QPRN presents:
The North American Pain School,
the official pain school of the Canadian Pain Society and the United States Association for the Study of Pain
An international educational initiative since 2016
Fairmont Le Château Montebello
Montebello, QC, Canada

University of Toronto
“Chronic Pain and Depression in Mice”
Supervisor: Dr Loren Martin

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Parent-Child Interactions and Child Distress During Cancer Painful Procedures: A Caring Perspective”
Supervisor: Dr Sheila Santacroce

Dalhousie University
“Individual, Dyadic, and Family Factors in Children’s Pain”
Supervisor: Dr Christine Chambers

University of Toronto
“Brain and Behavioral Factors that Predict Treatment Efficacy in Chronic Pain”
Supervisor: Dr Karen Davis

University of Florida
“Pain with Movement”
Supervisor: Dr Steven George

Duke University
“Deconstructing the Neuropathic Spinal Cord Using Cell Type- Specific Transcriptional Profiling”
Supervisor: Dr Ru-Rong Ji

Université de Sherbrooke
“Figuring Out How CCL2 and CCR2 Contribute to Chronic Pain by Using RNAi Technology”
Supervisor: Dr Philippe Sarret

Rush University Medical Center
“Burrowing Behaviour in Preclinical Models of Arthritis”
Supervisor: Dr Anne-Marie Malfait

Seattle Children’s Hospital
“What Drives Disability in Adolescents with Chronic Pain?”
Supervisor: Dr Tonya Palermo

University of Pennsylvania
“The Central Circuits of Trigeminal Pain”
Supervisor: Dr Wenquin Luo

University of Florida
“Functional Connectivity Changes within the Pain Processing and Modulatory Networks following Exercise-Induced Muscular Injury and Manual Therapy”
Supervisor: Dr Mark Bishop

Drexel University
“Relationship Between Pain and Traumatic Stress Among Youth”
Supervisor: Dr Brian Daly

University of Pittsburgh
“An Evidence Based Approach to Chronic Pain and Co-Morbid Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders”
Supervisor: Dr Gerald Cochran

Washington State University
“Reinventing the Wheel:
Pain-Depressed Wheel Running
as a Method to Assess Clinically-Relevant Pain”
Supervisor: Dr Michael Morgan

Stanford University
“Refining Rehabilitation: Integrated Care
for People with Persistent Spinal Pain”
Supervisor: Dr Sean Mackey

Imperial College London
“The Impact of Neuropathic Pain on the Outcome of Carpal Tunnel Surgery”
Supervisor: Dr Andrew Rice

Université de Montréal
“Virtual Reality Distraction for Procedural Pain and Anxiety in Children with Burn Injuries”
Supervisor: Dr Sylvie Le May

McGill University
“Sound the ‘Alarmin’: Toll-like Receptors, Intervertebral Disc Degeneration and Low Back Pain”
Supervisor: Dr Lisbet Haglund

Virginia Commonwealth University
“Paclitaxel Effects on Behaviors in Rats”
Supervisor: Dr Stevens Negus

University of North Carolina
“Chronic Pain Development After Burn Injury”
Supervisor: Dr Samuel McLean

Indiana University – Purdue University
“Race, Coping, and Pain”
Supervisor: Dr Adam Hirsh

Medical College of Wisconsin
“Dissection of the Cellular Mechanism by which Keratinocytes Communicate with Sensory Nerve Terminals”
Supervisor: Dr Cheryl Stucky

Dalhousie University
“Proteinase-Activated Receptor-2 Contributes to the Development of Joint Pain in Experimental Osteoarthritis”
Supervisor: Dr Jason McDougall

University of Michigan
“Detecting Pain in Laboratory Rodents”
Supervisor: Dr Jennifer Lofgren

University of Maryland Baltimore
“Oral Capsaicin Model of Burning Mouth Syndrome”
Supervisor: Dr David Seminowicz

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
“Dual Modulation of Muscle Pain and Cardiovascular Reflexes”
Supervisor: Dr Michael Jankowski

McGill University
“Epigenetics, DNA Methylation and Chronic Pain”
Supervisor: Dr Laura Stone

University of Washington
“Role of Pain Extent and Pain Intensity on Sleep Quality in Adolescent and Young Adults”
Supervisor: Dr Mark Jensen

University of Calgary
“The Co-Occurrence and Impact of PTSD and Chronic Pain in Youth: Neural Activation Patterns as a Mutually Maintaining Mechanism”
Supervisor: Dr Melanie Noel

University of British Columbia
“Pain Among People who Use Illicit Drugs: Implications for Health, HIV Risk Behaviours and Clinical Care”
Supervisor: Dr Thomas Kerr