Allen Finley Bio

Allen Finley completed his undergraduate and medical school training at Dalhousie University in Halifax, then his anesthesia residency at the University of Toronto. After a year of research training at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, he returned to Dalhousie in 1986 as a staff anaesthetist at the IWK Hospital for Children. Dr. Finley is now Professor of Anesthesia at Dalhousie, with a cross-appointment in the Department of Psychology, the Dr. Stewart Wenning Chair in Pediatric Pain Management and Director of the Centre for Pediatric Pain Research. He is also a staff pediatric anesthesiologist and Medical director of Pediatric Pain Management at the IWK Health Centre. His primary research interest is pediatric pain service delivery, especially in resource-limited settings