Ep48: Pain Medicine, Pain Advocacy, Pain Innovation, Pain Research: Canadian Pain Society Conference Special

In this episode, I bring you to Quebec City at the Canadian Pain Society Annual Scientific Meeting to meet 4 incredible individuals:

(00:01:34) Dr. Andrea Furlan: The role of a physiatrist in interdisciplinary pain rehab and some of the challenges and hopes she has

(00:20:14) Lynn Cooper: The significance of people with lived experiences at the tables of pain research, pain advocacy, and improving pain management in Canada

(00:40:39) Tahir Janmohamad: How innovation can fill in the gaps of pain care, particularly how an app with pain tracking and pain psychology can help people living with pain

(00:55:26) Dr. Kelly Shinkaruk: Research on why people fail interdisciplinary pain programs

Speaker Bio and Links

Dr. Andrea Furlan is a physiatrist who sees people living with chronic pain at the Toronto Academic Pain Medicine Institute. She is also a Senior Scientist at the KITE Research Institute, the research arm of the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, and is a professor at the University of Toronto. She also has a YouTube channel on chronic pain management.

ECHO UHN on Chronic Pain and Opioid Stewardship: https://uhn.echoontario.ca/Our-Programs/Chronic-Pain

Website: https://www.doctorandreafurlan.com/

Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/DrAndreaFurlan

Lynn Cooper was formerly president of the Canadian Pain Coalition. She has spent more than 20 years volunteering with organizations that seek to better understand issues surrounding chronic pain, and furthering research into and management of chronic pain. She was awarded the Person with Lived Experience Leadership Award at the Canadian Pain Society Annual Scientific Meeting 2026.

Tahir Janmohamed is the founder and CEO of ManagingLife, a digital health company that improves the lives of people with chronic pain. Prior to ManagingLife, Tahir spent 8 years as a strategy & analytics consultant at IBM. Tahir is a Professional Engineer in Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto, and has an MBA from the Rotman School of Management.