CPN-KMIS Principal Applicants

A faculty member of McMaster University since 1988, Dr. Norm Buckley has served three term as Professor and Chair of the Department of Anesthesia, Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine. Having held hospital administrative positions as Operating Room Director, Chief of Anesthesia (Chedoke McMaster) and Deputy Chief (Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation), Dr. Buckley’s particular interests are pain, both acute and chronic. His clinical work is focused on chronic pain management at the Michael G. DeGroote Pain Clinic, McMaster University Medical Centre.  In 2010, Dr. Buckley established and is the director of the Michael G. DeGroote National Pain Centre.   He is scientific director of the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Pain Research and Care. In addition to Dr. Buckley is the nominated principal applicant and Scientific Director of the SPOR-funded Chronic Pain Network.  With $25 million in funding, the focus of the Network is improved health outcomes for Canadians living with chronic pain.

A faculty member of McMaster University since 1988, Dr. Norm Buckley has served three term as Professor and Chair of the Department of Anesthesia, Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine. Having held hospital administrative positions as Operating Room Director, Chief of Anesthesia (Chedoke McMaster) and Deputy Chief (Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation), Dr. Buckley’s particular interests are pain, both acute and chronic. His clinical work is focused on chronic pain management at the Michael G. DeGroote Pain Clinic, McMaster University Medical Centre.  In 2010, Dr. Buckley established and is the director of the Michael G. DeGroote National Pain Centre.   He is scientific director of the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Pain Research and Care. In addition to Dr. Buckley is the nominated principal applicant and Scientific Director of the SPOR-funded Chronic Pain Network.  With $25 million in funding, the focus of the Network is improved health outcomes for Canadians living with chronic pain.

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.

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.

Dr. Ian Gilron is an anesthesiologist, Professor of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine, Biomedical & Molecular Sciences and Neuroscience Studies, and Director of Clinical Pain Research at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He is the current recipient of a SEAMO Clinician Scientist Research Salary Award and has been continuously funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) since 2000 for an innovative pain research program.

Among over 100 career-spanning peer-reviewed journal publications, work from Dr. Gilron’s team at Queen’s University has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, CMAJ, Pain, Anesthesiology and other journals. He has co-authored the Canadian Pain Society and IASP NeuPSIG guidelines on neuropathic pain treatment.

Dr. Gilron is a Councilor of the International Association for the Study of Pain, serves on the Executive Committee of the Analgesic “ACTTION” partnership and is one of the Principal Investigators of the CIHR SPOR Chronic Pain Network.

Dr. Ian Gilron is an anesthesiologist, Professor of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine, Biomedical & Molecular Sciences and Neuroscience Studies, and Director of Clinical Pain Research at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He is the current recipient of a SEAMO Clinician Scientist Research Salary Award and has been continuously funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) since 2000 for an innovative pain research program.

Among over 100 career-spanning peer-reviewed journal publications, work from Dr. Gilron’s team at Queen’s University has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, CMAJ, Pain, Anesthesiology and other journals. He has co-authored the Canadian Pain Society and IASP NeuPSIG guidelines on neuropathic pain treatment.

Dr. Gilron is a Councilor of the International Association for the Study of Pain, serves on the Executive Committee of the Analgesic “ACTTION” partnership and is one of the Principal Investigators of the CIHR SPOR Chronic Pain Network.

Maria Hudspith is the inaugural Executive Director of Pain BC, a position she has held since June 2010. With two decades of experience in community development and systems change, Maria provides strategic leadership, focused on education, engagement, knowledge translation and advocacy in support of people living with chronic pain. Her responsibilities include developing and implementing strategic and operational plans, designing and evaluating programs, leading fundraising efforts and developing and sustaining partnerships.

Maria has more than two decades of experience working in the public sector to mobilize communities, democratize organizations and advance progressive agendas through policy change and program development.

Maria Hudspith is the inaugural Executive Director of Pain BC, a position she has held since June 2010. With two decades of experience in community development and systems change, Maria provides strategic leadership, focused on education, engagement, knowledge translation and advocacy in support of people living with chronic pain. Her responsibilities include developing and implementing strategic and operational plans, designing and evaluating programs, leading fundraising efforts and developing and sustaining partnerships.

Maria has more than two decades of experience working in the public sector to mobilize communities, democratize organizations and advance progressive agendas through policy change and program development.

