The 46th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Canadian Pain Society took place from April 28 to May 2 at the Québec City Convention Centre. The event aimed to bring together scientists, people living with pain and their loved ones, healthcare providers, government officials, and anyone with an interest in the field of pain.
The QPRN team was in Quebec City to discuss pain research with the scientific community. We’re leaving this event with renewed enthusiasm for the future!
Between the conferences and networking sessions, we’d like to thank you for stopping by our booth to discuss QPRN initiatives, the latest scientific advances in the field, and projects that are advancing research.
Our trainees’ network, the Quebec Network of Junior Pain Investigators (QNJPI), also organized the student evening, another great success.
The QPRN is proud to have awarded 15 travel grants through the Meeting Travel Award program to support the dissemination of research by emerging student researchers.
Congratulations to our members Gabrielle Pagé and Carmen-Édith Belleï-Rodriguez for their involvement on the organizing committee for this edition. 👏
We would also like to highlight the contributions of our members who presented their work at the meeting:
- Serge Marchand « Exploring targets for neuromodulation of chronic pain: Insights from neural oscillations, electrophysiology, and behavioural measures of pain sensitization and modulation »
- Pierre Rainville and David Ogez « Hypnosis and pain: from basic research to multimodal integration to improve chronic pain management »
- Hugo Massé-Alarie and Guillaume Léonard « Exploring Neuromodulation for the Management of Chronic Pain: From Mechanisms to Challenges for Clinical Use »
- Gabrielle Pagé and Anaïs Lacasse « Measuring the Quintuple Aim in Healthcare Systems in the Context of Chronic Pain: Advancing Patient Experience, Population Health, Costs Efficiency, Clinician Well-being, and Equity »
- Rodrigo Deamo « Medico-Legal Conundrum of Chronic Pain: A Practical Guide for Clinicians » et « Navigating Pain and Justice: Advocacy, Ethics, and Fairness in Medico-Legal Processes »
- Lynn Gauthier « Following POLARIS: Practical Guidance in Adjudicating Inclusively »
- Magali Millecamps and Guillaume Léonard « Geriatric Discomfort: Is Endogenous Modulation a Function in Decline? »
- Nicole Alberts and Lynn Gauthier « Cancer pain management in Canada: Towards the development of a patient-centered competency-based curriculum for Canadian healthcare professionals »
Congratulations to Etienne Vachon-Presseau, winner of the Canadian Pain Society’s Early Career Award. To mark this achievement, Prof. Vachon-Presseau also presented “A Predictive Framework for Chronic Pain.”
Congratulations to our student members on their awards.
- Claudie Audet, Trainee Travel Award
- Assad Nassoma, Trainee Travel Award
- Joséanne Desrosiers, Trainee Travel Awards in the name of the Women Anesthesiologists of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto
Thank you to all participants, researchers, healthcare professionnals, people with lived experience and partners who contribute to advancing research and improving pain care.
