2021-02-22
2021-02-22
Chronic Pain and Stigma with Lynn Cooper Zoom Meeting
Description
Please join us all are welcome.
The Hamilton & District Injured Worker's Group is inviting you to a zoom meeting.
Our guest speaker, Lynn Cooper, has been a national pain community leader, working toward improving pain management for Canadians. As a person with lived experience in workplace injury and persistent pain, Lynn advocates for the voices and perspectives of people with pain to be imbedded in research, policy discussions, and initiatives that will create solutions for more effective and compassionate pain care. She served as a voting member of the 2017 Canadian Opioid Guidelines and on Health Canada scientific review panels regarding opioid prescribing. In this capacity she leads projects that connect pain management and education within stay at work/return to work planning and identify the impacts of COVID 19 on injured workers. Lynn is a pain education and research advisor to the Canadian Injured Workers Alliance. Lynn currently is participating on research teams that are investigating opioid use for chronic pain.
https://zoom.us/j/91435592278?pwd=YWJIMXEwYmo5R3MwQmhLMlVYcnhoUT09
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