Andrea D. Furlan MD, PhD

Dr. Andrea Furlan is a scientist at the Institute for Work & Health. She is also a physician and senior scientist at the KITE Research Institute—the research arm of the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute at University Health Network—and an associate professor in the Department of Medicine’s Division of Physiatry at the University of Toronto. She completed her residency in physiatry at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. She obtained her Ph.D. in clinical epidemiology from the University of Toronto. Her thesis focused on methods to search and analyze non-randomized studies of interventions for low-back pain. She completed a two-year clinical fellowship in physiatry at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute. Furlan received the 2020 Pain Excellence Award 2020 by the Pain Society of Alberta, and she is the recipient of the 2021 Canadian Pain Society’s Excellence in Pain Mentorship Award.

Her main research interests include rehabilitation medicine, chronic pain, low-back pain, and neuropathic pain, with a methodological focus on systematic reviews and meta-analyses. She has over 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals, has written seven book chapters, has been an invited speaker at many local, national, and international conferences, and is frequently sought by the media for interviews. During the Covid-19 pandemic, she started a Youtube channel to share her knowledge about chronic pain worldwide.