Professor Stephan Schug

Having studied medicine at the University of Cologne, Germany, Professor Stephan Schug became an Anaesthetic Registrar and then a Specialist Anaesthetist and Co-Director of the Cancer Pain Management Centre/Pain Clinic in Cologne by 1988.

He travelled to NZ in 1991, taking on a post as a clinician and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland. By 2000 he was promoted to a Professorship and Chair of Anaesthesiology at this University.

Professor Schug moved to Australia and is now Professor and Chair of Anaesthesia at the School of Medicine and Pharmacology, The University of Western Australia (UWA). He is also Director of Pain Medicine within Royal Perth Hospital's Department of Anaesthesia, and remains an Honorary Professor of Anaesthesiology at the University of Auckland.

Professor Schug is a Fellow of the Australian New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) and of the Faculty of Pain Management of ANZCA. He also has membership with many other Professional Colleges, Faculties and Societies, as well as Academic, Research and Professional Committees and Industry Advisory Boards.

His main areas of research interest are pain (acute and chronic) and pain management, regional anaesthesia and analgesia. Professor Schug is lead investigator in an NRP clinical study looking at a holistic and multi-disciplinary approach to the treatment of pain for individuals following spinal cord injury, utilising a biopsychosocial model. He is also co-investigator in an NRP study led by Dr Corcoran looking at neuroprostanes as blood markers following brain injury.

Current NRP (Chief) Co-investigators:
Dr Michelle Byrnes, Curtin University
Patricia Ray, Dr Allyson Browne, Dr John Ker, Nicky Fortescue, Dr Tomás Corcoran, Dr Trevor Mori, Dr Steven Honeybul, Dr Kwok Ho, Royal Perth Hospital
Prof Michael Paech, King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women