Professor G Allen Finley

Dr. Finley is a pediatric anesthesiologist who has worked for over 30 years in pain research and management. He is Professor of Anesthesia, Pain Management, & Perioperative Medicine at Dalhousie University, and is cross-appointed as Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience. He also holds the inaugural Dr. Stewart Wenning Chair in Pediatric Pain Management at IWK Health in Halifax and is Director of the Centre for Pediatric Pain Research. He has published more than 150 papers in peer-reviewed journals (http://tinyurl.com/gaf-cits) and has lectured widely, with 330 invited presentations on six continents. 

He started the PEDIATRIC-PAIN e-mail discussion list in 1993, bringing together pain researchers and clinicians from over 40 countries. His own research and educational projects have taken him to Jordan, Thailand, China, Brazil, and elsewhere. His main interest is pain service development and advocacy for improved pain care for children around the world. To facilitate that, he is co-founder and Board member of the ChildKind International Initiative (http://childkindinternational.org). He was also a member of the Canadian Health Standards Organization Pediatric Pain Management Working Group, that developed the first ever national hospital standard for children’s pain care in 2023.

His current research includes broad collaborations with Canadian colleagues at Dalhousie University and the Universities of Ottawa, Calgary, and Manitoba. He has been a co-I of the CIHR SPOR Chronic Pain Network and is currently part of the European IN-ChildPain Network.

In 2016, he was elected to the Executive of the International Association for the Study of Pain as Treasurer, and has recently served as Councilor, an exciting opportunity to be part of the promotion of pain science and pain care around the world. In that role he serves as co-Chair of the Global Advocacy Working Group.