC Autralia
Nik is an ARC Future Fellow and group leader in the Drug Discovery Biology Theme at the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (MIPS). He obtained his PhD in 2009 from the Department of Genetics at The University of Melbourne, and subsequently trained in neuropharmacology and analgesic drug discovery before becoming a group leader in 2016. For more than 10 years his multi-disciplinary program has utilised molecular pharmacology, microscopy and multi-omics to reveal how TRP ion channels and GPCRs contribute to pain and neuroinflammation; and applied medicinal and polymer chemistry to control these events with novel nanomedicines and drug conjugates. More recently, he initiated a dermatology drug discovery program focussed on characterising a novel mouse pain model for a rare childhood skin fragility disorder known as Epidermolysis Bullosa.
He has more than 53 peer-reviewed publications (including Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Chem Biol, Nature Communications, PNAS x 5, Neuron and Biomaterials), and over $10M in funding as a group leader (ARC, MRFF, NHMRC, charity), sustained industry partnerships since 2015, 1 patent on novel analgesic nanoparticles that was licensed to a USA-based start-up, and his research has been highlighted by multiple media outlets (Channel 7 Sunrise, Channel 9 News, SBS, Herald Sun and ABC Radio).