Research
Questions that outlast a single study.
A research programme built at the junction of anesthesiology, chronic pain medicine, and clinical epidemiology — with older adults at its centre.
Eight threads, one question.
Each project area below approaches the same underlying problem from a different angle: how pain, and the way we treat it, shapes function and quality of life as people age.
Perioperative pain in older adults
Opioid education and enhanced recovery pathways for patients undergoing knee replacement, designed around the realities of aging physiology.
Postoperative cognitive outcomes
Investigating the relationship between post-surgical pain and cognitive dysfunction in older adults following knee surgery.
Quantitative pain measurement
Building objective, quantitative tools for chronic pain that go beyond self-report — better suited to long-term monitoring.
Aging, mobility & low back pain
Longitudinal monitoring of mobility and chronic low back pain, and how the two erode — or protect — one another over time.
Neuromodulation for chronic pain
Exploring brain-computer interfaces as a treatment avenue for chronic neck pain, alongside evidence-based spinal cord stimulation criteria.
Regional anesthesia & nerve blocks
Technique, safety, and outcomes research spanning caudal blocks, pulsed radiofrequency, and peripheral nerve interventions.
Medicinal cannabis for pain
Work through the Michael G. DeGroote Centre for Medicinal Cannabis Research into cannabinoids for chronic non-cancer and cancer-related pain.
Evidence synthesis & guidelines
Systematic reviews and multisociety clinical practice guidelines — turning fragmented evidence on corticosteroid injections and chronic pain interventions into usable recommendations.
Selected studies & protocols.
A working sample of recent and ongoing studies, trials, and guideline efforts he has contributed to.