Biography
Etienne Vachon-Presseau has been hired as a tenured track Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Dentistry and the Department of anesthesiology at McGill University in august 2019. He dedicated the last 10 years of his research to unravel the brain mechanisms regulating persistent pain. He completed a PhD degree in psychology under the supervision of Pierre Rainville at l’Université de Montréal (2006-2014) where he studied the impact of stress hormones on the brain in persistent back pain patients. He then conducted a post-doctoral fellow under the supervision of Vania Apkarian at Northwestern University (2013-present) where he studied the brain properties predicting the development of persistent back pain and the response to treatment in the settings of randomized controlled trials.
He is implementing a research agenda oriented towards combining brain imaging techniques with machine learning to predict health outcomes. His primary aim is currently to develop an objective biomarker for persistent pain using the features of the brain.
