A tribute to Patrick D. Wall

This supplement honors Patrick D. Wall as the founding editor of Pain and for his multiple seminal contributions to the study of pain over a four-decade career. The idea for such a dedicated volume came about after discussions with Jean-Marie Besson, President of the IASP and other colleagues.

and complements the decision of the IASP to honor him at the Ninth World Congress on Pain in Vienna in August of this year. I enlisted the help of a small group of Pat Wall's research collaborators and friends who helped determine the objectives of the volume and agreed to serve as co-editors' during and indicated how Pat influenced them. We invited 13 other scientists to join us in this celebration, and all agreed to participate.² The greatest tribute to Pat Wall is that the work of these individuals he mentored at some stage of their careers spans the latest advances today in pain and spinal cord research from molecular biology to systems neuroscience to psychophysics. My sincere thanks and appreciation to my co-editors who helped bring this volume to fruition.

Ronald Dubner. Pain. Editor-in-Chief within