Former medical faculty member to give Murphy Lecture on politics of pain management

Dr. John Edmond Charlton

Dr. John Edmond Charlton, a former UW School of Medicine faculty member, will present the second annual Terence M. Murphy Lecture at 5 p.m., Tuesday, April 28, in room T-639 of the Health Sciences Center. His topic is "Slippery When Wet—The Politics of Pain Management," and the lecture is open to the public.

Charlton, who was assistant director of the UW Pain Clinic in the late 1970s, is now a consultant in pain management and anesthesia and honorary clinical lecturer at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, in the United Kingdom, a post he has held since he left Seattle in 1980.

His clinical interests center on the practical management of patients in small pain clinics and the use of regional anesthesia for pain management and surgery.

Charlton is president of the Pain Society, the British and Irish chapter of the International Association for the Study of Pain, He is also secretary of the international group and editor of the Clinical Notes section of the journal Pain. He has been a visiting professor, lecturer and examiner throughout Great Britain and in other countries.

The lectureship honors the late Dr. Terence Murphy, a member of the UW Department of Anesthesiology faculty from 1971 until his death in 1996. He was an exemplary clinician and teacher who made major contributions to the field of pain medicine and regional anesthesia. The lectureship is funded by public contributions. ¶