THE RELIEF TEAM

RELIEF is the companion site of the IASP Pain Research Forum (PRF), a publication of the International Association for the Study of Pain. PRF/RELIEF is guided by an international editorial board including:

    • Ted Price, PhD, University of Texas at Dallas, USA (Chair)
    • Fumimasa Amaya, MD, PhD, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan
    • Allan Basbaum, PhD, FRS, University of California, San Francisco, USA
    • Katie Birnie, PhD, RPsych, University of Calgary, Canada
    • Staja “Star” Booker, PhD, RN, University of Florida, US
    • Margarita Calvo, PhD, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
    • Christine Chambers, PhD, RPsych, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
    • Julie Christianson, PhD, University of Kansas Medical Center, US
    • Thiago Cunha, PhD, University of Sao Paulo, Ribeirao Preto, Brazil
    • Franziska Denk, DPhil, King’s College London, UK
    • Patient Partner: Leslie MacGregor, VMD, PhD, JD, Neuropathy Action Foundation, Neuropathy Support Network, US
    • Jeffrey S. Mogil, PhD, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
    • Anne Louise Oaklander, MD, PhD, HMS/MGH, Boston, USA
    • Shivani Ruparel, PhD, University of Texas Health San Antonio, US
    • Trainee Representative: Melanie Schaffler, PhD candidate, University of Pennsylvania, US
    • Hans-Georg Schaible, MD, University of Jena, Germany
    • Petra Schweinhardt, MD, PhD, Balgrist University Hospital and the University of Zurich, Switzerland
    • Rebecca Seal, PhD, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, US
    • Reza Sharif-Naeini, PhD, McGill University, Canada
    • Trainee Representative: Saurab Sharma, PhD, University of New South Wales and Neuroscience Research Australia
    • Trainee Representative: Jan Vollert, PhD, Imperial College London, UK

(See here for more details).

RELIEF staff:

Gregory Carbonetti, PRF Senior Manager (gregory.carbonetti@iasp-pain.org)