The prize takes the form of a certificate and a grant for educational or research purposes and is awarded at the FPM annual business meeting.
Dr Joanne Vo was awarded the 2024 Best Free Paper Award for ‘A retrospective audit of salmon calcitonin for acute postoperative phantom limb pain’
Eligibility criteria
The session is open to all delegates attending the ANZCA Annual Scientific Meeting, of which the FPM Symposium is a satellite meeting.
Past recipients
Year | Name | Paper title | Region |
| 2024 | Dr Joanne Vo | A retrospective audit of salmon calcitonin for acute postoperative phantom limb pain’ | Qld |
| 2023 | Dr Jessica Barry | Substantial savings possible with direction of funds to outpatient pain management | NSW |
| 2022 | Associate Professor Meredith Craigie | Improving the quality and consistency of Australian health professionals' knowledge and skills in contemporary pain care | SA |
| 2021 | Dr Megan Allen | Opioid stewardship assessment a multicentre study of post discharge opioid use and handling in surgical patients | Vic |
| 2019 | Dr Sau Ching Stanley Wong | The effect of total intravenous anaesthesia with propofol on postoperative pain after third molar surgery | Hong Kong |
| 2018 | Dr Daniel Chiang | The prevalence and risk factors associated with persistent pain after breast cancer treatment | New Zealand |
| 2017 | Dr Paul Wrigley | New evidence for preserved somatosensory pathways in people with complete spinal cord injury: a fMRI study | NSW |
| 2016 | Associate Professor Phillip Peyton | Reduction of chronic post-surgical pain with ketamine (ROCKet) pilot trial | Vic |
| 2015 | Dr Luke Arthur | 60,000+ years and 12 papers: a systematic review of pain assessment, experience and management in aboriginal Australian peoples. | |
| 2014 | Dr Sumitra Bakshi | ReSOnS trial - REctus Sheath block for postoperative analgesia in gynaeco-Onco Surgical patients – a double blinded randomized controlled trial | |
| 2013 | Associate Professor David Champion | Genetic influences and associations of common idiopathic/functional pain syndromes of childhood: Evidence from twin family case-control studies. | |
| 2012 | Dr Sarika Kumar | Total and free ropivacaine drug levels during continuous transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block for postoperative analgesia after abdominal surgery: A pilot study. | |
| 2011 | Dr Allyson Browne | Screening for acute factors that predict pain post trauma: A pilot study. |