Dr. Joel Katz is a Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Health Psychology at York University in Toronto. He is the Research Director of the Pain Research Unit and Research Lead of the Transitional Pain Service, both in the Department of Anesthesia and Pain Management at the Toronto General Hospital, and a Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the University of Toronto. He is a former Psychologist-in-Chief of the University Health Network in Toronto. Dr. Katz is the Research Director at ManagingLife, whose industry-leading digital health solution, Manage My Pain, helps patients and doctors better measure, monitor, and manage chronic pain. Dr. Katz is the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Pain, the Official Journal of the Canadian Pain Society. He has published more than 300 articles and book chapters and has been invited to present his work at professional and scientific meetings in North America, Europe and Asia. Dr. Katz’s research program is aimed, broadly, at understanding the psychological, emotional, and biomedical factors involved in acute and chronic pain. He and his students and colleagues are exploring factors involved in the transition of acute, time-limited pain to chronic, pathological pain after surgery, accidents, and spinal cord injury. They are also evaluating interventions designed to prevent acute post-operative pain and the transition to chronicity. Dr. Joel Katz is a Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Health Psychology at York University in Toronto. He is the Research Director of the Pain Research Unit and Research Lead of the Transitional Pain Service, both in the Department of Anesthesia and Pain Management at the Toronto General Hospital, and a Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the University of Toronto. He is a former Psychologist-in-Chief of the University Health Network in Toronto. Dr. Katz is the Research Director at ManagingLife, whose industry-leading digital health solution, Manage My Pain, helps patients and doctors better measure, monitor, and manage chronic pain. Dr. Katz is the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Pain, the Official Journal of the Canadian Pain Society. He has published more than 300 articles and book chapters and has been invited to present his work at professional and scientific meetings in North America, Europe and Asia. Dr. Katz’s research program is aimed, broadly, at understanding the psychological, emotional, and biomedical factors involved in acute and chronic pain. He and his students and colleagues are exploring factors involved in the transition of acute, time-limited pain to chronic, pathological pain after surgery, accidents, and spinal cord injury. They are also evaluating interventions designed to prevent acute post-operative pain and the transition to chronicity.

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  Research Director in ManagingLife

  Lowering the human and financial cost of chronic pain with its digital solution, Manage My Pain.