Celebrating IASP's Founders
Learn about IASP's founding members and watch some of the founders share their recollections of the association's beginning and hopes for the future of pain research.
Karen Berkley, PhD
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Sir Michael Bond, PhD
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Emeritus Professor Sir Michael Bond graduated in Sheffield, England, in 1961. He trained as a Psychiatrist and then as a Neurosurgeon to specialist levels before becoming the Professor of Psychological Medicine in Glasgow from 1973 - 1998. His unusual background was ideal for his research into psychosocial aspects of pain. In 1966 he and Issy Pilowsky published the first account of using the Analogue Scale for pain measurement.
Professor Bond was a founder member of The British Pain Society in 1967. He was its President in 1991/01 and again in 2009/10. He established the first In-Patient Unit in Britain for the treatment of pain linked to psychosocial problems.
Professor Bond joined IASP in 1976. He was a Council Member from 1981-93 and again from 1996-2008 He was President from 2002-2005. When on Council he was chairman of The Scientific Programme Committee for the 6th World Congress in Adelaide in 1990. While IASP President, he was involved in developing medical school courses and curricula with Isay Pilowsky and piloted Developing Countries Postgraduate Courses and Fellowships. On behalf of IASP, he acted as an Ambassador to many Developing Countries across the world.

Harald Petter Breivik, MD, DMsc, FRCA
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Richard Chapman, PhD
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At the end of my post-doctoral fellowship at Duke University I had the good fortune to be recruited to the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Washington. It was the early 1970s and the department chairman, Professor John Bonica, was building a multidisciplinary pain research program. I was to be a part of it. Pain at that time was an unexplored frontier in science, and pain management was a neglected area in medicine. I did not realize at first that Dr. Bonica’s vision extended beyond the department to a national and international recognition of the importance of pain. I have been able to watch the field grow from its infancy to what it is today, and I am grateful to have been a part of it.
My background is Psychology and I began by studying pain in normal volunteers using psychophysics. After a bit my interests expanded to psychophysiology, first with brain evoked potentials and later to autonomic correlates of pain. With time and exposure to clinical issues, I began to do clinically relevant studies. The measurement of pain was a theme that ran through my career, even when I engaged in clinical research. I spent 29 years at the University of Washington and then moved in. 2000 to the University of Utah, retiring in 2013. A career in the field of pain was not something that I had ever envisioned during my graduate education, but it has proved to be a rich, fulfilling experience.