Dr Malcom 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), Grad Cert (Research), 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.

Dr Geoff Speldewinde

Capital Rehabilitation Multidisciplinary Injury & Pain Management Centre
25 Napier Close, Deakin ACT 2600

Tel: 02 6282 6240
Fax: 02 6282 5510

MBBS, FAFRM (RACP), FFPMANZCA, FAFMM
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 The Canberra Hospital (TCH), and a VMO (currently Acting Director) in Rehabilitation Medicine at TCH.

Mr Michael Deen

Metro South Persistent Pain Management Service
Upper Mount Gravatt QLD 4122

Tel: 07 3339 5500
Fax: 07 3412 6050

B.Occ Thy (Hons) M.Phil
Michael 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.

Dr Gavin Chin

Royal Darwin Hospital
PO Box 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 .
Gavin gradated from Flinders University, 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

Mrs Joy Burdack

Calvary Health Care ACT
Cnr Belconnen Way & Haydon Drive Bruce ACT 2617

Tel: 02 6201 6854
Fax: 02 6201 6949

RN, BaHsc, MaHSc Research, Stomal Therapist, MRCNA
Joy is a Clinical Nurse Consultant, Pain Management & Medication Safety Officer at Calvery Health Care ACT.
Joy has been working at Calvary for 21 years, before that she worked throughout Australia in a mixture of city and rural health environments. She has worked in the role of Pain Management Coordinator since 1998, reviewing policy and procedures relating to pain management and medications. She delivers education sessions to staff and students (including nursing, physiotherapy & medical). Coordinates Acute Pain Rounds on surgical patients and also is referred patients suffering from chronic pain admitted to hospital.
The role of Medication Safety Officer was added in 2007 and Joy is responsible for the coordination of medication chart audits at Calvary and together with the Pharmacy Department the review of medication incidents across the hospital.
Over the years Joy has delivered many oral presentations and posters at conferences around Australia for both pain management and medication safety. She has been the President of the ACT Pain Interest Group ‘Nursing Issues’ for the past 3 years.

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

RN, BaHsc Health Science
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.

Mrs Jenny Phillips

Acute Pain Service, Royal Darwin Hospital
PO Box 41326, Casuarina NT 0811

Tel: 08 8922 8888
Fax: 08 8922 8325

RN, Master Science in Medicine (Pain Management)
Jenny is a registered nurse who has worked in the acute care setting at Royal Darwin Hospital for the past fifteen years. She completed her Master of Science in Medicine (Pain Management) through Sydney University in 2007 and is currently embarking on the journey toward the role of Nurse Practitioner (Pain Management) through Charles Darwin University.
Jenny has a strong commitment to education, for example: her development and facilitation of the Pain Study Course held at Royal Darwin Hospital. This course is run three times per year over two days and has a focus of pain that is encountered across the lifespan and across the varied clinical domains of practice. In 2011 Jenny was given the opportunity to deliver the course to staff at Katherine and Alice Springs Hospitals.

Ms Trudy Maunsell

Acute Pain Service
Princess Alexandra Hospital, Woolloongabba QLD

Tel: 07 3176 5547
Fax: 07 3176 5102

RN, RM, NUM Cert., B Health Management, MScMed (Pain Management), Clinical Nurse Consultant

Trudy has a broad range of clinical experience in rural, remote and metropolitan hospitals as a Registered Nurse and Midwife and has been involved in pain management as a Clinical Nurse Consultant for the past 18 years after becoming interested in pain whilst a Nursing Unit Manager of an acute surgical ward in a regional referral hospital.

Trudy's interests in pain management include clinical care delivery, the establishment of outcome based key performance indicators for acute pain services and pain management education. Trudy has also conducted several commissioned training programs for nursing staff in Hong Kong and Singapore. 

Ms Anne Burke

Pain Management Unit, Royal Adelaide Hospital
North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000

Tel: 08 8222 5163
Fax: 08 8222 5904

B.A. (Hons.), M. Psych. (Clin.), Dip. Clin. Hyp.
Anne 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.

