Professor Lorimer Moseley FACP AO, one of Australia’s leading pain researchers, a Specialist Research Physiotherapist (as awarded by the Australian College of Physiotherapists in 2011) and an APA Honoured Member, was awarded the 2026 Distinguished Member Award by the Australian Pain Society at its 2026 conference for his contributions to pain medicine and to public and patient education about the nature of pain and its management, and for his support of the people who have worked for him. 

An incredibly accomplished pain scientist, he has authored more than 440 scientific journal articles, gaining over 45,000 citations across seventeen fields of work, and written several successful books. 

These metrics place Lorimer in the top 0.2 per cent of scientists worldwide. 

Of the 66 trainees he has supervised, 27 have been awarded PhDs. 

He has received more than $30 million in research funding. 

In 2020 he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for ‘distinguished service to medical research and science communication, to education, to the study of pain and its management, and to physiotherapy.’ 

Currently, Lorimer leads the Body in Mind research group within IIMPACT in Health at Adelaide University, where he and his team investigate the role of the brain and the mind in chronic pain.

Lorimer has given much to the public over his years of service. 

He developed Body in Mind in 2009, a free blog and resource hub (now managed by the International Association for the Study of Pain) that has published more than 1000 resources over the past decade.

And he initially funded and led the establishment of the non-profit initiative Pain Revolution, which delivers programs that serve to inform the public about pain and pain management and to increase health system capacity in rural and regional Australia.