Faculty
Samer Narouze
Samer Narouze
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Samer Narouze |
Dr. Narouze is currently the chairman of the Center for Pain Medicine at Western Reserve Hospital in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. He is considered an expert consultant in Headaches and Pain Medicine and has served as an editor and medical reviewer in several Headache and Pain Medicine journals. He is also a clinical professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at OUCOM, and a clinical professor of Neurological Surgery at OSU. |
Tony Ng
Tony Ng
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Tony Ng |
Dr Tony Ng is the Consultant Anaesthetist in Department of Anaesthesia, Boxhill Hospital, Eastern Health, Melbourne, Australia. He is the specialist Pain Medicine Physician, Frankston Pain Management, Melbourne, Australia. Also, an Honorary Consultant Anaesthetist in Department of Anaesthesia and Operating Theatre Services, Tuen Mun Hospital, Hong Kong. He is an Honorary Consultant, Center for Regional Anesthesia and Pain Management, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan and an Honorary Consultant, Center for Regional Anesthesia and Pain Management, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taiwan. |
Michael Nicholas
Michael Nicholas
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Michael Nicholas |
Dr Michael Nicholas is a Clinical Psychologist and the Director of Pain Education at the Pain Management Research Institute, and Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Health (Northern) at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, where he directs online post-graduate courses in pain management for all health disciplines. He also directs several multidisciplinary pain management programs at the hospital, and he maintains an active clinical role. Since completing his PhD on the evaluation of cognitive-behavioural treatments for chronic low back pain in 1988, followed by 2.5 years as the inaugural director of the Pain Management Program at St Thomas’ Hospital in London, he has established a national and international reputation for his work in interdisciplinary pain management. He served for 10 years as member of the IASP council, including 4 years as secretary. He has participated in many IASP task forces and working groups, including the ICD-11 project, and he chaired the Education Initiatives Working Group for 6 years. He remains an active member of the IASP’s Educational Programs Working Group and Interdisciplinary Pain Treatment Task Force.
Since 2018, he has also played a role in the IASP-supported Southeast Asian Pain Toolkit project aimed at assisting clinicians in Myanmar, Indonesia, and Vietnam to develop interdisciplinary pain management services. In addition to his teaching and clinical work, he has maintained an active research focus, with over 300 publications on pain assessment and management. His current research interests include the self-management of chronic pain in both the adult and older adult populations, teaching health professionals ways of equipping people with chronic pain in pain self-management, and early psychosocial interventions to prevent long-term pain-related disability in injured workers. |
Jo Nijs
Jo Nijs
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Jo Nijs |
Jo Nijs is fulltime professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Brussels, Belgium), physiotherapist/manual therapist at the University Hospital Brussels, holder of a Chair on oncological physiotherapy funded by the Berekuyl Academy, the Netherlands, and Visiting Professor at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden). Jo runs the Pain in Motion international and interdisciplinary research group (www.paininmotion.be). The primary aim of his research is improving care for patients with chronic pain. Twenty years ago, he pioneered in studying central sensitization in a wide variety of pain conditions, including osteoarthritis, cancer, back pain, neck pain, shoulder pain, and fibromyalgia. This led to developing and testing innovative interventions (e.g., cognition-targeted exercise therapy, sleep treatment) for various chronic pain conditions, and continued efforts to unravel the chronic pain pathophysiology with a focus on epigenetic mechanisms. At the age of 48, he has (co-)authored >330 peer reviewed publications (including first author papers in The Lancet and The Lancet Rheumatology (2x), and senior author papers in JAMA Neurology and JAMA Network Open), obtained >€19 million grant income, supervised 28 PhD’s to completion and served 390 times as an invited speaker at meetings in 31 countries (including 43 keynotes). He trained 4k clinicians in >100 courses held in 14 countries spread over 4 continents. His work has been cited >13k times (h-index: 65), with 33 citations per article (ISI Web of Knowledge). Jo is ranked 2nd in the world among chronic pain researchers (1st in Europe), and 3rd in the world among musculoskeletal pain researchers (expertscape.com), received the 2017 Excellence in Research Award from the JOSPT (USA), and the 2020 honorary Francqui Collen Chair awarded by the University of Hasselt, Belgium. Website: https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/jo-nijs |
Philip Peng
Philip Peng
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Philip Peng |
Dr. Philip Peng is the professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine of University of Toronto. He is a leader, researcher, educator and pioneer in the application of ultrasound for pain medicine. His contribution of pain education resulted in “Founder” status from Royal College in Pain Medicine, and the Award of Recognition of Education in Pain Medicine by ESRA.
His innovative research led to different new procedures in pain intervention. He received numerous awards including the John J Bonica award from ASRA, Distinguished Service Award from both ESRA-Spain and Canadian Pain Society, Gold Medal Award from Canadian Anesthesiology Society, International Distinguished Career Award from Mexico Pain Society, and Leadership in Advocacy Award from CSF Leak Canada. He is the inaugural fellow to ASRA (FASRA) which recognizes the contribution of prominent member of the field. He has delivered more than 600 lectures and workshops nationally and internationally. He has edited 8 books and published 260 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters. |
Andrew Rice
Andrew Rice
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Andrew Rice |
Andrew Rice MB BS, MD, FRCP, FFPMRCA, FRCA is Professor of Pain Research at Imperial College, where he leads the Pain Research Group. He is a graduate of St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School and gained his research doctorate at St. Thomas’ Hospital Medical School. He is currently serving as President of the International Association for the Study of Pain.
