IWH associate scientist receives several honours

IWH Associate Scientist Dr. Andrea Furlan is making room on her mantle for several recent awards. Last fall, Furlan was named the 2011 winner of the Canadian Pain Society (CPS)’s Early Career Award. The award acknowledges Furlan’s important contributions to pain research. As part of the honour, she will give the keynote address at the CPS annual conference in April.

Furlan also received the 2010 Graduate Literary Award in Health Sciences Evaluation from the University of Toronto for the paper “Opioids for chronic noncancer pain: a new Canadian practice guideline.” It was published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal in June of 2010.

Finally, one of Furlan’s research papers – co-authored by IWH Research Associate Nancy Carnide – made its way on to the Top 10 AMEDEO Pain list, which is sent to thousands of clinicians around the world. AMEDEO dispatches weekly emails about new scientific publications to health-care professionals. The paper is entitled “Opioids for workers with an acute episode of low-back pain,” and can be found online at ww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20727677.

Source: At Work, Issue 63, Winter 2011: Institute for Work & Health, Toronto