Scientific Advisory Board

Frank Porreca, PhD (Chairman)
Anthony W. Fox, MD, PhD
Bradley S. Galer, MD
Stephen Hanessian, PhD
James L. Henry, PhD
Jes Olesen, MD

Leadership

Management Team
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Scientific Advisory Board

James L. Henry, PhD, Professor, Scientific Director, Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Pain Research and Care, Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, and Anaesthesia at McMaster University

Dr Henry holds an endowed chair in central pain at McMaster University. He received his PhD in physiology from the University of Western Ontario in 1972 and, appointed as professor of physiology and a professor of psychiatry at McGill University from 1977 to 2002. In 2000, he was awarded the Millennium Distinguished Career Award of the Canadian Pain Society. While at McGill he founded the Quebec Pain Research Initiative. He also founded the Canadian Consortium on Pain Mechanisms, Diagnosis and Management, which is comprised of 40 top pain researchers in a multidisciplinary Canadian think-tank to promote pain research, improve pain management and to disseminate information on pain to patients, practitioners and policymakers. He is also president and chairman of the board of the Canadian Pain Foundation, and is a past-president of the Canadian Pain Society. He is the associate editor of Pain Research and Management. In 2002, he moved to the University of Western Ontario, to create and chair the new Department of Physiology and Pharmacology and in 2005 took up his current position at McMaster.