ANZCA Bulletin - June 2009 - Australian and New Zealand College ...

Faculty of Pain MedicineDean’s Reportto the AnnualGeneral Meeting2009ContinuedFaculty of Pain MedicineHonorary Fellowship:Prof Maree Therese SmithChris Hayes as Chair of the ResearchCommittee is looking at a multi-centrestudy with input from both the HunterIntegrated Pain Service and CaulfieldPain Management and Research Centrein Victoria looking at outcomes. Many ofour Fellows contribute to the Faculty in somany ways and I would particularly liketo acknowledge the tireless input of TimSemple who is on a number of committeesand is also the Supervisor of Supervisorsof Training, Melissa Viney who is DeputySSoT and also contributes to TUAC andExams,Owen Williamson works on theEducation Committee and BlueprintingCommittee as does Jane Trinca. PaulWrigley and Diarmuid Mc Coy are onseveral committees. To you all Thanks.To my Board – thank you all for yourongoing support, guidance and wisdom..But of course the Faculty could notbe possible without the support of ourExecutive Officer Helen Morris and her staff,Penny McNair and Angela Boolieris, andI particularly wish to thank them for theirfriendship, warmth and hard work.In closing, I am very excited that thisis the Faculty’s 10th year and we will beacknowledging this at the Spring Meeting inMelbourne. The Faculty is well prepared tocontinue with its unique interdisciplinarymodel moving forward to provide whatis considered internationally one of theleading Pain Medicine Faculties in theworld, both with our organisationalprocesses and certainly our trainingand examination.“The Board of the Faculty of Pain Medicineadmits from time to time distinguishedpersons who have made a notablecontribution to the advancement of thescience and practice of pain medicine,who are not practicing pain medicine inAustralia or New Zealand”.Professor Maree Therese SmithAfter obtaining a B Pharm (Hons) degreefrom the University of Queensland, MareeSmith undertook research higher degreetraining in clinical pharmacokinetics,bioanalysis and drug metabolism underthe supervision/mentorship of professorsWayne Hooper and Mervyn Eadie in theDepartment of Medicine, University ofQueensland at Royal Brisbane Hospital,culminating in a PhD degree in medicine.Following a period of postdoctoraltraining in the field of pain managementwith Professor Tess Cramond (director,Multidisciplinary Pain Centre at RoyalBrisbane Hospital), Maree was appointedas a lecturer in the School of Pharmacy atUQ in mid-1989. Over the next 15 years, shewas progressively promoted through theacademic ranks at UQ culminating in herpromotion to Professor of Pharmacyin 2004.Prof Smith has specialist expertise inpre-clinical drug development includinganimal models of human disease,bioanalytical assays and pharmacokineticsand oversees research in a broad rangeof projects focussing on improvingour understanding of the mechanisticbasis of a range of pain states and theirpharmacological management.Prof Smith is the inaugural directorof Australia’s first Centre for IntegratedPreclinical Drug Development (CIPDD) andis Professor of Pharmacy at the Universityof Queensland. In the past two decades,Prof Smith and her team have undertakenconsiderable research in the field of painpharmacology with this research directedtowards improving patient outcomes.Prof Smith has successfully supervised tocompletion 15 PhD students, two researchMasters students and 30 Honours studentsand she is supervising four PhD students,three Master of Philosophy students andthree Honours students now.In 2001 and 2002, Prof Smith received“meritorious mentions” from the Universityof Queensland in recognition of sustainedexcellence in the supervision of researchhigher degree students. In 2003, Prof Smithwas awarded a “Trailblazer Challenge”award by UniQuest, and in 2008 shereceived the Women in Technology BiotechOutstanding Achievement Award.Prof Smith’s contribution toimprovements in clinical managementof pain and to our own faculty of painmedicine is recognised today with theawarding of Honorary Fellowship of theFaculty of Pain Medicine of the Australianand New Zealand College of Anaesthetists.Dr Brendan Moore92The ANZCA Bulletin June 2009