Meet the Board of Directors
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MARY LYNCH (Immediate Past President)
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Dr. Mary Lynch is Professor of Psychiatry, Anesthesia and Pharmacology at Dalhousie University. She is Director of the Pain Management Unit, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre and Capital District Health Authority, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Dr. Lynch has 20 years of experience as a clinician assisting patients with chronic pain.
She is the author of the self-help manual “Surviving Your Personal Injuries Claim and Litigation”. Dr Lynch chaired the Canadian Pain Society (CPS) Wait Times Task Force and has gone on to Co-chair the CPS Task Force on Service Delivery, The International Association for the Study of Pain Task Force on Wait times and serves as President of CPS. Her research interests have focused on the development of new agents for the treatment of neuropathic pain, integrative care in chronic pain management, development of wait-times benchmarks and strategies for service delivery.
She is Principal investigator of the Canadian Foundation for Innovation funded Canadian Pain Trials Network, founding Director of the Canadian Consortium for the Investigation of Cannabinoids and was awarded a Mayday Fellowship and the Dr. Helen Hays Award for Excellence in Pain Management.