Lisa Carlesso, Ph.D.

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Education

• B.Sc., Physiotherapy, University of Toronto (1990)
• M.Sc., Physiotherapy, Western University (2005)
• Ph.D., Health Research Methodology, McMaster University (2013)
• Postdoctoral fellow, Health Care and Outcomes, Toronto Western Research Institute (2013-2016)

Current research projects

• Pain phenotypes in persons with knee osteoarthritis
• Pain phenotyping of injured workers with chronic low back pain

Selected publications

• Carlesso, L. C., Frey Law, L., Wang, N., Nevitt, M., Lewis, C. E. & Neogi, T. (2020). The association of pain sensitization and conditioned pain modulation to pain patterns in knee osteoarthritis. Arthritis Care & Research. https://doi.org/10.1002/acr.24437
• Carlesso, L. C., Hawker, G. A., Torner, J., Lewis, C. E., Nevitt, M. & Neogi, T. (2020). Association of intermittent and constant knee pain patterns with knee pain severity, radiographic knee osteoarthritis duration and severity. Arthritis Care & Research. https://doi.org/10.1002/acr.24194
• Hoteit, F., Feldman, D. E., Pollice, J. & Carlesso, L. C. (2020). Scoping review of pain and patient characteristics and function associated with intermittent and constant pain in people with knee osteoarthritis. Physiotherapy Canada. https://doi.org/10.3138/ptc-2019-0049
• Guérard, O., Dufort, S., Forget Besnard, L., Gougeon, A. & Carlesso, L. C. (2020). Comparing the association of widespread pain, multi-joint pain and low back pain with measures of pain sensitization and function in people with knee osteoarthritis. Clinical Rheumatology, 39(3), 873-879. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10067-019-04828-3
• Carlesso, L. C., Segal, N. A., Frey Law, L., Zhang, Y., Na, L., Nevitt, M., Lewis, C. E. & Neogi, T. (2019). Pain susceptibility phenotypes in those free of knee pain with or at risk of knee osteoarthritis: The Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study. Arthritis & Rheumatology, 71(4), 542-549. https://doi.org/10.1002/art.40752
• Carlesso, L. C., Raja Rampersaud, Y., & Davis, A. M. (2017). Clinical classes of injured workers with chronic low back pain: a latent class analysis with relationship to working status. European Spine Journal, 27(1), 117–124. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00586-017-4966-1
• Carlesso, L. C., Sturgeon, J. A., & Zautra, A. J. (2016). Exploring the relationship between disease-related pain and cortisol levels in women with osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis Cartilage, 24(12), 2048-2054. doi:10.1016/j.joca.2016.06.018

Research interests

• Chronic Pain
• Epidemiology
• Knee Osteoarthritis
• Low Back Pain