Dr. Lima is a research associate at the Allan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Dr. Lima has a physiotherapy degree from the Federal University of Sergipe (UFS), Brazil, a Master’s degree in Health Sciences at the same university and a PhD in Health Sciences (Federal University of Sergipe, Brazil – University of Iowa, USA). Is a member of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) and Canadian Pain Society (CPS) and the Brazilian chapter of IASP (SBED). At the Federal University of Sergipe, Dr. Lima implemented and taught the course “Assessment and Management of Pain” in the Physiotherapy Department. His research interests have revolved around underlying analgesic mechanisms of physical therapy resources, such as Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) and physical exercise, the role of the immune system on acute-to-chronic pain transition, sex differences in pain modulation and placebo/nocebo effects.