I am a tenured Associate Professor at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Dentistry, which I joined as an Assistant Professor in July 2016. I completed my PhDunder the supervision of Dr. Karen Davis at the University of Toronto, where I obtained expertise in pain physiology, neuroanatomy, and brain imaging. Mypostdoctoral fellowship, under Dr. Giandomenico Iannetti’s supervision at University College London, further enhanced my understanding of how pain isencoded in the brain, and how to design studies specifically aimed at dissecting pain-specific neuroimaging signals.
My interest in pain is borne out of lived experience. This has helped shape the research questions we answer in my lab. My research programme is focused onunderstanding the individual differences in the structure and function of the pain system in healthy inidividuals, and to elucidate the neural mechanisms thatlead to the development and persistence of chronic pain. To do so, I employ brain imaging, including structural and functional MRI and EEG paired withbehavioural paradigms and quantitative sensory testing.