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Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Karen D. Davis
Division of Brain, Imaging and Behaviour, Krembil Brain Institute,
Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network; and
Department of Surgery and Institute of Medical Science,
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada




Section Editors

Clinical Notes

Jane Ballantyne
Seattle, USA

​Clinical Science

Jane Ballantyne
Seattle, USA

Nanna B. Finnerup
Aarhus, Denmark

Michele Sterling
Brisbane, Australia

Epidemiology

Clermont E. Dionne
Quebec, Canada

Neurobiology

Chih-Cheng Chen
Taiwan

Kathleen Sluka
Iowa City, USA

Pain Measurement and Imaging

Robert Coghill
Cincinnati, USA

David A. Seminowicz
London, Canada

Pharmacology

Anthony Dickenson
London, UK

Psychology

Amanda C de C Williams
London, UK

Reviews

Fiona Blyth
Sydney, Australia


Associate Editors

Clinical Science and Clinical Notes

Michael Bennett
Leeds, UK

Stephen Bruehl
Nashville, USA

Stephen Butler
Uppsala, Sweden

Steven Cohen
Baltimore, USA

Michele Curatolo
Seattle, USA

Albert Dahan
Leiden, Netherlands

Ruth Defrin
Tel Aviv, Israel

Robert Dworkin
Rochester, USA

Peter Goadsby
London, UK

Thomas Graven-Nielsen
Aalborg, Denmark

Jörn Lötsch
Frankfurt, Germany

Andrew Moore
Oxford, UK

James Rathmell
Boston, USA

Roland Staud
Gainesville, USA

Shad Smith
Durham, USA

Mark S. Wallace
La Jolla, USA

Gary Walco
Seattle, USA

Epidemiology

Kate Dunn
Keele, UK ​

Edward Gracely
Philadelphia, USA

Stefan Schneider
Los Angeles, USA

Deborah Schofield
Sydney, Australia

Sebastian Straube
Edmonton, Canada

Frances Williams
London, UK

Neurobiology

Dayna Averitt
Denton, USA

Sonja Bareiss
Louisville, USA

Simon Beggs
London, UK

Richard Carr
Heidelberg, Germany

Earl Carstens
Davis, USA


Julie Christianson
Kansas City, USA

Steve Davidson
Cincinnati, USA

Franziska Denk
London, UK

Patrick Dougherty
Houston, USA

David Finn
Galway, Ireland

Vinicio Granados-Soto
Mexico City, Mexico

Michael Jankowski
Cincinnati, USA


Ru-Rong Ji
Boston, USA

Tamara King
Biddeford, USA

Ceng Luo
Xian, China

Carlos A. Parada
Sao Paulo, Brazil

Ke Ren
Baltimore, USA

Sarah Ross
Pittsburgh, USA

Martin Schmelz
Mannheim, Germany

Reza Sharif-Naeini
Montreal, Canada

Xue-Jun Song
Shenzhen, China

Christopher Vaughan
Sydney, Australia

Felix Viana
San Juan de Alicante, Spain

Ipek Yalcin
Strasbourg, France

Pain Measurement and Imaging

Lauren Atlas
Bethesda, USA

A. Vania Apkarian
Chicago, USA

Yenisel Cruz-Almeida
Gainesville, USA

Karen Davis
Toronto, Canada

Patrick Finan
Baltimore, USA

Michal Granot
Haifa, Israel

Jiro Kurata
Tokyo, Japan

Stefan Lautenbacher
Bamberg, Germany

Siri Leknes
Oslo, Norway

Marco Loggia
Boston, USA

Massieh Moayedi
Toronto, Canada

Marina López-Solà
Barcelona, Spain

Carsten Dahl Mørch
Aalborg, Denmark

Marieke Niesters
Leiden, Netherlands

Melanie Noel
Calgary, Canada

Markus Ploner
Munich, Germany

Jamie Rhudy
Tulsa, USA

Tim Salomons
Ontario, Canada

Tasha Stanton
Adelaide, Australia

Stefaan Van Damme
Ghent, Belgium

Irit Weissman-Fogel
Haifa, Israel

Katja Wiech
Oxford, UK

Choong-Wan Woo
Suwon, South Korea

Pharmacology

Kirsty Bannister
London, UK

Greg Dussor
Dallas, USA

Carolyn Fairbanks
Minneapolis, USA

Pierangelo Geppetti
Florence, Italy

Mary Heinricher
Portland, USA

Patrick Mantyh
Minneapolis, USA

Jianren Mao
Boston, USA

Timothy Ness
Birmingham, USA

Antti Pertovaara
Helsinki, Finland

Theodore Price

Richardson, USA​

Hans-Georg Schaible
Jena, Germany

Karin Westlund High
Albuquerque, USA

Psychology

Luana Colloca
Baltimore, USA

Geert Crombez
Brugge, Belgium

Emma Fisher
Bath, UK

Herta Flor
Mannheim, Germany

Michael Geisser
Ann Arbor, USA

Robert Jamison
Boston, USA

Susmita Kashikar-Zuck
Cincinnati, USA

Mark Lumley
Detroit, USA

Laura Porter
Durham, USA

Michael Nicholas
St. Leonard's, Australia

Tonya Palermo
Seattle, USA

Rebecca Pillai Riddell
Toronto, Canada

Louise Sharpe
Sydney, Australia

Laura Simons
Stanford, USA

Lene Vase
Aarhus, Denmark

Johan Vlaeyen
Waharday, Belgium

Kevin Vowles
Belfast, UK

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Editorial Assistant


Karen D. Davis

Editor-in-Chief
Toronto, Canada

