Dr Milana Votrubec is a general medical practitioner, pain management consultant, Senior Clinical Lecturer for the Graduate Medical Programs at both Sydney and Notre Dame Universities and Editor of the journal Pain Medicine Today. She is currently the Chair of the Specific Interest in PainManagement, and Life Member, of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners.She is also a Fellow ofthe Faculty of Pain Medicine ofthe Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists. Main interest is in chronic non-malignant pain as a result of physical and emotional trauma.