Partnerships & Collaborations Chronic Pain Centre of Excellence for Canadian Veterans Creating a national community of care for Veterans & families.
The Chronic Pain Centre of Excellence for Canadian Veterans is a research centre focusing on improving the well-being of Veterans with chronic pain. The Centre was announced in July 2019 and launched in April 2020 at McMaster University.
The Chronic Pain Centre of Excellence for Canadian Veterans (CPCoE) is honoured to have a collaborative relationship with the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Pain Research and Care (IPRC). The IPRC participated heavily in the creation of the CPCoE and embedded our organization with a focus on the importance of working with people with lived experience. The CPCoE continues to uphold this principle of engagement and have recently adopted a new priority setting process. Using a process based on the work of the James Lind Alliance, the CPCoE solicited issues of importance from the Veteran and clinician stakeholders. The research team then explored these issues with the assistance of their Advisory Council for Veterans (ACV) and then prioritized these uncertainties that could be explored through research. Through this challenging but rewarding process, the ACV identified top research priorities for the CPCoE that will help set the scientific direction for their research over the next few years. In fiscal year 2022-2023, the CPCoE funded 15 new research projects bringing the total number of active research projects focused on chronic pain in Veterans to 30. To date, the CPCoE has partnered with a total of 26 different research institutions across Canada as well as in the United States and Australia. To accelerate the knowledge mobilization of research 30
findings, the CPCoE actively collaborates with funded researchers to support the development and dissemination of knowledge mobilization resources. The most successful knowledge mobilization endeavor of the year was the launch of the Most Painful Podcast which covers all aspects of chronic pain by presenting evidence-based information that provides better insight into chronic pain. The IPRC looks forward to working with the CPCoE to reach new milestones in the goal of keeping hope alive through Veteran-first chronic pain research.
