Meet the Board of Directors
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KEN CRAIG (Editor - Pain, Research & Management)
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Ken Craig is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia. He is Editor-in-Chief of Pain Research & Management, the journal of the Canadian Pain Society. His current research is supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. His research focuses upon pain assessment, socialization of individual differences in pain experience and expression, nonverbal communication, social parameters of care delivery and pain in infants and children and people with communication limitations. This is published in better than 200 articles in scholarly journals and volumes and books.
Current UBC responsibilities include Chair of the Behavioural Research Ethics Board and Director of the Health Research Resources Office (HeRRO) for the Office of the Vice President Research & International. He has served as Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, Distinguished Scholar in the Peter Wall Institute of Advanced Studies and Director of the Graduate Program in Clinical Psychology. Honours have included status as a CIHR Senior Investigator, the Canada Council I. W. Killam Research Fellowship, the Canadian Pain Society Distinguished Career Award and the American Pain Society Jeffrey Lawson Award for Advocacy in Children’s Pain Relief. He has served as President of the Canadian Pain Society and the Canadian Psychological Association.
