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
Deceased*