Ep48: Pain Medicine, Pain Advocacy, Pain Innovation, Pain Research: Canadian Pain Society Conference Special

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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