Building on his clinical experience as a senior physiotherapist in public hospital pain clinics, CI Pate’s PhD thesis (January 2020) built upon the growing evidence base for pain science education in children, specifically in terms of developing and testing an assessment tool for a child’s concept of pain. Initial testing of the psychometric properties of the developed assessment tool demonstrated that the Concept of Pain Inventory (COPI) is a brief, psychometrically sound tool to assess a child’s concept of pain. Since then, his research findings have incrementally grown this evidence base. For example, studies of COPI scores in adults, teenagers, parents, and physiotherapy students have been investigated in order to enable targeted pain science education. In 2021, CI Pate was CIA on a $10,000 seed grant where the project is being finalised and he is also CIB on a 2nd $10,000 internal UTS grant reviewing parental decision-making. He has increasingly developed independent research partnerships and networks. Primarily he is working on a wide range of research projects with Stanford University’s Biobehavioral Pediatric Pain Lab.
Dr Josh Pate
