Fernando Cervero#

MD (1972), PhD (1975) (Madrid), DSc (1992) (Edinburgh), Professor of Anesthesiology and Dentistry, Adjunct Professor of Physiology and Neurology, Director of the Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain, McGill University
McIntyre Medical Building, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B2, Canada, Tel: 514-398-5764

Previous Appointments:

• 1994-2002 Professor and Chair of Physiology (University of Alcala, Madrid, Spain)
• 1983-1994 Reader in Physiology (University of Bristol, UK)
• 1990-1991 Visiting Scientist (Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, USA)
• 1975-1983 Lecturer in Physiology and Research Fellow (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Pain Research Interests:

My research interests have always been in the Neurosciences, particularly in the physiology of sensory systems and especially of pain. The main objective of the research during the last few years has been the study of the neurobiological mechanisms of pain and analgesia based on investigations ranging from human psychophysics, to cellular and molecular analysis in experimental animals. We have focused on pain of internal origin (visceral pain), the most frequent form of pain, and we are studying the neural mechanisms responsible for the enhanced pain sensation produced by diseases of internal organs.

Awards and Honors (selected):

• Member of the Academia Europaea
• Co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Pain
• Member of the Executive Committee of the International Association for the Study of Pain
• Associate Editor of the journal Pain
• Section Editor for pain of the European Journal of Neuroscience
• CIHR Research Chair
• Recipient of the J.J. Bonica Award of the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine