Position:
Visiting Consultant Pain Specialist
Department:
Anesthesiology Department
Organization:
Hospital Selayang
Country:
Malaysia
Dr. Mary Cardosa
MD
Dr Mary Suma Cardosa is a Visiting Consultant Pain Specialist at Hospital Selayang, Selangor, Malaysia. She is the President of the Malaysian Association for the Study of Pain (MASP), Secretary of ASEAPS, Secretary of the IASP (2020-2022) and Chair of the Developing Countries Working Group.
Mary has done pioneering work in setting up pain services in Malaysia for acute, cancer and chronic pain management in Ministry of Health (MOH) hospitals and primary care settings. She started the Menang Pain management program in Selayang Hospital in 2002 which become a model for group self-management programs in Southeast Asia. She also initiated the implementation of “Pain as the 5th Vital Sign” and the “Pain Free Program” in the MOH. She was involved in planning and running 5 IASP Southeast Asia Pain Camps since 2011, and was the key person in the design and implementation of the IASP Multidisciplinary Pain Clinic Toolkit project.