DR. MAY ONG INC.

Under the leadership of Dr. May C. Ong, the Providence Health Care Chair in the Neurobiology and Neuropharmacology of Pain, the inpatient Centralized Pain Program specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of complex, refractory pain. Dr. May C. Ong received her MD degree from the University of Toronto in 1978. Since 1986, Dr. Ong has been in full time practice specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of chronic pain. In 1986 she founded the Complex Pain Centre (now called the Centralized Pain Program) in the Department of Medicine at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver. Dr. Ong is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of British Columbia where she trains neurology residents, family practice physicians and medical students in mechanism-based diagnosis and pain management. Dr. Ong is also a clinician-scientist whose research investigates the management of chronic pain. In recognition of Dr. Ong’s clinical mastery and research contributions, in 2023 Providence Health Care appointed her its first Chair in the Neurobiology and Neuropharmacology of Pain.