Dr. Yasmine Hoydonckx MD, MSc, FIPP

Dr. Hoydonckx is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine at the University of Toronto. She has a Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology. Her interests are in chronic pain treatments, mostly in the area of craniofacial pain. She created the multidisciplinary Intracranial Hypotension program at University Health Network (UHN) in Toronto and the Craniofacial Pain Program at Toronto Academic Pain Medicine Institute.

She has leadership roles in national and international pain organizations such as Canadian Pain Society and American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine. She has received the prestigious 2021 Canadian Pain Society Early Career Investigator Pain Research Grant and more recently the 2024 ASRA Early-Investigator grant for her ongoing randomized controlled KetHead trial where she investigates the therapeutic effect of high dose ketamine infusions on chronic daily headaches. She recently also received PSI funding for an observational study on percutaneous occipital nerve blocks for SIH. Together with Dr. Amoozegar, Dr. Hoydonckx is a co-investigator on a multi-center SIH registry, currently recruiting patients in Calgary and Toronto.

Dr. Hoydonckx is an active member of Medical Advisory Board and the Vice chair of the scientific committee for Spinal CSF Leak Canada.