Karen Davis (neuroscientist)

Karen Davis
Alma materUniversity of Toronto, Johns Hopkins University
Known forBrain Imaging, Pain, Intracranial recordings, Electrophysiology
AwardsJohns Hopkins Society of Scholars, Canadian Pain Society Distinguished Career Award and Outstanding Pain Mentorship Award
Scientific career
FieldsNeuroscience
InstitutionsUniversity of Toronto, University Health Network
Doctoral advisorJonathan Dostrovsky
Other academic advisorsJames Campbell, Richard Meyer, Srinivasa Raja

Karen Davis is a neuroscience professor at the University of Toronto, the Canada Research Chair in Acute and Chronic Pain Research (tier 1), Senior Scientist and Head of the Division of Brain, Imaging & Behaviour, Krembil Research Institute at the University Health Network.

Davis was inducted into the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars in 2009, the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences in 2018 and the Royal Society of Canada in 2020. She served as President of the Canadian Pain Society (2020–2022) and was awarded with the CPS Distinguished Career Award. Since 2023, Davis has been serving as the Editor-in-Chief of PAIN, the journal of the International Association for the Study of Pain.

Davis previously held a tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Brain and Behaviour. and was a Mayday Pain and Society Fellow.