Meet the Board of Directors
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BRENDA LAU (Academic Pain Directors Representative)
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Dr. Brenda Lau is a Canadian anesthesiologist who completed her two year fellowship in Pain Medicine with Professor Michael Cousins in Sydney, Australia in 2006. She also completed her Master of Medicine degree in Pain Management in 2007 with a focus on the impact of health system reforms on Multidisciplinary Pain Centers. In 2008, she restarted her anesthetic and interventional pain management practices in British Columbia at the Surrey Memorial Hospital and St. Paul’s Hospital in Surrey and Vancouver respectively. Her work is also dedicated to various healthcare redesign initiatives to improve the access and provision of pain management services in BC.
She is the Medical Director of the Surrey Memorial Hospital Pain Management clinic, a UBC Clinical Assistant Professor, a board member of the Pain BC Society, a National Taskforce member on establishing the Specialty of Pain Medicine in Canada and the Chair of the Academic Pain Directors of Canada (APDOC).
Her clinical interests focus on post-surgical pain syndromes, neuropathic and axial spine pain.