Welcome to the Chronic Pain Network
The Chronic Pain Network is one of five networks to receive funding through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) and represents an unprecedented level of collaboration amongst national stakeholders.
Working with patients as partner, the Network supports, coordinates and synchronizes leading innovative and high-impact research with the ultimate goal of removing barriers to better chronic pain management.
Network News
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CPN Principal Applicant Margot Latimer Nova Scotia CIHR Indigenous Research Chair in Nursing
May 13, 2020
The Chair will provide funding and infrastructure that will be used with the direction of the First Nations communities in three areas; education, research and clinical practice.
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CPN Co-Applicant Barry Sessle Awarded Gold Medal for Research
May 8, 2020
Pain science pioneer Barry Sessle has been awarded the International Association of Dental Research's highest honour, the Gold Medal, for 2020.
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CPN Principal Applicant Named Distinguished University Professor
April 14, 2020
CPN Principal Applicant and researcher Joy MacDermid was recently named Distinguished University Professor at the University of Western Ontario.
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A New Research Paper Co-Authored by CPN Co-Applicant Melanie Noel
January 13, 2020
Led by PhD student Alexandra Neville, the paper "A 'dyadic dance' pain catastrophizing moderates the daily relationships between parent mood and protective responses and child chronic pain" has now been published in PAIN.
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CPN Principal Applicant Jennifer Stinson Co-Investigator on International Research collaboration
January 10, 2020
Awarded a $9-million research grant through the NIH, the five-year project seeks to uncover a biological signature for chronic pain in adolescents.