Bridging Gaps in Endometriosis Pain Management: A Global Webinar for IASP Professionals

Dr. Tania Di Renna, BSc., FRCPC., Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, completed her medical school and Anesthesiology residency training in Ottawa.  She obtained a chronic pain fellowship at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto and has spinal cord stimulation training from Montreal Neurological Institute. 

She is currently the Medical Director of the Toronto Academic Pain Medicine Institute (TAPMI). TAPMI is a partnership of 5 academic hospitals that manage chronic pain in Toronto. She practices anesthesiology and chronic pelvic pain at Women’s College Hospital. She has a long leadership career in Chronic Pain. She served as the co-chair of the HQO Guidelines for Chronic Pain, the co-chair of the Ontario Chronic Pain Network and Ontario Representative for Pain Canada.  She is now the President-Elect of the Canadian Pain Society.

Nucelio Lemos underwent his medical graduation, as well as his Gynecology, Urogynecology and MIS training and PhD in Gynecology at the Faculty of Medical Sciences of Santa Casa de São Paulo, Brazil. He then attended a third Fellowship, in Pelvic Neurodysfunctions, by the International School of Neuropelveology in Zurich, Switzerland.

In 2011, he founded the Pelvic Neurodysfunction Clinics of the Department of Gynecology of the Federal University of São Paulo, which he still currently chairs and where he develops extensive research and teaching of all fields of Neuropelveology; namely:

 - treatment of Intrapelvic Nerve Entrapments and Neuropathic Pain of Intrapelvic Etiology;

 - Knowledge Transfer in Nerve-Sparing Radical Pelvic Procedures (including endometriosis and pelvic malignancies);

 - and rehabilitation of paraplegic patients through the Laparoscopic Implantation of Neuroprosthesis. The implementation of this specialty center and research lines was the main goal of his clinical post-doctoral work, which he completed      on January 2023.

He is past Chairman (2013-2016) of the Scientific Committee of the International Continence Society and Founding Member and past Chairman of the Scientific and Education Committee of the Latin American Pelvic Floor Association (ALAPP; 2014-2019) and past Director at Large of the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists (2020-2021).

As of January 2017 he has been recruited by the Temerty Faculty of Medicine of the University of Toronto, at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of Mount Sinai and Women’s College Hospitals where he continues to develop the research started in Brazil.

He has established a referral program for complex benign pelvic surgery, including complex laparoscopic reconstructive procedures, fistula care and complex pelvic pain, including advanced endometriosis, pudendal neuralgia and other intrapelvic neuralgias, and surgical treatment of mesh complications.

In the Summer of 2023, Dr. Lemos was promoted to full Professor of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the University of Toronto, in recognition to the international impact of his work.

Professor Mohamed Mabrouk is a Consultant Gynaecologist and Minimal Access Reproductive Surgeon, with special interests in endometriosis, advanced endoscopic surgery.

He is one of the founders of the Cambridge Endometriosis Centre, Cambridge University Hospitals, U.K..

Professor Mabrouk is an Adjunct Professor of Gynaecology in the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Demark. He is also a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Alexandria University, Egypt, and is the President of the Middle East Society of Gynaecologic Endoscopy (MESGE).

Professor Mabrouk received his training and earned the European Board in Obstetrics and Gynaecology from Bologna University, Italy. His MD thesis was in collaboration between Bologna and Alexandria Universities and he obtained his PhD in Endometriosis management from VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

He was appointed as a consultant Gynaecology Surgeon in the Sacred Heart Hospital in Negrar, Verona, Italy and worked as a senior consultant in the Endometriosis Centre of Bologna University Hospital, Italy.

Professor Mabrouk is a recognised international expert in the field of endometriosis, surgical anatomy and minimally invasive surgery. He is also author and co-author of numerous International, peer-reviewed publications and three books.