Dr. Jennifer Stinson is the Mary Jo Haddad Nursing Chair in Child Health and an Advanced Practice Nurse in the Chronic Pain Program at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto. She completed her undergraduate nursing degree in 1988 from the University of Western Ontario, her Master’s of Science degree in 1992 from the University of Toronto, a Post-Master’s Paediatric Nurse Practitioner Certificate from the State University at SUNY Buffalo in 1998, and then completed her PhD in Nursing from University of Toronto in 2006.

Dr. Stinson’s clinical work focuses on working with children and youth with chronic pain and their families as part of an interdisciplinary pain team in the Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine at SickKids. Her major clinical research interests are in the area of pain and symptom management and the use of e-health (internet) and m-health (mobile phones) technologies to improve the assessment and management of pain and other symptoms in children with chronic illnesses. She is also interested in developing and evaluating novel interprofessional paediatric pain curricula for health-care professionals.

Stinson is currently funded by the Canadian Institute of Health Research, National Institutes of Health, The Arthritis Society, C17 Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders, Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario (POGO), and Alex’s Lemonade Stand and Health Research Foundation. She has published 78 peer-reviewed papers in prestigious journals.

In recognition of her important work in the area of pain, disease self-management and e-health, Stinson has received a Career Scientist Award from the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care (2009-2011), Canadian Arthritis Network Investigator Award (2011-2013) and the top new investigator award in Canada – The Peter Lougheed CIHR New Investigator Award (2013-2018). She also received the Canadian Pain Society Early Career Award in May 2012 and the International Association of the Study of Pain Childhood SIG Early Career Award in June 2015.

Chitra Lalloo completed her PhD in Medical Sciences at McMaster University in 2014. Her dissertation was focused on development and validation of Pain-QuILT™, a digital pain mapping tool for the assessment and tracking of pain in adolescents and adults with persistent pain, including chronic pain and arthritis. Pain-QuILT™ is now being licensed for clinical and research use, and Dr. Lalloo is leading research initiatives for evaluation across the lifespan and translation to different languages. https://painquilt.com

Dr. Lalloo completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the iOUCH lab in 2016. In this role, she oversaw development of the first web and smartphone-based pain self-management platform for youth with persistent pain, called iCanCope. The iCanCope platform is being configured for youth with arthritis, chronic pain, and sickle cell disease. She has also led scoping reviews of existing patient-focused mobile apps for pain self-management and post-surgical pain.

As research associate in the iOUCH lab (September 2016 to present), Lalloo runs mentorship initiatives for undergraduate and graduate trainees in the lab. She is also responsible for overseeing pilot randomized controlled trials to evaluate iCanCope in arthritis, chronic pain, and sickle cell populations. She is currently leading the integration of Apple’s ResearchKit into the iCanCope platform, which has the potential to transform the evaluation of medical apps by streamlining participant consent, outcome measurement, and biometric data capture. As of 2016, no other lab in Canada has used ResearchKit, and no one in the world has used it with pediatric populations.

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