Professor Michael Nicholas​

Clinical Psychologist and Director of the Pain Education Unit, University of Sydney, Australia 

Michael is a Clinical Psychologist and Director of the Pain Education Unit at the University of Sydney’s Faculty of Medicine and Health (Northern). Clinically, he works at the Pain Management Research Centre at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, where he directs multidisciplinary pain management programs and maintains active clinical and research roles, with over 300 publications on pain assessment and management. He served for 10 years on the IASP council, including 4 years as secretary, and has participated in many IASP task forces and working groups, including the ICD-11 project and the Interdisciplinary Pain Treatment Task Force. He chaired the IASP’s Education Initiatives Working Group for 6 years. He remains an active member of the IASP’s Educational Programs Working Group.

Michael has also contributed to the IASP-supported Southeast Asian Pain Toolkit project in Myanmar, Vietnam and Indonesia, as well as the IASP Pain Camps in Malaysia, Thailand, Kenya, and India to develop interdisciplinary pain management services. His current research interests include the self-management of chronic pain in both the adult and older adult populations, teaching pain self-management methods to health professionals, and early (matched care) psychosocial interventions to prevent long-term pain-related disability in injured workers.

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