Pain physician & basic pain neuroscience researcher @Stanford. Glia-lover 🧠, anesthesiologist, mom of boys. Canadian 🇨🇦. Alum @McGill @Dartmouth
Joined December 2018
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11 Jul 2025
My 8 yo just wrote a camp email to his 12 yo brother and signed it “Warm regards” i am dying from the cuteness - no idea where he learned that 🥹
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It was such a pleasure to host such a visionary scientist using engineering solutions to fix big healthcare challenges in a truly collaborative manner!
10 Jun 2025
Incredibly stimulating visit to @Stanford today to give a special grand rounds seminar and short dinner presentation for the annual awards event in the Department of Anesthesiology, Periooperative and Pain Medicine. Super busy day, starting with a 6 am presentation (~30 in person and ~150 in attendance by Zoom) and ending with a dinner and a poster session, followed by a catch-up with Prof. Sid Krishnan (former PhD student and new faculty member @Stanford in the Department of Electrical Engineering). I deeply appreciate the invitation from Prof. @NimaAghaeepour to visit – thank you, and as well to Prof. @TawfikLab, Prof. @DrSeanMackey (Division Chief, Pain Medicine) and Prof. Brian Bateman (Chair of the Department), for hosting! Thanks also for the Sunday dinner, and for spending time with me earlier today. I really enjoyed the dense collection of back-to-back meetings throughout the day – Prof. Javier Lorenzo, Prof. Anoop Rao, Prof. Charles Brown, Prof. @TheBorisLab, Prof. @BGaudilliere, Dr. Philip Chung, Dr. @kirsten_steffner, Dr. Tomin James, Prof. Jean-Louis Horn (Division Chief, Regional Anesthesia). Finally, thanks to Barbara Chargin for the arrangements. Great interactions also with the many students and trainees associated with the department – exhausting but exhilarating! Congratulations to everyone on their awe-inspiring work! Looking forward to many collaborative follow-ups!
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31 May 2025
Today we celebrated FOUR new PhD graduates from @stanfordanes - two from my lab @J_SiliezarDoyle @GabriellaMuwan1 and two from @NimaAghaeepour lab @CamiloEspinosaB & Samson Mataraso
Such a huge milestone in the lives of these amazing people 🤩
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26 May 2025
How cool is this?!
Greg & I were postdocs together- he taught me so much & remains a great friend/mentor/sounding board & now we just published back to back papers in @NatureNeuro !!
Congrats @FlyBottleEscape 🤩
26 May 2025
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Now published in @NatureNeuro …
Psilocybin enhances fear extinction by reshaping retrosplenial cortex ensembles—suppressing fear neurons, recruiting extinction neurons boosting plasticity to enable behavioral flexibility
nature.com/articles/s41593-0…
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15 May 2025
Check out our new paper - cover story on @NatureNeuro - outlining a potential new target for pain treatment and which may explain the susceptibility of older adults to chronic pain
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14 May 2025
Peripheral sensory (DRG) neurons exhibit senescence in the context of aging and pain-inducing nerve injury; elimination of senescent cells improved nociceptive behaviors in nerve-injured mice
@StanfordPain @TawfikLab
nature.com/articles/s41593-0…
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1 Aug 2024
The Tawfik Lab is looking for amazing, scientifically rigorous postdoctoral scholars with a diversity of interests to join our super nerdy team focused on clinically-informed basic science mechanisms of chronic pain @Stanford @StanfordPain
Jobs.iasp-pain.org/link.cfm?…
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24 Oct 2023
Announcing FAER’s approved Fall 2023 Grantees! Join us in congratulating these outstanding physician-investigators & read more on our website!
asahq.org/faer/about/news-an…
#Anesthesiology #Research #TheFutureIsFAER #FAERgrantees #FAERgrants @VUMC_Anes @UChiAnesChiefs
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Vivianne Tawfik, MD, PhD retweeted
Stanford is hiring seven open faculty positions in the neurosciences!
These include neurobiology, brain computer interface (BCI), molecular and cellular neurobiology, pathology, and neuropathology. Learn more buff.ly/3ZIzTkL
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7 Oct 2023
Reviewing grants is a lot of work - but WOW there is a lot of cool science out there!! 🤩🤓
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5 Oct 2023
The Anesthesiology Physician-Scientist Pipeline: Current Status and Recommendations for Future Growth—An Initiative of the Anesthesia Research Council by Drs. Emala @TawfikLab @mlanefall @PalomaToledoMD @CynthiaAWongMD @MonicaVavilala @LeeAFleisher
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26 Sep 2023
Our work recently published in @_Anesthesiology looking a predictors of chronic post-surgical pain after cardiac surgery. @maggie_xz @dana_elad @Drhaclarke
18 Aug 2023
Female sex, pre-existing chronic #pain, and baseline #depression were associated with postsurgical pain scores at 3, 6, and 12 months after surgery. Read the new research: ow.ly/6vH250PAv5k
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22 Sep 2023
“We have the amazing opportunity to move the pain field forward in a way we could not before” — @NINDSdirector on the @NIHendaddiction HEAL initiative
Speaking at the inaugural St. Louis Translational Pain Research Forum! @ClinicPharmSTL @WUSTL_AnesRsrch @SLU_Official
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20 Sep 2023
This was a huge effort by so many great anesthesiologist-scientists!
Definitely worth a read- we know there is a problem but we propose lots & lots of solutions to increase physician-scientist recruitment, retention & success in #anesthesiology
#Anesthesiology Researcher Pipeline Lags Behind Other Specialties. Anesthesia Research Council proposes solutions: ow.ly/cZv650PN1be
Read the article published in @IARS_Journals: ow.ly/h2fn50PN1bf #ARC
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14 Sep 2023
7 yo: Mama- did you know the brain🧠 is a muscle?
Me: No it isn't
7 yo: Yes it is, if you exercise it then it gets stronger!
Me: Yes...but it's not a muscle
7 yo: How do you know?
Me: (Lists all relevant portions of my CV)
7 yo: I still think it's a muscle
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Vivianne Tawfik, MD, PhD retweeted
13 Sep 2023
⚡️NEW OPIOID VIRAL TOOL⚡️
Lead by @gsalimando in collab with @KarlDeisseroth
We developed a catalog of mu-opioid receptor promoters (MORp) for viral access to endogenous opioid-expressing cell types 🦠🧠🐁🐀🐒
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
🧵for more info on use & where to order:
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9 Sep 2023
Looking forward to joining the amazing pain researchers @WUSTL_AnesRsrch @SLU_Official
Have you RSVP'd for the STL Translational Pain Research Forum? The Plenary Speaker is Dr. Vivianne Tawfik (@TawfikLab), who will address "Neuroimmune interactions in chronic pain: From clinical to clinically-informed basic science." RSVP by 9/12. stl-tprf2023.my.canva.site/
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Join the thriving #neuroscience community @Stanford!
We are recruiting a basic neuroscientist to @stanfordanes with interests broadly relevant to Anesthesiology including pain, sensory systems, aging, addiction, perioperative medicine, cognition...RT!
facultypositions.stanford.ed…
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