Georgia Hadjis

Receiving the TC3-UTCSP Professional Development Award enabled me to grow my professional and academic network, learn valuable insight from people with lived experience of pain, and better understand how cannabinoids can be implemented into pain research moving forward. 

This opportunity introduced me to clinicians, researchers, and people with lived experience of pain. I got to connect with them and learn about their work, and, crucially, hear about the perspectives of people who live with pain, the people who our work is trying to help.

I made new professional connections with researchers while also reconnecting with familiar faces to strengthen my existing network. I inquired about opportunities to get involved in advocacy work to promote pain research and funding in Canada, something I am considering as a career option.