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Professor
James McAuley
Current Appointments
Senior Research Scientist and Group Leader, NeuRA
Director, Centre for Pain IMPACT
Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Health, UNSW Sydney
Honorary Research Fellow, The George Institute for Global Health
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Professor James McAuley is a psychologist, Professor in the School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health at UNSW and Senior Research Scientist at NeuRA.
James completed his PhD at Brunel University, London (2003). After immigrating to Australia in 2004 he took up a postdoc at the University of Sydney and then at the George Institute for Global Health. In 2010 he moved to NeuRA where he set up the Centre for Pain IMPACT (Investigating Mechanisms of Pain to Advance Clinical Translation). In 2017 James was appointed as Associate Professor to the Exercise Physiology department at UNSW and in 2020 he was promoted to Professor.
James’ research combines experimental, clinical and translational methods to develop and test new interventions to manage low back pain. James has published >300 articles (Google Scholar, ORCID) and holds over >$30M in research funding. He is regularly invited to give talks at conferences and scientific meetings. James has supervised 25 PhD students and mentored 12 postdocs.
James is the chair of the back pain group of SPHERE MSK and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) for the Australian and New Zealand Musculoskeletal Clinical Trials Network (ANZMUSC). In 2015 James founded the NSW network for pain PhD students/ECRs (SPRiNG).
Publications
2024, 01 Nov
Can assessment of human assumed central sensitisation improve the predictive accuracy of the STarT Back screening tool in acute low back pain?
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1175528575
2024 Oct
Adjunctive use of hypnosis for clinical pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1097/PR9.0000000000001185
2024 Oct
Barriers and enablers to exercise adherence in people with nonspecific chronic low back pain: a systematic review of qualitative evidence
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003234
2024, 01 Sep
Treatment Effect Modifiers for Return-to-Work in Patients With Musculoskeletal Disorders
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1171383408
2024 Sep
Emotion regulation skills‐focused interventions for chronic pain: A systematic review and meta‐analysis
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1002/ejp.2268
2024, 01 Aug
How Low Back Pain is Managed—A Mixed-Methods Study in 32 Countries. Part 2 of Low Back Pain in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Series
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1170649143
2024, 25 Jul
The smallest worthwhile effect on pain and function for rotator cuff repair surgery: a benefit-harm trade-off study
View full preprint on https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.07.24.24310953
2024, 23 Jul
Perceptions of advice for acute low back pain: A content analysis of qualitative data collected in a randomised experiment
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1174064925
2024, 01 Jul
A Qualitative Study Identifying Barriers and Enablers to Exercise Adherence in People with Chronic Low Back Pain. “It's a personal journey”
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1168625883
2024, 01 Jul
Clinimetrics: Douleur Neuropathique en 4 Questions (DN4)
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1170110176
James' research team
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Research Assistant
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