I am an Assistant Professor at McGill University that holds a joint appointment to the Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Science and the Faculty of Medicine, Anesthesia Department.  I am the receipient of a Canada Research Chair in Chronic Pain. My research program aims at developing better diagnostic tools for safe and effective pain therapies. This will be done by applying machine learning algorithms to large datasets to identify risk factors and biomarkers for chronic pain. The identified biomarkers are examined in combination with sociocultural factors, and in underrepresented populations, to fully grasp the context in which biomarkers can successfully predict health outcomes. My research has the potential to derive objective measures that will translate into clinically useful tools for improving pain management.