Roger has worked extensively in anaesthesia and pain medicine after beginning his career as a general practitioner in Australia and abroad. He played a pivotal role in establishing pain medicine as a recognised specialty in Australia, contributing to training programs, national standards, and education in the field. His leadership has helped shape the delivery and evolution of pain services across the country.
Goucke CR, Jackson T, Morriss W, Royle J. Essential pain management: an educational program for health care workers. World J Surg. 2015 Apr;39(4):865–70. doi:10.1007/s00268-014-2635-7.
This study describes the development and delivery of the Essential Pain Management (EPM) programme aimed at improving pain education among healthcare workers, particularly in low-resource settings. The programme focuses on simple, practical principles of pain assessment and management, highlighting the feasibility and effectiveness of brief, structured training interventions in diverse healthcare environments.
Marun GN, Morriss WW, Lim JS, Morriss JL, Goucke CR. Addressing the challenge of pain education in low-resource countries: Essential Pain Management in Papua New Guinea. Anesth Analg. 2020 Jun;130(6):1608–15.
This paper reports on the implementation of the EPM programme in Papua New Guinea, detailing its impact on local health professionals’ pain knowledge and attitudes. The findings support the scalability of context-adapted pain education and underscore the importance of sustainable training models in resource-constrained environments.
Slater H, Jordan JE, O’Sullivan PB, Schütze R, Goucke R, Chua J, et al. “Listen to me, learn from me”: a priority setting partnership for shaping interdisciplinary pain training to strengthen chronic pain care. Pain. 2022 Nov;163(11):e1145–63.
This paper explored the care-seeking priorities of people living with chronic pain and carers and how these can shape interdisciplinary workforce training to improve high-value pain care. The “listen to me, learn from me” framework of 44 empirically-derived pain care priorities reflected strong multistakeholder consensus for what is most important to Australian people living with chronic pain and those supporting them, when seeking pain care. This framework underpins the OPEN pain training, ensuring that our training efforts remain faithfully focused on supporting person-centred pain care.
Tuck NL, Khuvtsagaan B, Rashid U, Aamir T, Goucke R, Regjii B, et al. The adaptation of pain assessment tools from high-income to low- and middle-income countries: psychometric properties of a set of chronic pain questionnaires in Mongolian and New Zealand patient samples. Pain Med. 2021 Apr 20;22(4):948–60.
This study evaluated the cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric properties of chronic pain questionnaires for use in Mongolian and New Zealand populations. The findings support the cultural relevance and reliability of adapted tools, contributing to more equitable pain assessment across diverse global contexts.
Lin I, Goucke R, Bullen J, Sharma S, Barnabe C. Inequities in pain: pain in low- and middle-income countries and among Indigenous peoples. In: Van Griensven H, Strong J, editors. Pain: a textbook for health professionals. 3rd ed. Netherlands: Elsevier; 2022 Dec 10.
This book chapter explores the structural and systemic inequities contributing to disparities in pain experiences and treatment among populations in low- and middle-income countries and Indigenous communities. The authors call for culturally safe, equity-focused approaches in policy and practice to address these longstanding gaps in care.
