Speaker: Dr. Ian Gilron

Moderator: Dr. Karen Davis

Dr. Ian Gilron is an anesthesiologist, Professor of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine, Biomedical & Molecular Sciences and Neuroscience Studies, and Director of Clinical Pain Research at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He is a Principal Investigator on several ongoing projects with continuous CIHR funding since 2000. Dr. Gilron conducts research on mechanisms and treatment of pain and is interested in health and science policy related to pain management and analgesic use. Among over 160 career-spanning peer-reviewed journal publications, work from Dr. Gilron’s team at Queen’s University has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, CMAJ, Pain, Anesthesiology and other journals. He has co-authored the Canadian Pain Society and IASP NeuPSIG guidelines on neuropathic pain treatment. Dr. Gilron was the IASP Scientific Program Committee Chair for the 2022 World Congress on Pain and serves on the leadership of the CIHR SPOR Chronic Pain Network and the US-FDA Analgesic “ACTTION” partnership.