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About Us
We are a special interest group of the International Assocation for the Study of Pain® . Special Interest Groups provide a forum for clinicians and researchers to discuss specific interests and issues in pain in depth. Membership is through the IASP www.iasp-pain.org.
We were formed in February 2004 from a group which met at the 10th World Congress on Pain in 2002. There we held a lively and well-attended workshop whose content is reflected in part in chapter 62 of the Proceedings of the Congress. We had our first business meeting on 24th August 2005, at the 11th World Congress.
We are governed by the bye-laws for the International Association for the Study of Pain®
Click here to see a presentation on 'Pain in Torture Survivors', which was shown at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the British Pain Society on 26th April 2006. The images in the presentation have been used with kind permission from Joe Sacco
Our purposes are as follows:-
- To promote the recognition and appropriate treatment of pain resulting from torture, organised violence and war.
- To promote mutual education and training of health care workers who care for survivors of torture, organised violence and war, and those who work in pain services.
- To promote liaison and exchange of information between pain treatment services and organisations working with survivors of torture, organised violence and war.
- To foster research on all aspects of pain resulting from torture, organised violence and war.
- To establish an international forum within the pain field for discussion and action, using knowledge about pain to mitigate the health effects of torture, organised violence and war.
Name and Office Held |
Specialty / Discipline |
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Chair: Amanda C de C Williams, PhD, CPsychol |
Clinical Psychology |
UK |
Vice-chair: Kirstine Amris, MD
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Rheumatology |
Denmark |
Secretary: Richard Payne, MD |
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USA |
Treasurer: Carlos L Nebreda |
Anesthesiology |
Venezuela |
Newsletter Editors: Johannes Van Der Merwe, DClinPsychol |
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UK |
On this website, you can find all the key information relating to our organisation, along with links to many other important sites. Please use the links in the left-hand menu to navigate around the site. If any links are not working, or if you have any comments or suggestions
for the site, please contact Barbara Smiley in the first instance.
This page last modified
12 March, 2010
by Will Fitzmaurice
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