Abstracts 2008 - 09

Ian Power
Professor of Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine
The University of Edinburgh

Ian Power graduated in both Science (Physiology) and Medicine from the University of Glasgow, and trained in Anaesthesia in the Western Infirmary in Glasgow in the United Kingdom.  His academic career commenced at Edinburgh University as Lecturer and Senior Registrar at the Royal Infirmary (where he did his higher degree studies), and continued in Cardiff as Senior Lecturer and Consultant in the Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine of the University of Wales College of Medicine.  In 1994 Ian joined the Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Management in Sydney, as Associate Professor at Sydney University and director of the acute pain program at the Royal North Shore Hospital.  His research interests comprise both basic scientific and clinical studies of pain relief.

Ian is a Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists of the United Kingdom, the Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists, the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.  He is a Fellow of the Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Royal College of Anaesthetists, and a member if the first Board of that Faculty.  He is a Director, and the Treasurer of the British Journal of Anaesthesia, co-editor of the textbook Medicine for Anaesthetists 4th Edition, and co-author of Physiology for Anaesthetists (now 2nd ed.)

Ian is Professor of “Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine” in the University of Edinburgh.  Recently his department has launched an e-MSc in Pain Management, an international collaboration between the Universities of Edinburgh, Sydney and California, San Francisco (www.painmanagement.ed.ac.uk).

PRESENTATION

An Acute Pain or a Pain Medicine Service?