Associate Professor Tasha Stanton is the co-Director and Osteoarthritis Research Theme Lead for IIMPACT in Health at The University of South Australia (Adelaide, Australia) and she leads the Persistent Pain Research Group at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI). She is a clinical pain neuroscientist, with original training as a physiotherapist. Her research focusses on pain – why do we have it and why doesn’t it go away? She has has published >110 peer-reviewed journal articles, and she has been a keynote/invited speaker at >110 (inter)national conferences. Her research has won both national and international awards, including the World Congress of Pain Ronald Dubner research award, the Australian Pain Society Rising Star Award and the Australian Physiotherapy Association Best New Investigator Award. She has a specific interest in pain education, osteoarthritis, low back pain, cortical body representation, somatosensation, and body illusions using virtual and mediated reality.
