In this months Patient's Corner spotlight, we hear from Jennifer Lorca and Heather Dyck on their experiences presenting at the recent NorthWest SPOR Collaborative Forum in Edmonton.

Read more here.

Power Over Pain Portal
July 2026 Workshops

Introduction à la thérapie du reconditionnement de la douleur (TRD)
Vendredi 3 juillet à 1:00p.m. EST

Séance d'orientation du Portail Surmonter sa douleur
Mardi 14 juillet à 12:00p.m. EST

Power Over Pain Portal Orientation Session
Wednesday, July 15 at 1:00p.m. EST

Empowered Relief® - Train your brain away from pain
Friday, July 24 at 1:00 p.m. EST

Congratulations to Dr. Katharine Gloade, a member of CPN's Indigenous Health Research Advisory Committee, who received her PhD in Health from Dalhousie University. Her studies merge her experience in education and mental health with Mi’kmaw health, healing, and ways of knowing.

Grad Profile: Msit No’kmaq: A Graduate Journey Rooted in Community and Healing

PASSERELLE’s POR Training Inventory brings together training and learning activities from across the SPOR ecosystem and organizations interested in patient-oriented research to support capacity development and improve access to available learning opportunities.

Explore the inventory here!

CPN will be running a new series on our social media platforms highlighting new research, publications and projects. 

If interested in getting  your work in the queue, please reach out to our Knowledge Broker, Rachel Roy here!

The Chronic Pain Network is pleased to offer the Professional Development and Training Award. This is a competitive award for trainees or people with lived/living experience within the CPN network to enhance professional development/training in knowledge mobilization, implementation science, patient-oriented research, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Indigeneity, and Accessibility, and/or Sex-and Gender-Based Analysis (SGBA).

Supporting Training Opportunities between January 1, 2026 - March 31, 2027

Deadline to apply: September 18, 2026

Apply here!

(MIS)Treated, a TVO podcast, explores how medicine has – and still is – failing women and speaks to the people looking to make a difference. 

Host Nam Kiwanuka speaks with Dr. Tania Di Renna, the president of the Canadian Pain Society (CPS) and Medical Director of the Toronto Academic Pain Medicine Institute (TAPMI) and Jennifer Daly-Cyr who has lived with chronic pain for more than a decade and is also co-chair of the CPN Executive Committee and Person with Lived Experience committee at the CPS.

Click here to listen!

Registration is now open for OSSU Research Day 2026.

Hosted by the Ontario SPOR SUPPORT Unit (OSSU), this year’s event will bring together researchers, patients, partners, policymakers, and health system leaders to explore how patient-oriented research is being put into action to improve health systems and outcomes.

Centered on the theme Research in Action, the program will feature discussions on pragmatic clinical trials, learning health systems, priority populations, emerging directions in health research and more.

📅 September 23, 2026
📍 MaRS Discovery District, Toronto + Virtual
💻 Free to attend

Participants are welcome to join us in person or virtually from anywhere.

Register Here

A new National Adult Pain Standard is being developed by Health Standards Organization (HSO) with partners including McMaster University, the Chronic Pain Network, the Canadian Pain Society, and Pain Canada.

HSO will launch national consultations on the draft Standard. At the same time, the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute is conducting a national survey to assess the Standard’s acceptability among healthcare leaders, administrators, clinicians, and others involved in adult pain care.

The survey aims to ensure the Standard is practical, feasible, and aligned with real-world healthcare delivery. Participants will complete a short survey and may choose to engage in optional follow-up activities.

Click HERE to confirm your willingness to be contacted.

Applying for a CIHR Grant?

Strengthen your Knowledge Mobilization plan with CPN support

The Chronic Pain Network (CPN) offers Knowledge Mobilization Grant Consultations to support researchers in developing tailored KM plans that enhance the reach and impact of their proposed work.

CPN’s KM team and people with lived experience can help you:

• Identify the right audiences and interest holders for your research
• Integrate lived experience perspectives into your KM plan
• Develop targeted dissemination and engagement strategies
• Align your approach with CIHR expectations for knowledge mobilization and impact

CPN consultations help researchers create strong, actionable KM strategies for grant proposals beyond standard dissemination plans.

👉 Request KM consultation support by contacting Rachel Roy royr1@mcmaster.ca

Chronic Pain & Opioid Stewardship Wednesdays 3:00 - 4:30pm ET

Join our interdisciplinary HUB Team in deepening our understanding of trauma and pain. This 8 part series continues throughout our 2026/2027 session.

Register here.

This event is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and approved by the Continuing Education and Professional Development Office at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine. You may claim a maximum of 12 hour(s) (credits are automatically calculated).

Action on Pain Podcast

The CPN is proud to support the Action On Pain podcast, which takes a closer look at the implementation of An Action Plan for Pain in Canada.

Catch all the latest episodes today!