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Charle Berde, MD Dr. Charles Berde is the Sara Page Mayo Chair in Pediatric Pain Medicine and Chief of the Division of Pain Medicine in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Children’s Hospital in Boston and Professor of Anaesthesia (Pediatrics) at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Berde completed an MD and PhD (Biophysics) at Stanford, Residency in Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital, Residency in Anesthesia at Mass General, and Fellowship in Pediatric Anesthesia and Critical Care at Children’s Hospital. Prof. Berde’s clinical research concerns analgesic pharmacology in children and outcomes of acute and chronic pain treatment and palliative care in children. His laboratory and translational research concerns the design of novel long duration local anesthetics. |
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Jacqui Clinch, MD, FRCPCH
Dr. Jacqui Clinch commenced her consultant post in paediatric rheumatology in Bristol and Bath in 2001. This was the second dedicated paediatric rheumatology post in the UK at that time. As lead clinician she expanded the service to cover the South/Southwest of England and South Wales. |
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Michael Costigan, MD Dr. Michael Costigan has worked for over ten years in the molecular biology of pain mechanisms. He is an Assistant Professor in Anaesthesia in Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, working with Professor Clifford Woolf in the Neural Plasticity Research Group. The main aim of his research is to use whole genome microarrays to define the response of the nervous system to damage in order to identify new mechanisms and translate these into novel drug targets. |
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Allen Finley, MD FRCPC FAAP Dr. Allen Finley is a pediatric anesthesiologist who has worked for 20 years in pain research and management. He is a Professor of Anesthesia and Psychology at Dalhousie University, and Medical Director of Pediatric Pain Management at IWK Health Centre in Halifax. He has published over 80 papers in peer-reviewed journals and has lectured widely, with more than 170 invited presentations on six continents. |
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Ma, Antonieta Flores, MD, Msc Ma, Antonieta Flores is a pediatrician,
Pediatric – Algologist practitioner, Associate Professor of Algology, National University of Mexico. She established the first Pediatric Pain Clinic in Mexico in 1993; she started palliative care in children in 1994 at the General Hospital of México and has been head of Pediatrics Education, she is head of Medical Assitance and Pediatrics outpatient Clinic in the same hospital. She is also scientific journalist and produced TV programs on health issues. She has lectured widely in Mexico, Central America and South America and has presented papers in International Congress on Pain and Pediatrics. She has written many chapters of Pain in Children in Medical books, as well as Mexican medical journals, she is publishing a book on Pain for teenagers. |
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Ruth Grunau, PhD, RPsych Dr Ruth Grunau is a Professor in the Division of Neonatology, Dept. of Pediatrics, and an Associate Member of the Dept. of Psychology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. She is a Distinguished Scholar in the Neurosciences & Child Health cluster of the Child & Family Research Institute, a member of the Council of the IASP Pain in Childhood SIG, and one of seven co-leaders of Pain in Child Health, a cross-disciplinary Strategic Training Initiative of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. She has published extensively in pain in infancy, and is in the forefront of clinical research in long term effects of neonatal pain in infants born very preterm. |
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Christiane Hermann, MD Prof. Christiane Hermann is a clinical psychologist and is a certified psychological pain therapist (accredited by the German Association for the Study of Pain, DGSS). She is the Director of the Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany. Using experimental methods, her pain research focuses mainly on gaining a better understanding of psychobiological mechanisms of (pediatric) pain and of those psychobiological factors that may shape the experience of pain in children and adolescents. |
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Bo Larsson, MD Prof. Bo Larsson is a professor in child and adolescent psychiatry at The Regional Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Mid-Norway (RBUP), Dept. of Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, Trondheim, Norway. |
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Dr. Patrick McGrath a clinical psychologist,is Vice President Research at the IWK Health Centre and Canada Research Chair and Professor of Psychology, Pediatrics and Psychiatry at Dalhousie University. He leads the Pain in Child Health Strategic training program that unites research trainees from around the world. His research on pain in child health has spanned a wide range of studies on measurement and psychosocial interventions in many different types of pain in infants, children and youth. He is a coeditor of the textbook, Pain in Neonates and Infants. His research has been recognized by being made an Officerr of the Order of Canada and numerous other awards. He has published over200 journal articles, 100 editorials, abstractsand comments, 50 book chaptersand 13 books. |
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Tonya Palermo, PhD Dr. Tonya Palermo is a pediatric psychologist and an Associate Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at Oregon Health and Science University. She received her B.A. in Psychology from the University of California at Los Angeles and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Case Western Reserve University. Following her predoctoral internship at Columbus Children’s Hospital and postdoctoral fellowship at Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, she served on the faculty at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Currently, Dr. Palermo heads the Division of Clinical Research in Pain and Regional Anesthesia at Oregon Health & Science University where her own work has focused on psychological treatments for pediatric chronic pain, sleep disturbances, parent and family factors, and internet interventions. She is active in the Society of Pediatric Psychology and is the current Chair of the American Pain Society Special Interest Group on Pain in Infants, Children, and Adolescents. |
