Senior manager’s note: IASP will be celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2024. Even though the anniversary is still a few years away, it already has us thinking about the history of IASP and the evolution of pain research over the past five decades. So we are providing a series of podcasts that will cover both of those topics, featuring senior leaders in the field who have made major contributions to pain research and care, including those with major roles at IASP.
Our latest such podcast was with Marshall Devor, PhD. Devor is the Alpert Professor of Pain Research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (HUJI). His research has focused on the neurobiology of neuropathic pain, and more recently also on mechanisms involved in loss of consciousness and pain-free surgery. His laboratory has published extensively in the pain field, with work of a notably integrative nature involving neurophysiology, computer simulations, neuroanatomy (light and electron microscopy), genetics, and behavioral models.
Here, Devor speaks with freelancer writer Fred Schwaller, PhD, to discuss his career path, including his work as a postdoc with Pat Wall, some of the history of the pain field, and much more. (This podcast is also available on Spotify here and on Apple Podcasts here.)
More About Marshall Devor
Marshall Devor is the Alpert Professor of Pain Research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (HUJI). He was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1949. His bachelor’s degree is from Princeton University (1970), and his PhD from MIT (1975). He was a postdoctoral fellow with the pain research pioneer Prof. P.D. Wall at University College London and subsequently at HUJI. There he progressed from research associate (1977) to senior lecturer, associate professor, and finally professor in 1988. He is the author of approximately 300 publications, and has approximately 27,000 career citations and an h-index = 80.
Fred Schwaller, PhD, is a freelance science writer based in Germany.