Reframing Pain: Understanding the Role of Trauma in the Experience of Pain
UTCSP Symposium in partnership with the Toronto Academic Pain Medicine Institute (TAPMI)

📅 Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2025
🕓 Time: 4:30 – 6:00 pm
📍 Location: Women’s College Hospital Auditorium

The University of Toronto Centre for the Study of Pain (UTCSP), in collaboration with the Toronto Academic Pain Medicine Institute (TAPMI), is pleased to host a symposium exploring the intersection of trauma and pain.

This session will feature internationally recognized scholars presenting on the role of trauma in shaping the experience and management of pain:

Dr. Zina Trost – Where They Are: Inside the Development of a Stakeholder-driven, ER-based Virtual Reality Intervention Following Opioid Overdose
Dr. Christopher Eccleston – In defence of denial: interoception and chronic pain 
Dr. Mark Lumley – Novel Psychological Treatments for “Chronic” Pain

This event is open to University of Toronto and TAHSN faculty members and pain clinicians. Please REGISTER HERE.