Ann Gamsa
Associate Professor, McGill University Department of Anesthesia;
Degrees/University:PhD Université de Montréal
Pain treatments: Psychological Assessment, short-term psychotherapy, follow-up, hypnosis, Pain Management Group
Special clinical interests: Use of the Arts in treatment of pain & distress, Psychological barriers to treatment success; Hypnosis, Somatoform pain disorders, Expectation effects, Effect of Pain on Families of sufferers
Research interests: Role of psychological factors in chronic pain; Psychological barriers to treatment success in patients with chronic pain; Reciprocal inflence of family and patient attitudes on pain and function; Fibromyalgia
Recent publications:
Chelsia Gillis, Chao Li, Lawrence Lee, Rashami Awasthi, Berson Augustin, Ann Gamsa, A Sender Liberman, Barry Stein, Patrick Charlebois, Liane S Feldman, Francesco Carli. Prehabilitation versus rehabilitation: a randomized control trial in patients undergoing colorectal resection for cancer. Anesthesiology 2014 Nov;121(5):937-47
Chao Li, Francesco Carli, Lawrence Lee, Patrick Charlebois, Barry Stein, Alexander S Liberman, Pepa Kaneva, Berson Augustin, Mingkwan Wongyingsinn, Ann Gamsa, Do Jun Kim, Melina C Vassiliou, Liane S Feldman. Impact of a trimodal prehabilitation program on functional recovery after colorectal cancer surgery: a pilot study. Surg Endosc 2013 Apr 9;27(4):1072-82
Peter A Ste-Marie, Mary-Ann Fitzcharles, Ann Gamsa, Mark A Ware, Yoram Shir. Association of herbal cannabis use with negative psychosocial parameters in patients with fibromyalgia. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken) 2012 Aug;64(8):1202-8
Fitzcharles MA1, Ste-Marie PA, Gamsa A, Ware MA, Shir Y. Opioid use, misuse, and abuse in patients labeled as fibromyalgia. Am J Med. 2011 Oct;124(10):955-60.
Mark A Ware, Tongtong Wang, Stan Shapiro, Ann Robinson, Thierry Ducruet, Thao Huynh, Ann Gamsa, Gary J Bennett, Jean-Paul Collet. Smoked cannabis for chronic neuropathic pain: a randomized controlled trial. CMAJ 2010 Oct 30;182(14):E694-701.
Mark Ware, Ann Gamsa et al (2002). Cannabis for Chronic Pain: Case series and implications for clinicians, Pain Research & Management, 7 (2), 95-99.
Ann Gamsa, Working with chronic pain suffers: a psychologist’s reflections, 149-163, in Louise O’Donnell-Jasmine (Ed), Working together…facing chronic pain. 2010
Ann Gamsa, Hypnotic Analgesia, in Handbook of Pain Management (Eds.: R. Melzack & P. D. Wall); Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2003.
