A transformational $5-million gift from the Louise and Alan Edwards Foundation expands services for children and teens living with complex pain.
Complex pain in children is underdiagnosed and undertreated. About 20% of children and adolescents experience continuous or recurring pain and 5% have severe disability due to complex painful conditions. However, only a fraction receive the medical care they need. But a transformational donation to the Children’s Foundation will enable even more Quebec children and adolescents living with complex pain to obtain desperately needed help
Jane Edwards and her brother Eric Hoguet of the Louise and Alan Edwards Foundation have pledged $ 5 million to the new Edwards Family Interdisciplinary Center for Complex Pediatric Pain at the Montreal Children’s Hospital. Through its generosity, the Louise and Alan Edwards Foundation, represented by Jane and Eric Edwards, has given Montreal a central place in the world in the field of medicine and pain research.
According to Dr Pablo Ingelmo, the center is currently helping more than 75% of its patients to become functional again. These additional funds will enable him and his team to treat more children and adolescents with pain; expand educational programs for patients, parents and primary caregivers; support medical training and scholarship programs; and intensify research on pain.
