Spring - The Canadian Pain Society

the CANADIAN PAIN SOCIETY
la SOCIĖTĖ CANADIENNE de la DOULEUR
President’s Note
Spring is officially upon us. The sun
draws us outdoors and lifts our spirits
after the winter doldrums. It is a time for
renewal and new life.
In keeping with the season, the CPS is
also in a time of renewal. After much
pondering and discussion, we now have
a new logo and a more dynamic web
site, which should be live by May 1st
http://www.canadianpainsociety.ca/.
Thanks to all who contributed ideas, and
to Ellen for patiently prodding us to make
decisions.
There are many CPS members involved
in worthwhile projects related to pain.
In between her clinical work and writing
some excellent reviews on pain
management for our journal, Pain
Research & Management, Mary Lynch,
from Halifax, has undertaken a unique
research project. Mary is investigating
wait times for pain services in Canada,
compared to those internationally. She
and her team are polling pain
professionals from other countries and
systematically reviewing the available
literature on this topic to come up with
recommendations for the Canadian
health care system.
Pat Morley-Forster, from London, chairs
the Academic Pain Directors of Canada
group and will be representing that group
as a non-voting member of the CPS
Executive. Among other projects, this
Academic Pain Directors of Canada
group is working on ways to improve
post-graduate training in pain
management across the country, as well
as ways to improve funding for pain
management programs in general.
John Clark and Paul Tanzer are busy
developing elements of the Calgary
Health Region Chronic Pain Program –
an exciting inter-disciplinary project
which will include education, assessment
and treatment in primary care clinics,
when possible, or more intensive
interdisciplinary treatment in the Calgary
Chronic Pain Centre, when required.
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Spring 2006
Inside this issue:
President’s Note 1
Editor’s Note 1
New Website for Pain in
Childhood
Award for Dr. McGrath 2
Neuropathic SIP Update 3
PatientAdvocate Profile 3
Pain Research &
Management
Meeting Announcements 5
CPC Position Statement 6
Award for Dr. Stevens 7
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Editor’s Note
Spring is one of my favorite seasons
because it brings new growth and light.
As Roman Jovey conveys in his
President’s Note, the Canadian Pain
Society is definitely feeling the spirit of
the season. We have lots of exciting
initiatives and accomplishments to share.
You will read about these in the updates
from the Nursing Issues and Neuropathic
Special Interest Groups (SIGs), and the
CPS Office. You will meet inspiring
individuals making a difference in the
Patient / Adovocate and Trainee Profiles.
Several of our members are
congratulated for recent award news.
Ken Craig, our new Editor of Pain
Research and Management, writes
about the mandate of our CPS journal.
And then, to use the words of Dr. Seuss,
“oh, the places you’ll go!” In this issue of
the newsletter you will be amazed to see
all the upcoming opportunities to attend
pain conferences near and far, including
the fast-approaching CPS Annual
Meeting this June 14-17, in Edmonton.
What a wonderful season! Happy
Reading!
Elizabeth Stanford
Editor, CPS Newsletter
Trainee Corner Spotlight 7
CPS Office Updates 8
Meet The Executive 9
CPS Contact Info 9
Newsletter Deadlines 9

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President’s Note (cont’d)
The agenda for this year’s CPS annual meeting in
Edmonton from June 14-17 th is now set. The theme this
year is “Pain - Unraveling the Puzzle.” Kudos to Manon
Choiniere, from Montreal, Brian Knight, from Edmonton,
and their committee members for organizing what
promises to be another excellent event. Please join us
there for 4 days of education, networking and some
fun – western style.
While members of the CPS such as those mentioned
above are working hard, your President has also been
busy investigating some potential new treatments for
pain. Recently I visited what is probably one of the
world’s largest marijuana “grow-op,” near London, U.K.
