About this episode

This episode features discussions from the Canadian Pain Society Annual Scientific Meeting with experts on pain medicine, advocacy, and innovation.

In this episode, I bring you to Quebec City at the Canadian Pain Society Annual Scientific Meeting to meet 4 incredible individuals: (00:01:34) Dr. Andrea Furlan: The role of a physiatrist in interdisciplinary pain rehab and some of the challenges and hopes she has (00:20:14) Lynn Cooper: The significance of people with lived experiences at the tables of pain research, pain advocacy, and improving pain management in Canada (00:40:39) Tahir Janmohamad: How innovation can fill in the gaps of pain care, particularly how an app with pain tracking and pain psychology can help people living with pain (00:55:26) Dr. Kelly Shinkaruk: Research on why people fail interdisciplinary pain programs Speaker Bio and Links Dr. Andrea Furlan is a physiatrist who sees people living with chronic pain at the Toronto Academic Pain Medicine Institute. She is also a Senior Scientist at the KITE Research Institute, the research arm of the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, and is a professor at the University of Toronto. She also has a YouTube channel on chronic pain management. ECHO UHN on Chronic Pain and Opioid Stewardship: https://uhn.echoontario.ca/Our-Programs/Chronic-Pain Website…

People in this episode

Guests: Dr. Andrea Furlan, Lynn Cooper, Tahir Janmohamad, Dr. Kelly Shinkaruk

Topics covered

• pain medicine
• pain advocacy
• pain innovation
• pain research
• chronic pain management
• interdisciplinary pain rehab

Keywords

• pain management
• chronic pain
• pain research
• interdisciplinary rehab
• pain tracking app
• pain psychology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Canadian Pain Society, Toronto Academic Pain Medicine Institute, KITE Research Institute, University of Toronto, Canadian Pain Coalition

Places: Quebec City

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