A Vania Apkarian PhD
Associate Professor of Physiology
Department of Physiology
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago , Illinois, USA

Mark Baccei PhD
Research Fellow
Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology
University College London
London , UK

Miroslav Backonja MD
Professor, Department of Neurology
University of Wisconsin Medical School
Madison , Wisconsin, USA

Panos Barlas BSc (Hons) DPhil MCSP LicAc
Research Fellow
School of Health and Rehabilitation
Keele University
Staffordshire , UK

Ralf Baron MD
Professor of Neurology
Chair, Department of Neurological Pain
Research and Therapy Vice Chair
Neurological Clinic
Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel
Kiel , Germany

Allan I Basbaum PhD
Professor and Chair
Department of Anatomy
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco , California, USA

Carlos Belmonte MD PhD
Professor of Human Physiology and Medical School Director
Alicante Institute of Neuroscience
University Miquel Hernandez-CSIC
San Juan de Alicante, Spain

David L H Bennett MB PhD
Specialist Registrar in Neurology
Department of Neurology
King’s College London
London , UK

Charles B Berde MD PhD
Chief, Division of Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Boston Children’s Hospital
and Professor of Anesthesia and Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School
Boston , Massachusetts, USA

Karen J Berkley PhD
McKenzie and Distinguished Research Professor
Program in Neuroscience
Florida State University
Tallahassee , Florida, USA

Stuart Bevan PhD
Novartis Institute for Medical Sciences
London , UK

Christiane S Bieber MD
University of Heidelberg Medical Hospital
Department of General Internal and Psychosomatic Medicine
Heidelberg , Germany

Klaus Bielefeldt MD PhD
Visiting Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania, USA

Marcelo E Bigal MD PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
and Director of Research
The New England Center for Headache
Stamford , Connecticut, USA

Jörgen Boivie MD PhD
Senior Consultant
Department of Neurology
University Hospital
Linköping , Sweden

Michael R Bond MD PhD FRCS FRCP FRCPsych FRSE
Emeritus Professor of Psychological Medicine
University of Glasgow
Glasgow , UK

Harald Breivik MD DMSc FRCA
Professor of Medicine and Anaesthesiology
Department of Anaesthesiology
Rikshospitalet
and Department Group of Clinical Medicine
University of Oslo
Oslo , Norway

Kay Brune MD PhD
Doerenkamp Professor
Managing Director
Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology
Erlangen Nürnberg University
Erlangen , Germany

M Catherine Bushnell PhD
Harold Griffith Professor of Anesthesia
Director, McGill Centre for Research on Pain
McGill University
Montreal , Quebec, Canada

James N Campbell MD
Professor of Neurosurgery
and Director of the Blaustein Pain Treatment Center
John Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore , Maryland, USA

Nathan I Cherny MBBS FRACP FRCP(Lon)
Director, Cancer Pain and Palliative Care
Department of Medical Oncology
Shaare Zedek Medical Center
Jerusalem , Israel

Mary L Chipman MA
Department of Public Health Sciences
Faculty of Medicine
University of Toronto
Toronto , Ontario, Canada

John J Collins MBBS PhD FFPMANZCA FRACP
Head, Pain and Palliative Care Service
The Children’s Hospital at Westmead
Westmead , New South Wales, Australia

A D (Bud) Craig PhD
Atkinson Research Scientist
Divisions of Neurosurgery and Neurobiology
Barrow Neurological Institute
Phoenix , Arizona, USA

Kenneth D Craig PhD
Professor, Department of Psychology
University of British Columbia
Vancouver , British Columbia, Canada

Jørgen B Dahl MD PhD
Head, Department of Anesthesiology
Glostrup University Hopsital
Glostrup , Denmark

Marshall Devor PhD
Department of Cell and Animal Biology
Institute of Life Sciences and Center for Research on Pain
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jerusalem , Israel

Anthony Dickenson BSc PhD
Professor of Neuropharmacology
Department of Pharmacology
University College London
London , UK

