{"id":5922,"date":"2021-05-11T19:41:47","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T23:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qprn.ca\/2021\/05\/centre-interdisciplinaire-de-la-famille-edwards-pour-la-douleur-complexe-pediatrique\/"},"modified":"2024-06-18T11:20:22","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T15:20:22","slug":"edwards-family-interdisciplinary-centre-for-pediatric-complex-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qprn.ca\/en\/2021\/05\/11\/edwards-family-interdisciplinary-centre-for-pediatric-complex-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Edwards Family Interdisciplinary Centre for Pediatric Complex Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hopitalpourenfants.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Children&#8217;s Foundation<\/a> will enable even more Quebec children and adolescents living with complex pain to obtain desperately needed help<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>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<\/strong> at the Montreal Children&#8217;s Hospita<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hopitalpourenfants.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">l<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechildren.com\/departments-and-staff\/staff\/pablo-ingelmo-md-pediatric-anesthesiologist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dr Pablo Ingelmo<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newswire.ca\/news-releases\/the-montreal-children-s-hospital-doubles-services-for-children-and-teens-living-with-complex-pain-899708664.html\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Complex pain in children is underdiagnosed and undertreated. About 20% of children and adolescents experience&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-5922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fundings","tag-articles-en"],"acf":[],"views":235,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qprn.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qprn.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qprn.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qprn.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qprn.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qprn.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qprn.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qprn.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qprn.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qprn.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}