The facility is one of many belonging to GW
Pharmaceuticals, whose mission is to develop
non-smoked, pharmaceutical cannabis-based products
from herbal marijuana. Their first product, a sublingual /
mucosal spray, was released in Canada by Bayer in
2005. We are the first country in the world to approve its
use for pain related to multiple sclerosis. The scope and
efficiency of GW’s operation would be the envy of most
west-coast growers of non-medicinal cannabis! I can
assure readers that no samples were requested or
provided during the tour. Fortunately, there were no
sniffer dogs in Heathrow airport when I left to return
home.
The International Association for the Study of Pain
recently announced that the 2011 World Congress on
Pain will be held in Montreal. Congratulations to all
involved in getting this prestigious meeting for Canada.
It will be the third time the World Congress has been
held in our country since the inception of the IASP.
An organization such as the CPS is only as good as the
people who are its members. We are blessed in
Canada with some of the brightest people in the pain
community. We can hold our heads high in any
international pain meeting.
Roman D. Jovey, M.D.
President, Canadian Pain Society
New Website for the International Association for the Study of Pain’s
Special Interest Group on Pain in Childhood
A new dynamic and exciting website has been launched by the
IASP Special Interest Group on Pain in Childhood. The website
documents the objectives and mission statement of the SIG,
along with updates with current IASP Global Year Against Pain in
Childhood. Check out the website regularly for new updates and
more features soon to be posted: http://childpain.org
Dr. Patrick McGrath will Receive the
Canadian Psychological Association’s Donald Hebb Award
Dr. Patrick McGrath will receive the 2006
Donald O. Heeb Award for Distinguished Contributions
to Psychology as a Science from the Canadian
Psychological Association (CPA). Dr. McGrath was
nominated by CPA’s Clinical Section in recognition of his
important research, focusing in the fields of pediatric
pain assessment and treatment. Dr. McGrath will be
honoured at CPA’s Annual Conference which will be
held in Calgary this June. Congratulations Dr. McGrath!

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Update from the CPS Neuropathic Pain Special Interest Group
The Neuropathic Pain Special Interest Group (NP SIG)
has been very active in the pursuit of clinical,
educational and research goals related to improving
the management of neuropathic pain.
evidence-based approach to the management of
neuropathic pain. Once we have reached a consensus,
we plan to disseminate this knowledge to clinicians
across the country.
Last November, we held a one-day symposium in
Toronto devoted to further development of a national
Neuropathic Pain Database that will allow us to have a
national patient registry for neuropathic pain. The
Database will also allow us to track longterm “real
world” outcomes on the management of neuropathic
pain—important data that is not yet available. We have
consolidated the Database and are now pursuing
funding from a variety of sources to implement the
Database at multiple centres across Canada. We
believe that this is a powerful tool to facilitate
randomized controlled trials and improve our
management of neuropathic pain.
On April 28, 2006 we are holding another symposium
to try to achieve a national consensus regarding an
A third symposium is planned for November of this year
with the goal of developing a core knowledge base for the
assessment and management of neuropathic pain. This
‘core curriculum’ will form the basis for preceptorships
that we will make available to physicians and allied health
care workers who may be interested in attending regional
Pain Clinics to further their understanding of the
management of neuropathic pain.
An update on all of the above will be provided at a
breakfast symposium at the CPS meeting in Edmonton in
June.
Dwight Moulin, M.D.
Clinical Chair,
Canadian Pain Society Neuropathic Pain SIG
Patient / Advocate Profile: Rob Lindsay
Rob was injured in a mining accident in 1994, leaving
him with compromised lung capacity. He had lung biopsy
and back surgeries which had avoidable complications.
Rob has been left with severe pain in his chest wall,
resulting in his being disabled and unable to work.
Besides the financial impact this has had, it has affected
his life-style, as well as his abilities to relate to his family
and society. Rob is now a grandfather, and one of the
most frustrating things for him is that he is unable to lift
and play with his grandchildren, as he would love to do.
For all people with chronic pain, the problem of being not
believed is huge, and results in widespread hurt and
misunderstanding.
