Andrea D Furlan MD PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto; Staff Physician and Scientist, The KITE Research Institute at University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaDr. Andrea Furlan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto and staff physician and scientist at the The KITE Research Institute at University Health Network. She is also Associate Scientist at the Institute for Work & Health in Toronto. She completed a PhD in Clinical Epidemiology from the Department of HPME of the University of Toronto and has extensive experience in reviewing the scientific literature for the Cochrane Collaboration and for clinical practice guidelines. She received a CIHR New Investigator Award and her research focus is on treatments of chronic pain including medications, complementary and alternative therapies, and rehabilitation. She was the team leader for the development of the Canadian Opioid Guideline, and is now involved with Guideline's National Faculty in dissemination and implementation of the guideline across Canada. She developed the Opioid Manager, a point-of-care tool for physicians using opioids for chronic pain, which is available in many EMR platforms and as an App for iPad/iPhone.