Our mission is to contribute to the relief of pain across species through collaborative research, clinical service, and teaching.

The Comparative Pain Program aims to achieve its mission by bringing basic scientists, veterinarians, and physicians together. Animals and people share virtually identical nervous systems, as well as diseases that cause intractable pain. Collaboration offers the greatest opportunities to develop solutions for painful animal and human patients.

Our consortium consists of faculty across three institutions:

• Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, Ithaca, NY
• New York University (NYU) Pain Research Center (NYUPRC), Manhattan, New York, NY
• Weill Cornell Medicine Department of Anesthesiology, Manhattan, New York, NY

Our backgrounds, areas of expertise, and interests are diverse, but we are united by our work in pain and our desire to contribute to its relief in both people and animals. Our contributions include:

• Research
  • Basic, translational, pre-clinical, and clinical research in pain or painful disease processes
• Clinical service
  • Acute and chronic pain management services for dogs, cats, horses, farm animals, exotic companion animals, zoo animals, and wildlife at the Cornell University Hospital for Animals (CUHA) and for people through the Weill Cornell Medicine Department of Anesthesiology
  • Consulting services 

Communication between veterinarians at the CUHA and physicians at Weill Cornell Medicine Department of Anesthesiology helps ensure that veterinary and human pain management remain on par.

• Teaching and mentoring
  • Student and resident instruction
  • Continuing education for colleagues, both didactic and clinical

For more information on individual members of the Comparative Pain Program, visit Who We Are.