Rob has not allowed his physical condition to isolate him,
or stop his ability to contribute. He gives his utmost, and
his contribution is considerable. Rob is one of the
founding members of the Western Injured Workers
Society of Saskatchewan (WIWSS), which has been in
existence since 1994. Rob is on the Board of WIWSS.
Since 1996, Rob has also been involved with Canadian
Injured Workers Alliance (CIWA). Rob is on the CIWA
board and currently holds the role of president. Rob
joined the Canadian Pain Coalition (CPC) in 2003, and
became the vice president, as well as board member in
2005. Robe works continuously
w i t h l a b o u r , v i a t h e
Saskatchewan Federation of
Labour, Occupational Health
and Safety, and Workers
Compensation Board committees.
His successful advocacy
for patients at hearings and
tribunals has been of great
benefit to many people.
The knowledge Rob has
gleaned from working with
CIWA and other organizations has been very helpful for
the CPC. Rob’s ability to contribute and develop ideas
is a wonderful asset. Rob is extremely generous in
sharing his abilities and knowledge of labour,
management, and working with various departments of
the government with us. We count ourselves blessed to
have Rob Lindsay on the board of the CPC.
Helen Tupper
President, Canadian Pain Coalition

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“D’ye ken leather”
I most appreciate the invitation from Elizabeth Stanford,
Editor of the CPS Newsletter, to prepare occasional
columns concerning Pain Research & Management. My
role as Editor-in-Chief was well launched by the Spring
2006.issue (http://www.pulsus.com/Pain/etocs/), with the
editorial content primarily reflecting Harold Merskey’s
excellent service in this capacity. In future columns I will
reflect more on forthcoming contents, but, presently, will
reflect on the overall nature of the Journal.
Two recent activities provoked reflections on the role
Pain Research & Management should play in fulfilling its
mandate to enhance understanding of pain and
ameliorate the havoc pain can play in the lives of
patients.
The first arose while reading Michael Bliss’ engaging
medical biography of Sir William Osler, the preeminent
Canadian physician who transformed Canadian,
American, and British medicine in the late 19 th and early
20 th Centuries (University of Toronto Press, 1999). The
book abounds with intriguing anecdotes concerning Sir
William’s research, professional, and personal lives, but
one story addressing his dissatisfaction with the risks of
producing “dangerously narrow-minded practitioners” (p.
198) captured my attention. Michael Bliss observes
“From somewhere in his reading or yarning, he (Sir
William) cobbled together a superb comparison: ‘The
man that, year in and year out, examines eyes, palpates
ovaries, or tunnels urethrae, without regard to the wide
influence upon which his art rests, is likely, insensibly
perhaps, but none the less surely, to acquire the attitude
of mind of the old Scotch shoemaker, who, in response
to the Dominie’s suggestions about the weightier matters
of life, asked “D’ye ken leather”’ It was this same broad
and inclusive vision that inspired John Bonica to
organize and launch the multidisciplinary International
Association for the Study of Pain in 1974. Many of us
share these far reaching perspectives and want Pain
Research & Management to encompass the broad
scientific and professionally oriented approaches that the
neurosciences, clinical sciences, approaches to health
service delivery, and investigations of the role
psychological, social and cultural factors in
understanding and caring for people in pain represent.
