McGill Experts: National Pain Awareness Week
November 2-8 is National Pain Awareness Week
Pain is a serious health problem for society, with approximately 15% of Canadians, or 6 million people, reporting to suffer from chronic pain. People in pain will miss work, reducing productivity, and will visit the doctor more frequently, placing a burden on a health care system already stretched thin. In-hospital patients enduring pain from non-surgical conditions are less likely to be treated, whereas outpatients presenting with chronic pain are often dismissed.
McGill experts:
Dr. Mark Ware
Associate Professor, Departments of Family Medicine and Anesthesia, McGill University
Co-Director, FRQS Quebec Pain Research Network
Director of Clinical Research, Alan Edwards Pain Management Unit, Montreal General Hospital
Expertise: Primary care pain management, research on cannabinoids for pain, and interdisciplinary pain management approaches.
Available in English and French
Dr. Fernando Cervero
Past-President, IASP
Director, The Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain, McGill University
Expertise: Pain research, pain mechanisms, neuroscience of pain
fernando.cervero [at] mcgill.ca
Preference for English, but available in French as well