鶹AV

Terence Coderre

Academic title(s): 

Harold Griffith Chair in Anesthesia Research

Terence Coderre
Contact Information
Email address: 
terence.coderre [at] mcgill.ca
Phone: 
514-398-5773
514-398-2903
Address: 

Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain

Duff Medical Building, Room 104

3775 University Street

Montreal Quebec, H3A 2B4


Department: 
Department of Anesthesia
Position: 
Dr. Coderre is an Associate Professor in Anesthesia at 鶹AV
Research areas: 
Basic Science
Areas of interest: 

Research Interests

The overall aim of our research program is to understand the processes which underlie the transition from acute to chronic pain, and the means by which this processes can be prevented or reversed in order to develop improved therapies for chronic pain. To achieve the overall aim of this research program we pursue the following key objectives:
1) To determine the neurochemical and cellular alterations both in peripheral tissues and within the central nervous system (CNS) which occur in response to tissue injuries that induce persistent pain;
2) To establish the relationship between injury-induced peripheral tissue or CNS alterations and the
development or maintenance of persistent pain;
3) To discover optimal treatments which prevent or reverse ongoing pain or pain hypersensitivity using mechanism-based therapeutic strategies? To meet these key objectives we have adopted the following strategies:
● To discover or implement animal models that exhibit translational (face and content) validity with, or which
assist in establishing mechanistic hypotheses for,human chronic pain conditions;
● To develop methodologies to study neurochemical, cellular and molecular alterations in peripheral tissue and in the central nervous system;
● To establish methods to assess indices of persistent pain behavior, including spontaneous nociception and pain hypersensitivity (hyperalgesia and allodynia), as well as determining the anti-nociceptive and anti-hyperalgesic and anti-allodynic effects of therapeutic interventions.
● To advance strategies to ensure the strength of the relationships between tissue/CNS alterations and pain behaviour, as well as the internal validity of therapeutic interventions developed to reduce persistent pain.

Specialization: 

Expertise

Dr. Coderre is an Associate Professor in Anesthesia at 鶹AV. He is the director of pain research laboratories in the Anesthesia Research Unit and at the MUHC Research Institute, and a member of the 鶹AV Centre for Research on Pain. He received a PhD. in Psychology (Behavioural Neuroscience) from 鶹AV in 1985, and then received postdoctoral training in Anatomy and Medicine (Neuroscience) at University College London and University of California San Francisco, respectively. He spent 10 years as director of the Pain Mechanisms laboratory at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montr�al, before moving to 鶹AV in 2000. Dr. Coderre is on the editorial boards of Journal of Neuropathic Pain & Symptom palliation, and Pain Research & Management. He is a former member of the executive (treasurer) of the Canadian Pain Society. Dr. Coderre has been awarded the Early Career Investigator Award from the Canadian Pain Society and the Patrick D. Wall Young Investigator Award from the International Association for the Study of Pain.

Group: 
Full Member
Salutation: 
Dr
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