President’s Message

Ms Trudy Maunsell

Hi Team Pain,

Welcome to my latest President’s report.

We are all looking forward to our first face-to-face Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) since 2019 and Tassie is a beautiful place to catch up with old friends and colleagues, meet new ones, and hear from a cracking group of international and national speakers. As always, the Scientific Program and Local Organising Committees and Alex from DCC&A have done a fantastic job in preparing for this ASM. We will be adhering to all Tasmanian Government and Health Department requirements and COVID precautions and remind all registrants and prospective registrants to check the Tasmanian Government webpage in addition to your own state governments’ webpage regarding interstate travel and COVID precautions.

As you are no doubt aware, the IASP 2022 Global Year theme is ‘Translating Pain Knowledge to Practice’. The aim of this campaign, per IASP President Claudia Sommer, is to increase the awareness of clinicians, scientists, and the public of our accumulating pain knowledge and how this may be of benefit to those living with pain. Keep an eye on the IASP website for fact sheets and other educational materials throughout the year.

The Society is excited to report that the Pain in Residential Aged Care Facilities: Management Strategies 2nd Edition has now been published and is now available as an eBook. The process of converting a textbook is not a simple process of cutting and pasting the document into a new file format. Our sincere thanks and gratitude go to our Executive Officer, Tracy Hallen, who put a great deal of blood, sweat and, dare I say, the odd tear into getting this valuable reference into an eBook format. You can purchase your copy here

Don’t forget that we are proceeding with our plans to hold the painSTAR school in November this year. Whilst we had planned to have this inaugural school two years ago, it will be particularly significant to be holding a pain school for translation and research during the IASP Global Year of the same theme. Please watch the newsletter and website for calls for applications and further information.

Finally, it gives me great pleasure to offer congratulations to Dr Kevin Keay, Chair of our Scientific Program Committee (SPC), for his full Professorship of Neuroscience and as Chief Anatomist, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, and congratulations are also in order for another member of our SPC & Chair of the Basic Pain Research Special Interest Group, Dr Jason Ivanusic, Department of Anatomy & Physiology, University of Melbourne for his full Professorship. Special mentions must also go to Emeritus Professor Laurie Mather on his award of the Order of Australia Medal for significant services to anaesthesia and pain management as a research scientist and educator and to Dr Aidan Cashin for receiving the IASP Ronald Dubner Research Prize, recognising the best clinical or basic Science Research paper, series of papers, or doctoral thesis in the field of pain whilst as a student, intern, resident, or pre/post-doctoral fellow.

That’s all for now – stay well, look out for each other, and I look forward to seeing you in Hobart

Trudy

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