Present and Previous Positions

• 2002- Professor of Anesthesiology and Dentistry, Adjunct Professor of Physiology and Neurology, Director of the Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain, McGill University (Montreal, Canada)
• 1994-2002 Professor and Chair of Physiology (Univ. Alcala, Madrid, Spain)
• 1983-1994 Reader in Physiology (University of Bristol, UK)
• 1975 PhD Neuroscience/Medicine (Univ. Madrid, Spain)
• 1975-1983 Lecturer in Physiology and Research Fellow (Univ. Edinburgh, UK)

Fields of Scholarship

• neuroscience
• sensory physiology
• pain mechanisms
• analgesia

Honours and Awards

• 1986 Medical Research Council (UK) Senior Research Leave Fellowship
• 1990 Visiting Professor to the USA. Awarded by the Royal Society of Medicine Foundation (New York)
• 1999 Research Prize, University of Alcalá (Spain)
• 2003 Research Chair, CIHR University-Industry Program (Canada)
• 2008 J.J. Bonica Award of the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine