Dr. Yasmine Hoydonckx is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine at the University of Toronto. She finished residency in Anesthesiology in Belgium in 2012, followed by several fellowships in Critical Care Medicine and Chronic Pain management in Belgium and at the University of Toronto. She obtained the Fellowship in Interventional Pain Practice certification through examination from the World Institute of Pain. She is an early career Clinician-investigator, who has completed a Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research at the Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto.
Her clinical and research interests are in chronic craniofacial pain including interventional treatments such as intravenous infusion, image-guided procedures and neuromodulation.
Dr. Hoydonckx led the creation of the Craniofacial Pain Program at the Toronto Academic Pain Medicine Institute (TAPMI). She has published on the role of new modes of spinal cord stimulation for the treatment of complex regional pain syndrome and the role of ultrasound-guided injections of chronic pain and chronic migraines. She has lectured at national and international conferences on treatment of craniofacial pain syndromes and has leadership roles in national and international pain organizations including being a member of the Board of the Canadian Neuromodulation Society.
In 2021, Dr. Hoydonckx was awarded the prestigious and highly competitive Canadian Pain Society Early Career Investigator Pain Research Grant (Clinical) for the KetHead study and has assembled a multidisciplinary team of experts to assist with conduct of this trial.