May 15, 2008
Gunn-Loke Lecture set for June 10
Dr. James L. Henry, scientific director of the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Pain Research and Care, at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, will give the Gunn-Loke Lecture on June 10. The lecture, titled Animal Modelling: the Crossroads of Physiology and Clinical Pain, will take place at 5 pm in room T-747 of the Health Sciences Center. The lecture is open to the public.
Henry is a professor of psychiatry and behavioural neurosciences and of anesthesia at McMaster. While at McGill University from 1976 to 2002, Henry became internationally known for his pioneering discovery that the peptide, substance P, is a regulator of synaptic transmission in pain pathways, opening a new field of research in understanding pain mechanisms. His research is on mechanisms generating acute and chronic pain using electrophysiological, behavioral and imaging techniques, applied to animal models of neuropathic, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, cancer and central post-stroke pain, and focuses upon translational research with clinicians on chronic pain in humans.
He was chair of the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at the University of Western Ontario from 2002 to 2004 and moved to McMaster University in 2005.
The Gunn-Loke Lecture is sponsored by the UW Center for Pain Relief and Discovery and the School of Medicine; it is supported by an endowment established by Dr. C. Chan Gunn and Mrs. Peggy Gunn of Vancouver, B.C.
For more information, contact Julie Baker in the UW Department of Anesthesiology at 206-543-2475 or bakerjav@u.washington.edu.
