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Johan Vlaeyen, PhD

Councilor

Institution/Organization

Professor, Experimental Health Psychology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands, Emeritus Professor, Health Psychology Research Group, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Adjunct Research Professor, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

Member Since

1985

Term End Date

2028

Committees

  • Associate Editorial Board, PAIN (2000-now)
  • Member IASP Presidential Task Force interdisciplinary pain management (2021-now)
  • Member IASP International Classification of Diseases Task Force (ICD-11) (2014 - now)
  • Member IASP Fellowships, Grants, and Awards Working Group (2012-2016)
  • Member of the IASP scientific program committee for the congress in Montreal (2010) and the congress in Milan (2012)
  • Member executive board SIG Pain and Movement (2000-2002)
  • Member IASP Task Force on pain curriculum, Psychology (1998, 2014, 2011)

Country

Belgium

Disclosures

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I am a behavioral health scientist, interested in the transition from acute to chronic pain from a affective-motivational perspective. Through experimental designs using behavioral paradigms in humans, I wish to disentangle how individuals adjust to the unusual experience of chronic pain via associative learning, and pain avoidance learning in particular. I highly value translational research and contribute to the development of customized cognitive-behavioral treatments to the benefit of those who suffer chronic pain. Besides applying traditional group-based randomized clinical trials, I also am excited about the new window of opportunities with single-case experimental designs, thereby bridging the scientist-practitioner gap. I have been predominantly funded by the Flemish Government, Belgium, the Research Foundation–Flanders, Belgium (FWO), and the European Commission.

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