Karen D. Davis (Ph.D., FCAHS, FRSC), Editor-in-Chief of PAIN, is the Canada Research Chair in Acute and Chronic Pain Research. She is a Senior Scientist and Division Head at the Krembil Brain Institute of the University Health Network and a Professor in the Department of Surgery and Institute of Medical Science at the University of Toronto. Dr. Davis has pioneered electrophysiological and brain imaging approaches to investigate mechanisms underlying pain, delineate brain plasticity associated with chronic pain, and individual factors that contribute to pain sensitivity and chronic pain treatment outcomes. Her concept of a “dynamic pain connectome” is being used to identify neuromarkers for personalized approaches to pain management. Dr. Davis is also active in neuroethics and EDI (equity, diversity, and inclusion) initiatives. ​



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Jane Ballantyne

Section Editor
Seattle, USA

Jane Ballantyne, MD FRCA, trained in medicine and anaesthesia in the UK before moving to Boston, US, in 1990. She became Chief of the Division of Pain Medicine in the Massachusetts General Hospital in 1999. She moved to the University of Washington in 2011 as Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine. She has editorial roles in several leading journals and textbooks and is a widely published author. An early advocate for restraint in opioid prescribing for chronic pain, Dr. Ballantyne has continued to focus her teaching and research on the clinical implications of evolving opioid science.

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Chih-Cheng Chen

Section Editor
Taiwan

Chih-Cheng Chen, PhD, is a full research fellow and deputy director in the Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. He received a PhD in Anatomy from the University College London, UK. After a postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Andreas Zimmer and Michael Brownstein at NIH, he joined the faculty at the Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Dr. Chen's research focuses on the molecular and genetic controls of pain associated with tissue acidosis and neurosensory mechanotransduction. He is also the director of Taiwan Mouse Clinic and the President of Taiwan Neuroscience Alliance, which composed of 17 neuroscience associated societies in Taiwan.

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Nanna B. Finnerup

Section Editor
Aarhus, Denmark

Nanna Brix Finnerup, MD, DrMedSc, is Professor and head of the Danish Pain Research Center, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Denmark. Dr. Finnerup graduated from the Medical School at Aarhus University 1993, and after internship worked at the departments of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology at the University of Copenhagen. Since 1998 she has worked at the Danish Pain Research Center at Aarhus University. She obtained her degree of Doctor of Medical Sciences from Aarhus University in 2008, and is currently Professor at the Danish Pain Research Center. Dr. Finnerup has authored more than 160 refereed publications. Her main research interest is the pathophysiology and therapy of neuropathic pain. Current research areas include painful chemotherapy and diabetic polyneuropathy, postsurgical neuropathic pain, spinal cord injury pain, cerebral palsy, thermal sensory integration, neurophysiological assessment of pain mechanisms, neuropharmacology, clinical trials, and systematic reviews. Dr. Finnerup is chair of NeuPSIG, the neuropathic pain SIG of IASP and past president of the Scandinavian Association for the Study of Pain (SASP).

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Michele Sterling

Section Editor
Brisbane, Australia

Michele Sterling (BPhty, MPhty, Grad Dip Manip Physio (distinction), PhD, FACP) is Professor in the RECOVER Injury Research Centre and Director of the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Road Traffic Injury Recovery, both at The University of Queensland, Australia. Dr Sterling is a clinical researcher whose work focuses on the mechanisms underlying the development of chronic pain after injury, predictive algorithms for outcomes, and developing effective interventions for musculoskeletal injury and pain. She has published over 200 peer-reviewed manuscripts, book chapters, and books. Dr Sterling is actively involved in the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) as a current council member as well as serving on committees and task forces. She is the IASP liaison for the Australian Pain Society.

