PRF is delighted to welcome 14 leading pain investigators to the PRF editorial board. PRF is also thrilled to announce that long-time PRF board member Theodore (Ted) Price, University of Texas at Dallas, US, has been selected to serve as Chair of the board.
“PRF has become a critical part of the global pain research community through its mix of resources, webinars and outstanding reporting on new developments in the field,” said Price. “I am honored to have the opportunity to contribute to the continued growth of PRF under the broad leadership of IASP.”
New members joining the board for a two-year term are:
- Fumimasa Amaya, MD, PhD, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan
- Margarita Calvo, PhD, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
- Mary Cardosa, MBBS, Hospital Selayang, Selangor, Malaysia
- Dawn Ehde, PhD, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, US
- Sandrine Géranton, PhD, University College London, UK
- Babita Ghai, MD, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
- Hellen Kariuki, PhD, University of Nairobi Medical School, Kenya
- Fusao Kato, MD, PhD, Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Romy Parker, PhD, University of Cape Town, South Africa
- Esther Pogaztki-Zahn, MD, PhD, University Hospital Muenster, Germany
- Stephan Schug, MD, University of Western Australia and Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Australia
- Petra Schweinhardt, MD, PhD, Balgrist University Hospital and the University of Zurich, Switzerland.
- Rebecca Seal, PhD, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, US
- Hiroshi Ueda, PhD, Nagasaki University, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Japan.
The new advisors join returning board members Allan Basbaum, PhD, FRS, University of California, San Francisco, US; M. Catherine Bushnell, PhD, National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, Bethesda, US; Christine Chambers, PhD, RPsych, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; Howard Fields, MD, PhD, University of California, San Francisco, US; Kathleen Foley, MD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, US; Ru-Rong Ji, PhD, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, US; Eija Kalso, MD, DMedSci, University of Helsinki, Finland; Jeffrey Mogil, PhD, McGill University, Montreal, Canada; Anne Louise Oaklander, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, US; Frank Porreca, PhD, University of Arizona, Tucson, US; Ted Price, PhD, Chair, PRF Editorial Board, University of Texas at Dallas, US; and Claudia Sommer, MD, University of Würzburg, Germany.
PRF thanks departing advisors Lars Arendt-Nielsen, Dr Med Sci., PhD, Aalborg University, Denmark; David Bennett, MB, PhD, University of Oxford, UK; Joseph Martin, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School, US; Judith Turner, PhD, University of Washington, Seattle, US; and Clifford Woolf, MD, PhD, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, US. Their service on the editorial board helped nourish and grow PRF into an internationally recognized community of pain researchers studying the causes of pain and developing new treatments.
PRF editorial board members are making outstanding contributions to pain research throughout the world, in basic, translational and clinical science. Board members help maintain PRF as a trusted and authoritative source of news and commentary for the pain field and ensure the future growth and development of the site. For more about PRF’s new and returning board members, visit here.
