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Dr. Viduranga Waisundara obtained her Ph.D. in Food Science and Technology from the Department of Chemistry, the National University of Singapore in 2010. From July 2009 to March 2013, she was a lecturer at Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore, after which she relocated to her motherland of Sri Lanka. There she spearheaded the Functional Food Product Development Project at the National Institute of Fundamental Studies from

April 2013 to October 2016. Dr. Waisundara was a senior lecturer on a temporary basis at the Department of Food Technology, Faculty of Technology, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka. She is currently the Deputy Principal of the Australian College of Business and Technology–Kandy Campus, in Kandy, Sri Lanka. She is also the present Global Harmonization Initiative (GHI) Ambassador to Sri Lanka.

Ines Banjari, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Food Technology, University of Osijek, Croatia, where she lectures a number of Human Nutrition courses at undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate levels (both doctoral and specialist). She received her Ph.D. in Nutrition (Clinical Nutrition specialist) in November 2012 from the Faculty of Food Biotechnology, University of Zagreb, Croatia, and finished her postdoctoral fellow-

ship at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine, Canada. Since October 2019, she has been a guest professor at the Faculty of Agriculture and Food Technology, University of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She has also been a guest researcher at the Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland (2019); the University of Oslo, Faculty of Medicine, Norway (2017); the University of Split, School of Medicine, Croatia (2016); and the University of Belgrade, School of Medicine, Serbia (2016). She is currently an expert in Public Health Nutrition for the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER) and has been working closely with the European Commission's Joint Research Centre. She is PI of a scientific project with Slovenia (2020–2021) and was PI of a scientific project with Montenegro (2015–2016) and one NATO-funded project (2016–2017). She is also a collaborator on several national and international scientific projects. In 2014, she received the Danubius Young Scientist Award from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research and the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe. In 2016, she received the Young Scientist Award "Vera Johanides" from the Croatian Academy of Engineering. In 2019, she was awarded the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) fellowship from the US Department of State. Dr. Banjari actively volunteers in civic organizations gathering Parkinson's disease patients (Awakening) and oncology patients (OncoPut).

Jelena Balkić, Ph.D., was born in 1982 in Osijek, Croatia. She graduated from the Faculty of Food Technology, University of Osijek, Croatia, in 2008. She received her Ph.D. in Nutrition in 2017 with her thesis on chronic pain management with nutrition intervention. Since 2011, she has been employed at the University Hospital Osijek, Department of Dietetics and Nutrition, where she organizes, coordinates, and supervises the work of the Contents

**Section 1**

*by Srini Chary*

*by Nnenna Ugwu*

Empathy for Pain

The Case of Africa *by Ann Ukachi Madukwe*

Chronic Myofascial Pain

*by Gillian Lauder and Nicholas West*

Suffering as a Diagnostic Indicator *by Marek Rózycki and Robert Tobias*

**Section 2**

Regenerative Medicine

Amputation Pain Management

*by Melinda S. Seering and Sangini Punia*

*by Ece Ozdemir Oktem and Seyda Cankaya*

**Preface XI**

Pain Management - Updates **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 19**

**Chapter 3 33**

**Chapter 4 45**

Pain Management and Psychology **57**

**Chapter 5 59**

**Chapter 6 69**

**Chapter 7 81**

**Chapter 8 113**

Review of Psychological Interventions in the Management of Arthritic Pain:

Clinical Insights into the Importance of Scars and Scar Release in Paediatric

What Do We Need to Consider for Pain Management?

*by Armen Haroutunian, Tennison Malcolm and Thomas Zouki*

Why Effective Pain Management Remains a Challenge

department. She is actively involved in improving dietetics at the hospital by close collaboration with the IT sector on developing nutritional software for the hospital. Patient nutritional counseling is another important aspect of her work. Dr. Balkić has participated in several international and national conferences and is co-author of several scientific publications. She won the best poster award at Štampar Days in December 2019. She is also a collaborator on a scientific project in Slovenia (led by Dr. Banjari).
