Rate My Professor Michael Nicholas

Nicholas's career includes establishing the first Back Pain Program at Westmead Hospital in 1988, directing the inaugural INPUT cognitive behavioral therapy inpatient multidisciplinary pain management program at St Thomas’ Hospital, London, from 1988 to 1990, and serving as Lecturer in Clinical Psychology at the University of New South Wales from 1990. Since 1994, in a conjoint appointment with the University of Sydney and PMRI, he founded the ADAPT pain management program, delivering over 300 programs that have improved quality of life for patients with severe persistent pain. He has directed the Master of Pain Management program since 2013, an internationally recognized online graduate program. His research focuses on psychosocial contributors to persisting pain, predictors of outcomes, and multidisciplinary interventions, including development of the Pain Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (PSEQ), translated into 50 languages and widely used in research and practice, and collaboration on the Örebro Musculoskeletal Pain Screening Questionnaire. He led the Work Injury Screening and Early Intervention (WISE) study. Nicholas has published over 170 scientific papers with an h-index of 42 (2018) in journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Pain, and Annals of Internal Medicine, plus numerous book chapters; he co-authored 'Manage Your Pain: Practical and Positive Ways of Adapting to Chronic Pain' (2011). Awards include the Australian Pain Society 2018 Distinguished Member Award, honorary FFPMANZCA Fellowship (2009, the only psychologist recipient), and contributions to the National Pain Strategy, international education via IASP, and pain programs in Malaysia and Hong Kong.