Internationally respected clinical academic Professor Paul Glare has been named a Member of the Order of Australia for his significant service to medicine in the fields of pain management and palliative care.
Professor Glare is a specialist physician in pain medicine and senior researcher with the Kolling Institute.
He is the Director of the Michael J Cousins Pain Management Research Centre at Royal North Shore Hospital, the Chair of Pain Medicine with the Northern Clinical School and Head of Pain Medicine with the Sydney Medical School.
Professor Glare has welcomed the accolade.
“I am very honoured to receive this award, but more importantly, it recognises the importance of advancing the specialities of pain medicine and palliative care,” he said.
“While precision medicine and technological advances are very important for saving lives, the relief of suffering should always be the objective of medicine and healthcare generally.
“It has been rewarding to be part of the Northern Clinical School and the Northern Sydney Local Health District to be able to promote pain and palliative care through the pain management centre at Royal North Shore Hospital and to be able to teach the students from Northern.
“The neuroscience and pain priority research group within the Kolling Institute has also given me great opportunities to continue my research on pain in cancer survivors and the use of mobile health in supporting pain management.”