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Gabrielle Pagé

Ph.D. (doctor),  Regular member
Expertise
Psychology
Principal Interest
Epidemiology and pain trajectories
Secondary Interest
Comorbidities
Primary Affiliation

Université de Montréal

Secondary Affiliation
Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM)

Biography

Gabrielle Pagé holds a PhD in clinical psychology. She is a Junior 2 Research Scholar with the Fonds de recherche en santé – Québec and an Associate Research Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the Université de Montréal. She practices as a psychologist at the Alan Edwards Pain Management Unit at the Montreal General Hospital.
Her research interests include the transition from acute to persistent pain, the biopsychosocial determinants of the development and maintenance of persistent pain, the impact of physical and mental comorbidities on the experience and management of pain, the association between stress and pain, as well as care trajectories. Her studies are primarily epidemiological and focused on implementation science.

What advice would you give to someone wishing to pursue a career in pain research?
My main advice would be to build a research career based on interdisciplinary collaboration and meaningful engagement with stakeholders. I have greatly benefited from having developed strong partnerships with researchers from complementary disciplines from the outset, who have become great allies. It's also essential to integrate patient partners as full members of the research team. Their experiential knowledge makes it possible to formulate more relevant questions, interpret results in a nuanced way, and foster the adoption of knowledge. Networking with members of the community - clinicians, policy-makers, and community organizations, ensures that research is grounded in social and clinical realities. By placing collaboration at the heart of our approach, we can generate knowledge that is more useful, more equitable and better adapted to the needs of people living with pain.