His research focusses on translational research in neuropathic pain in the context of infection (HIV, leprosy, HTLV-1 & zoster), diabetes, nerve trauma and non-freezing cold injury. Having been active in pre-clinical pain research (esp pathophysiology of HIV neuropathy, animal modelling and cannabinoid pharmacology), he now works on innovating pre-clinical experimental design, validity and evidence synthesis. Andrew’s clinical research includes deep profiling of neuropathic pain patients with a view to elucidating risk and enabling precision medicine, clinical trials and evidence synthesis. He collaborates with historians on aspects of neuropathic pain. Over the years, his research has been funded from many sources, but notably by the European Commission, Wellcome Trust and UKRI (MRC). He was a member of Imperial’s Royal British Legion Centre for Blast Injury Studies. Andrew has authored ~250 publications (H-index 67), many in the leading specialist journal (PAIN). He has published in other notable journals including: Lancet, Brain, Lancet Neurology, Nature Methods, NEJM & BMJ. He conceived and was lead editor of the 2 edition, 4 volume “Textbook of Clinical Pain Management”. Andrew was a Director of the Wellcome Trust London Pain Consortium, workpackage lead EU Consortia EUROPAIN (innovating animal models) and EQIPD (Enhancing Quality In Preclinical Data). He is a workpackage and tissue bank lead in the Advanced Pain Discovery Platform collaboration PainStorm. Andrew has served as a Councillor of the International Association for the Study of Pain was liaison to South-East and is currently South Asia liaison. He was Chair of the Scientific Programme Committee for the 18th World Congress on Pain and of the Taskforce on Cannabinoid Analgesia. He previously held leadership positions in the IASP Special Interest Group on Neuropathic Pain. Until 2024, Andrew sat on the MHRA Neurology, Pain & Psychiatry Expert Advisory Group and the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (Varicella/Herpes Zoster). He participates in the Non-Freezing Cold Injury Independent Senior Advisory Committee. Andrew has received multiple awards including Imperial College’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Animal Research; the Patrick Wall Lecturer at both the British Pain Society and the Faculty of Pain Medicine and the Michael Cousins lecturer at the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists. Until recently he delivered an NHS diagnostic and treatment clinical service for patients with neuropathic pain, small fibre neuropathy and non-freezing cold injury. |
Bernadette Smith
Bernadette Smith
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Bernadette Smith |
Bernadette is a psychologist and educator within the field of pain management and currently serves as the President-Elect of the Australian Pain Society. She is the Clinical Director of Pain Solutions, a private multidisciplinary pain clinic in regional Tasmania, and co-facilitates the federally funded OPAL NorthWest pain self-management program. Additionally, she is the Director and Co-Director of two private practices, Psychology Plus and Coastal Psychology. Bernadette is deeply committed to improving access to interdisciplinary pain care in regional areas and is a passionate advocate for person-centered pain training for health professionals. |
Ban Leong Sng
Ban Leong Sng
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Ban Leong Sng |
Ban Leong is the Head and Senior Consultant at the Department of Women’s Anaesthesia and Deputy Campus Director of the Digital Integration Medical Innovation and Care Transformation Office at KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital. He is a Professor and Academic Vice Chair (Research) in the Anaesthesiology and Perioperative Sciences Academic Clinical Program and Lead Clinician Innovator Mentor in the Singhealth DukeNUS Academic Medical Centre. He is also a core faculty in the Singhealth Anaesthesiology Residency Program with interest in medical education innovation. Ban Leong is a National Level Clinician Scientist with funded research and innovation work. His academic interest includes obstetric anaesthesia and analgesia, pain and psychological vulnerability and closed loop feedback drug delivery systems. |
Joysree Subramaniam
Joysree Subramaniam
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Joysree Subramaniam |
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John Tan
John Tan
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John Tan |
John is a Senior Principal Physiotherapist at the Singapore General Hospital (SGH), where he holds the position of deputy chief of education in the Department of Physiotherapy. He has also been serving as the Program Director of the SGH Core Residency in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Program since 2018. In addition to his role at SGH, he also serves as the Vice-Chair of Rehabilitation Sciences at the SingHealth College of Allied Health and as secretary at the Singapore Physiotherapy Association. He enjoys working with patients with complex pain presentations. |
Suwimon Tangwiwat
Suwimon Tangwiwat
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Suwimon Tangwiwat |
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Marvin Thepsoparn
Marvin Thepsoparn
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Marvin Thepsoparn |
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Jessica Yu
Jessica Yu
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Jessica Yu |
Jessica has been working in Changi General Hospital for the past two decades. She has keen interests in advanced clinical practice, nursing education, nursing research, and evidenced based practice, as well as developing and mentoring nurses for professional development. Currently Jessica works as an advanced practice nurse specialising in pain management, as well as an Assistant Director in Nursing managing inpatient wards. She Attained her Doctor in Nursing Practice in 2020 from Duke University, USA. |
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