Officer of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: May 4, 1995
• Invested on: November 16, 1995

As the co-author of the "gate control theory of pain", his research has contributed enormously to our understanding of pain mechanisms and pain therapy. A professor of psychology with a superb teaching reputation, he developed the McGill Pain Questionnaire, which has become a widely used measuring tool in pain research and has been translated into every major language.