Did you know 1 in 5 people experiences chronic pain and it costs our economy $9 billion a year? The good news is Australian researchers are working to better understand pain, evaluate common treatments and develop new ways to treat it!
This National Pain Week, NeuRA’s Centre for Pain IMPACT Directors Professor Sylvia Gustin and Professor James McAuley are available for interview. Professor Gustin and Professor McAuley can explain the complexities of chronic pain, as well as outline the Centre’s work to evaluate common treatments and develop novel new solutions to treat and prevent pain.
About Professor James McAuley
Professor McAuley is a psychologist, Director of the Centre for Pain IMPACT at NeuRA and Professor in the School of Health Sciences at UNSW Sydney.
James’ research combines experimental, clinical and translational methods to develop and test new interventions to manage low back pain. He has published more than 300 articles, holds more than $30M in research funding and supervised and mentored many PhD and postdoc students.
About Professor Sylvia Gustin
Professor Gustin is a psychologist, Director of the Centre for Pain IMPACT at NeuRA and Director of the NeuroRecovery Research Hub at UNSW. She also leads the Pain Research, Education and Management Program at UNSW and NeuRA and is chair of the ENIGMA chronic pain working group.
Sylvia has more than 25 years’ experience in the use of brain imaging techniques and has practiced as a psychologist focusing on the management of chronic pain and spinal cord injury. Her aim is to increase our understanding of the development and maintenance of chronic pain and spinal cord injury.
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Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) is an independent, not-for-profit research institute based in Sydney aiming to prevent, treat and cure brain and nervous system diseases, disorders and injuries through medical research. To learn more about NeuRA: www.neura.edu.au
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