Professor Stephan Schug
Professor
pharmacology
The University of Western Australia
Australia
Biography
Stephan Schug is currently Professor and Chair of Anaesthesiology in the School of Medicine and Pharmacology at the University of Western Australia and Director of Pain Medicine at the Royal Perth Hospital, Australia. He studied medicine at the University of Cologne, Germany, where he also obtained his MD by thesis in clinical pharmacology and subsequently specialised in anaesthesia, intensive care and pain medicine. Very early in his career, he focused his clinical and research interests on the treatment of patients in pain. Initially he was involved in the setting up and running of the first German cancer pain treatment centre with his friend and colleague Dr. Detlev Zech. After accepting a position in New Zealand in 1989, he initiated one of the first Acute Pain Services in Autralasia at Auckland Hospital. The planned stay of one year became 12 years after he accepted the successorship of Associate Professor Robert Boas a the Head of Secton of Anaesthetics at the University of Auckland. Over the next years he developed academic anaesthesia a the University of Auckland and was awarded a Personal Chair in Anesthesiology in 2000. In 2001 he moved to Perth, Westen Australia, where he succeeded the Inaugural Chair of Anaesthesia at the University of Western Australia, Professor Teik Oh, in 2006. As the Director of Pain Medicine in the Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine of Royal Perh Hospital his clinical responsibilities include the running of a Comprehensive Inpatient Pain Service at this hospital as well as a multidisciplinary Pain Medicine Centre and providing similar services under the auspices of the WA Statewide Pain service at Fiona Stanley Hospital. Both sides are accredited for training by the Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Autralian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists.
Research Interest
Professor Schug’s principal research interests include the management of acute and chronic pain, cancer pain, regional anaesthesia, the pharmacology of analgesics and anaesthetics and quality control in health care.
