John J. Bonica Award Recipients
Eastern Pain Association
1979 Dr. Patrick D. Wall*
On the Relation of Injury to Pain
1980 Dr. William H. Sweet*
Animal Models of Chronic Pain: Their Possible Validation from Human Experience
1981 Dr. Raymond W. Houde*
Pain and The Search for the Holy Grail: New Drugs Revisited
1982 Dr. Ronald Melzack*
The Reality of Labour Pain ​
1983 Dr. John C. Liebeskind*
Pain Modulation: Central Mechanisms and Environmental Triggers
1984 Dr. Avram Goldstein*
Pain and the Endogenous Opioids
1985 Dr. Wilbert E. Fordyce*
Pain, Freedom of Choice and Accountability
1986 Dr. Kathleen M. Foley
Cancer Pain: Controversy and Challenges
1987 Dr. Howard L. Fields
Endogenous Mechanisms of Pain Control
1988 Dr. Vittorio Ventafridda*
Continuing Care: An Important Issue in Cancer Pain
1989 Dr. William D. Willis, Jr.*
The Role of Spinothalamic Neurons in Hyperalgesia
1990 Ada G. Rogers, R.N. *
The ABCs of Pediatric Pain
1991 Dr. B. Berthold Wolff *
The Measurement of Pain: An Odyssey
1992 Dr. Ulf Lindblom*
Pain and Sensory Dysfunction, Integration and Separation
1993 Dr. Tony L. Yaksh
The Practical Significance of Processing Bias in Spinal Pain Transmission OR How Tightly Wound is your Patient’s Watch?
1994 Dr. Charles E. Inturrisi
Molecular Markers of Pain and Analgesic Tolerance
1995 Dr. Michael J. Cousins
Drug Treatment of Pain by local Anesthetics and other Regionally Applied Drugs: Current and Future Applications.
1996 Dr. Jes Olesen Migraine: Diagnosis and Pathophysiology.
1997 Dr. Abraham Sunshine* Clinical Analgesic Studies: The Future of the Past.
1998 Dr. Gerald F. Gebhart
Visceral Pain and its Modulation
1999 Dr. William T. Beaver
It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again: Reflections of an Analgesiologist
2000 Dr. Donald D. Price*
Mechanisms and New Treatments of Persistent Pain
2001 Dr. Gavril Pasternak *
Molecular Mechanisms of Morphine Action: From the Clinic to the Bench
2002 Dr. Clifford Woolf
Chipping Away at Pain Mechanisms
2003 Dr. Russell Portenoy
Long-Term Opioid Treatment for Chronic Pain: A Modern Twist on an Ancient Therapy
2004 Dr. Daniel B. Carr
Translating Clinical Research to Clinical Practice: A Never Ending Challenge
2005 Dr. Patrick Mantyh
Mechanisms that Drive Cancer Pain
2006 Dr. Richard Payne *
What is Compassionate Pain Care in the 21st Century? Is the Good Samaritan an Oxymoron in 21st Century Health Care?
2007 Dr. James Eisenach
Obstetrics: Pain Fibers (but not pain) Speed Labor And Protect Against Chronic Pain
2008 Charles S. Cleeland, PhD
The Symptom Complex: What Goes Along with Having Chronic Pain?
2009 David Joranson, MSSW
Pain and Public Policy – Reflections on the Journey
2010 Steven D. Passik, PhD
To Pee or not to Pee: The Evolution of Urine Screening and other aspects of Risk Management in Opioid Therapy
2011 Robert Dworkin, PhD
From Mechanisms to Medicines: the Crisis in Analgesic Drug Development and What Can Be Done About It
2012 Dennis C. Turk, PhD
Genotyping, Phenotyping, Psychotyping Patients with Chronic Pain: Virtues of Splitting vs. Lumping
2013 Gary J. Bennett, PhD
Mitochondria – Novel Therapeutic Targets for the Control of Neuropathic Pain
2014 William K. Schmidt, PhD
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Innovations in Analgesic Drug Development
2015 Michael Stanton-Hicks, DMED, MBBS
History of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)
2016 Charles Argoff, MD
The Future of Pain Medicine
2017 Frank Porreca, PhD
Going in Circles with Opioids for Treatment of Pain
2018 Richard B Lipton MD
Migraine, a Sometimes Progressive Pain Disorder ​
2019 Michael J. Caterina, MD PhD
Mechanisms of Cutaneous Pain Sensation ​
2020 Steven P Cohen, MD
Challenges in the Design and Interpretation of Clinical Trials in Interventional Pain Medicine ​
2021 Mark Steven Wallace, MD
The Evolution of Medical Cannabis for Pain: 25-Year Experience ​
2022 Rami Burstein, MD
The Neurobiology of Migraine - From Pathophysiology to Choice of Treatment ​
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2023 Jennifer Haythornthwaite, PhD ​
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2024 Richard North, MD ​
* Deceased