Dr. Pouya Azar

Pouya Azar, MD, FRCPC, DABAM, is the Head of the Complex Pain and Addiction Service (CPAS), a consult service under the Department of Psychiatry at Vancouver Coastal Health, British Columbia, Canada. CPAS provides management of pain, mental health disorders, and substance use disorders across all clinical services at Vancouver General Hospital (VGH), University of British Columbia (UBC) Hospital, and GF Strong Rehabilitation Centre. Dr. Azar is also the Addiction Lead at Foundry Vancouver Granville, a provincial clinic for youth and adolescents suffering from addiction and mental illness. 

In addition, Dr. Azar is a consulting physician for adolescent addiction medicine at BC Children’s Hospital, the co-lead of the Addiction Medicine Research and Innovation Program at the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, a pain physician for the VGH Transitional Pain Clinic, a faculty member at the UBC Faculty of Medicine, and the director of the VGH & UBC Concurrent Disorders Fellowship.

Dr. Azar’s clinical and translational research focuses on the development and evaluation of novel opioid agonist treatment protocols and medical devices to improve the health outcomes for patients with mental health and substance use disorders.

“…steadfast in my conviction that nothing is insurmountable”