A Professor of Neurology at the University of Würzburg, Germany. She received training in neurology, psychiatry, neuropathology, and experimental pain research. At the University Hospital of Würzburg, she serves as a consultant in neurology, organizes outpatient clinics for patients with neuromuscular disorders, pain and headache, and she leads the Peripheral Nerve Laboratory. Research interests are the pathophysiology of pain, of inflammatory neuropathies, and of antibody-mediated diseases. She has written more than 250 original research papers and more than 100 reviews and book-chapters and edited several books. She has served as President of the German Pain Society in 2019-2020 and as President of the International Society for the Study of Pain (IASP, 2020-2022). She is a Fellow of the European Academy of Neurology, and a Board member of the Peripheral Nerve Society (PNS) and the International Research Consortium for CRPS. She is also Deputy Editor of the European Journal of Neurology.

Dr. Ji is a distinguished Professor of Duke University, William Maixner Professor of Anesthesiology, a Professor of Cell Biology and Neurobiology. He is also Director of the Center for Translational Pain Center (CTPM) at Duke Medical Center. He has been working on mechanisms and therapeutics of chronic pain for over 25 years, which has resulted in 240 publications, including many papers in high impact journals. His lab studies how glial cells and immune cells regulate the pathogenesis and resolution of pain. His research has contributed to conceptual advances in pain research areas such as “neuroimmune interactions”, “gliosis”, “neuroinflammation”. He has promoted the resolution concept of pain for more than a decade, by studying the role of specialized pro-resolving mediators (SPMs) and their receptors in neurons, glial cells, and immune cells. Dr. Ji is a Highly Cited Researcher by Web of Science/Clarivate in the last five years. Dr. Ji received his PhD from Chinese Academy of Sciences. He had been a faculty member at Harvard Medical School for 12 years before joining Duke University.

The Associate Dean of Serving and Engaging Society for Dalhousie University’s Faculty of Medicine, and past Chair of the Board of Engage Nova Scotia. She is a public health specialist physician with 17 years experience, having served as the former Medical Officer of Health for the Halifax area and Deputy Chief Medical Officer of Health for Nova Scotia. She served as a member of the One Nova Scotia Coalition economic strategy table in Nova Scotia and was recently a member of the federal Task Force on Women in the Economy. Dr. Watson-Creed has an MD from Dalhousie University, an MSc from the University of Guelph, a BSc from the University of Prince Edward Island, and an honorary doctorate from Acadia University. She also sits as chair or member of several national population health councils and boards and is a passionate advocate for high-quality public health services in Canada.