Andrew Dickman MSc MRPharmS
Specialist Principal Pharmacist
Marie Curie Centre
Liverpool , UK

Raymond A Dionne DDS PhD
Chief, Pain and Neurosensory Mechanisms Branch
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda , Maryland, USA

Jonathan O Dostrovsky MSc PhD
Department of Physiology
University of Toronto
Toronto , Ontario, Canada

David Dubuisson MD PhD
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Surgery
University of South Carolina School of Medicine
Columbia , South Carolina, USA

John Ellershaw MA FRCP
Director
Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute
Liverpool , UK

Bjorn E Eriksson MD PhD
Department of Cardiology
Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge
Karolinska Institute
Stockholm , Sweden

Howard L Fields MD PhD
Professor of Neurology and Physiology
Department of Neurology
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco , California, USA

Maria Fitzgerald PhD
Professor of Developmental Neurobiology
Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology
University College London
London , UK

Herta Flor PhD
Professor of Clinical and Cognitive
Neuroscience
Central Institute of Mental Health
Department of Neuropsychology
University of Heidelberg
Mannheim , Germany

Lucia Gagliese PhD
CIHR New Investigator
School of Kinesiology and Health Science
York University
and Department of Anaesthesia and
Pain Management
University Health Network
Toronto , Ontario, Canada

Neelima Gandham MBBS Mmed
Senior Registrar
Department of Anaesthesiology
Royal Perth Hospital
Perth , Western Australia, Australia

Gerald F Gebhart PhD
Professor and Head
Department of Pharmacology
Carver College of Medicine
The University of Iowa
Iowa City , Iowa, USA

Louis Gifford BSc MappSc FCSP
Chartered Physiotherapist
Falmouth Physiotherapy Clinic
Falmouth , UK

Peter J Goadsby BMedSc MD PhD
DSc FRACP FRCP
Professor of Clinical Neurology
Institute of Neurology
University College London
The National Hospital for Neurology and
Neurosurgery
London , UK

Sharon M Gordon DDS MPH PhD
Associate Professor, Department of
Biomedical Sciences
University of Maryland
Baltimore College of Dental Surgery
Baltimore , Maryland, USA

Richard H Gracely PhD
Professor, Medicine, Rheumatology and Neurology
Director of Mechanistic Studies
Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Program
University of Michigan Health System
Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Ann Arbor , Michigan, USA

Jan M Gybels MD PhD
Professor Emeritus of Neurosurgery
University of Leuven
Oud Heverlee, Belgium

Hermann O Handwerker MD
Institute for Physiology and Pathophysiology
University of Erlangen
Erlangen , Germany

Karla S Hayes MD
Instructor, Psychiatry and
Anesthesiology
MGH Pain Center
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston , Massachusetts, USA

Jennifer A Haythornthwaite PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science
Johns Hopkins University
Behavioral Medicine Clinic
Baltimore , Maryland, USA

Mary M Heinricher PhD
Professor of Neurological Surgery and Physiology and Pharmacology
Department of Neurological Surgery
Oregon Health and Science University
Portland , Oregon, USA

Raymond G Hill BPharm PhD
DSC(Hon) FMedSci
Executive Director, Licensing and External Research, Europe
Merck, Sharp and Dohme
Harlow, Essex
and Visiting Industrial Professor of
Pharmacology
University of Bristol
Bristol , UK

Tomas G M Hökfelt PhD
Professor of Histology and Cell Biology
Department of Neuroscience
Karolinska Institutet
Stockholm , Sweden

Anita Holdcroft MBChB MD FRCA
Reader in Anaesthesia and Honorary
Consultant Anaesthetist
Magill Department of Anaesthesia
Imperial College London
London , UK

Peter J Hoskin MD FRCP FRCR
Professor in Clinical Oncology
University College London
Mount Vernon Cancer Center
Mount Vernon Hospital
Northwood, Middlesex, UK

Stephen P Hunt PhD FMedSci
Professor of Molecular Neuroscience
Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology
University College London
London , UK

