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2024 Annual Research Day
2024 ANNUAL RESEARCH DAY
"Veteran women experience higher rates of chronic pain than both civilian women and Veteran men," said Dr. Eleni Hapidou, of the Michael G. DeGroote Pain Clinic and the Chronic Pain Centre of Excellence for Canadian Veterans. Dr. Hapidou, who discussed the intersectionality between gender, Veterans and chronic pain, was the first presenter of the day at the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Pain Research and Care's Annual Research Day.
Held at The Gas Works in Hamilton, Ontario, this year's Research Day included presenters from across a wide range of disciplines and faculties. Drs Louis Schmidt and Cheryl Chow discussed childhood anxiety in an ecologically salient realworld context and interventions for reducing children's perioperative anxiety.
Dr. Thomas Hawke, from the Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, introduced attendees to LEMuR - the Lab for Exercise & Muscle Research, and discussed exercise-induced damage to skeletal muscle in those with Type 1 Diabetes.
Afternoon sessions included talks from Dr. Lisa Carlesso, from the Department of Rehabilitation Science, who discussed the role of pain mechanisms in people with knee osteoarthritis; Dr. Matiar Howlader, from McMaster's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, who looked at biomarkers for unlocking aging and the chronic pain processes; and Dr. Thomas Doyle, of McMaster's Department of Engineering, who dove into the role of artificial intelligence in medicine, health research and chronic pain.
The next MGD Research Day will take place in 2025.
