James Khan

Dr. James Khan is an Assistant Professor and Clinician-Scientist in the Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine at the University of Toronto. He completed his medical school training at McMaster Medical School where he graduated as his class Valedictorian. He completed residency training in Anesthesiology at the University of Toronto and fellowship training in Pain Medicine at Stanford University. Dr. Khan also obtained a Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology from McMaster University. He was selected as the 2020 United States Association for the Study of Pain Young Investigator of the Year. He has published over 70 peer-reviewed scientific papers with many papers focused on understanding the transition from acute to chronic pain. He currently practices at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto. Dr. Khan serves as the Director of the Persistent Breast Cancer Pain Clinic at Mount Sinai Hospital and is a national expert in the implantation of Peripheral Nerve Stimulators. He also serves as the Research Lead for the Division of Pain Medicine at UofT and the Co-Director of Research for the Toronto Academic Pain Medicine Institute. His current clinical research program that focuses on identifying novel interventions to prevent and treat chronic pain disorders, specifically he leads the PLAN Trial which is an international multicentre randomized controlled trial in 1,602 patients which aims to evaluate whether an intraoperative intravenous lidocaine infusion can prevent persistent pain after breast cancer surgery.