Tips for Submitting an IASP World Congress on Pain Topical Workshop

Kirsty is Associate Professor of Neuroscience at Imperial College London. Her research bridges preclinical and clinical approaches to investigate descending pain modulation in chronic pain. She has held academic positions at UCL and King’s College London, and received the EFIC IBSA Prize (2017), IASP Patrick D. Wall Award (2022), and British Pain Society Wall Award (2023). Kirsty is the current IASP World Congress on Pain Scientific Program Chair.  She also serves on editorial boards including Pain and British Journal of Pharmacology, and holds leadership roles within the British Pain Society, and EFIC.

Nadia is a Senior Research Fellow at the Evidence for Policy and Practice Information Centre (EPPI Centre) within the Social Science Research Unit at University College London. Her research focuses on developing and applying automation tools and methods to advance evidence synthesis and systematic reviewing. With a background in pharmacology, she has conducted systematic reviews and meta-analyses aimed at bridging the translation gap between preclinical and clinical research in chronic pain. She recently led the Neuropathic Pain Special Interest Group updated systematic review and meta-analysis and treatment  recommendations, published in the Lancet Neurology (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laneur/article/PIIS1474-4422(25)00068-7/fulltext). She is an Associate Editor at PAIN and Openness and Transparency Editor at the Journal of Pain. 

Josephine is a Musculoskeletal physiotherapist and chronic pain researcher. She joined LSBU in 2021, as a lecturer in physiotherapy within the Institute of Health and Social Care. She completed her MSc in Physiotherapy from Sheffield Hallam University in 2014 and completed her PhD titled; “Chronic Low Back Pain: A Representation of Liminality in Illness Identity and Professional Identity” at the University of Nottingham in 2022.