Dr. Mailis Gagnon founded her program in 1982, and continues as its director to the present time. Today, the Comprehensive Pain Program (CPP), located at the Toronto Western Hospital (University Health Network), is known nationally and internationally for its clinical and research work in the area of chronic pain. Under her leadership the following have been achieved:
The CPP has obtained an all-inclusive funding from the Alternative Payment Program (APP) of the Ontario Ministry of Health since 1990. The CPP is the only such program in Ontario funded nearly exclusively by the APP for its clinical, educational and research operations in Ontario.
She has attracted additional funding from private donors and the industry to support and promote the clinical and research operations of the CPP.
She has been actively involved in a number of hospital and other committees and has been founding member of several organizations as follows:
Founding member, Hellenic Canadian Medical Association of Ontario (1983)
President, Hellenic Canadian Medical Association (1999 - 2003)
Founder & co-ordinator, Pain Interested Group of Toronto (1985 -1989)
Founding member of the Inter-urban Pain Association of Ontario (1991). Chair of the Toronto chapter since inception
Founding Member, IASP Special Interest Group, Pelvic and Urogenital Pain Syndromes (1998)
Founding Member/current member, U of T Centre for the Study of Pain (1996 - present)
Member - CIHR funded Pain Consortium & Canadian Pain Network (1999 - present)
Member, organizing committee on Pelvic Floor International Conference, Montreal (1998)
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Reviewer for the Institute for Work and Health for WSIB expert panel (1998 -1999)
Organizer and Chair, International Neuropathic Pain Symposium, Toronto (2000)
Member of the Expert Panel in the AHCPR contract on Management of Chronic Central Neuropathic Pain following Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury (2000)
Division Head, Physical Medicine and member of Senior Advisory Committee, The Toronto Hospital (1995-1998)
Member of the Search Committee for Toronto Physiatrist-in-Chief (1998)
Member of the WSIB committee for the Chronic Pain Program development (The Toronto Hospital) (1997 - 1998)
Member of the Executive Committee and the Research Committee of the Division of Physical Medicine at the University of Toronto (1995 - 1997)
Member of the Steering Committee of the University of Toronto Centre for the Study of Pain (1997 -1999)
Member, Divisional Advisory Committee, Div. Of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, U of T (June 1999 -December 2001)
Member of the Chronic Pain Module (1997 -2000), project CREATE, which is enriching the medical curricula of all 5 medical schools in Ontario
Member, Neuroscience Planning Committee, TWH & Krembil Neuroscience Centre (2000 - present)
Member, Economics Committee, UHN (2003 - present)
Member, Dept. of Medicine UHN, Women's issues Committee (2003 - 2007)
Member, TWH Pain Education Team (2003- 2007)
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