# Ep37: What Does It Take to Provide Excellent Chronic Pain Care? An Interdisciplinary Pain Clinic Model with Dr. Angela Mailis

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Published: 2025-04-30T03:33:51+00:00
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## Resource

In this episode, we talked about The systemic challenges in Ontario’s healthcare system and pain management The importance of a quality interdisciplinary team for the benefit of the patient What it takes to create a successful high-quality patient-centred interdisciplinary team Dr. Angela Mailis obtained her medical degree from the Medical School of Kapodistriakon University of Athens Greece Summa Cum Laude; became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada with specialization in Physical Medicine (1982); and holds a Master’s degree from the Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto (1988). She rose to the rank of Full Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto (2005) and has practiced exclusively in the area of Chronic Pain for the past 43 years. She founded and directed the Comprehensive Pain Program of the Toronto Western Hospital/University Health Network for 33 years (1982-2015). Subsequently she became the founder and director of the Pain and Wellness Centre in Vaughan, Ontario (2014-present), the only academic community-based pain clinic, funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health. Resources The Pain & Wellness Centre website: https://thepwc.ca/ Dr. Angela Mailis’s website: https://drangelamailis.com/ Pain & Wellness YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@PainAndWellnessCentre Power Over Pain: https://poweroverpain.ca/ Mailis, A., & Lakha, S. F. (2019). From (Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care) policy to implementation: a retrospective look at a community-based patient-centered model of care for chronic pain. Canadian Journal of Pain, 3(1), 114-125. Mailis, A., Deshpande, A., & Lakha, S. F. (2022). Long term outcomes of chronic pain patients attending a publicly funded community-based interdiscipl…

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