Dwight E. Moulin, MD, FRCPC

Bio Sketch

Dwight Moulin received his MD cum laude from Western University in 1973 and then spent four years in general practice. He completed his fellowship in Neurology at Western in 1983 followed by a 2-year Pain Fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre in New York City.  He joined the faculty at the Schulich School of Medicine at Western University in 1985 and is currently Professor in the Departments of Clinical Neurological Sciences and Oncology specializing in Pain Medicine. He held the position of Earl Russell Chair of Pain Research at Western from 2005 to 2020.

Dr. Moulin has published extensively on the role of opioid analgesics in the management of chronic pain and led the first randomized controlled trial of morphine in the management of chronic non-cancer pain. He described the prevalence and impact of chronic pain in multiple sclerosis and Guillain-Barre syndrome – two neurological disorders where significant pain was not previously recognized. More recently he has led a series of observational studies on the long term outcome of the management of neuropathic pain. He has published over 150 scientific papers, book chapters and editorials.

He chaired the Neuropathic Pain Special Interest Group of the Canadian Pain Society from 2005-2014 and led the Consensus Statement on the Pharmacological Management of Chronic Neuropathic Pain – initially published in 2007 and updated in 2014. He was the recipient of the Distinguished Career Award from the Canadian Pain Society in 2012 and he is also a Founding Member of Pain Medicine as a new subspecialty of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.