Rene Albertyn, PhD Rene Albertyn is a researcher in the department of Paediatric Surgery at the Red Cross Children’s Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. In addition, she is also clinically involved in the Pain Management Unit of hospital. In 2002 Rene obtained her PhD from the University of Cape Town Medical School in Pain Management and Assessment Strategies.She developed a Burn Pain and Anxiety Scale for children (BOPAS), which led to her PhD degree.Rene is involved in ongoing research and conducts weekly lectures on hospital palliative care to medical students.She regularly gives talks on
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Michael Costigan, MD USA Michael Costigan has worked for over ten years in the molecular biology of pain mechanisms. He is an Assistant Professor in Anaesthesia in Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, working with Professor Clifford Woolf in the Neural Plasticity Research Group. The main aim of his research is to use whole genome microarrays to define the response of the nervous system to damage in order to identify new mechanisms and translate these into novel drug targets.
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Allen Finley, MD FRCPC FAAP Canada Dr. Allen Finley is a pediatric anesthesiologist who has worked for 20 years in pain research and management. He is a Professor of Anesthesia and Psychology at Dalhousie University, and Medical Director of Pediatric Pain Management at IWK Health Centre in Halifax. He has published over 80 papers in peer-reviewed journals and has lectured widely, with more than 170 invited presentations on six continents. He started the PEDIATRIC-PAIN e-mail discussion list in 1993, bringing together pain researchers and clinicians from over 40 countries. His own research and educational projects have recently taken him to Jordan, Thailand, China, Brazil, and elsewhere. His focus is advocacy for improved pain management for children in both developing and developed countries. ..................................................................................................................................... |
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Dr. Patrick McGrath is Vice President-Research at the IWK Health Centre and Professor of Psychology, Pediatrics and Psychiatry, at Dalhousie University. He is a leading researcher on pediatric pain and on distance treatment to increase access to psychosocial health care. His research has been recognized by appointment to the Order of Canada and election to the Royal Society of Canada and the Academy of Health Sciences of Canada. He has received numerous other awards. He is on the Governing Council of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. He is the Principal Investigator of the CIHR Strategic Training Program on Pain in Child Health and a CIHR Community Alliance for Health Research Grant in which he is completing trials of distance treatment in child mental health. A team that he leads (with C. Cunningham of McMaster University) was awarded a CIHR Team Grant in Access to Child Mental Health Care |
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Tonya Palermo, PhD Dr. Tonya Palermo is a pediatric psychologist and an Associate Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Peri-Operative Medicine at Oregon Health and Science University. She heads the Division of Clinical Pain and Regional Anesthesia Research where her own work has focused on psychological treatments for pediatric chronic pain and disability, sleep disturbances, and use of innovative technologies. |
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Martha Constantine-Paton, PhD USA Martha Constantine-Paton received her Ph.D. in the Section of Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell University, Ithaca N.Y. She has served as a Professor on the faculties of Biology at both Princeton and Yale Universities and is currently a Professor in the Departments of Brain and Cognitive Science and Biology and a founding investigator of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. ............................................................................................................................... |
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William Scholten, PharmD., MPA Willem Scholten is the Manager, Access to Controlled Medications Programme at the World Health Organizations where he works on substance evaluation and access to controlled medications. In the past he worked in pharmacy practice and in the Ministry of Health of the Netherlands on various topics. One of these topics was drug legislation. .................................................................................................... |
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Somboon Thienthong, MD Professor Somboon Thienthong, in the head of the department of Anesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Thailand. He has been the driving force behind acute pain services for ten years. A recent 4-year project, collaborating with a pediatric research team from IWK Health Centre, Canada, is to develop a network for knowledge sharing about pain treatment for children in rural and urban Thailand. |
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Monique van Dijk, PhD Dr. Monique van Dijk is appointed as senior researcher with special attention to Quality of Care at the Erasmus MC-Sophia Children’s Hospital. She trained as a psychologist and nurse. Her research area covers the assessment of pain, anxiety and withdrawal in neonates and infants, and non-pharmacological treatment thereof.
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Phil Wiffen, MSc B.Pharm MRPharmS Phil is Director of Training at the UK Cochrane Centre and former Co-ordinating Editor of the Cochrane Pain and Palliative Care Group. He is actively involved in WHO work on paediatric pain guidelines. He is also visiting Professor to several Chinese universities. He teaches regularly on evidence based medicine. Phil has published over 100 academic articles and two textbooks |
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William T. Zempsky, MD Dr. Zempsky is the Associate Director of the Division of Pain Medicine and Medical Director of the Clinical Trials Unit at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center and a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. Dr. Zempsky is focused on developing efficient systemic approaches to pain relief and reducing the impact of pain in children with sickle cell disease. |
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Boris Zernikow, MD Boris Zernikow is certified in Paediatrics, Pain Medicine and Palliative Medicine. He is the director of the Vodafone Foundation Institute and a University Chair for Paediatric Pain Therapy and Palliative Care – Witten/Herdecke University. The outpatient department cares for 1200 chronic pain patient and inpatient clinic for 130 pts every year. .................................................................................................. |
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