About us
Pain Revolution is a people powered movement, striving to change how we care for people in pain.
We believe that this will be most successful if we do it together! Pain Revolution is a vision driven collaboration of researchers, clinicians, people with lived experience and peak bodies.
We aim to inspire and enable each other and communities to make sustainable, positive change. As a collective, we strive for excellence and promote transparency, honesty and accountability in everything we do.
Pain Revolution respects diversity of stories and all the parties who comprise the pain care system.
Our vision
That all Australians have the knowledge, skills and local support to prevent and overcome persistent pain.
Our values
Empowerment: Inspire and enable people and communities to make sustainable, positive change
Integrity: Strive for excellence and promote transparency, honesty and accountability in everything that we do
Cohesion: Foster unity in our vision, purpose and strategy
Respect: Honour all people, their stories, beliefs and skills
Meet the team
Lorimer Moseley
Chief Executive Officer
Lorimer is a pain scientist, clinician & educator. He has written 350 scientific articles and five books. He has received numerous international prizes for his contributions to pain science, management and education. He lives and works in Adelaide, South Australia.
Angie Clerc-Hawke
General Manager
Angie comes from a business background, trained in marketing and has managed several projects within the corporate sector. She draws on both her personal experience with/and recovery from persistent pain and advanced training in medical sciences.
Tracy Jones
Tour Logistics Manager
Tracy comes from a strong business administration and logistics background. When she is not coordinating the many moving parts of the Rural Outreach Tour, she looks after the needs of a growing team of pain researchers at University of South Australia.
Amanda Simister
LPE Network Manager
Amanda is a highly experienced physiotherapist working within a public pain service in her regional community. She is one of the inaugural Local Pain Educators, who is applying her experience going through the program to guide future cohorts.
Steve Kamper
Evaluation Committee Chair
Steve Kamper is a research fellow at the University of Sydney with a professional background in physiotherapy. Steve's interests include the epidemiology and consequences of pain, patient expectations, and teaching people to become more informed users of scientific research.
Carolyn Berryman
Education Committee Chair
Carolyn is an experienced physiotherapist who is currently investigating the contribution of brain plasticity to persistent pain. Enthusiastic to facilitate learning about pain sciences, Carolyn has taught clinically and in classrooms at the University of South Australia for three decades.
Seanna Davidson
Lived Experience Community Coordinator
Seanna is a facilitator and process designer focused on creating meaningful experiences for folks to learn together. She has hosted several communities of practice across themes including water, facilitation, systems thinking and now persistent pain. Seanna is trained as a human geographer, and has been working in system thinking in Australia for 5 years.
Mary O'Keefe
Communications Committee Chair
Mary is a pain scientist; whose current work focuses on the role of media in and influence on healthcare. She is passionate about public engagement and communicating evidence-based information about pain through conventional and social media.
Sinan Tejani
Policy & Advocacy Committee Chair
Sinan is a physiotherapist who has worked across private practice, aged care and the hospital system. He is interested in advocating for large scale systemic changes to empower people to better understand and manage the complexities of persistent pain.
Abbie Norrish
Collective Project Coordinator
Abbie is a physiotherapist who joined Pain Revolution in 2018 as the first Local Pain Educator from WA. Abbie has a passion for bringing together like-minded health professionals in rural communities to drive the conversation around best practice pain care.
Maddy Thorpe
Communications & Design Coordinator
Maddy loves art and design. She developed these passions through coping with her experience with brain cancer, which she is currently battling. Maddy is also an osteopath who has an interest in neurological conditions and innovative care.
LPE Mentors
This group of experts provide one-on-one support to LPEs in training, assisting with consolidating what they are learning and translating it into practice in their communities.
- Bernie Smith
- Carolyn Berryman
- Chris Williams
- Edwinna Shannon
- Emma Karran
- John Baranoff
- John Booth
- Karin Jones
- Martina Egan-Moog
- Matt Forster
- Meredith Craigie
- Pene Wood
- Peter Roberts
- Ruth Hardman
- Tasha Stanton
- Tim Bass
- Tim Cocks
Tour Organising Committee
This committee looks after the many moving parts of the annual Rural Outreach Tour, from community engagement, event organising to rider safety.
- Tracy Jones (Chair)
- Steve Cunningham
- Trevor Barker
- Di Wilson
- Kal Fried
- Angie Clerc-Hawke
Education Committee
Education Committee looks after development of educational resources and learning outomes across all Pain Revolution activities.
- Carolyn Berryman (Chair)
- Dianne Wilson
- Daniel Harvie
- Kylie Perry
- Margaret Knight
- Angie Clerc-Hawke
Evaluation Committee
Pain Revolution is steeped in evidence based action and a key part of this is evaluation of our activities by the Evaluation Committee
- Steve Kamper (Chair)
- Emma Karran
- Anne Grunseit
- John Toumbourou
- Erica Wilkinson
- Angie Clerc-Hawke
Communication Committee
To compliment our community-based work, these guys look after communicating our messages and work to the boarder community.
- Mary O'Keefe (Chair)
- Maddy Thorpe
- Lincoln Tracy
- Scott Rowbotham
- Leah Dwyer
- Angie Clerc-Hawke