Per Hansson, MD, DMSci, DDS, EDPM, specialist in neurology and pain medicine, fmr senior consultant and professor of clinical pain research.
Resumé: Per Hansson, MD, DMSci, DDS, EDPM is a physician and dentist, specialist in neurology and pain medicine. He received his dental and medical degrees from the Karolinska Institutet in 1979 and 1986, respectively, and his PhD in physiology at the same institute in 1985. Karolinska Institutet appointed him associate professor of physiology in 1991 and professor of clinical pain research in 2000. He was a senior consultant and head of the section of Neuropathic pain at the Karolinska University Hospital from 1992 to 2013 and represented during that time neurology in the multidisciplinary pain group at the hospital. He was head of the Pain center at the Karolinska University Hospital from 2004 to 2013. From 2013 to 2022, when he formally retired, he was senior consultant at the Dept. of Pain Management and Research, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway while still holding a position as professor of clinical pain research at Dept. of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Per Hansson is a reviewer for many scientific journals and has served as co-editor of Pain Reviews, on the editorial board of Pain, Clinical Updates and is a former field editor for clinical medicine/neurology of the European Journal of Pain.
From 2003-2006 he was president of the Scandinavian Association for the Study of Pain. He served as Honorary Secretary of the European Federation of IASP Chapters from 2008-2011. He has served as external reviewer for the German Network on Neuropathic Pain, INSERM and the Wellcome Foundation sponsored London Pain Consortium. He has tutored 10 PhD-students to completion and has served as an opponent to multiple PhD-dissertations both nationally and internationally.
In the clinical research domain: Initially, being a dentist, inflammatory pain conditions including pain relief through afferent stimulation were the main research focus but later peripheral and central neuropathic pain, somatosensory testing, activation of endogenous pain controlling systems (including rTMS), functional brain imaging and translational pain medicine represent major areas of research interest and comprise the bulk of publications. He has published around 200 journal articles, position papers, reviews and book chapters, and has lectured at numerous conferences and symposia worldwide. He is co-editor of 2 books published by the IASP Press.