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Signatories of the Declaration of Montréal

Click here to view a list of individuals who have endorsed the Declaration.

Organizations

The following organizations have endorsed the Declaration. Click on a column heading to sort by that criterion.

Organization	Representative	City	Country
Access Matters	Robert Johnstone, Chairman	Skelmersdale	UK
African Palliative Care Association	Faith Mwangi-Powell, Executive Director	Kampala	Uganda
AIDS Projects Management Group	Dave Burrows, Director	Sydney	Australia
Alberta Occupational Therapy Pain Association	Cary Brown, Coordinator	Edmonton, AB	Canada
Algesiology Association of Romania	Ostin C. Mungiu, President	Iasi	Romania
American Academy of Pain Medicine	Eduardo M. Fraifeld, MD, President	Glenview, IL	USA
American Board of Pain Medicine	Michel Dubois, President of the Board	Chicago, IL	USA
American Chronic Pain Association	Penney Cowan, Founder/Executive Director	Rocklin, CA	USA
American Pain Foundation	William Rowe, CEO	Baltimore, MD	USA
Arachnoiditis Canada	Louise Carbonneau Vermeiren, President	Port Stanley	Canada
Arbeitsgemeinschaft schmerztherapeutischer Einrichtungen in Bayern	Martin Martin, President	München	Germany
Arizona Pain Initiative	Robert Kronenberg, President	Phoenix, AZ	USA
Asociación Chilena para Estudio del Dolor	Rodrigo Fernandez, President	Santiago	Chile
Asociación Mexicana para el Estudio y Tratamiento del Dolor	Alfredo Covarrubias-Gomez, President-Elect	Mexico City	Mexico
Asociación Mexicana para el Estudio y Tratamiento del Dolor AC	Francisco Javier Mayer Rivera, President	México DF	México
Asociación Peruana para el Estudio del Dolor (ASPED)	Gladys Pasco Bustamante, Presidente	Lima	Peru
Associação Portuguesa para o Estudo da Dor	Francisco Duarte Correia, President	Funchal - Madeira	Portugal
Association Québécoise de la Douleur Chronique (AQDC)	Jacques Laliberté, President	Montréal	Canada
Assotiation for Pain Therapy in Bosnia and Herzegovina (APTBH)	Amira Karkin Tais, President	Sarajevo	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Australian and New Zealand Society of Palliative Medicine	Phillip Good, President	Brisbane	Australia
Australian Pain Management Association Inc.	Wendy Caldwell, President	Brisbane	Australia
Australian Pain Society	Stephen Gibson, President	Sydney	Australia
Bangladesh Society for Study of Pain	Prof AKM Akhtaruz Zaman, Secretary General	Dhaka	Bangladesh
Belgian Pain Society	Bart Morlion, President	Leuven	Belgium
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board - West	Thanthullu Vasu, Consultant	Bangor, North Wales	UK
Cairdeas International Palliative Care Trust	David Swift, Executive Director	Aberdeen	UK
California Academy of Pain Medicine	Philipp Lippe, MD, President	San Jose, CA	USA
Canadian Academy of Pain Management	Eldon Tunks, President	Hamilton, ON	Canada
Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists	Claudia von Zweck, Executive Director	Ottawa	Canada
Canadian Pain Coalition	Lynn Cooper, President	Oshawa	Canada
Canadian Pain Society	Mary Lynch, President	Halifax	Canada
Capital Hospice	Malene Davis, CEO/President	Washington, DC	USA
Chronic Pain Australia	Mandy Nielsen, Vice President	Brisbane	Australia
Deutsche Gesellschaft zum Studium des Schmerzes e.V. (DGSS)	Rolf-Detlef Treede, President	Mannheim	Germany
Dr. RDS: Algology	Dhanasekaran Rajagopalan, Director	Krishnagiri	India
East End Multidisciplinary Pain Management Program	Jeffrey Ennis, President/Clinical Director	Hamilton	Canada
Emmanuel Hospital Association	Ann Thyle, Director, Palliative Care	New Delhi	India
Epymedica	Radu Florin Popa, President	Iasi	Romania
Esperantra	Eva Maria Ruiz de Castilla, Executive Director	Lima	Peru
Faculty of Pain Medicine, Australian & New Zealand College of Anaesthetists	David Jones, Dean	Dunedin	New Zealand
Foundation for Pain Medicine	Albert Ray, President	Miami, FL	USA
German Pain Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft zum Studium des Schmerzes)	Wolfgang Koppert, President	Hannover	Germany
Guwahati Pain and Palliative Care Society	Dinesh Chandra Goswami, Secretary	Guwahati	India
Hong Kong Pain Society	Tak Yi Chui, President	Hong Kong	China
Hospice Africa Uganda	Anne Merriman, Ag CED	Kampala	Uganda
Hospice in the West	Rian Venter, Clinical Services Manager	Krugersdorp	South Africa
Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa	Liz Gwyther, CEO	Cape Town	South Africa
