We look forward to sharing the knowledge and expertise of this wonderful National Keynote Speaker line up at the 2020 Australian Pain Society 40th Annual Scientific Meeting to be held at the Hotel Grand Chancellor, Hobart this April.
Professor Michele Sterling

Prof Michele Sterling
Please give a warm welcome to Professor Michele Sterling.
Michele Sterling is Professor in the Recover Injury Research Centre, Program Lead of the Designing Better Therapies research program and Director of the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence (CRE) in Road Traffic Injury Recovery. She is a Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist and a Fellow of the Australian College of Physiotherapists. She is internationally recognised for her research on whiplash-associated disorders. Michele’s research focusses 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 received over $13M in research funding from the NHMRC, ARC and industry partners, including 7 NHMRC project grants, 2 CRE’s – the most recent as CIA. She has editorial roles with several leading journals and textbooks, and is a widely published author. She has received numerous awards for her research including the University of Queensland Foundation Research Excellence Award in 2005. Michele is an elected member of the leadership Council of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP).
Professor Michele Sterling will be presenting the IASP Global Year Against Named Lecture.
We are delighted to have Professor Michele Sterling involved in APS 2020, we hope you will be able to attend and enjoy everything this ASM has to offer.
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