Lise Dassieu

Ph.D. (doctor), Regular member

Expertise
Other

Principal Interest
Quality of life

Secondary Interest
Comorbidities

Primary Affiliation

Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)

Secondary Affiliation
Centre de recherche de l'Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal (HSCM)

Biography

Lise Dassieu is a researcher at the Centre de recherche Savoirs Partagés of the CIUSSS du Nord-de-l'Île-de-Montréal and adjunct professor at the School of Social Work of UQÀM. She is a health sociologist specializing in qualitative and participatory research on chronic pain. She develops her projects in partnership with health and social service practitioners and people with lived expertise.
Her research program examines social health inequities in terms of access to services, lived experiences, and intervention practices, with the aim of promoting equity and improving the experiences of socially marginalized people living with chronic pain. Her recent projects focus on the intersections between chronic pain and immigration.
Lise Dassieu holds a PhD in sociology fromthe Université de Toulouse in France (2015), two postdoctoral experiences in population health in Quebec (Université de Sherbrooke and CR-CHUM), as well as experience as a researcher in a pan-Canadian health organization (Canadian Centre on Substance use and Addiction).

What excites you most about your research program or field?

Over the years, I've had many opportunities to work with people with lived experience of chronic pain or other health conditions. Learning alongside them is certainly one of the activities I find most exciting in my work. When people living with pain consider my research useful, it gives meaning to my work as a researcher. Furthermore, if my work can help to deconstruct prejudice and combat the stigmatization of socially marginalized people living with chronic pain, then I consider that I have fulfilled my mission.