Wilfrid Jänig MD PhD
Department of Physiology
University of Kiel
Kiel , Germany

Troels Staehelin Jensen MD PhD
Professor of Experimental and Clinical
Pain Research
Danish Pain Research Center
Aarhus University Hospital
Aarhurs , Denmark

Mark A Jones BS MAppSc
Director, Postgraduate Coursework
Masters Programs in Physiotherapy
School of Health Sciences
University of South Australia
Adelaide , South Australia, Australia

Gareth T Jones BSc(Hons) MSc Econ PhD
Lecturer in Rheumatic Disease Epidemiology
Arthritis Research Campaign
Epidemiology Unit
University of Manchester
Manchester , UK

David Julius PhD
Professor and Vice-Chair
Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco , California, USA

Joel Katz PhD
Professor and Canada Research Chair in Health Psychology
Department of Psychology and School of Kinesiology and Health Science
York University
Toronto , Ontario, Canada

Henrik Kehlet MD PhD
Section for Surgical Pathophysiology
The Juliane Marie Centre
Rigshospitalet
Copenhagen , Denmark

Brigitte L Kieffer PhD
Department of Neurobiology
IGBMC
Illkirch , France

Hyungsuk Kim DDS PhD
Clinical Pharmacology Unit
Pain and Neurosensory Mechanisms Branch
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
Bethesda , Maryland, USA

H Richard Koerber PhD
Associate Professor of Neurobiology
Department of Neurobiology
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania, USA

Bart Koes PhD
Professor of General Practice
Erasmus Medical Centre
Rotterdam , The Netherlands

Martin Koltzenburg MD FRCP
Honorary Consultant Neurologist
The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
Professor of Pain Research
Institute of Child Health and Institute of Neurology
University College London
London , UK

Josephine Lai PhD
Professor, Department of Pharmacology
University of ArizonaCollege of Medicine
Tucson , Arizona, USA

Jon D Levine MD PhD
Professor, Division of Neuroscience
Department of Medicine
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco , California, USA

Bengt Linderoth MD PhD
Professor of Functional Neurosurgery
Department of Clinical Neuroscience
Section of Neurosurgery
Karolinska University Hospital
Stockholm , Sweden

Richard B Lipton MD
Professor and Vice Chair
Department of Neurology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx , New York, USA

Donlin M Long MD PhD
Distinguished Professor of Neurosurgery
Johns Hopkins Medical Institute
Baltimore , Maryland, USA

Benjamin G Lopez LMS FRCS (SN)
Consultant Neurosurgeon
Department of Neurosurgery
King’s College Hospital
London , UK

Thomas Lundeberg MD PhD
Rehabilitation Medicine University Clinic & Spinalis
Danderyds Hospital
AB & Karolinska University Hospital
Stockholm , Sweden

Bruce Lynn BSc PhD
Professor of Physiology
Department of Physiology
University College London
London , UK

Gary J Macfarlane
Professor of Epidemiology and Head of the Division of Epidemiology and Health Sciences
School of Medicine
University of Manchester
and Professor of Epidemiology
Department of Public Health
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen , UK

Patrick W Mantyh PhD
Professor
Departments of Preventative Sciences,
Psychiatry and Neuroscience
Director, Neurosystems Center
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis , Minnesota, USA

Mitchell B Max MD
Senior Investigator
Pain and Neurosensory Mechanisms Branch
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda , Maryland, USA

Emeran A Mayer MD
Professor
Departments of Medicine, Physiology, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
Center for Neurovisceral Sciences and Women’s Health
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Los Angeles , California, USA

John McBeth PhD
Lecturer in Rheumatic Disease
Epidemiology
Arthritis Research Campaign
Epidemiology Unit
University of Manchester
Manchester , UK

Edwin W McCleskey PhD
Senior Scientist
Vollum Institute
Oregon Health and Science University
Portland , Oregon, USA

