Dr. Hance Clarke is a scientist with the Institute for Mental Health Policy Research at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), and an associate professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the University of Toronto.
Dr. Clarke is also a staff anesthesiologist and the Director of Pain Services and the Pain Research Unit at the Toronto General Hospital and has been recognized internationally for the development of the Toronto General Hospital Transitional Pain Service.
He is currently the Knowledge Translation Chair for the University of Toronto Centre for the Study of Pain, and currently holds the GoodHope Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Chair in Translational Medicine. Additionally, he is the President of the Canadian Pain Society and the Canadian Consortium for the Investigation of Cannabinoids.
Dr. Clarke graduated from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada’s Clinician Scientist Program.
Areas of Research
Dr. Clarke has authored over 200 peer reviewed publications and has been invited to speak on pain control, cannabis and the opioid crisis to the House of Commons in Ottawa, Canada and elsewhere around the world.
Publications
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