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Lavarnan Sivanathan
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Latest papers
Acute Pain Management for a Tibial Plateau Fracture Shortly After a Buprenorphine XR Depot Injection: A Case Report.
Journal of addiction medicine · 2022 · first author
Mental illness after admission to an intensive care unit.
Intensive care medicine · 2019 · first author
A systematic literature analysis of correlative studies in low-dose metronomic chemotherapy trials.
Biomarkers in medicine · 2014
Latest funding
- $1,315,800
Investigating the Interplay between FAAH and Opioid Misuse in Chronic Pain
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
4 publications.
Acute Pain Management for a Tibial Plateau Fracture Shortly After a Buprenorphine XR Depot Injection: A Case Report.
Sivanathan L, Logan E, Popovski K, Goel A, Hauck T, Ladha KS
Mental illness after admission to an intensive care unit.
Sivanathan L, Wunsch H, Vigod S, Hill A, Pinto R, Scales DC
A systematic literature analysis of correlative studies in low-dose metronomic chemotherapy trials.
Cramarossa G, Lee EK, Sivanathan L, Georgsdottir S, Lien K, Santos KD, Chan K, Emmenegger U
In vivo passage of human prostate cancer cells in mice results in stable gene expression changes affecting numerous cancer-associated biological processes.
Sivanathan L, Chow A, Wong A, Hoang VC, Emmenegger U
Investigating the Interplay between FAAH and Opioid Misuse in Chronic Pain
Principal investigators: Boileau, Isabelle; Le Foll, Bernard; Moayedi, Massieh
Keywords: Chronic Non-Cancer Pain; Endocannabinoid System; Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolase (Faah); Opioid Use Disorder; Positron Emission Tomography
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Hannah Wunsch and Damon Scales: 66 shared papers
- Damon Scales and Ruxandra Pinto: 57 shared papers
- Hannah Wunsch and Ruxandra Pinto: 23 shared papers
- Karim Ladha and Akash Goel: 22 shared papers
- Hannah Wunsch and Karim Ladha: 8 shared papers
- Kelvin Chan and Urban Emmenegger: 5 shared papers
- Simone Vigod and Damon Scales: 3 shared papers
- Simone Vigod and Karim Ladha: 2 shared papers
- Hannah Wunsch and Akash Goel: 2 shared papers
- Amy Wong and Urban Emmenegger: 2 shared papers
- Urban Emmenegger and Lavarnan Sivanathan: 2 shared papers
- Kelvin Chan and Lavarnan Sivanathan: 1 shared paper
- Simone Vigod and Hannah Wunsch: 1 shared paper
- Simone Vigod and Ruxandra Pinto: 1 shared paper
- Simone Vigod and Lavarnan Sivanathan: 1 shared paper
- Hannah Wunsch and Lavarnan Sivanathan: 1 shared paper
- Damon Scales and Lavarnan Sivanathan: 1 shared paper
- Karim Ladha and Tanya Hauck: 1 shared paper
- Karim Ladha and Lavarnan Sivanathan: 1 shared paper
- Amy Wong and Lavarnan Sivanathan: 1 shared paper
- Akash Goel and Tanya Hauck: 1 shared paper
- Akash Goel and Lavarnan Sivanathan: 1 shared paper
- Ruxandra Pinto and Lavarnan Sivanathan: 1 shared paper
- Tanya Hauck and Lavarnan Sivanathan: 1 shared paper
- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
- Department of Medicine
- Department of Psychiatry
- Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology
- Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation
- Infectious Diseases/Internal Medicine
Co-authors at University of Toronto, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Urban Emmenegger
Department of Medicine
2 shared papers, latest 2014
Simone Vigod
Department of Psychiatry
1 shared papers, latest 2019
Hannah Wunsch
Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation
1 shared papers, latest 2019
Damon Scales
Department of Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2019
Karim Ladha
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Amy Wong
Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology
1 shared papers, latest 2014
Akash Goel
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Ruxandra Pinto
Infectious Diseases/Internal Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2019
Kelvin Chan
Department of Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2014
Tanya Hauck
Department of Psychiatry
1 shared papers, latest 2022
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