John S McDonald MD
Professor and Chairman
Department of Anesthesia
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Harbor UCLA Medical Center
Torrance , California, USA

Patrick J McGrath OC PhD FRSC
Professor of Psychology, Pediatrics and Psychiatry
Canada Research Chair Psychologist
IWK Health Centre
Halifax , Nova Scotia, Canada

Stephen B McMahon FMedSci
Sherrington Professor of Physiology
Director, London Pain Consortium
King’s College London
London , UK

Henry J McQuay DM FRCA FRCP(Ed)
Professor of Pain Relief
Churchill Hospital
Oxford , UK

Ronald Melzack OC OQ FRSC PhD
Emeritus Professor
Department of Psychology
McGill University
Montreal , Quebec, Canada

Richard A Meyer MD
Professor of Neurosurgery and Biomedical Engineering
Department of Neurosurgery
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore , Maryland, USA

Björn A Meyerson MD PhD
Emeritus Professor
Department of Neurosurgery
Karolinska University Hospital
Stockholm , Sweden

Jeffrey S Mogil PhD
E.P. Taylor Professor of Pain Studies
Department of Psychology & Centre for Research on Pain
McGill University
Montreal , Quebec, Canada

Richard C Monks MDCM FRCP(C)
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry
University of British Columbia
St Joseph , British Columbia, Canada

Andrew Moore DSc
Pain Relief Unit
Churchill Hospital
Oxford , UK

Timothy J Ness MD PhD
Simon Gelman Professor of Anesthesiology
Department of Anesthesiology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham , Alabama, USA

Lone Nikolajsen MD PhD
Consultant in Anaesthesiology
Department of Anaesthesiology
Aarhus University Hospital
Aarhus , Denmark

Michael H Ossipov PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Pharmacology
University of ArizonaCollege of Medicine
Tucson , Arizona, USA

Parag G Patil MD PhD
Chief Resident
Division of Neurosurgery
Department of Neurobiology
Duke University Medical Center
Durham , North Carolina, USA

Frank Porreca PhD
Professor of Pharmacology
Department of Pharmacology
College of Medicine
University of Arizona Health Sciences Center
Tucson , Arizona, USA

Donald D Price PhD
Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
University of Florida Health Science Center
Gainesville , Florida, USA

Pierre Rainille PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Stomatology
Faculty of Dental Medicine
University of Montreal
Montreal , Quebec, Canada

Srinivasa N Raja MD
Director, Division of Pain Medicine
Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore , Maryland, USA

Andrew S C Rice MB BS MD FRCA
Reader in Pain Research
Department of Anaesthetics and Intensive Care
Imperial College
London , UK

Matthias Ringkamp MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurosurgery
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore , Maryland, USA

Michael C Rowbotham MD
Professor of Clinical Neurology and Anesthesia
Pain Clinical Research Center
University of California at San Francisco
San Francisco , California, USA

I Jon Russell MD
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine
Division of Rheumatology
The University of Texas Health Sciences Center
San Antonio , Texas, USA

Michael W Salter MD PhD
Senior Scientist and Canada Research
Chair (Tier I) in Neuroplasticity and Pain
Programme in Brain and Behaviour
Hospital for Sick Children
Toronto , Ontario, Canada

Christine N Sang MD MPH
Director, Translational Pain Research
Department of Anesthesiology,
Perioperative, and Pain Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Boston , Massachusetts, USA

John W Scadding MD FRCP
Consultant Neurologist
The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
London , UK

Hans-Georg Schaible MD
Director, Institute of Neurophysiology
Friedrich-Schiller University
Teichgraben
Jena , Germany

Martin Schmelz MD
Karl-Feuerstein Professor for Pain
Research Department of Anesthesiology
Faculty for Clinical Medicine
University of Heidelberg
Mannheim , Germany

Jean Schoenen MD PhD
Professor of Neuroanatomy and Consultant Neurologist
Department of Neuroanatomy and Neurology
University of Liège
Liège , Belgium

