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KEYNOTE
SPEAKERS
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Professor Michael Chester
Director of the National Refractory Angina Centre,
Consultant Cardiologist Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University
Hospital NHS Trust.
Professor of Rehabilitation and Preventive Health Education, Liverpool
Hope University
Professor
Chester is a renowned speaker. He is a former interventional
cardiologist
who passionately believes that treating patients and colleagues like
valued customers improves the quality of life of all involved and
enables patients to avoid unnecessary procedures.
The multi
award winning National Refractory Angina Centre (NRAC) is the
embodiment of genuine person centred healthcare and shows what can be
achieved when front-line health workers are allowed to do the right
thing for the right reasons.
Described in 2003, by the Chief
Executive of the NHS as, “truly leading the way in customer
excellence,” Mike is the current holder of the prestigious Sunday Times
& Henley Management College, customer experience leadership
award.
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Lorimer Moseley
Senior Research Fellow, Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute,
Randwick, Australia
Lorimer undertook a PhD through the Pain Management Research Institute
at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, and post-doctoral fellowships
in Brisbane and Sydney. From 2005-8 he was Nuffield Medical
Research Fellow in the Pain Imaging Neuroscience Group, University of
Oxford, UK and has just returned to Australia to take up a Senior
Research Fellowship at Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute. He
has published over 60 research papers and given over 100 keynote and
invited presentations in 17 countries. He was recently named the
outstanding mid-career clinical scientist working in a pain-related
field by the International Association for the Study of Pain. His work
focusses on explaining the underlying biology of pain to clinicians and
patients, and on developing novel non-pharmacological treatments for
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Michael Nicholas
Assoc. Prof. Michael K Nicholas
PhD
Director, ADAPT Pain Management
Program
Pain Management Research
Institute
University of Sydney at Royal
North Shore Hospital
Michael
is Director of the ADAPT Pain Management Program at the Pain Management
&
Research Centre (PMRC), Royal North Shore Hospital (Sydney).
He holds a conjoint appointment as Associate Professor in the Faculty
of
Medicine at the University of Sydney, where he is a
founding faculty member of the postgraduate diploma and masters degree
in pain
medicine. Michael has over 25 years experience in this field and over
80 publications on pain and its management,
including the popular self-management book for pain sufferers, called
Manage Your Pain. Currently, he is
researching the self-management of persisting pain in older
Australians, as
well as ways of reducing the threat value of persisting pain and the
role of
different self-management strategies in adjustment to persisting pain.
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