A second series of events further sharpened my
appreciation of the diverse events that play a major role
in the lives of people suffering from pain. For several
decades, colleagues and I have organized the Banff
International Conferences on Behavioural Science:
www.banffbehavsci.ubc.ca. Our recently concluded, very
successful 38 th annual meeting was devoted to
“Violence in the Lives of Children and Families”. The
topic was not uplifting, perhaps just as a preoccupation
with pain is not everybody’s cup of tea. Nevertheless,
like pain, the extent of the problem is considerable and
violence profoundly affects the lives of many children,
their families, the community, and society. On the
surface, in this context, pain might be seen as incidental
to more profound problems, but as speakers talked
about the lack and inadequacies of social services for
needy children and their families, the commonplace
necessity of framing children’s problems as medical
problems so care from health care practitioners might
become available, and the high incidence of somatic
complaints in children subjected to frequent physical
and emotional abuse or neglect, the connection
became increasingly conspicuous. The importance of
bringing together experts in this domain with experts in
the field of pain became obvious when issues
concerning physical punishment of children and youths
arose. A “Joint Statement on Physical Punishment of
Children and Youth” (2004), prepared by a coalition of
major organizations concerned with children’s health
and welfare, with leadership provided by the Children’s
Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), lays out the
scientific basis and a careful analysis leading to the
conclusion that “the physical punishment of children
and youth plays no useful role in their upbringing and
poses only risks to their development—parents should
be strongly encouraged to develop alternative and
positive approaches to discipline.” (p. v). Where is pain
in all this Well, the column of words often used for
hitting children, spanking, smacking, slapping, paddling,
whupping, hiding, whacking, and thrashing, very
effectively illustrates the willingness of some people to
use pain as a form of behavioural control. This is a most
unfortunate practice. I encourage interested readers to
review the publication which is available in English and
French on the CHEO website at www.cheo.on.ca
The foregoing represents one extreme of the scope of
interest in pain ranging from the study of molecular
biology and genetics to the formative impact of the
environment and life experiences that must be
accommodated in a broad and inclusive understanding
of pain. Pain Research & Management must reflect this
scope.
Dr. Ken Craig
Editor-in-Chief
Pain Research & Management

Spring 2006
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Meeting Announcements
Please note that meetings held in 2007 and beyond will be posted in the next issues of the newsletter!
National Institutes of Health Pain Consortium 1st
Annual Symposium: Advances in Pain Research
April 17 - 18, 2006
National Institutes of Health
Natcher Conference Center
Bethesda, Maryland
For more information, please see the Consortium
website: http://conferences.masimax.com/
painconsortium/index.cfm
Opioid Management Society: Opioid Certification
Program
April 22 – 23, 2006
The Conference Centre, Harvard Medical
Boston, MA
For more information, please see the Society website:
http://www.opiodmanagementsociety.org
4 th Annual Pain Day: Pain, Medical Practice and
Case Reviews
May 3 - 6, 2006
Holiday Inn Waterfront
Kingston, Ontario
Sponsored: Queen’s University Departments of
Psychology & Anesthesiology; Janssen Ortho; Purdue
Pharma, Pfizer Canada; Valeant Canada
For more information, please contact:
Jane Dauncey
4 th Annual Pain Day
Department of Psychology
Humphrey Hall, 62 Arch Street
Queen’s University
Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6
Phone: (613) 533-2876
Fax: (905) 555-2499 (Attention: Jane Dauncey, 4 th
Annual Pain Day, Department of Psychology)
Email: painday3@post.queensu.ca
Web: http://psyc.queensu.ca/faculty/tripp/2006.html
25 th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Pain
Society
May 3 - 6, 2006
Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center & Marriott River
Center
San Antonio, Texas
For information, please see the American Pain Society
website: http://www.ampainsoc.org/meeting/annual_06/
5th International Association for the Study of Pain
Research Symposium: Central Neuropathic Pain:
Centenary of Central Post-Stroke Pain.