Stephan A Schug MD FANZCA FFPMANZCA
Professor of Anaesthesia and Director of Pain Medicine
School of Medicine and Pharmacology
University of Western Australia
and Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine
Royal Perth Hospital
Perth , Western Australia, Australia

David L Scott BSc MD FRCP
Professor of Clinical Rheumatology
Academic Department of Rheumatology
King’s College London
London , UK

Philip J Siddall MBBS MM (Pain Mgt) PhD FFPMANZCA
Clinical Senior Lecturer
Pain Management Research Institute
Royal North Shore Hospital
Sydney , New South Wales, Australia

Brian A Simpson MA MBBChir MD FRCS
Consultant Neurosurgeon
Department of Neurosurgery
University Hospital of Wales
Cardiff , UK

Christer Sylvén MD PhD FESC FACC FAHA
Professor of Cardiology
Department of Cardiology
Karolinska Institutet
Stockholm , Sweden

Ron R Tasker MD MA FRCS(C)
Professor Emeritus
Division of Central Neurosurgery
University of Toronto
Toronto , Ontario, Canada

Timo T Tervo MD PhD
Professor of Applied Clinical Ophthalmology
Department of Ophthalmology
Helsinki University Eye Hospital
Helsinki , Finland

Michael Thacker MSc MCSP GradDipPhys SRP MMACP
Lecturer
Academic Department of Physiotherapy
King’s College London
London , UK

Andrew J Todd MB BS PhD
Professor of Neuroscience
Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences
University of Glasgow
Glasgow , UK

Dennis C Turk PhD
John and Emma Bonica Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Research
Department of Anesthesiology
University of Washington
Seattle , Washington, USA

Anita M Unruh BSc(OT) MSW PhD
Professor
School of Health and Human Performance
Dalhousie University
Halifax , Nova Scotia, Canada

Catherine Urch MRCP PhD
Honorary Senior Lecturer
Department of Pharmacology
University College London
and Consultant in Palliative Care
St Marys and Royal Brompton Hospitals
London , UK

Maurits W Van Tulder PhD
Associate Professor of Health
Technology Assessment
Institute for Research in Extramural Medicine (EMGO)
VU Medical Centre and
Institute for Health Sciences
Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences
Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam , The Netherlands

Charles J Vierck Jr PhD
Professor of Neuroscience
Department of Neuroscience and
McKnight Brain Institute
University of Florida College of Medicine
Gainesville , Florida, USA

C Peter N Watson MD FRCPC
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Division of Neurology
University of Toronto
Toronto , Ontario, Canada

Zsuzsanna Wiesenfeld-Hallin PhD
Department of Clinical Neuroscience
Karolinska Institute
Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge
Stockholm , Sweden

Heng Yu Wong MBBCh MRCP( UK)
Visiting Scholar
Center for Neurovisceral Sciences and Women’s Health
Division of Digestive Diseases
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Los Angeles , California, USA

Clifford J Woolf MBBCh PhD MRCP ( UK)
Professor of Anesthesia Research
Neural Plasticity Research Group
Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care
Massachusetts General Hospital and
Harvard Medical School
Charlestown , Massachusetts, USA

Xiao-Jun Xu PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Clinical Neuroscience
Section of Clinical Neurophysiology
Karolinska Institute
Karolinska University Hospital
Huddinge , Stockholm, Sweden

Tony L Yaksh PhD
Distinguished Professor in Anesthesiology and Pharmacology
Department of Anesthesiology
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla , California, USA

Joanna M Zakrzewska MD
Professor of Pain in Relation to Oral Medicine
Clinical and Diagnostic Oral Sciences Dental Institute
Barts and the London Queen Mary’s
School of Medicine and Dentistry
London , UK

Hanns Ulrich Zeilhofer MD
Professor of Molecular
Neuropharmacology
Institute for Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology
Erlangen-Nürnberg Univeristy
Erlangen , Germany

Xu Zhang MD PhD
Professor of Neurobiology
Institute of Neuroscience
Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shanghai , China