Are you ready to know what you don’t know about chronic pain? We’re shining a light on the good, the bad, and the very ugly about living with pain in Canada. No hype, no hysteria, just the truth.
Dr Mary Lynch has long advocated for treating pain well, whatever it takes — maybe even diet and cannabinoids. She's one of the founders of the Pain Medicine certification program at Canada’s Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, is a past president of the Canadian Pain Society, and is Professor of Anesthesia, Psychiatry and Pharmacology at Dalhousie University in Halifax, where she works in the pain clinic at the QEII Health Sciences Centre.
Harvard Law graduate Kate Nicholson served 18 years in the DOJ as a health policy and civil rights lawyer and is an expert on the Americans with Disabilities Act. When a surgical mishap immobilized her for 20 years, opiate meds helped her continue. Kate is known for her TEDx talk, What We Lose When We Undertreat Pain, leads the National Pain Advocacy Center (nationalpain.org), and sits on the CDC's Opioid Workgroup.
Dr Stuart McGill's research investigated issues related to the mechanisms that cause back pain, and how to rehabilitate back-pained people into injury resilience and better performance. His advice is often sought by governments, corporations, legal experts, medical groups, and elite athletes and teams from around the world.