June 6 - 9, 2006
Toronto, Ontario
For more information, please contact:
Alice Bradbury
Program Administrator, Continuing Health Sciences
Education
Juravinski ERDC, Room 3510
1200 Main Street West
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8N 3Z5
Phone: (905) 525-9140 ext 22120
Fax: (905) 572-7099
Email: bradbury@mcmaster.ca
Canadian Pain Society Conference
June 14 – 17, 2006
The Westin Hotel Edmonton
Edmonton, Alberta
For more information, including the conference Program
Guide, please see the Canadian Pain Society website:
http://www.canadianpainsociety.ca
7th International Symposium on Pediatric Pain
Theme: Pain in Child Health
June 25 - 29, 2006
Fairmont Hotel Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
For more information, please see the International
Symposium on Pediatric Pain website:
http://www.ispp2006.com
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Meeting Announcements (cont’d)
World Society of Pain Clinicians 12 th International
Pain Clinic
July 4 – 7, 2006
Turin, Italy
For more information, please see the Conference
website: http://www.pain2006.com
Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine 2006
Conference
September 29 – October 1, 2006
The Sutton Place Hotel
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
For more information, please contact:
Christine Drane
Conference Coordinator, Regional Anesthesia & Pain
Medicine
Phone: (416) 603-5118
Fax: (416) 603-6494
Email: Christine.Drane@uhn.on.ca
Web: http://www.rapm.ca/
11 th Annual Advanced International Pain Conference
and Practical Workshop
September 17 - 22, 2006
Budapest, Hungary
Sponsored by the World Institute of Pain
For more information, please see the Conference
website: http://www.kenes.com/wip06/
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6th International Forum on Pediatric Pain:
“Pediatric Pain: A Clinical Casebook”
October 12 - 15, 2006
White Point, Nova Scotia
For more information, the conference brochure and
online registration please see the Conference website:
http://pediatric-pain.ca/ifpp/ifpp.html
Call for Oral/Poster Case Abstracts: Information about
submitting a case abstract can be found on the
conference brochure listed above. Please email Kelly
Hayton at kelly.hayton@iwk.nshealth.ca to submit a
case abstract for review. Please note that case abstracts
are due April 30, 2006.
Call for Empirical Research Poster Abstracts:
Information about submitting an empirical research
poster abstract can be found on the conference brochure
listed above. Please email Kelly Hayton at
kelly.hayton@iwk.nshealth.ca to submit an empirical
research poster abstract for review. Please note that
empirical research abstracts are due July 1, 2006.
9 th International Conference on the Mechanisms
and Treatment of Neuropathic Pain
November 2 - 4, 2006
The Fairmont Southampton
Bermuda
Jointly sponsored by the University of Rochester School
of Medicine & Dentistry, Office of Continuing Education
and Professional Education; and The International
Association For The Society of Pain, Special Interest
Group On Neuropathic Pain
For more information, please see the Conference
website: http://www.neuropathicpain.org/index.html
Canadian Pain Coalition Issues Position Statement on Access to Pain Medications
Due to ongoing difficulties with new treatments not being funded and the extreme cost to chronic pain sufferers, the
Canadian Pain Coalition (CPC) is issuing the following statement:
People with chronic pain should have timely access to all pain medications that can reduce their pain and/or
improve their quality of life. Government formulary decisions should be consistent with current clinical
guidelines and should not create additional barriers to access.
Dr. Celeste Johnston, Executive Director, CPC

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Dr. Bonnie Stevens will Receive the
Jeffery Lawson Award from the American Pain Society
Dr. Bonnie J. Stevens, PhD RN, chair, pediatric nursing
research, will be the recipient of the American Pain
Society’s (APS) Jeffery Lawson Award this coming May
at the APS Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas.
Dr. Steven’s award. Dr. Steven’s has a nationally funded
research program and is based at the Hospital for Sick
Children in Toronto. Dr. Steven’s award recognizes her
contributions to the field of improving pediatric pain
management in health care settings,
specially her focus on researching
pain in preterm infants. Dr. Stevens
developed the Premature Infant
Pain Profile (PIPP), a widely-known
tool used to measure pain in infants.
Congratulations to Dr. Stevens!
Trainee Corner - Spotlight
Welcome to Trainee’s Corner! With the 2006 CPS
Annual Scientific Meeting in Edmonton just around the
corner, I am pleased to remind you of our upcoming
Trainee Session: entitled “Transition as a New
Investigator: Strategizing for your Career as an
Investigator after Graduate Training”. This session will
be of great value for those trainees looking to build
careers as scientific investigators. Our speaker for this
session is Dr. Rebecca Pillai Riddell from York
University, Toronto. We thank Dr. Riddell in advance for
her time, and we look forward to her insights. Please be
sure to attend!
