Meet Our Project Leads
Dr Collin Clarke, St. Joseph’s Health Care London
Dr Collin Clarke is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine at Western University.
Following the completion of his anesthesia residency at Western University, he completed a Pain Management Fellowship at Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina. During his fellowship he focused on the management of various pain syndromes through pharmacologic and interventional modalities.
Currently he practices out of the Western University Pain Management Clinic and provides consulting services to the palliative care program. He has been recognized as a top teacher in the field of pain management by his students and has won awards in this area.
Current research initiatives investigate the minimization of opioid risk following surgery. He also works with physicians to help educate on safe and responsible prescribing of opioids and cannabinoids.
Dr Clarke has been an invited speaker on a variety of pain topics on the provincial, national and international level. He is the Past-Chair of the Chronic Pain Section for the Canadian Society of Anesthesia.
Dr David Neilipovitz, The Ottawa Hospital
Dr David Neilipovitz graduated from the School of Medicine at Queen’s University in 1994. He went on to complete his Anesthesiology training at the University of Ottawa in 1999 followed by Adult Critical Care Medicine training in 2001. He joined the medical staff full time at the Ottawa Hospital in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Critical Care in 2001. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is also a past-Chair of Ontario’s Anesthesiologists, a section of the Ontario Medical Association. He also has been committed to Ontario’s Anesthesiologists’ Beyond the Mask initiative including its Pain Management Project, which aims to address the opioid crisis while also improve pain therapy for patients.
Dr Neilipovitz was appointed as the Head of the Department of Critical Care at The Ottawa Hospital in 2011. He is the Critical Care Lead for Ontario East and also leads the Critical Care Network in the Champlain LHIN. He presently is part of several committees helping to respond to the ongoing COVID pandemic including presenting to the House of Commons of Canada Standing Committee on Health.