Mike Hildebrand is responsible for graduate student affairs in the Office of Graduate Studies. This includes working with, and on behalf of, individual graduate students facing challenges that rise beyond the departmental level, developing and refining graduate policies and procedures, and overseeing non-coursework graduate milestones such as theses defenses.
Mike has held several leadership positions at Carleton University, including serving as the Associate Dean (Student and Postdoctoral) in the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs, Graduate Supervisor in the Department of Neuroscience, and member of the Graduate Faculty Board Executive Council. Mike has also served as an internal reviewer in Carleton’s Quality Assurance Evaluation processes as well as on several departmental committees. On a national level, Mike was a Director and Chair of the Scientific Program Committee for the Canadian Pain Society.
Mike is also a neurophysiologist and pain researcher. He completed his PhD in neurophysiology at UBC, followed by an industrial R&D fellowship at NeuroMed Pharmaceuticals in Vancouver. After this, Mike completed an academic postdoctoral fellowship at Sick Kids Hospital. Mike is now leading a translational pain research program as a Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at Carleton University and as an Affiliate Investigator at The Ottawa Hospital. His dynamic team of undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral researchers are studying mechanisms and potential treatment targets for pain using a combination of animal models and pioneering human spinal cord preclinical assays. This biomedical research aimed at addressing the societal problem of poorly managed chronic pain is funded by NSERC, CIHR, MITACS and industrial partners.
Mike provides support in the following areas:
