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Social @ UHN Anesthesia fellow taking novel pain clinic

back home to Barbados

In the past year, we shared
more than 300 of UHN’s As Dr. Judith Nicholls’ year-long fellowship at Toronto While the Caribbean does not have as extreme of an
best stories on Facebook.
General Hospital’s (TG) Transitional Pain Program opioid crisis as Canada does, there’s still a significant
neared its end, she joked that she better hurry in population with sickle cell disease and chronic
307 22,070 booking her flight back home to Barbados. pain where more treatment options are necessary,

Page Posts Post Likes But she certainly wasn’t going to be relaxing on the according to Nicholls.
beaches when she returned. Near the end of her residency at the University of the
West Indies in 2013, Dr. Nicholls says she had her eyes
Instead, Dr. Nicholls would be taking everything
University Health Network she learned at UHN to spearhead the opening of set to do her anesthesia fellowship at TG’s Transitional
@UHN the Caribbean’s first multi-disciplinary pain clinic in Pain Program after learning about Dr. Hance Clarke’s
work during a visit to Toronto two years ago.
Mojgan Nemati immigrated to Canada from Tehran, Iran Bridgetown, Barbados. She says the clinic will include
13 years ago. Her lesson for those starting over? Don’t a variety of services, including ones for chronic What started as a one-year pilot program in 2014

look back – just focus on what you can become in pain, opioid addiction, psychosocial therapy and now boasts an established team of physicians,
Popular Canada. Listen to Mojgan’s story: http://bit.ly/homeep1 physiotherapy. psychologists, acupuncturists, and other specialists
in June “There’s a dire need for pain services in the Caribbean, who help post-surgical patients wean off of addictive

and not many people are willing to invest their time opioids while still managing their chronic pain.
and energy in it,” Dr. Nicholls says. “My vision is that Link to full story: click here.
it will eventually be a referral centre for the rest of the
Caribbean.”
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Dr. Judith Nicholls, Anesthesia Fellow at the Transitional Pain Clinic,
• First-in-Canada implant of novel sensor device at UHN for heart failure patients Toronto General Hospital, says her experience at UHN has given her
the vision and skills to fill a gap in the pain services available in the
Caribbean. (Photo: UHN)

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