In this trainee spotlight, I am pleased to introduce
Marilyn Aita. Marilyn is a Ph.D.
candidate at McGill University,
supervised by Dr. Celeste
Johnston. Marilyn obtained her
Baccalaureate and Master
Degrees from the Faculty of
Nursing, University of Montréal;
with a clinical background in
neonatal intensive care.
Emerging from her clinical experience,
Marilyn is investigating
the impact of the Neonatal Intensive
Care Unit (NICU) environment on the development
and growth of preterm infants for her dissertation
work. Specifically, Marilyn is evaluating the effect of eye
goggles and earmuffs on neonates while they are in the
NICU in order to minimize exposure to light and noise.
Marylin’s interest in this problem arouse from the stark
contrast of the noisy and bright NICU, and the dark,
ambient environment of the maternal womb.
Marilyn is comparing the stability of vital signs and pain
response of preterm infants with and without eye goggles
and earmuffs.
Marylin’s dissertation is funded by the joint program of
GRISIM (Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en
sciences infirmières de Montréal) and the Canadian
Nurses Foundation (CNF). She has also received
funding support from the Fonds de la recherche en
santé du Québec (FRSQ), the Canadian Institute of
Health Research/Canadian Nurses Foundation/Hospital
for Sick Children Foundation (CIHR/CNF/HSCF), the
Order of Nurses of Québec (OIIQ), and the Montreal
Children’s Hospital Research Institute.
An integral member of Dr. Johnston’s research team,
Marilyn is also a part of the Pain in Child Health (PICH)
strategic training program funded by CIHR. Marilyn has
also recently become involved in examining the
licensing of nurses specializing in neonatology at the
Order of Nurses of Québec. Marilyn is looking forward
to developing her career as an investigator, generating
further research that will impact nursing practice in the
NICU. Many thanks to Marilyn for sharing her innovative
dissertation work with us. If you would like to be
featured in trainee’s corner, please do not hesitate to
contact me at michael.mcgillion@utoronto.ca. See you
in Edmonton!
Sincerely,
Mike McGillion RN, PhD candidate
University of Toronto, Faculty of Nursing
CPS Trainee Representative

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CPS Office Updates
Conference 2006
By this time you should have your Conference Program
and Registration Guide for 2006. If you have not
received one, let us know and we can mail one out for
you. On-line registration and the conference program
guide can also be found on the website at
www.canadianpainsociety.ca. We look forward to
seeing you in Edmonton in June! Remember –
attendance is limited this year due to space restrictions
– so get your registration in early to avoid
disappointment.
As an addition to the program, the conference has now
been given approval by the Alberta College of Family
Physicians for 19 MAINPRO® - MI Credits. Credits will
be distributed either at the conference or mailed to you
following the conference.
Membership 2006
Thanks to all members who have continued their
membership in 2006. On behalf of the CPS, we
appreciate your continued support. The on-line
membership directory is scheduled to be launched
mid-April. At that time, all current paid members will be
given access codes to the “Members Only” section of
the new website. This “Members Only” section will
provide a member with access to all the other CPS
members, as well as exclusive member information.
Anyone that has not renewed by April 15 th , 2006 will be
transferred to the non-member list and will not be on
the email member list to receive any further notices
from the office, job postings, or member information.
The cost of membership has been held for this year at
$100.00 (plus GST), and is an excellent value
considering the benefits that are derived from being a
member.
All current paid members of the Canadian Pain Society
will also be receiving a “thank you” package from the
office this year, as a token of our appreciation for your
continued support.
members, the more valuable membership becomes. To
post an article, please contact Elizabeth Stanford at
eajob@interchange.ubc.ca
New CPS Logo!
