1. Current Status, Position

Dr. Joanne O’Brien Kelly is an Advanced Nurse Practitioner in the Department of Pain Management iPainCentre at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin. She is working to develop integrated pathways for the management of low back pain, radicular pain and fibromyalgia between the community and hospital setting. Dr O’Brien is also an Honorary Clinical Lecturer with the University of Medicine and Health Sciences, RCSI School of Nursing and Midwifery, Dublin.

2. Education

She graduated in1991 as a registered general nurse from the Mater Misericordiae Hospital in Dublin before working as an intensive care nurse in Klinikum Grosshadern, Munich, Germany for 5 years and in Beaumont Hospital Dublin until 2000. In 2000 Dr. Joanne O’Brien Kelly was appointed a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Pain Management at Beaumont Hospital and completed her MSc Pain Management at the School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Wales. She obtained her certificate qualification in Nurse Prescribing at the University of Medicine and Health Sciences, RCSI Dublin in 2010. In 2015 she registered as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner in Pain Management and in 2018 was awarded an Employment Based Post Graduate Scholarship by the Irish Research Council and obtained her PhD in October 2022 from the RCSI Dublin. 

3. Research Area

Her research interests focus on the management of neuropathic pain with Capsaicin 8%, self-managment strategies in chronic pain management and Fibromyalgia. Her PhD explored the development and impact of an eHealth website on fibromyalgia patients self-efficacy and self-management. 

4. Conflict of interest*
Member of the Advisory Committee for the development of content for the  ‘Change Pain’ platform in 2022.