Australian Pain Society Office Bearers
Email contact details for the office bearers available in the members' section.
 | President: Ms Amal Helou
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Pain Management Centre QE II 59 Missenden Road, Camperdown NSW 2050 Tel 02 9515 9739 Fax 02 9515 9831 Amal (Grad Dip SocCom, MSc Med Pain Mgt) is a Nurse Practitioner in Pain Management, working in the Pain Management Centre at the RPA Hospital, Sydney. She has particular interest in patient and family education and in evaluation of interventional procedures - in particular implantable neuromodulation devices. Amal is also interested in exploring patient narrative as a therapeutic intervention and the impact persistent pain has on the whole individual. |
 | Vice President - Assoc Prof Stephen Gibson
NARI North West Hospital, PO Box 31, Parkville VIC 3052 Tel 03 8387 2329 . Fax 03 9387 4030 Associate Professor Stephen Gibson is a qualified psychologist and is currently the Director of Research at the National Ageing Research Institute and the Caulfield Pain Management and Research Centre. |
 | Secretary: Dr Timothy Semple
Royal Adelaide Hospital Pain Clinic, North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000 Tel 08 8222 5403 . Fax 08 8222 5904 Tim (MBBS, FANZCA, FFPMANZCA) is a senior specialist at the Royal Adelaide Hospital with clinical time shared equally between pain medicine and anaesthesia. He enjoys providing outreach services to regional South Australia and Northern Territory. He has had a long interest in implementing pain management approaches at a primary health level and raising the profile of pain management activities within the Commonwealth coding of healthcare. |
 | Treasurer and Australian Capital Territory Councillor: Dr Geoffrey Speldewinde
15 Napier Close, Deakin ACT 2600 Tel 02 6282 6240 . Fax 02 6282 5510 Geoffrey has specialist medical qualifications in Rehabilitation, Pain and Musculoskeletal medicine working in a private practice "Capital Rehabilitation and Pain Management Centre" with a C-arm X-ray machine, psychologists, physiotherapists, Rehabilitation Exercise Therapists and Massage Therapists in Deakin, ACT. He is also a VMO in the Pain Management Unit at TCH, and a VMO (currently Acting Director) in Rehabilitation Medicine at The Canberra Hospital. |
| Queensland State Councillor: Michael Deen,
Multidisciplinary Pain Centre, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Herston QLD 4029 Tel 07 3636 8111 Michael (B.Occ Thy(Hons) M.Phil) is an occupational therapist at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital Multidisciplinary Pain Centre. He has worked with people experiencing persistent pain in both the community and hospital settings. Michael has a special interest in exploring the impact of persistent pain on a person’s ability to function in daily life and in the process of adjustment for people with persistent pain. | |
 | Tasmania State Councillor: Dr Gajinder Oberoi
Royal Hobart Hospital, 460 Churchill Ave, Sandy Bay, TAS 7005 Tel 03 6222 8308. Fax 03 6225 4423. Specialist experience includes work in Papua New Guinea from 1987, including duties as in-charge of the country’s anaesthesia, pain medicine and intensive care services. Formal Australian anaesthesia (FANZCA) and pain medicine (FFPMANZCA) qualifications were gained in 1995- 1997 while working in Flinders Medical Centre. Founding Director of Pain Management Unit of Royal Hobart hospital since 1998 and have since developed this facility into an accredited pain unit. Has published more than 20 scientific papers related to anaesthesia, pain and lately regarding TMS (Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation) use in persistent pain. Also published a text book, co-authored by Prof G Phillips, Anaesthesia and emergency situations - A management guide (McGraw Hill), in 2001. |
| South Australia State Councillor: Lynne Haley
Clinical Nurse Consultant Pain Management Unit Level 6 Emergency Block Royal Adelaide Hospital North Terrace Adelaide SA 5000 Australia Tel (08) 8 222 5163 Fax (08) 8 222 5904 | |
 | Western Australia State Councillor: Dr Eric Visser.
Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine. Royal Perth Hospital. Wellington Street. Perth WA 6845 Tel 08 9224 1038. Fax 08 9224 1111. Eric (MBBS FANZCA FFPMANZCA) is a pain medicine specialist and anaesthetist at Royal Perth Hospital and in private practice at the Mercy Medical Centre in Western Australia. He has special interests in acute pain service applications, preventive analgesia, chronic post-surgical pain, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, fibromyalgia, chronic headache and the use of calcitonin, ketamine and opioids in pain management. He has been the WA state director since 2005 and is the local convenor of the APS 28th ASM in Perth in 2008. |
 | Victoria State Councillor: Dr Malcolm Hogg.
Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Management. Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville VIC 3052 Tel 03 9342 7540 Fax 03 9342 8623 MBBS, Grad Dip in Med (Pain Management), FANZCA, FFPMANZCA Head of Pain Services, Melbourne Health Following Anaesthesia training at The Royal Melbourne Hospital, a Pain Fellowship was completed at The Prince of Wales and Sydney Children’s Hospital, Sydney. After several years on staff at these hospitals, Malcolm returned to Melbourne to contribute to the development of pain services at the RMH. |
 | Northern Territory Councillor: Dr Gavin Chin.
Royal Darwin Hospital. POBox 41326, Casuarina, NT 0811 Tel 08 8922 8888 Fax 08 8922 8900 MBBS, FFARM (RACP), Grad Dip in Med (Pain Management). Director of Rehabilitation Services and Territory Integrated Pain Services at the Royal Darwin Hospital, Northern Territory Gradated from Flinders University of South Australia and completed Rehabilitation Medicine training in Adelaide. He has established a multidisciplinary Chronic Pain Service for the Northern Territory in close liaison with the Royal Adelaide Hospital Pain Service |
 | New South Wales State Councillor: Dr Michael Jennings
RPA Hospital Pain Managem.Centre QE 11 59 Missenden Road Camperdown, NSW 2050 Tel: 02 9515 9870 Fax:02 9515 9831 |