QPRN presents:
The North American Pain School
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