Editor’s note: IASP will be celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2024. Even though the anniversary is still a few years away, it already has us thinking about the history of IASP and the evolution of pain research over the past five decades. So, we are providing a series of podcasts that will cover both of those topics, featuring senior leaders in the field who have made major contributions to pain research and care, including those with major roles at IASP.
Our latest such podcast features Judith Turner, PhD. Dr. Turner, a past president of IASP, is a pain psychologist whose current research interests include chronic opioid therapy, effectiveness of opioid tapering and pain self-management treatments, effectiveness and moderators of treatments for chronic pain, and predictors and mediators of pain treatment outcomes (see full bio below). In this podcast, Dr. Turner speaks with PRF Correspondent Manasi M. Mittinty, MD, PhD, a physician-scientist and lecturer at the University of Sydney, Australia, to discuss her journey in the field of pain psychology, the biopsychosocial model of pain, and her experience serving as IASP president. (This podcast is also available on Spotify here and on Apple Podcasts here.)
More about Dr. Turner
Dr. Judith Turner, PhD, is professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, where she has served on the faculty and worked clinically at the multidisciplinary pain center since receiving a PhD in clinical psychology from UCLA in 1979. Dr. Turner is past president of the International Association for the Study of Pain and former secretary of the American Pain Society. She has published over 230 peer-reviewed journal articles and has received the Wilbert E. Fordyce Clinical Investigator award from the American Pain Society, and the International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine prize for clinical pain research. Dr. Turner was a Core Expert Group member in the development of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Opioid Prescribing Guidelines for Chronic Pain. She was also a Core Working Group Participant in the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Medical and Scientific Commission Consensus on Pain Management. Her current research interests include chronic opioid therapy, effectiveness of opioid tapering and pain self-management treatments, effectiveness and moderators of treatments for chronic pain, and predictors and mediators of pain treatment outcomes.
PRF Correspondent Manasi M. Mittinty, MD, PhD, is a physician-scientist and lecturer at the University of Sydney, Australia.