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

2019 Visiting Faculty

Robert Edwards

Robert Edwards

  • Associate Professor, Depts. of Anesthesiology and Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital / Harvard University

Judith Paice

Judith Paice

  • Professor, Dept. of Medicine (Hematology & Oncology), Feinberg School of Medicine / Northwestern University
  • Director of the Cancer Pain Program in the Division of Hematology-Oncology, Feinberg School of Medicine / Northwestern University

Cheryl Stucky

Cheryl Stucky

  • Marvin Wagner Endowed Professor Cell Biology
  • Director, Pain Division, Neuroscience Research Center, Medical College of Wisconsin
  • Director, Neuroscience Doctoral Program

Troels Staehelin Jensen

Troels Staehelin Jensen

  • Professor of Neurology at Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark
  • Professor of experimental and clinical Pain Research at Aarhus University, Denmark
  • Director of the International Diabetic Neuropathy Consortium at Aarhus University, Denmark

Jennifer Laird

Jennifer Laird

  • Vice-President, Search & Evaluation – Pain & Neurodegeneration, Lilly Research Laboratories, Eli Lilly and Company

Yves De Koninck

Yves De Koninck

  • Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Laval University
  • Associate Professor, McGill University
  • Scientific Director, CERVO Brain Research Centre

Patient partners

Billie Jo Bogden

Billie Jo Bogden

  • Patient Partner
  • Co-founder and CEO of the PEOPLE (Patients of Eastern Ontario Pain Lifestyle Education)

Justina Marianayagam

Justina Marianayagam

  • Patient Partner, The Hospital for Sick Children
  • Medical Student, Northern Ontario School of Medicine