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A UQAT professor appointed co-director of the Pain Network

The professor at the Health Sciences Teaching and Research Unit (UER) will be responsible for consolidating research priorities concerning the well-being of people living with pain.

The Pain Network is a body bringing together research carried out in various universities in Quebec, with the objective of improving the quality of life of people living with pain. Researchers in pain do their research on their own, they do their little business, but there are things that we cannot do on our own. This is what the Network is for, explains Anaïs Lacasse.

With the Pain Network, various researchers in Quebec are collaborating to understand more about pain and chronic pain.

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The doctoral student in pharmacoepidemiology is proud to see UQAT join the ranks of universities with renowned medical faculties. Health research at UQAT is developing, so it’s nice to be able to be there, to be actively involved in promoting the reality of the regions. , she says.

The addition of UQAT to the Pain Network enables this transmission of knowledge, which Anaïs Lacasse finds essential. If, for example, research is still done in large centers, there may be realities that will not be captured. So it finally allows to broaden the perspective and the portrait , she explains.

Pain research

Being also director of the Chronic Pain Epidemiology Research Laboratory at UQAT, Anaïs Lacasse is therefore directly involved in chronic pain research. The Network wants to get researchers to work together and do things that they would not do individually in their laboratories. Therefore, we must ensure that the activities meet the needs, ultimately, of the main stakeholders: patients, people with pain, clinicians and decision-makers. , she explains.

Pain research can focus on different aspects, such as the transition from acute pain to chronic pain or the side effects of pain relievers.

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