Celebrating 50 Years of PAIN: From where pain research has come from to where it is headed with Dr. Karen Davis. Nov. 13th, 2025

Posted November 8, 2025 | Multimedia Webinars

Special Webinar with Karen David, EiC for Pain

November 13, 2025 | 4:00 PM EST

Join us in celebrating USASP’s 5th anniversary with a special webinar featuring Karen D. Davis, Ph.D., FCAHS, FRSC, Editor-in-Chief of PAIN. During this event, Dr. Davis will discuss five decades of progress in pain science, highlighting the discoveries that defined the field and the innovations shaping its future.

Karen Davis is the Canada Research Chair in Acute and Chronic Pain Research. She is a Senior Scientist and Division Head at the Krembil Brain Institute of the University Health Network and is a full Professor in the Department of Surgery and Institute of Medical Science at the University of Toronto. Dr. Davis obtained her PhD in Physiology at the University of Toronto (supervised by Jonathan Dostrovsky) and then did a post-doctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University (supervised by Jim Campbell, Srinivasa Raja, and Dick Meyer) and returned to the University of Toronto to conduct intra-operative electrophysiological recordings with Ron Tasker and Jonathan Dostrovsky. She then focused on MRI and MEG-based research and was at the forefront of the development of neuroimaging as it emerged in the 1990s. Dr. Davis has pioneered electrophysiological and brain imaging approaches to investigate mechanisms underlying acute and chronic pain, brain plasticity, and individual factors that contribute to pain sensitivity and chronic pain treatment outcomes. Her concept of a “dynamic pain connectome” is being used to understand mechanisms of pain and analgesia and identify neuromarkers to develop personalized approaches to pain management. She has published 220+ peer-reviewed papers with over 32,000 citations and an H-index of 95. Dr. Davis is also active in neuroethics and EDI (equity, diversity, and inclusion) initiatives. and co-edited the book Pain Neuroethics and Bioethics. She was a Mayday Fellow, was inducted into the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars, Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, and the Royal Society of Canada, served as President of the Canadian Pain Society and as a councillor of the International Association for the Study of Pain. Dr. Davis is currently the Editor-in-Chief of PAIN, the flagship journal of the IASP.

This event is open to both USASP members and non-members.