Chronic Pain Network

Principal Applicant

Manon Choinière is a full professor with the Department of Anesthesiology at the Université de Montréal, as well as an accredited professor in the Department of Pharmacology and the School of Rehabilitation. She is a full-time researcher at the research centre the Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, where she leads the pain research group.

Dr. Choinière earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology at the Université de Montréal and went on to do her doctoral and postdoctoral work at McGill University in health psychology with a specialisation in the field of pain.

Dr. Choinière is one of the founding members of the Québec Pain Research Network (QPRN) of the Fonds de Recherche du Québec. In 2008, Dr. Choinière’s research team implemented the Quebec Pain Registry within the QPRN. Her research interests include bio-psycho-social and economical consequences of chronic pain; assessment of health care resources and quality of analgesic practices; risk factors of chronic pain after surgery; and assessment of the efficacy of knowledge exchange/transfer strategies in the field of pain.