We have a new logo! As you can see from this newsletter
the CPS Logo has been updated! This new logo was created
by input between a designer and the Executive. We
hope you like it!
Future CPS Conference Dates – Mark the Dates!
2007: Ottawa, Ontario – May 23-26, 2007 – The Westin
Ottawa Hotel - Watch for the 2007 Conference Call for
Abstracts in June, 2006. Pick up a copy of the 2007
Conference Call for Abstracts at the 2006 Conference in
Edmonton and consider submitting an abstract for a
Workshop / Poster or Hot Topic! The deadline for 2007
Conference Abstracts will be in October, 2006.
2008: Victoria, British Columbia - May 27-30, 2008 – The
Fairmont Empress Hotel and the Victoria Conference
Centre
Job Postings
If you have any job postings you would like to advertise,
we have a preferred rate package for members that
provides you with an instant email to all members, plus a
listing on the website for a 2 month period. Call or email
for details (ellen@canadianpainsociety.ca)!
2006 Survey - How are we doing
Watch for a membership survey and let us know how we
are doing. Input from the membership is critical in order to
maintain a strong Society, both in terms of membership
satisfaction and financial stability. The survey will only
take a few moments to complete, and may also be available
on-line for easier reporting. Stay tuned for details! Of
course, please feel free to contact us at any time with
comments or concerns. We are here to help and assist in
any way we can.
Sincerely,
Newsletter 2006
The newsletter is now accepting articles from current
members of the Canadian Pain Society for publication.
We encourage you to share your findings, articles of
interest, news from the industry, etc. with all members
of the Society. Submitting to the newsletter provides a
valuable opportunity to share what you know with
others. The more information we can provide to our
Ellen Maracle-Benton
Office Manager
ellen@canadianpainsociety.ca
Georgina Smith
Member Services Manager
georgina@canadianpainsociety.ca

Spring 2006
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the CANADIAN PAIN SOCIETY
la SOCIĖTĖ CANADIENNE de la DOULEUR
Canadian Pain Society Executive Committee
2006
OFFICE
Attn: Ellen Maracle-Benton
701 Rossland Road East, Suite 373,
Whitby, ON, L1N 9K3
Telephone: 905-668-9545
Fax: 905-668-3728
Email: office@canadianpainsociety.ca
We’re on the Web
www.canadianpainsociety.ca
PRESIDENT
Roman Jovey, MD
PAST PRESIDENT
Gary Rollman, PhD
PRESIDENT ELECT
Barry Sessle, BDS, MDS, BSc, PhD, FRSC
SECRETARY
Jennifer Stinson, RN, MSc, CPNP
TREASURER
& 2006 LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR
Brian Knight, MD, FRCPC
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Kenneth Craig, PhD
NEWSLETTER EDITOR
Elizabeth Stanford, MA
Mark Your Calendars
Deadline for submission of materials for the
next Newsletter is June 15th, 2006. We are
interested in receiving items on:
• Interesting case studies
• Programs of research
• New clinical programs or initiatives in
pain
• Upcoming meeting announcements
• Book reviews
Please send correspondence to:
Elizabeth Stanford
Department of Psychology,
University of British Columbia
2136 West Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4
Fax: 604-822-6923
Email : eajob@interchange.ubc.ca
TRAINEE REPRESENTATIVE
Michael McGillon, RN, PhDC
WEB SITE EDITOR
Yves De Koninck, PhD
SPECIAL PROJECTS
C. Celeste Johnston, RN, Ded
COUNCIL MEMBERS
Mary Lynch, MD, FRCPC, Membership
Serge Marchand, PhD, Nominations
Manon Choinière, PhD, Scientific Program Chair 2006
Helen Tupper, Consumer Representative
Barry Ulmer, Consumer Representative
Pat Morley-Forster, MD, FRCPC, Representative, Canadian
Academic Pain Clinic Directors
The CPS Newsletter is published four times per year
by the Canadian Pain Society. Comments and
suggestions are welcome.