Irina Kudrina
Assistant Professor
Dr. Kudrina MD (Kazakhstan), MD CM (Â鶹AV), CCFP, MSc (c) is a junior clinician-scientist with clinical and research interests in chronic pain and narcotic analgesics. Dr. Kudrina is a graduate of the Almaty State Medical Institute (1997, general surgery internship), she is also a graduate of Â鶹AV Medical School (2012). She did her post-graduate training at Â鶹AV: family medicine residency (Herzl), added competency year (2015) Clinician Scholar Program, then continued as a post-doctoral fellow graduating from Alan Edwards Clinical Research in Pain fellowship (2016), and North American Primary Care Research Group fellowship (2019). She is presently finishing her Master’s of Science degree (2021) at Â鶹AV. Dr. Kudrina’s research is supported by the LE-250 (MSSS/FMOQ, chercheur-aspirant, 2016-2020). Dr. Kudrina is a full-time Assistant Professor at the Â鶹AV Department of Family Medicine (since 2016) and an Associate Member of the Â鶹AV Anesthesia Department. Her main work has been focused on chronic pain, access to services and transitions in care for young patients suffering from pain, pathophysiology and clinical chronic toxicity of opioids and cannabinoids.
Her special clinical interests are in chronic pain and addiction, she serves as a consulting physician for the ​CIUSSS Centre Ouest UPI douleur chronique and sits on the College of Family Physicians of Canada chronic pain committee.