Dr. Alfonso Iorio is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact McMaster University. He is the Director of the Health Information Research Unit, a research unit that conducts research in the field of health information science. He is also the Director of the Hamilton-Niagara Regional Hemophilia Treatment Centre located in the McMaster Children’s Hospital as well as having clinical on-call privileges at the Juravinski and McMaster Thrombosis Clinics.

He is the principal investigator of three multicentre initiatives: CHESS (Canadian Hemophilia Surveillance Scheme), the Canadian “branch” of the EUHASS surveillance scheme for adverse effects of haemophilia treatment; CBDR (Canadian Bleeding Disorders Registry), the new clinical management software used by a network of hemophilia clinics in Canada; and WAPPS-Hemo (Web Available Population Pharmacokinetics Service for Hemophilia), a web-based solution for simplified estimation of individual factor concentrate pharmacokinetics.

Dr. Iorio is an Associate Editor for Blood Coagulation Disorders of the Cystic Fibrosis and Genetic Disorders Review Group of the Cochrane Collaboration, Chair of the Data and Demographics Committee of the World Federation of Hemophilia (WFH) and he is also on various editorial boards including ACP Journal Club and the Journal of Haemophila.

Dr. Alfonso Iorio is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact McMaster University. He is the Director of the Health Information Research Unit, a research unit that conducts research in the field of health information science. He is also the Director of the Hamilton-Niagara Regional Hemophilia Treatment Centre located in the McMaster Children’s Hospital as well as having clinical on-call privileges at the Juravinski and McMaster Thrombosis Clinics.

He is the principal investigator of three multicentre initiatives: CHESS (Canadian Hemophilia Surveillance Scheme), the Canadian “branch” of the EUHASS surveillance scheme for adverse effects of haemophilia treatment; CBDR (Canadian Bleeding Disorders Registry), the new clinical management software used by a network of hemophilia clinics in Canada; and WAPPS-Hemo (Web Available Population Pharmacokinetics Service for Hemophilia), a web-based solution for simplified estimation of individual factor concentrate pharmacokinetics.

Dr. Iorio is an Associate Editor for Blood Coagulation Disorders of the Cystic Fibrosis and Genetic Disorders Review Group of the Cochrane Collaboration, Chair of the Data and Demographics Committee of the World Federation of Hemophilia (WFH) and he is also on various editorial boards including ACP Journal Club and the Journal of Haemophila.

Dr. Latimer completed a PhD from McGill University (2006) and a post doctorate from Laval University (2010) in neuroscience. She holds a scientific appointment with the IWK and is faculty in the IWK Centre for Pediatric Pain Research. She works closely with communities to mobilize Indigenous knowledge and co-leads the CIHR funded research “Aboriginal Children’s Hurt and Healing” Initiative with Eskasoni Health Director, Sharon Rudderham.

Dr. Latimer completed a PhD from McGill University (2006) and a post doctorate from Laval University (2010) in neuroscience. She holds a scientific appointment with the IWK and is faculty in the IWK Centre for Pediatric Pain Research. She works closely with communities to mobilize Indigenous knowledge and co-leads the CIHR funded research “Aboriginal Children’s Hurt and Healing” Initiative with Eskasoni Health Director, Sharon Rudderham.

Melanie Noel is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Calgary, a Full Member of the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute (Behaviour and the Developing Brain Theme), and an Associate Member of the Mathison Centre for Mental Health Research and Education. Prior to launching her research lab within the Vi Riddell Children’s Pain and Rehabilitation Centre at the Alberta Children’s Hospital, Dr. Noel received training in pediatric acute and chronic pain research in Canada and the United States.

Dr. Noel’s research expertise is in the area of children’s memories for pain and co-occurring mental health issues and pediatric chronic pain. She has published conceptual psychological models of children’s pain memory development, co-occurring PTSD and chronic pain, and fear-avoidance. Her current research is funded by a Society of Pediatric Psychology Targeted Research Grant, an American Pain Society Future Leaders in Pain Research Grant, the Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Strategy for Patient Oriented Research (SPOR). She is also a co-investigator on the Canadian Institutes of Health Research SPOR ‘Chronic Pain Network’, a cross-national group of chronic pain researchers and patients. In recognition of her contributions to advancing knowledge of the psychological aspects of children’s pain, Dr. Noel was named the most recent recipient of the Canadian Pain Society Early Career Award and the Canadian Psychological Association President’s New Researcher Award.

