Professor Lee Pyeong-bok of Bundang Seoul National University Hospital inaugurated as president of the World Pain Clinical Physicians Association
Jan 05, 2025
Professor Lee Pyeong-bok of the Department of Anesthesiology Pain Medicine at Bundang Seoul National University Hospital (Director of Bundang Seoul National University Hospital) was inaugurated as the president of the World Society of Pain Clinicians (WSPC) on the 1st. The term of office is for two years.
WSPC is an international conference that began in the Netherlands in 1984 for the development of pain research and treatment, and has been active on the international stage every year by gathering members from all over the world to present the latest research results and hold academic conferences to establish standards for global pain treatment.
Lee Pyeong-bok, the new chairman, is a world-renowned authority in pain medicine who served as the president of the Korean Pain Association, the president of the Korean Spine Pain Association, and the chairman of the World Pain Association, and has led the development of pain medicine today by shifting awareness so that pain can be treated as a disease caused by multiple causes beyond the results of a specific disease or physical damage. As the president of the Korean Society of Vertebral Pain, he also led the publication of Korea's first textbook on spinal pain.
As the president of the Korean Pain Association, he also played a major role in promoting the status of Korean pain medicine to the world by leading the joint conference of the World Pain Association, the Korean Pain Association, and the International Spine Pain Association in Seoul last year and successfully holding an academic exchange venue where more than 1,200 global pain medicine experts gathered.
WSPC Chairman Lee Pyeong-bok said, `A large number of patients worldwide suffer from severe deterioration of quality of life due to pain, resulting in a lot of socioeconomic costs"WSPC will play a role in advancing neuroscientific understanding of pain and establishing and advancing global pain treatment standards to help these patients."
WSPC is an international conference that began in the Netherlands in 1984 for the development of pain research and treatment, and has been active on the international stage every year by gathering members from all over the world to present the latest research results and hold academic conferences to establish standards for global pain treatment.
Lee Pyeong-bok, the new chairman, is a world-renowned authority in pain medicine who served as the president of the Korean Pain Association, the president of the Korean Spine Pain Association, and the chairman of the World Pain Association, and has led the development of pain medicine today by shifting awareness so that pain can be treated as a disease caused by multiple causes beyond the results of a specific disease or physical damage. As the president of the Korean Society of Vertebral Pain, he also led the publication of Korea's first textbook on spinal pain.
As the president of the Korean Pain Association, he also played a major role in promoting the status of Korean pain medicine to the world by leading the joint conference of the World Pain Association, the Korean Pain Association, and the International Spine Pain Association in Seoul last year and successfully holding an academic exchange venue where more than 1,200 global pain medicine experts gathered.
WSPC Chairman Lee Pyeong-bok said, `A large number of patients worldwide suffer from severe deterioration of quality of life due to pain, resulting in a lot of socioeconomic costs"WSPC will play a role in advancing neuroscientific understanding of pain and establishing and advancing global pain treatment standards to help these patients."
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
