Conférenciers invités

Geriatrician, medical director of the Geriatric Pain Clinic of the Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal and the McGill University Health Center. Founding chairman of the IASP Special Interest Group on Pain in Older Persons

Professor Alan Prout has worked in the sociology of childhood for many years and held appointments at the Universities of Cambridge, Keele, Hull, Stirling and Warwick. After his formal retirement from Warwick in 2013, he moved back to the West Riding of Yorkshire, where he was born and where he now hill walks, volunteers in his local library and helps with the Marsden Jazz Festival. As part of this transition between Pitta and Vata, he took up a part-time appointment at the University of Leeds, also in 2013. Previously he was Director of the ESRC “Children 5-16 Research Programme” (1995 – 2001) and Director of the Institute of Education at Warwick University (2007-10). He is an author or editor of numerous publications in the social study of childhood, including highly cited books such as Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood, Theorizing Childhood, and The Future of Childhood: towards the interdisciplinary study of children. Although his main work has been in the sociology of childhood, he has also contributed to the sociology of health and illness, including empirical studies of childhood sickness, family health practices, and medical technology (in particular the use of inhalers in the management of childhood asthma). Recent interests include children’s participation in public services and children’s use of e-toys.

Annie Tremblay, MD FRCPC Dre Tremblay est psychiatre oeuvrant auprès des personnes atteintes de cancer depuis 15 ans à l'Hotel-Dieu de Québec du CHU de Québec-UL. Elle est cogestionnaire médicale de l'équipe d'oncologie psychosociale et spirituelle du CHU de Québec ainsi que directrice médicale du programme d'oncologie au sein de cet établissement.

Dr. Mark Ware is Associate Professor in Family Medicine and Anesthesia at McGill University. He is the Director of Clinical Research of the Alan Edwards Pain Management Unit at the McGill University Health Centre, co-Director of the Quebec Pain Research Network, Executive Director of the non-profit Canadian Consortium for the Investigation of Cannabinoids (CCIC) and chair of the International Association for Cannabinoids Medicines (IACM). He practices pain medicine at the Montreal General Hospital and at the primary care pain clinic of the West Island of Montreal.