Dr. Noel is an advocate for the use of developmentally tailored psychological interventions for pediatric pain management and serves on committees to assess, promote, and implement evidence-based interventions within her children’s hospital and beyond. She is a member of the SPOR Pediatric Pain Registry sub-committee and a national collaborator on the Pain in Child Health Strategic Training Initiative. As an evidence lead on the HELPinKids&Adults (Help Eliminate Pain in Kids and Adults) team, Dr. Noel co-authored clinical practice guidelines for pain and fear management for vaccine injections across the lifespan. Many of these recommendations were adopted by the World Health Organization.

Melanie Noel is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Calgary, a Full Member of the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute (Behaviour and the Developing Brain Theme), and an Associate Member of the Mathison Centre for Mental Health Research and Education. Prior to launching her research lab within the Vi Riddell Children’s Pain and Rehabilitation Centre at the Alberta Children’s Hospital, Dr. Noel received training in pediatric acute and chronic pain research in Canada and the United States.

Dr. Noel’s research expertise is in the area of children’s memories for pain and co-occurring mental health issues and pediatric chronic pain. She has published conceptual psychological models of children’s pain memory development, co-occurring PTSD and chronic pain, and fear-avoidance. Her current research is funded by a Society of Pediatric Psychology Targeted Research Grant, an American Pain Society Future Leaders in Pain Research Grant, the Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Strategy for Patient Oriented Research (SPOR). She is also a co-investigator on the Canadian Institutes of Health Research SPOR ‘Chronic Pain Network’, a cross-national group of chronic pain researchers and patients. In recognition of her contributions to advancing knowledge of the psychological aspects of children’s pain, Dr. Noel was named the most recent recipient of the Canadian Pain Society Early Career Award and the Canadian Psychological Association President’s New Researcher Award.

Dr. Noel is an advocate for the use of developmentally tailored psychological interventions for pediatric pain management and serves on committees to assess, promote, and implement evidence-based interventions within her children’s hospital and beyond. She is a member of the SPOR Pediatric Pain Registry sub-committee and a national collaborator on the Pain in Child Health Strategic Training Initiative. As an evidence lead on the HELPinKids&Adults (Help Eliminate Pain in Kids and Adults) team, Dr. Noel co-authored clinical practice guidelines for pain and fear management for vaccine injections across the lifespan. Many of these recommendations were adopted by the World Health Organization.

Dr. Patricia Poulin is Clinical, Health, and Rehabilitation Psychologist at The Ottawa Hospital Pain Clinic, an associate investigator at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and a clinical professor with the University of Ottawa School of Psychology, with a cross-appointment to the Department of Anesthesiology. Following the completion of her Ph.D. in 2009 (University of Toronto), Dr. Poulin completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Clinical, Health and Rehabilitation Psychology with the Ottawa Hospital Institute for Rehabilitation Research and Development.

Dr. Poulin’s academic and clinical interests include: prevention, treatment and management of chronic pain, as well as opioid tolerance and addiction in the setting of chronic pain; the role of mindfulness-based intervention in the management and treatment of chronic pain and other chronic diseases; and the effect of mindfulness-based intervention on the brain as well as on biomarkers of stress and immune function. She is also a strong proponent of patient engagement in research and health care quality improvement.

Dr. Patricia Poulin is Clinical, Health, and Rehabilitation Psychologist at The Ottawa Hospital Pain Clinic, an associate investigator at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and a clinical professor with the University of Ottawa School of Psychology, with a cross-appointment to the Department of Anesthesiology. Following the completion of her Ph.D. in 2009 (University of Toronto), Dr. Poulin completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Clinical, Health and Rehabilitation Psychology with the Ottawa Hospital Institute for Rehabilitation Research and Development.

Dr. Poulin’s academic and clinical interests include: prevention, treatment and management of chronic pain, as well as opioid tolerance and addiction in the setting of chronic pain; the role of mindfulness-based intervention in the management and treatment of chronic pain and other chronic diseases; and the effect of mindfulness-based intervention on the brain as well as on biomarkers of stress and immune function. She is also a strong proponent of patient engagement in research and health care quality improvement.

Dr. Jennifer Stinson is a Nurse Clinician-Scientist in Child Health Evaluative Sciences and an Advanced Practice Nurse in the Chronic Pain Program at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. She is also an Associate Professor in the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, Institute of Medical Sciences and Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto.

