The International Association for the Study of Pain cordially invites all of our members to attend this virtual Town Hall meeting, where we’ll come together to discuss organizational updates, share ideas, and address questions/concerns.
When: Thursday, February 6 at 5 p.m. EST
This is a valuable opportunity for all members to engage directly with IASP leadership, including Andrew Rice (President), Mary Cardosa (President-Elect), Catherine Bushnell (Past President), Michele Sterling (Secretary), Michael Gold (Treasurer), and Steve Gardner (Chief Executive Officer).
We encourage any and all questions you may have for IASP leadership including, but certainly not limited to:
- Following up on inquiries regarding the IASP 2024 World Congress on Pain.
- Future planning for the IASP 2026 World Congress on Pain.
- Organizational structure and workflow.
- Emergent issues impacting your work with IASP.
- Future initiatives and previously unidentified areas for collaboration.
We hope our members are able to participate and voice their thoughts, as this input is vital for the continued growth and success of IASP!
Participants include:
- Andrew Rice, MD, IASP President
- Mary Cardosa, MD, IASP President-Elect
- Catherine Bushnell, PhD, IASP Past President
- Michele Sterling, PhD, IASP Secretary
- Michael Gold, PhD, IASP Treasurer
- Steve Gardner, IASP Chief Executive Officer
- Greg Carbonetti, PhD, IASP Associate Director of Publications (host)
About the Presenters
Andrew Rice, MD, is the current president of IASP and professor of pain research at Imperial College London and Honorary Consultant in Pain Medicine at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in the UK. He is active in both clinical practice and translational research elucidating neuropathic pain. Andrew’s research covers both laboratory and clinical research spanning animal models, through deep profiling of patients with a view to personalized medicine, to clinical trials and evidence synthesis by meta-analysis.
Mary Suma Cardosa, MD, is IASP’s current president-elect and a visiting consultant pain specialist at Hospital Selayang, Selangor, Malaysia. Mary has done pioneering work in setting up pain services in Malaysia for acute, cancer and chronic pain management in Ministry of Health (MOH) hospitals and primary care settings. She started the Menang Pain management program in Selayang Hospital in 2002 which become a model for group self-management programs in Southeast Asia. She also initiated the implementation of “Pain as the 5th Vital Sign” and the “Pain Free Program” in the MOH. She was involved in planning and running five IASP Southeast Asia Pain Camps since 2011, and was the key person in the design and implementation of the IASP Multidisciplinary Pain Clinic Toolkit project.
M. Catherine Bushnell, PhD, is the scientific director of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health at the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, USA. She holds a PhD in experimental psychology from the American University and received postdoctoral training in neurophysiology at the NIH. She was the Harold Griffith Professor of Anesthesia at McGill University before returning to NIH in 2012. Among her honors are the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Pain Society and the Frederick Kerr Basic Science Research Award from the American Pain Society. Her research interests include forebrain mechanisms of pain processing, psychological modulation of pain, and neural alterations in chronic pain patients.
Michele Sterling, PhD, is professor in the Recover Injury Research Centre, Program Lead of the Musculoskeletal Injuries research program and director of the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence (CRE) in Road Traffic Injury Recovery, all at The University of Queensland, Australia. She is a musculoskeletal physiotherapist and a fellow of the Australian College of Physiotherapists. Michele’s research focuses on the mechanisms underlying the development of chronic pain after injury, predictive algorithms for outcomes and developing effective interventions for musculoskeletal injury and pain. She has conducted numerous cohort studies and clinical trials investigating the effectiveness of various treatments and their combinations including exercise, psychological treatments, manual therapies, and multidisciplinary care. She has received more than $13 million in research funding from the NHMRC, ARC, and industry partners. She has editorial roles with several leading journals and textbooks, and more than 200 peer-reviewed publications.
Michael Gold, PhD, is a professor of neurobiology at the University of Pittsburgh, US. Dr. Gold received his BA from UC Berkeley, PhD from UCLA, and was a postdoctoral fellow with Jon Levine at USCF. For the last 20 years, Gold’s research focused on the neurobiology of pain. He has made important contributions to understanding injury-induced plasticity in nociceptive afferents, and their contribution to the manifestation of persistent pain. Toward this end, he has employed an array of approaches ranging from the study of isolated cells to the development of novel behavioral assays with which to assess the presence of persistent hypersensitivity, and more recently the study of clinical populations suffering from persistent pain. Dr. Gold is currently treasurer of the International Association for the Study of Pain.
Steve Gardner is IASP’s chief executive officer. He has spent his career working in and consulting to associations in Washington DC, and previously served as an interim executive for several organizations, notably, the American Chemistry Council, the National Association of Broadcasts, the American Academy of PAs, and the International Safety Equipment Association.