Dr. John Pereira

Introducing me for a speech?

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"Dr. John Xavier Pereira is the President Canadian Pain Society, Founding Co-Chair of National Pain Rounds, and a member of the National Advisory Committee of Pain Canada. He previously was the President of the Pain Society of Alberta, a founding Co-Chair of the Alberta Pain Strategy, and a member of the External Advisory Panel of the Canadian Pain Task Force. He is a past Ronald Melzack Fellow of the McGill Pain Center. He has spoken on the topic of chronic pain both nationally and internationally, including at the Mayo Clinic and the Centers for Disease Control, and has personally visited 70 pain centers in the world . He represented Western Canada on the committee of physicians who wrote our country’s National Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of fibromyalgia and now works clinically as the Medical Director of the FibroFOCUS™ program. Dr. Pereira was the physician lead of the team that won the very first Health Quality Council of Alberta Patient Experience Award in the field of pain management."

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​Disclosures in the past five (5) years: NONE

Accepted speaking fees directly from a pharmaceutical company: NO.
Accepted payments to serve on a pharmaceutical advisory board: NO.
Accepted payments as a consultant to a pharmaceutical company: NO.