Her major clinical research interests are in the area of pain and symptom management and the use of e-health (internet) and m-health (mobile phones) technologies to improve the assessment and management of pain and other symptoms in children with painful chronic and life threatening illnesses.

Her innovative research work using digital health technologies has been recognized by her receiving several prestigious New Investigator Career Scientist Awards including the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, the Canadian Arthritis Network, The Early Researcher Award and the CIHR Peter Lougheed CIHR. She is also the inaugural Mary Jo Haddad Nursing Research Chair in Child Health at SickKids.

Dr. Stinson has also been actively involved in the Canadian Pain Society, serving as secretary, newsletter editor and, most recently, as co-chair of the scientific program committee.

Dr. Jennifer Stinson is a Nurse Clinician-Scientist in Child Health Evaluative Sciences and an Advanced Practice Nurse in the Chronic Pain Program at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. She is also an Associate Professor in the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, Institute of Medical Sciences and Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto.

Her major clinical research interests are in the area of pain and symptom management and the use of e-health (internet) and m-health (mobile phones) technologies to improve the assessment and management of pain and other symptoms in children with painful chronic and life threatening illnesses.

Her innovative research work using digital health technologies has been recognized by her receiving several prestigious New Investigator Career Scientist Awards including the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, the Canadian Arthritis Network, The Early Researcher Award and the CIHR Peter Lougheed CIHR. She is also the inaugural Mary Jo Haddad Nursing Research Chair in Child Health at SickKids.

Dr. Stinson has also been actively involved in the Canadian Pain Society, serving as secretary, newsletter editor and, most recently, as co-chair of the scientific program committee.

Thomas Hadjistavropoulos is Professor of Psychology, University of Regina and Past-President of the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA). He is internationally recognized as an authority on pain among seniors with his methodologies now being applied by researchers and clinicians all over the world.

Dr. Hadjistavropoulos has shown leadership in the promotion of the health sciences at the local, national and international level and has been honoured through a long list of prestigious awards and distinctions including a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Investigator Award, a Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation Achievement Award and many others.

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Thomas Hadjistavropoulos is Professor of Psychology, University of Regina and Past-President of the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA). He is internationally recognized as an authority on pain among seniors with his methodologies now being applied by researchers and clinicians all over the world.

Dr. Hadjistavropoulos has shown leadership in the promotion of the health sciences at the local, national and international level and has been honoured through a long list of prestigious awards and distinctions including a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Investigator Award, a Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation Achievement Award and many others.

Photo courtesy of University of Regina, Department of Photography

Dr. Karine Toupin-April is an Associate Scientist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Research Institute, and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and the School of Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Ottawa. She is a co-director of the “Society, the Individual and Medicine” courses offered to medical students in the Francophone stream at the University of Ottawa. She is also one of the editors in the Cochrane Musculoskeletal Group.

Dr. Toupin-April holds a Bachelor of Science in Occupational Therapy, a Master’s degree in Rehabilitation, and a PhD in Public Health and Epidemiology from the University of Montreal. She also completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Epidemiology and Community Medicine at the University of Ottawa.

She has research expertise in chronic disease management, complementary and alternative medicine, patient-reported outcome measures, shared decision making and knowledge translation. Her research includes the development and assessment of patient-reported outcome measures, decision support interventions and self-management tools in pediatric and adult rheumatology. As a young investigator, her program of research aims to develop and evaluate a decision support intervention to help youth with juvenile arthritis to choose among pain management options. Her research is funded by The Arthritis Society and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

Dr. Karine Toupin-April is an Associate Scientist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Research Institute, and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and the School of Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Ottawa. She is a co-director of the “Society, the Individual and Medicine” courses offered to medical students in the Francophone stream at the University of Ottawa. She is also one of the editors in the Cochrane Musculoskeletal Group.

Dr. Toupin-April holds a Bachelor of Science in Occupational Therapy, a Master’s degree in Rehabilitation, and a PhD in Public Health and Epidemiology from the University of Montreal. She also completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Epidemiology and Community Medicine at the University of Ottawa.

She has research expertise in chronic disease management, complementary and alternative medicine, patient-reported outcome measures, shared decision making and knowledge translation. Her research includes the development and assessment of patient-reported outcome measures, decision support interventions and self-management tools in pediatric and adult rheumatology. As a young investigator, her program of research aims to develop and evaluate a decision support intervention to help youth with juvenile arthritis to choose among pain management options. Her research is funded by The Arthritis Society and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.