ASM 2020 Hobart – APS Discipline Sub Group Meetings
The Australian Pain Society Discipline Sub Group Meetings will be held again this year. This is your opportunity to share information and promote discussion within your pain discipline at the...
View ArticleASM 2020 Hobart – Pain in Residential Aged Care Facilities: Management...
DISCOUNTED RATES AVAILABLE FOR REGISTERED DELEGATES Only $50.00 per copy Pain in Residential Aged Care Facilities: Management Strategies, 2nd Edition This new edition is designed as a “one stop shop”...
View ArticleASM 2020 Hobart – Named Lectures
2020 Sunderland Lecture: Dr Janet Bultitude Background: The Sir Sydney Sunderland Named Lecture is offered to an international guest speaker. The Sunderland Lecture was instituted at the 1987 meeting...
View ArticlepainSTAR update
Members spoke and APS listened … painSTAR is now open to researchers up to 10 years post PhD qualification. To accommodate this change, applications have been extended until Wednesday 11th August 2021....
View ArticleAPS Members in the Media: Hayley Leake – Austalian Survivor
You may have seen Australian Pain Society (APS) member Hayley Leake on the latest season of Australian Survivor, now showing on 10 and 10 play on demand. The APS team were lucky enough to speak to...
View ArticlepainSTAR update
The Australian Pain Society would like to thank those who submitted applications for painSTAR 2021 and are excited to advise that we have had a fantastic response spanning a broad range of clinical and...
View ArticleThe 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,...
View ArticleAnnual Scientific Meeting Travel Grant Recipient Report
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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