Our Team - Veterans Chronic Pain Centre of Excellence

Our Team

Leadership & Board

The Centre of Excellence’s Board of Directors oversees the operations and financials of the Centre of Excellence as a not-for-profit, and includes veterans, industry leaders, and chronic pain experts from McMaster University Faculty of Health Sciences and Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation.

Advisory Council For Veterans

Scientific Advisory Board

Dr. Alice Aiken, CD, PhD, MSc, BScPT, BSc

Vice-President, Research & Innovation, Dalhousie University

Dr. Hélène Beaudry, PhD

Executive Director, Québec Pain Research Network

Allison Gaudet, MScPT, MClScPT, BScKin

Dr. Christine Goertz, DC, PhD

Director of System Development and Coordination for Spine Health, Duke Health

Dr., Major (retired) Luc J. Hébert, fellow PT, PhD, CD

Dr. Robert D. Kerns, PhD

Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology, and Psychology at the School of Medicine, Yale University

Hélène Le Scelleur

Joy MacDermid, BSc, BScPT, MSc, PhD, FCAHS, FRSC, O. Ont

Distinguished Professor of Physical Therapy at Western University

Professor Dominic Murphy, MA, PhD, DClinPsy

Combat Stress & King's College London, UK

Dr. Anne Marie Pinard M.D., M.A. (Ed.)

Full professor, Faculty of Medicine, Anesthesiology Department / Laval University

Dr. Victoria Williamson

Researcher, University of Bath and King's College London

Leadership Team

Board of Directors