Morten Hoegh, MSc, PhD, is Associate Professor in Musculoskeletal
Pain at Aalborg University, Denmark. With nearly three decades of clini-
cal experience and over twenty years of teaching, he has taught across
universities, professional courses, patient organisations, and mass
media. He has contributed to the development of several pain science
curricula (physio, psychology and nursing) for European Pain Federation
(EFIC) and led the EFIC Academy, the largest online platform for
evidence-based, interdisciplinary pain management and research. His
work bridges clinical practice and academia, focusing on making neuro-
science relevant and useful in real-world care. He actively contributes to
clinical and implementation sciences within the pain field, serves on
editorial boards, and lectures internationally on pain science and man-
agement. In 2023, he received the EFIC Pain Champion Award for his
outstanding contributions to pain education.
