Meet the Pain Relief Team Experts

Our compassionate staff is comprised of a highly skilled team of certified pain management physicians, practitioners and registered therapists. The Headache & Pain Relief Centre team works closely together to help find solutions for patients living with chronic pain who have had no response to traditional or usual treatment methods.

DR. MICHAEL ZITNEY

• Director Headache and Pain Relief Centre 1998-present
• Lecturer to Family Physicians on the diagnosis and treatment of Chronic pain 1998-present
• Chief of Long Term Care Unit, York Central Hospital 1995-1998
• Private Family practice, Thornhill, Ontario 1989-1998
• On staff at York Central Hospital 1989-1998
• Locum practice 1986-1989
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Dr. JEREMY SLOAN

• Anesthesiologist, Pain Relief Specialist  
• 2000 - Associate - Headache & Pain Relief Centre
• North York 1999- Consultant, Department of Anesthesia
• Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
• 1984- Consultant, Newborn and Developmental Pediatrics, Sunnybrook & Women's College Hospital Toronto
• 1975- Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesia, University of Toronto, Toronto
• 1964-1999 Senior Anesthesiologist & Deputy Chief, Dept. of Anesthesiology, Hospital for Sick Children Toronto
• 1990-1992 President of the Medical Staff, and member of the Board, HSC, Toronto
• 1992-1993 Board member, HSC Foundation
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Dr. HARRY SANDHU

• Jan 2006 – Present Headache and Pain Relief Centre
• July 2005 – Present Private Practice
• June 2000 -Research Assistant Sick Children’s Hospital Toronto, Ontario
• 1998-1999 -Research Assistant University of Toronto Department of Physiology
• Awards - Medical Council of Canada Summer Research Scholarship (2000) Department of Physiology Research Grant (1996-1998) Canada Scholarship (1992-1996) F.A. Urquhart Admission Scholarship (1992) Ontario Scholarship (1992)
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DAN PALMA

Dan is an Osteosomatic** Therapist. He has over twenty five years of experience providing relief of headache, neck, and back pain and muscular skeletal pain.

Dan uses a soft approach but dramatically effective touch to release muscle tension, realign your spine, and teach you to maintain proper posture. This technique does not cause headache flare-ups. It is safe and gentle enough for arthritis patients, and effective enough for strongly built athletes.

Dan received his training at the Institute for Advanced Somatic Studies, and honed his skills on the San Francisco 49er Football team. He has appeared on W5 talking about work-related injuries, and Noonday in San Jose, California, speaking on sports injuries.  For complete Bio Click Here.

Jackie Yates

Jackie Yates has been a physiotherapist for over 25 years. She has extensive experience in the assessment and treatment of many musculoskeletal conditions as well as sports injuries. She has a special interest in clients suffering from chronic pain and headaches.

Jackie has take a wide variety of post graduate causes in chronic pain and has been involved in the instruction of physiotherapy students from the University of Toronto and in post graduate schools in her area of expertise of orthopedic conditions. The areas of practice include manual therapy, mobilization, soft tissue massage, electrotherapy, acupuncture, and exercise physiology.

Jackie also incorporates work place strategies and life style adaptations to help her clients improve their quality of life and deal with their headaches and chronic pain.

• Doug Lewis

  

  Doug Lewis is a Registered Massage Therapist who graduated in Centennial College 2002.  He has been practicing in a variety of multidisciplinary clinics and came to the Headache and Pain Relief Centre in September 2006.  He has been helping relieve pain and headaches caused by muscular imbalances and tension using massage therapy techniques.    Doug also treats a variety of different conditions from whiplash to back sprains.  He has had great success in relieving pain and preventing re-injury.   The practice of massage therapy is the assessment of the soft tissue and joints of the body and the treatment and prevention of physical dysfunction and pain of the soft tissue and joints by manipulation to develop, maintain, rehabilitate or augment physical function, or relieve pain. (Massage Therapy Act 1991).