Transitional Pain Service

PAIN: Chronic suffering hiding in plain sight

An excellent deep dive regarding chronic pain and its management: www.healthing.ca/pain/pain-ch...

🎥 Now Available to Watch!

Hear from distinguished speaker Dr. Rachel Bosma during #CanadianPain25.

Watch now at canadianpainsociety.ca/asm

The Pain Issue UofTMed Magazine

Read about our partnership with Grand Council Treaty 3
and Ganawishkadawe at Women's College Hospital to improve pain care and education in Indigenous communities. Check out this issue of #UofTMed magazine:

uoftmedmagazine.utoronto.ca/2025-summer/...

Join our speakers as they dive into pain management for surgical patients.

📍 National Pain Rounds
June 20th at 1200h ET

⨠ Register for FREE at canadianpainsociety.ca/painrounds
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#canadianpainrounds #CanadianPainSociety #canadianpain #paincanada #chronicpain #douleurchronique

Submit by 15 December 2025
 🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/teaogeaojv

More details and access to your member discount at 🔗 canadianpainsociety.ca/canadianjournal

Join the movement to transform pain care nationwide with The Canadian Pain Society. Together, we are stronger. Together, we are louder.

⨠ canadianpainsociety.ca/membership

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Dr. Clarke spoke to ‪@mattgalloway.bsky.social‬ today about the tools and resources needed to support optimal pain management. Check out the interview here:

www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

The Shift with Patty Handysides - Sound Bites | iHeart All the best audio from The Shift With Patty Handysides on AM800 CKLW!

Our President, Dr. Hance Clarke, joined Patty Handysides, Host of The Shift on am800cklw to discuss chronic pain impact and #CanadianPain25 with Windsor area listeners.

🎙️ Listen now:

Chronic Pain Podcast Episode · Toronto This Weekend · 2025-04-26 · 9m

Dr Hance Clarke shares the top 3 facts that are misunderstood #chronicPain
Nearly 8 million Canadians live with #chronicPain. Don’t miss out on joining us on May 2nd, the largest gathering ever of #pain experts, policymakers & advocates will be here

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Suffering from chronic pain? UofT researcher has some ideas to help you cope Dr. Andrea Furlan promotes practical options for pain management on her massive social media platforms and now in a new book, too

Congratulations to Dr. @andreafurlan.bsky.social, Sr. Scientist at UHN's Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, on her @theglobeandmail.com feature!

In this Q&A she shares insights in chronic pain treatment and the use of journaling to reframe self-talk, recognize stressors and examine daily habits.

Today we launched Canada Leads! Alongside @uhnfoundation, @thePMCF, and our industry and government partners, we've taken first steps to recruit 100 scientists to Canada. 🇨🇦💯

Thank you Premier Doug Ford, Ministers Sylvia Jones & Nolan Quinn for your support!

🔗: www.uhn.ca/corporate/Ab...

Groundbreaking Study Demonstrates How Combining the Manage My Pain App and Machine Learning Can Predict Pain Outcomes /PRNewswire/ -- A groundbreaking study published in JMIR Medical Informatics unveils how the integration of ManagingLife's Manage My Pain (MMP) app and machine...

Led by researchers from @uhntoronto.bsky.social and @mcgilluniversity.bsky.social: Using one month of data collected by Manage My Pain, machine learning was used to predict outcomes 6 months in advance for patients at the Toronto General Hospital's TPS.

www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

Predicting Clinical Outcomes at the Toronto General Hospital Transitional Pain Service via the Manage My Pain App: Machine Learning Approach Background: Chronic pain is a complex condition that affects more than a quarter of people worldwide. The development and progression of chronic pain is unique to each individual due to the contributi...

We're excited to share our latest paper on machine learning approaches to predicting clinical outcomes at the TPS. medinform.jmir.org/2025/1/e67178

🎉Krembil’s Canada Research Chair (CRC) Funding Success!🌟

🧠Dr. Jaideep Bains, Tier 1 CRC in Stress Neurobiology and Plasticity

🤕Dr. Hance Clarke, Tier 2 CRC in Chronic Pain, Mental Health and Substance Use

🧲Dr. Kamil Uludag, Tier 1 CRC in High Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging

🔗: linktr.ee/krembil

👏 Congratulations to 7 UHN researchers on their Canada Research Chair funding that will advance research on #immunotherapy, #AI for drug response and MRI analyses, smart textiles, post-surgery #pain, protein function, and brain responses to #stress.

🔗 www.uhnresearch.ca/news/canadas... #CRC

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The Canadian Pain Society Annual Scientific Meeting #CanadianPain25 will take place 1 – 4 May at the University of Toronto campus. The 2025 Meeting is set to be the largest pain-centered gathering in Canada! Registration is now open at canadianpainsociety....

Are you a pain clinician in Ontario? Help us identify key clinical priorities for addressing comorbid chronic pain & mental health. Share your thoughts in our survey and get a chance to win a $50 gift card.
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Learn more about the TPS model at the next USASP
meeting. Great speaker lineup featuring our lead psychologist, Dr. Max Slepian.
@usasp.bsky.social

Join us on April 25th for the second annual Chronic Pain & Mental Health Conference.
events.myconferencesuite.com/chronicpaina...

DEI Position

In a new editorial from Editor-in-Chief of PAIN @karenddavis.bsky.social reaffirms the journal’s commitment to considering #diversity, #DEI, and #GenderIdentity in pain research and management. bit.ly/3D5WgJO 

Hello! 👋 We're new to Bluesky. Excited to reconnect with our pain and anesthesia network!