I am a staff anesthesiologist and the Director of Pain Services and the Pain Research Unit at the Toronto General Hospital. I am also currently the knowledge Translation Chair For the University of Toronto Centre For the Study of Pain and a Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the University of Toronto. I currently hold the GoodHope Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Chair in Translational Medicine and a Canada Research Chair in Chronic Pain, Mental Health & Substance Use and I am the president of the Canadian Pain Society and the past-president of the Canadian Consortium for the Investigation of Cannabinoids.