Dr Michele Callisaya

Persistent Pain Unit Royal Hobart Hospital
70 Collins St Hobart TAS 7000

Tel: 03 6222 8953
Fax:

Bach Applied Sci (Physio), Grad. Cert (Research Meth.), PhD (Medical Science)
Michele Callisaya works part-time as a Senior Physiotherapist at the Royal Hobart Hospital Pain Management Unit. She is also an NHMRC early career fellow at the Stroke and Ageing Research Group (Monash University) and an Honorary Fellow at the Menzies Research Institute in Hobart. Her research is investigating the role of brain structure and function on mobility decline in older people.

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

MBChB, FANZCA, FFPMANZCA Head of Acute Pain Services, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne
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.

Dr Stephanie Davies

Anaesthetic Department and Pain Medicine Unit Fremantle Hospital Health Service
Alma Street, Perth WA 6160

Tel: 08 9431 3296
Fax: 08 9431 3696

MBBS (WA), FANZCA, FFPMANZCA, Head of Service Pain Medicine Unit Fremantle Hospital
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 patient's 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 (http://www.MyLibrary.net.au) and to enable real-time analysis of patient outcomes by health professionals & researchers (http://www.ResearchAustralia.net.au).

Dr Tim Semple

Royal Adelaide Hospital Pain Clinic
North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000

Tel: 08 8222 5403
Fax: 08 8222 5904

MBBS, FANZCA, FFPMANZCA
Tim 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.

Professor Michele Sterling

Centre for National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine (CONROD)
The University of Queensland, Royal Brisbane Hospital QLD 4029

Tel: 07 3365 5344
Fax: 07 3346 4603

BPhty, Grad Dip Manip Physio, MPhty, FACP, PhD
Michele is Associate Director of CONROD and Professor in the School of Medicine, both at The University of Queensland. She is a NHMRC Senior Research Fellow and Fellow of the Australian College of Physiotherapists. Michele’s research focus is in the area of musculoskeletal pain particularly processes that may contribute to the development of chronic pain and management in primary care.

Dr Will Howard

Department of Anaesthesia, Austin Health
Studley Road, Heidelberg VIC 3084

Tel: 03 9496 3800
Fax: 03 9459 6421

MBBS, FANZCA
Will has fellowships in both Anaesthesia and in Pain Medicine. He has been on staff of the Department of Anaesthesia Austin Health Melbourne since 1988 and been Director of Persisting Pain Services at Austin Health since 2006. He has been Editor of the APS newsletter since 2006.

Professor Maree Smith

Centre for Integrated Preclinical Drug Development
St Lucia Campus, The University of Queensland, QLD 4072

Tel: 07 3365 2554
Fax: 07 3346 7391

B Pharm (Hons), PhD
Maree is the Executive Director of the Centre for Integrated Preclinical Drug Development (CIPDD) and Professor of Pharmacy at The University of Queensland. She has considerable expertise and know-how in preclinical and clinical drug development with specialist capabilities in the discovery and development of new molecules with potential for development as novel analgesics for human use.

Professor Michael Nicholas

Pain Management Research Institute, Royal North Shore Hospital
St Leonards NSW 2065

Tel: 02 9926 7894
Fax: 02 9926 6279

PhD
Michael is a Professor at the Sydney Medical School, Director of the ADAPT program at the Royal North Shore Hospital (RNSH) and also Director of the Graduate Pain Education program at the Pain Management Research Institute (The University of Sydney/RNSH).
Michael sits on the IASP Council, where he provides representation for Australasia at this peak international scientific pain body.

Ms Tracy Hallen

DC Conferences
North Sydney NSW 2060

Tel: 02 9016 4343
Fax: 02 9954 0666

BEc
Inspired by the work of the Australian Pain Society, Tracy joined its Secretariat, DC Conferences, in February 2010 on a part-time basis. In her role as Project Officer, Tracy assists the APS to fulfil its strategic goals and enhance membership services.