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Fiona Blyth

Section Editor
Sydney, Australia

Fiona Blyth (BSc (Med), MBBS (Hons), MPH, PhD, FAFPHM) is a Professor of Public Health and Pain Medicine at the University of Sydney. She is a public health physician and pain epidemiologist whose work has contributed to conceptual and empirical understanding of the burden of chronic pain conditions within populations. She was on the expert reference group for low back pain for the World Health Organization's 2010 Global Burden of Disease Project. Dr. Blyth was awarded an AM on Australia Day 2018 for her significant service to medical research and education.

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Robert Coghill

Section Editor
Cincinnati, USA

Robert Coghill earned his Ph.D. from Virginia Commonwealth University and completed post-doctoral fellowships at the Universitè de Montrèal and the National Institutes of Health. He is currently a Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Center for Understanding Pediatric Pain at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. Research in Dr. Coghill's laboratory seeks to provide a better understanding of the functional organization of central nervous system mechanisms involved in the conscious experience of pain and its implications for clinical pain states. Imaging and measurement methodologies provide the critical tools to accomplish these investigations in both children and adults.

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Anthony Dickenson

Section Editor
London, UK

Anthony Dickenson, BSc, PhD, FmedSci, FBPharmcolS is Professor of Neuropharmacology in the Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology at University College, London, United Kingdom. He gained his PhD at the National Institute for Medical Research, London, and has held posts in Paris, California and Sweden. His research interests are pharmacology of the brain, including the mechanisms of pain and how pain can be controlled in both normal and pathophysiological conditions, and how to translate basic science to the patient. Dr. Dickenson is an Honorary Member of the British Pain Society and was a member of the IASP Council.

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Clermont E. Dionne

Section Editor
Quebec, Canada

Clermont E. Dionne, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine of Université Laval in Québec City (Canada), and a senior investigator in the Population Health and Optimal Health Practices Axis of the Research Center of the CHU de Québec - Université Laval, where he assumes responsibility for the research activities of the Québec Centre of Excellence in Aging (CEVQ). Dr. Dionne holds a PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Washington (School of Public Health, Seattle). His research program focuses on the epidemiology of musculoskeletal pain.

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David A. Seminowicz

Section Editor
London, Canada

David Seminowicz, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Medical Biophysics, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada​. His work focuses on the cognitive aspects of pain, individual differences in the response to pain, and the consequence of chronic pain on brain structure and function in chronic low back pain, migraine, burning mouth syndrome, and other pain conditions. Ongoing studies in Dr. Seminowicz's lab employ longitudinal designs to assess how various interventions affect brain function, in human disease and rodent models. The main techniques in his lab include quantitative sensory testing, EEG, and structural and functional MRI.

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Kathleen Sluka

Section Editor
Iowa City, USA

Kathleen A. Sluka, PT, PhD, FAPTA, is a professor in the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science at the University of Iowa. She received a physical therapy degree from Georgia State University and a PhD in Anatomy from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. After a postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. William D. Willis, she joined the faculty at the University of Iowa. Dr. Sluka's research focuses on the neurobiology of musculoskeletal pain as well as the mechanisms and effectiveness of non-pharmacological pain treatments. She has published over 200 peer-reviewed manuscripts, numerous book chapters, and a textbook on Pain Mechanisms and Management for the Physical Therapist. She has received numerous awards including the Marian Williams Award for Research in Physical Therapy and Catherine Worthingham Fellowship from the American Physical Therapy Association and the Frederick W.L. Kerr Basic Science Research Award from the American Pain Society. She is actively involved in the International Association for the Study of Pain, the American Pain Society, and the American Physical Therapy Association serving on committees, task forces, and society boards.

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Amanda C de C Williams

Section Editor
London, UK

Amanda C de C Williams is Reader (Associate Professor) in clinical health psychology at University College London; consultant clinical psychologist at the Pain Management Centre, University College London Hospital, UK; and research consultant for the International Centre for Health and Human Rights. Her interests are evaluation of psychologically-based treatments by systematic review and meta-analysis; evolutionary perspectives on pain in humans and other animals; behavioural expression of pain; improving treatment of pain from torture; and wearable technology to extend rehabilitation into patients' environments. She presents at national and international pain meetings and has written over 250 papers and chapters: see http://www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/people/profiles/academic-staff/amanda-c-de-c-williams

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