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Wednesday 8 July 2020 4:24pm

Pain@Otago is happy to announce the recipients of its 2019 research awards and would like to thank everyone for the standard of applications and congratulate the awardees. It is great to see such high quality work emerging from our Pain@Otago members!  

Best Masters/BMedSci/Summer Student/honours pain research project

These were awarded based on the quality of the project, importance of the finding, and the potential for publication.  The panel awarded to:

Best undergraduate individual researcher: Ms Rosey Acker

Commonalities among diversity: patient perspectives of a neuroscience-informed physiotherapy programme for persistent rotator cuff-related shoulder pain. Student: Rosey Acker, BPhty(Honours) student, 2019, School of Physiotherapy
Supervisory team: Gisela Sole, Nicola Swain, Meredith Perry, Craig Wassinger

Best group undergraduate research:

‘Media representation of chronic pain in Aotearoa New Zealand: A content analysis of news media’. This project was conducted as part of requirements for the ‘Research for Physiotherapy (Paper code Phty 459) during the final year of study. The nominated student project was completed by the following students: Liv Elder, Yulia Khasyanova, Dominic Manning, Morghan Scrimgeour, and Ceonne Avery in 2019.Supervisory team: Dr Hemakumar Devan and Assoc Prof Rebecca Grainger

Most promising Emerging Pain Researcher

This was reviewed by our International Advisory Group. This was awarded on the basis of the importance and relevance of research focus, quality of projects and publications completed, grant and award history, and the applicants vision. The panel awarded to:

Dr Hemakumar Devan

Hemakumar's primary research interest is to foster self-management support to empower people with persistent pain and their whānau.

Best pain publication

The award was based on the journal standing and impact, significance of research findings, and dissemination of research findings (e.g. media, twitter, altmetrics etc.) This was awarded to:

Dr Ben Darlow and co authors

Darlow B, StanleyJ, Dean S, Abbott JH, Garrett S, Wilson R, et al. (2019) The Fear ReductionExercised Early (FREE) approach to management of low back pain in general practice: A pragmatic cluster-randomised controlled trial. PLoS Med 16(9):e1002897

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