Huron County Narcotic Pain Medication Support Group & Advocacy	David Ball, Founder	Clinton	Canada
IASP China Chapter	You Wan, President	Beijing	China
International Alliance of Patients' Organizations	Caroline Staffell, Senior Membership Officer	London	UK
International Association of Pain and Chemical Dependency	Ian Buttfield, President	Adelaide	Australia
International Society for Music in Medicine ISMM	Ralph K.W. Spintge, President	Luedenscheid - Hamburg	Germany
Iraqi Society for Pain Management	Maytham Murtada, Vice President	Baghdad	Iraq
Jordan Pain Society	Hussein Abukhudair, President	Amman	Jordan
Karunashraya Bangalore Hospice Trust	Nagesh Simha, Chairman and Medical Director	Bangalore	India
Kenya Hospices and Palliative Care Association (KEHPCA)	Zipporah Ali, National Coordinator	Nairobi	Kenya
Life With Arachnoiditis	Karen Kovacik, Co-Founder	South Fork, CO	USA
Lithuanian Pain Society	Arunas Sciupokas, President	Kaunas	Lithuania
Malaysian Association for the Study of Pain	Ramani Vijayan, President	Kuala Lumpur	Malaysia
Moldovan Society for the Study and Management of Pain	Adrian Belîi, President	Chisinau	Moldova, Republic of
NGO Legal Analitics and Strategies Institute	Andrii Rokhanskyi, Coordinator of Programmes	Kharkiv	Ukraine
Ongata Ngong Palliative Care Community Based Organization	Stella Rithara, Project Coordinator	Ongata Rongai, Kajiado	Kenya
Pain & Policy Studyes Group	Jody Moen, Communications Coordinator	Madison, WI	USA
Pain and Palliative Medicine Department, Federal Medical Centre	Folaju Olusegun Oyebola, Head of Department	Abeokuta	Nigeria
Pain Connection - Chronic Pain Outreach Center, Inc.	Gwenn Herman, Executive Director/Founder	Rockville, MD	USA
Pain Science Division of CPA	Lesley Singer, Treasurer	Montréal	Canada
Pain Society of the Philippines	Henry Lu, Past President	Manila	Philippines
Pain Treatment Topics (Pain-Topics.org)	Stewart Leavitt, MA, PhD, Executive Director	Chicago, IL	USA
PainSA	Peter Kamerman, Council Member	Johannesburg	South Africa
Palliative Care Association of Uganda	Rose Kiwanuka, National Coordinator	Kampala	Uganda
Palliative Care Research Team, Monash University	Margaret O'Connor, Vivian Bullwinkel Chair in Palliative Care Nursing	Melbourne	Australia
Pallium India	M R Rajagopal, Chairman	Trivandrum	India
Philippine Society of Anesthesiologists, Inc.	Maria Minerva P. Calimag, MD, PhD, President	Manila	Philippines
Plus Rehab Physiotherapy	Tony Snell, Director	Napier	New Zealand
Power of Pain Foundation	Barby Ingle, Director	Colonial Heights, VA	USA
Professional Health Association	Adem Bytyqi, Executive Director	Prizren	Kosovo, Republic of
Programa Regional de Controlo da Dor na Região Autónoma dos Açores	Maria Teresa Flor de Lima, Gestor	Ponta Delgada	Portugal
Samraksha	Sanghamitra Iyengar, Managing Trustee	Bangalore	India
SCENAR Therapist Association Australasia Inc.	Vincent Bowyer, President	Lismore, NSW	Australia
Serbian Association of Pain Research and Treatment	Miroslava Pjevic, President	Novi Sad	Serbia
Sjogren's Syndrome Association Inc.	Ginette Texier, VP	Montréal	Canada
Sociedade Portuguesa de Hidrologia Médica	Pedro Cantista, President	Porto	Portugal
Society for Treatment & Study of Pain (STSP)	Tariq Khan, Vice President	Islamabad	Pakistan
Society of Alberta Occupational Therapists	Laura Budzak, President	Edmonton, AB	Canada
Socio Academic and Palliative Care Foundation	Lathheef Babu, General Secretary	Kondotty	India
Stress Resources LLC	Pamela Ressler, Founder/President	Concord, MA	USA
Tapologo HIV and AIDS Programme	Stephen Blakeman, General Manager	Rustenburg	South Africa
The British Pain Society	Richard Langford, President	London	UK
The Chronic Pain Association of Canada	Barry Ulmer, Executive Director	Edmonton	Canada
The Chronic Pain Educational Documentary Series	Charalambos Kesta, Executive Producer/Director	San Francisco, CA	USA
The Refugee Forum, University of Ottawa	Peter Showler, Director	Ottawa	Canada
Thyroid UK	Lyn Mynott, Chair/Chief Executive	Essex	UK
Toowomba Pain Management	Alan Howell, Director	Toowoomba	Australia
York & District Pain Management Support Group	Gordon Hart, Publicity and Communications Officer	York	UK

If you are an authorized representative* and would like to sign the Declaration on behalf of an organization, please complete the online form.

*Note: Only presidents, CEOs, executive directors, or others who can legally act as representatives may sign on behalf of an organization. All others please sign as an individual.

Last updated: July 25, 2011