Lisa Goudman

Exploring how pain can be understood, measured and translated into better treatment.

I am an interdisciplinary researcher working across chronic pain, biostatistics and neuromodulation. My work focuses on developing objective and holistic approaches to capture the lived experience of chronic pain.

Through sustained collaboration with clinicians and international partners, I combine data analysis and clinical insight to improve how outcomes are defined and interpreted in pain research. My research often revisits long accepted assumptions and aims to create frameworks that make complex information usable for both scientists and healthcare professionals.

Research focus

• Developing multicomponent outcome measures for chronic pain

• Linking clinical, behavioural and physiological data to guide treatment decisions

• Methodological rigor: study design, multilevel/longitudinal modelling, evidence synthesis

Selected contributions

• Demonstrated that common pain scales are not interchangeable (Anaesthesia, 2024)

• Showed no decline in pain-medication use over the last decade (Anesthesiology, 2024)

• Coordinated multicentre high-dose SCS study introducing a holistic outcome (PAIN, 2021)

Outreach

• President of the Benelux Neuromodulation Society, Section Editor (Biostatistics) for Neuromodulation

• Invited guest in The Neuromodulation Podcast

• STIMULUS@home application