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Neil L. Schechter. MD Dr. Neil L. Schechter is a Professor and Head of the Division of Pain Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and Director of the Pain Relief Program at the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in Hartford, Connecticut. Dr. Schechter received his undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and his MD degree from the University of Connecticut. He completed pediatric training at the University of Connecticut and fellowships in psychosomatic pediatrics and developmental pediatrics at Children’s Hospital and Harvard University in Boston. He is board certified in pediatrics and developmental and behavioral pediatrics. Dr. Schechter has authored over 80 articles, both original research and reviews. He is the senior editor of Pain in Infants, Children, and Adolescents, the major multi-disciplinary textbook in the area of pediatric pain, and serves on a number of editorial boards. |
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Somboon Thienthong, MD Professor Somboon Thienthong, in the
head department of Anesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Thailand. He has been the driving force behind acute pain services for ten years. A recent 4-years project, collaborating with a pediatric research team from IWK Health Centre, Canada, is to develop a net work for knowledge sharing about pain treatment for children in rural and urban in Thailand. |
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Monique van Dijk, PhD Dr. van Dijk is appointed as senior researcher with special attention to Quality of Care at the Erasmus MC-Sophia Children’s Hospital. She trained as a psychologist and nurse. Her research area covers the assessment of pain, anxiety and withdrawal in neonates and infants, and non-pharmacological treatment thereof. |
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Carl L von Baeyer, PhD Prof. Carl L von Baeyer is Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Associate Member in Pediatrics at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada. He is a long-time member of the Council of the IASP Special Interest Group on Pain in Childhood, and is one of seven co-leaders of Pain in Child Health, a cross-disciplinary Strategic Training Initiative in Health Research of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. With his students and colleagues he has published over 50 articles and chapters on pediatric pain. His interests include assessment and treatment of chronic and procedural pain in children over 3 years of age. |
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Gary A. Walco, PhD Dr. Gary A. Walco is a Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Washington School of Medicine and the Director of Pain Medicine at Seattle Children’s Hospital. He has conducted multiple studies on pain management and palliative care in children and has published over 90 journal articles, a book, book chapters, and abstracts. Dr. Walco was the founder of the Special Interest Group on Pain in Infants, Children, and Adolescents for the American Pain Society and was their 2003 recipient of the Jeffrey Lawson Award for Advocacy in Children’s Pain Relief. He also received the Lee Salk Distinguished Service Award for outstanding contributions to pediatric psychology from the American Psychological Association in 2006. Dr. Walco is the chair of the Pain Committee for the Children’s Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance and was on the core committee for Palliative Care in the Children’s Oncology Group. He is the president elect of the special interest group on Pain in Childhood of the International Association for the Study of Pain. Dr. Walco is an associate editor for the Clinical Journal of Pain and Pain, and currently sits on the editorial boards of Pain and the Journal of Pain.. |
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Suellen Walker, MBBS MM(PM), MSc PhD FANZCA FFPMANZCA Dr. Suellen Walker is a Senior Clinical Lecturer and Consultant in Paediatric Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine at UCL Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK. Her recent research interests include clinical and laboratory studies of longterm effects of early pain and injury, and the developmental pharmacology of spinally administered analgesics. |
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Chantal Wood, MD Dr. Chantal Wood is a paediatrician, head of the Pain Unit of Robert Debré Hospital, Paris and lecturer in several Medical Universities in France. She is member of the Paediatric SIG Council and member of the board of the European Association of Palliative Care.
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Lonnie Zelter, MD Dr. Lonnie Zeltzer is a Professor of Pediatrics, Anesthesiology, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Director of the UCLA Pediatric Pain Program and the Developmental Psychobiology of Pain Pediatric Pain Research Program, and is Medical Director of the Palliative Care Program at Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA, Associate Director of the Patients and Survivors Program, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research, UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, and past-medical director of Trinity KidsCare Pediatric Hospice. Her program’s research focuses on pediatric chronic pain, end of life care in children, complementary and alternative therapies, and quality of life in survivors of childhood cancer. |
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William T. Zempsky, MD Dr. Zempsky has lectured nationally and internationally on the pediatric pain management focused on an efficient systemic approach to pain relief. He has published numerous research papers, articles and chapters this area. He is a renowned expert in the area of transdermal drug delivery for local anesthesia. His research interests include pain in children with sickle cell disease, developing systematic approaches to pain management, and transdermal drug delivery. Dr. Zempsky is the lead author on the American Academy of Pediatrics policy statement concerning pain management in emergency medical systems for children. Dr. Zempsky is a pain consultant for both the Brighton Collaboration, an international group of investigators focused on vaccination side effects, and the FDA. In 2008 Dr. Zempsky received 2 major awards the prestigious Donaghue Investigator Award to carry out his research in sickle cell pain, as well as the Mayday Pain and Society Fellowship to enhance his abilities in pain advocacy. Dr. Zempsky also holds a 4 year Career Development grant from the National Institutes of Health. |
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Boris Zernikow, MD Boris Zernikow is certified in Paediatrics, Pain Medicine and Palliative Medicine. He is the director of the Vodafone Foundation Institute and a University Chair for Paediatric Pain Therapy and Palliative Care – Witten/Herdecke University. The outpatient department cares for 1200 chronic pain patient and inpatient clinic for 130 pts every year. |
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