ANNUAL CONFERENCE

VICTORIA

BRITISH COLUMBIA CANADA

MAY 27—MAY 30, 2008

FAIRMONT EMPRESS HOTEL &

VICTORIA CONFERENCE CENTRE

Program committee      2008     

Local Arrangements Committee

Chair: Donna Gramigna, RN, BSN, CPNC, Clinical Nurse Educator, Vancouver Island Health Authority, Regional Pain Program & Surgical Ambulatory Clinics; President, British Columbia Operating Room Nurses Group, Victoria, British Columbia

 

Co-Chair: Nelson Svorkdal,

 

Members:

David Corman, BSc Pharm, Cumberland Pharmacy, Vancouver Island Health Authority, Victoria, British Columbia

 

David Evans, MD, CCFP, FCFP, CCSAM, Coordinator, Family Medicine CPD KT, Vancouver Island Health Authority (South), Victoria, British Columbia

 

Barb Fehlau, BSc, RT, MD, CCFP CMAc, GTTcert, Family Physician; Consultant, Addiction Medicine, Chronic Pain, Palliative Care,  University of British Columbia; Clinical Assistant Professor, Head of the Department of Family Practice, St. Joseph's General Hosptial, Comox, British Columbia

 

Charlotte Robinson, RN, BScN, CHPCNC, Palliative Care Coordinator, Parksville/Qualicum, Home and Community Care, Victoria, British Columbia

 

Pam Squire, MD, CCFP, Clinical Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia; Lions Gate Hospital, North Vancouver, British Columbia

 

Gerald Tevaarwerk, BA, MD, FRCPC, Certificate in Endocrinology and Metabolism, Professor Emeritus, University of Western Ontario, Medical School in Endocrinology and Metabolism, Internal Medicine and Nuclear Medicine; Endocrinology and Metabolism Practice, Director of Continuing Medical Education, Victoria Medical Society, Victoria, British Columbia

 

Brian Cairns, Ex Officio, PhD, RPh, Associate Professor & Canada Research Chair, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia

 

Barry Sessle, Ex Officio, MDS, PhD, Professor & Canada Research Chair, Faculty of Dentistry and Centre for the Study of Pain, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario; President, Canadian Pain Society

 

Scientific Program Committee

Chair: Brian Cairns, PhD, RPh, Associate Professor & Canada Research Chair, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia

 

Co-Chair: Michael H. McGillion, RN, PhD, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario/FUTURE Program for Cardiovascular Nurse Scientists, The Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario

 

Members:

Katherine Harman, PT, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Physiotherapy Acting Director, School of Health Sciences, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia

 

Peter MacDougall, PhD, MD, FRCPC, Assistant Professor, Dalhousie University, Department of Anesthesia and Family Medicine, Halifax, Nova Scotia

 

Serge Marchand, PhD, Director of Pain Research, Université de Sherbrooke, Faculty of Medicine, Neurosurgery, Sherbrooke, Quebec

 

Jason McDougall, BSc, PhD, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta

 

Saifee Rashiq, MB, MSc, FRCPC, Multidisciplinary Pain Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta

Michael W. Salter, MD, PhD, FRSC, Canada Research Chair in Neuroplasticity and Pain (Tier I), Senior Scientist and Head, Program in Neurosciences & Mental Health, Hospital for Sick Children; Professor of Physiology, University of Toronto; Director, University of Toronto Centre for the Study of Pain, Toronto, Ontario

 

Barry Sessle, Ex Officio, MDS, PhD, Professor & Canada Research Chair, Faculty of Dentistry and Centre for the Study of Pain, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canadian Pain Society President

 

Yoram Shir, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesia, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec

 

Jennifer Stinson, RN, PhD, CIHR Post-Doctoral Fellow, Clinician Scientist, Centre for Nursing, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario