The Michael G. DeGroote National Pain Centre (MGD NPC) was established in 2010 and draws on McMaster’s expertise in evidence-based medicine to identify, collate, review, revise, update and develop clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of chronic pain. Guidelines will then be disseminated, using best practice techniques of knowledge translation.

Mission. The mission of the MGD NPC is to improve the management of pain through the dissemination of best practice information.