Hello and welcome to the Pain Palliative and Supportive Care review group (PaPaS). We are part of the Cochrane Collaboration which is an international organisation and our group is one of 52 review groups specialising in different areas of health, based in different countries around the world.
We have on our editorial board a broad range of clinicians and health researchers. Our aim is to encourage and assist authors to write systematic reviews in a topic area relevant to our group for publication in The Cochrane Library, an electronic evidence based medicine library. Our authors are clinicians, nurses, and health care workers from all over the world. We also strongly encourage consumer organisations to participate in our peer referee process as well as undertaking expertise peer review prior to publication.
Our editorial office is in the town of Oxford, England, UK. Our current editorial team are as follows:
Professor Christopher Eccleston - Co-ordinating Editor, Churchill Hospital, Oxford UK OX3 7LJ Tel: +44 (0)1865 225762
Jessica Thomas - Managing Editor, Pain Research Unit, Churchill Hospital, Oxford UK OX3 7LJ Tel: +44 (0)1865 225762 Fax: +44 (0)1865 225400 E-mail: jessica.thomas@pru.ox.ac.uk
Yvonne Roy - Assistant Managing Editor , Pain Research Unit, Churchill Hospital, Oxford UK OX3 7LJ Tel: +44 (0)1865 225775 Fax: +44 (0)1865 225400 Email: yvonne.roy@pru.ox.ac.uk
Jane Hayes - Trials Search Co-coordinator - search strategy support, for contact details please contact Jessica Thomas.
Jo Abbott - Trials Search Co-ordinator - specialised register support, for contact details please contact Jessica Thomas.
The group has an editorial board incorporating a team of PaPaS editors, names and details are below;
Feedback Editor - Professor Kate Seers
RCN Research Institute, School of Health and Social Studies, The University of Warwick, Coventry, UK. Please get in touch with the PaPaS office for contact details.
Statistician - Dr Gavin Stewart
York, UK. Please get in touch with the PaPaS office for contact details.
Assistant Managing Editor to support updates for authors - Sheena Derry
Oxford, UK.
Field editors
Professor Michael Bennett (Palliative and Supportive Care - UK)
Lancaster University, Institute for Health Research, Bowland Tower East Lancaster, LA1 4YT UK.
Please contact the PaPaS office for contact details.
Professor Andrew Moore (Chronic and Neuropathic Pain - UK)
University of Oxford, Pain Research Unit, Churchill Hospital, Oxford OX3 7LJ +44 1865 231512 Email: andrew.moore@pru.ox.ac.uk
Dr Tim Steiner (Headache - UK)
Imperial College London Charing Cross Campus, St. Dunstan's Road, London W6 8RP UK.
Please contact the PaPaS office for contact details.
Dr Amanda C de C Williams (Psychosocial - UK)
University College London, Gower Street London WC1E 6BT UK.
Please contact the PaPaS office for contact details.
Acute pain editor to be confirmed.
Editorial board:
Dr Amy Abernethy (USA),
Duke University Medical Center, Durham North Carolina DUMC Box 3841 USA.
Dr Rae Bell (Norway)
Haukeland University Hospital/University of Bergen N-5021 Bergen Norway.
Dr Fiona Cramp (UK)
University of the West of England, Glenside campus Blackberry Hill, Bristol BS16 1DD UK.
Dr Geert Crombez (Belgium)
University of Ghent Ghent, Belgium.
Sheena Derry (UK)
University of Oxford, Oxford Pain Research Unit, Churchill Hospital, Oxford OX3 7LJ
Dr Rebecca Gray (USA)
Duke Clinical Research Institute, Outcomes Group P.O. Box 17969 Durham NC 27715 USA Email: rebecca.gray@duke.edu
Dr Art Lipman (USA),
University of Utah Health Sciences Center, 30 S 2000 E RM 258, Salt Lake City Utah 84112-5820 USA.
Dr Alex Macario (USA)
Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford California, USA
Ewan McNicol (USA)
Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston MA, USA.
Dr Stephen Morley (UK)
University of Leeds Charles, Thackrah Building 101 Clarendon Road, Leeds LS2 9LJ UK.
Phil Wiffen (UK)
UK Cochrane Centre, Summertown Pavilion, Middle Way Oxford OX2 7LG UK, Tel: +44 1865 516300 Email: pwiffen@cochrane.ac.uk
Dr Kenny Jackson (USA)
Pacific University, 222 SE 8th Avenue Suite, 451 Hillsboro OR 97123 USA.
Dr Douglas McCrory - Duke Center for Clinical Health Policy Research, 2200 W. Main Street, Suite 220, Durham NC 27705 USA.
Dr Sebastian Straube (Germany)
Department of Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, University Medical Center Göttingen, Waldweg 37 B, D-37073 Göttingen, Germany
Review Groups are composed of people from around the world who share an interest in developing and maintaining systematic reviews relevant to a particular health care topic area. Review groups are coordinated by the editorial team who assist authors in the editing and process of their protocols, reviews and review updates up to the time of completion and finally publication in The Cochrane Library.
The PaPaS review group was formed in 1998 and was set up to support the production of Cochrane Systematic reviews in Pain, Palliative and Supportive Care on behalf of The Cochrane Collaboration. To do this we need the help of review authors, peer referees, consumer referees, handsearchers, translators, and a staff of Editors, Managing Editors, Trial Search Co-ordinators, Co-ordinating Editors and Statisticians.
The Cochrane Collaboration is an international not-for-profit and independent organization, dedicated to making up-to-date, accurate information about the effects of healthcare readily available worldwide. The major product of the Collaboration is the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, which is one database consisting of systematic reviews or the 'gold standard' of evidence, published quarterly as part of The Cochrane Library.
Newcomers to the work of the Collaboration may benefit from visiting the newcomers guide on the following link: www.cochrane.org/docs/newcomersguide.htm
Every year all review groups meet at our annual Cochrane Colloquium, this is a good opportunity to come along and meet up with the editorial team, take part in workshops and to update any training needs that you may have. To find out more click on the Colloquium link below.
We hope you have found this website helpful and informative and should you have any comments on the website, please do not hesitate to contact us.
The PaPaS group is funded by the Department of Health in the United Kingdom as part of the Research and Development programme until 2015.
We look forward to supporting your involvement with the Cochrane PaPaS review group should you wish to join us.
Best Wishes,
Chris Eccleston & the Editorial Team
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