Australian Pain Society Office Bearers
Email contact details for the office bearers available in the members' section.
 | President: 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. |
 | President Elect: 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. |
 | Secretary: Dr Michael Jennings
RPA Hospital Pain Management Centre QE 11 59 Missenden Road Camperdown, NSW 2050 Tel: 02 9515 9870 Fax:02 9515 9831 MB, BS,DPM, FRANZCP, FRCP(Can), FFPMANZCA Psychiatrist and V.M.O. at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, with long- time interests in Psychotherapy Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Pain Medicine. |
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Treasurer: 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. |
 | Immediate Past President - Professor Stephen Gibson
National Ageing Research Institute Royal Melbourne Hospital PO Box 2127, Parkville Vic 3050 Tel 03 8387 2329 Fax 03 9387 4030 Prof Gibson (BBSc.(Hons), PhD, MAPsS) has been involved in clinical pain research for over 20 years and is currently the Deputy Director of the National Aging Research Institute, Australia (NARI). In 1990, Prof Gibson helped establish the first laboratory in Australia to investigate age-related changes in pain perception, the development of age appropriate assessment tools and evaluation of treatment approaches with a focus on multidisciplinary care. He has contributed to more than 100 publications on pain and its management, has served on numerous expert panels and is on the editorial board and/or a consultant referee for several leading scientific journals. |
 | Queensland State Councillor: Michael Deen,
Metro South Persistent Pain Management Service, Logan Central, QLD 4114 Tel 07 3412 6060 Michael (B.Occ Thy(Hons) M.Phil) is an occupational therapist. 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 : Ms Anne Burke
Pain Management Unit Royal Adelaide Hospital North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000 Tel 08 8222 5163 Fax 08 8222 5904 Anne (B.A. (Hons.), M. Psych. (Clin.), Dip. Clin. Hyp.) has maintained an active clinical attachment in the Pain Management Unit since 2002 and is currently Director, Clinical Psychology Department, Royal Adelaide Hospital. She holds clinical lectureships with University of Adelaide and Flinders University, and is an invited peer reviewer for “Clinical Psychologist”. Anne has conducted research in the areas of forensic and clinical health psychology, with her primary research interests being the evaluation of different therapeutic interventions for chronic pain, the impact of waiting for services, models of pain acceptance, forgiveness and vicarious traumatisation. |
 | Western Australia State Councillor: Dr Stephanie Davies
Anaesthetic Department and Pain Medicine Unit Fremantle Hospital Health Service Alma St, Perth WA 6160 Tel 08 9431 3296 Fax 08 9431 3696 Dr Stephanie Davies is the Head of Service, Pain Medicine Unit, Fremantle Hospital, Perth WA. She also has a private practice based at Bethesda Hospital.Her interests are in combining self-management options with medical options. She worked with the team at Fremantle to introduce the Self-Training Educative Pain Sessions (STEPS), an 8 hour pre-clinic patient group educative program that aims to increase the patients knowledge and skills of a broad range of pain management strategies. She has developed interactive web-based technologies to access evidence at the point-of-care (www.MyLibrary.net.au) and to enable real-time analysis of patient outcomes by health professionals & researchers (www.ResearchAustralia.net.au). |
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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: Ms Fiona Hodson
Hunter Integrated Pain Service John Hunter Hospital and Royal Newcastle Centre PO Box 664J Newcastle NSW 2300 Tel: 02 4922 3435 Fax: 02 4922 3438 FIONA HODSON is a Pain Management Clinical Nurse Consultant with the Hunter Integrated Pain Service NSW, Australia and worked in all aspects of pain service delivery including inpatient, outpatient, procedural, research, aged care, community, health promotion, education, strategic planning, redesign and management. Fiona has developed strong links with the University of Newcastle, General Practice and the rural sector within Hunter New England Local Health Network (HNELHN) regarding Pain Management resources and practice. National recognition can be evidenced by her attendance at the Inaugural National Pain Summit in Canberra in March 2010 as an invited expert in the field of pain management. She has worked on various research and quality improvement projects such as, pain in older people in acute care, Emergency Department and guideline development. In 2010 Fiona was awarded the Judith Meppim Nursing and Midwifery Travel Scholarship and recently completed an international study tour of pain services in New Zealand, Canada and the United Kingdom. |
 | Australian Capital Territory State Councillor: Tom McHugh
Capital Rehabilitation + Multidisciplinary Pain Clinic 25 Napier Close Deakin ACT 2600 Tel: 02 6240 7854 Fax: 02 6282 5510 Tom McHugh is a psychologist who has worked in the fields of chronic pain management, injury management, and adjustment to disability for over 35 years. He also specialises in the management of mood disorders. He currently works at the Capital Rehabilitation + Pain Management Centre in Canberra. |
 | Victorian State Councillor: Dr Richard Sullivan
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre – East Melbourne Locked Bag 1, A’Beckett Street VIC 8006 Tel: 03 9656 1111 Fax: 03 9656 1400 Dr Richard Sullivan is an anaesthetist and pain specialist at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne. There he heads the acute pain service and runs an interventional pain service for complex cancer pain working closely with the palliative care department. He has research interests in persistent pain after cancer surgery and interventional approaches to managing cancer pain. He also works in the private sector in chronic pain and interventional pain management. Originally from Dunedin, New Zealand, he has worked and trained in anaesthesia and pain medicine in Victoria, New Zealand, New South Wales and Northern Territory. His extracurricular interests include cycling and snowboarding. |