Etienne Bisson

PhD
Roles
  • Research Coordinator, Chronic Pain Clinic, Kingston Health Sciences Centre, Hotel Dieu site

  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Anaesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, School of Rehabilitation Therapy and Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Queen’s University

Interests
  • Translational pain research
Bio

Dr. Bisson is an adjunct assistant professor of the Anaesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, affiliated with the School of Rehabilitation Therapy and the Centre for Neuroscience Studies at Queen’s University. He is also the research coordinator for the Chronic Pain Clinic at the Kingston Health Sciences Centre - Hotel Dieu Hospital site. He completed his PhD in Human Kinetics at the University of Ottawa in 2012 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship with the School of Rehabilitation Therapy at Queen’s University from 2013-2017.

 

Research

Dr. Bisson conducts translational pain research to improve clinical care of adults with chronic pain with special interests in the relationships between pain, fatigue, mobility, physical activity and falls. His main research currently focuses on understanding how falls, their underlying physical and psychological factors and prevention interplay in the development, treatment and management of chronic pain.