PNA Professional day 2025 - Pain in Vulnerable Populations

Professor Lorimer Moseley is a clinical scientist investigating pain in humans. After posts at The University of Oxford, UK, and the University of Sydney, Lorimer was appointed Professor of Clinical Neuroscience and Chair in Physiotherapy at the University of South Australia. He is also Senior Principal Research Fellow at NeuRA and an NHMRC Principal Research Fellow. He has published over 310 papers, six books and numerous book chapters. He has given over 150 keynote or invited presentations at interdisciplinary meetings in 30 countries. He has provided professional education in pain sciences to over 25,000 medical and health practitioners and public lectures to as many again. His research group’s videos and articles have been viewed over 4.5 million times.

Prof. Nicholas is the Director of Pain Education at the Pain Management Research Institute. He has an international reputation in this field with over 190 publications in scientific journals and books on psychological aspects of pain and pain management. His current research interests include ways of enhancing the self-management of persisting pain, and early psychosocial interventions to prevent disabling chronic pain in injured workers.

Dr. Regina Schultz is a Senior Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Neuropsychologist with 20 years of clinical experience. She has extensive clinical expertise working with people with a traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury and/or chronic pain. She helps manage depression, anxiety, anger and behavioural issues, adjustment and grief.

A/Prof Aggarwal has been the Head of the Palliative Care Department at Concord Hospital since 1996. Her practice includes hospital consultancy, ambulatory and inpatient care in palliative medicine within the district wide Sydney Palliative Care Service, SLHD. She has been involved in the development of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians Chapter of Palliative Medicine and is the chair of the Executive of the Sydney Institute of Palliative Medicine. She is currently the Deputy Clinical Director of Cancer Services and Palliative Care, SLHD. Her interests include interface between oncology and palliative medicine, undergraduate and postgraduate education in palliative care, communication skills and ethics and end of life decision making. She has been involved for a number of years in the strategic development of Palliative Care in New South Wales, Australia. Currently she is involved in teaching and development of Palliative Care in the Asia-Pacific region and is the Co-Vice Chair of the Asia Pacific Hospice and Palliative Care Network (APHN).

Dr. Tejas (TJ) Kanhere is a Pain Medicine Physician who caters for all aspects of pain management, including neuropathic pain, widespread pain & post traumatic pain. Dr. Kanhere provides high quality collaborative evidence based biopsychosocial pain management including minimal invasive interventional treatment options where appropriate.

After completing his medical training at the University of Melbourne in 2010, Dr. Kanhere completed specialist training in Sydney (FRACGP & FFPMANZCA) including at the Michael J Cousins Pain Management and Research Centre at Royal North Shore Hospital and at St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney. Dr. Kanhere currently works privately in Kogarah, and also has public appointments at Royal Rehab, Nepean & Concord Hospital, with duties including clinical research and trainee supervision.

Jane Linton is a Gumbaynngirr woman from the north coast of NSW and is living on Country.

She is a physiotherapist with over 20 years of clinical experience and is currently working in the public hospital system. As part of this role she assisted in establishing, and works as a physiotherapist in an outreach musculoskeletal physiotherapy clinic at the local Aboriginal Medical Aboriginal Corporation. In 2014 she assisted in establishing the SOS Health Services in Palm Island, North Queensland, working as a physiotherapist with the predominately Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community.

Jane is a current member of the Indigenous Allied Health Association.

She is a participant of the 2020 intake for the NSW Health Rural Research Capacity Building Program with the University of Sydney. Her project is focused on the accessibility of health care for local Aboriginal people with musculoskeletal conditions including osteoarthritis. ¿

Interested in new Models of Care and funding to enable affordable and accessible evidenced based pain management in primary care for all accross the lifespan. Pain Management Clinical Nurse Consultant with the Hunter Integrated Pain Service NSW, Australia who has worked in all aspects of pain service delivery over the last 22 years. She was a member of the Pain Taskforce to develop the NSW Pain Model of Care in 2011. Pain Project Officer for the NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation (ACI) Pain Management Network, which culminated in the launch of the Pain Network website March 2014 and remains an active member on the pain network executive and other working parties. Fiona was President of the Australian Pain Society (APS) from 2017-2019 with a particular interest in pain in the elderly. During her tenure on the APS board, she coordinated the revision of the internationally recognised Pain in Residential Aged Care Facilities: Management Strategies, 2nd Edition (RACF2), as well as being a co-author. She is currently working collaboratively with the National Ageing Research Institute (NARI), on developing a Pain Management Guidelines Implementation Toolkit to align with the RACF2 pain guidelines. Fiona’s passion for advocating for people experiencing pain is evidenced by her ongoing clinical and consumer representation on various national committees and working parties and is current Vice President of Chronic Pain Australia (CPA).

Dr. Sue Sharrad has over 35 years’ experience in nursing, working in a variety of settings and in a variety of roles. Her clinical areas of speciality include Intensive Care Nursing and Parkinson’s disease Nursing. Sue has also over 10 years’ experience working in an academic setting being involved in the education of both undergraduate and post graduate students. She has published in peer reviewed journals and supervised Masters students to completion. Sue’s research interests are motivated by improving the lives of people who live in regional areas of Australia. Thus, she is the chief investigator on a grant funded project; ‘Investigation and development of a regional stroke coordinator role for South Australia’ and is working with an interdisciplinary team at the University of South Australia to initiate the first regional interdisciplinary clinic for people living with Parkinson’s disease in South Australia. Sue is a member of the Australasian Neuroscience Nurses Association and a member of the South Australian Department of Health and Wellbeing’s Human Research Ethics Committee.

Since beginning her work in the perioperative environment in 2007, Olivia transitioned into academia driven by a passion for evidence-based practice and clinical inquiry within the fields of Perioperative Medicine. Olivia’s research interests relate to pain management, perioperative workforce development, and the role of interprofessional collaboration in optimising healthcare outcomes, all within the perioperative medicine sphere. Olivia remains actively engaged in both academic and clinical domains, which informs and shapes her research focus and priorities. Olivia is a PhD candidate, exploring acute pain management for trauma and non-elective surgical patients.