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Dr. Buckley's particular interests are pain, both acute and chronic. He is the Scientific Director of the DeGroote Pain Clinic at McMaster University and has been extensively involved in the development and organization of the acute post operative pain service for adult and pediatric patients, and the pediatric sedation services. His clinical practice is divided between chronic pain management and anesthesia at McMaster University, with an interest in pediatric practice. The mission of the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Pain Research and Care is to understand the underlying mechanisms of chronic pain in order to develop better prevention, diagnosis and treatment strategies. As Director of the Michael G. DeGroote National Pain Centre, Dr. Buckley's work focusses on improving the management of chronic pain through the dissemination of best practice information and guidelines for managing pain.

Dr. Busse’s clinical interests include insurance medicine, orthopedic trauma, chronic pain and other medically unexplained syndromes, and management of complex disability. He is the Co-Principal Investigator of the TRUST trial, a multi-centre, randomized controlled trial of low-intensity, pulsed ultrasound bone-stimulation in patients undergoing intramedullary nailing for tibial fracture. Dr. Busse is also interested in methodological research including, for example, expertise-based randomization and the use of composite endpoints in clinical trials.

Dr Levinson is the John R Evans Chair in Health Sciences Educational Research and Instructional Development, the Director of the Division of e-Learning Innovation, and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. His areas of interest include education research, neuropsychiatry and pharmacogenetics. He completed a Master's degree in Critical Theory prior to his medical studies at McMaster. Throughout his training, Dr Levinson has been extensively involved in medical education, teaching neurology, neuroanatomy, neuroimaging and psychiatry to medical students and residents. He has a strong interest in curriculum development and new instructional technologies, including the use of computers and multimedia in medical education. Dr Levinson has won numerous awards and presented at several international meetings.

Dr. Panju is a Professor of Medicine at McMaster University and Chief of Medicine at Hamilton Health Sciences. He is the recipient of the Medard DeGroote Chair in Medicine and he is also a Medical Director of the Medard DeGroote Institute for Pain Research and Care. Dr. Panju has been the recipient of the National Osler Award from the Canadian Society of Internal Medicine and is also the recipient of the Sibley Award from McMaster University . After graduating from the University of Liverpool in 1974, Dr. Panju completed his internship and then did four years of general practice in Northern Ontario , and in Cambridge , Ontario and this was followed by residency training in Internal Medicine at McMaster University with special training in Cardiology, Thrombosis and Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Dr. Panju' s interests are in research in Cardiology and Thrombosis with a particular focus in chest pain. Recently he has been involved with post-stroke central pain where he is working to develop an international centre for patients with post-stroke central pain. Dr. Panju has been the recipient of multiple peer reviewed research awards and his publications have included 46 articles mostly in peer reviewed journals. Dr. Panju is also on the editorial board of the American College of Physicians Journal and the Evidence Based Medicine Journal. He has been a frequent reviewer for CMAJ, the British Medical Journal and the Journal of the American Medical Association.