Dr. Jennifer N Stinson is a Nurse Clinician Scientist in Child
Health Evaluative Sciences and an Advanced Practice Nurse in the Chronic Pain
Program at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto. 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.
In recognition of her important work in the area of pain, disease
self-management, and e-health, Dr. Stinson has received a Career Scientist Award
from the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care (2009–2011) and a
Canadian Arthritis Network Investigator Award (2011–2013). She also received
the top new investigator award in Canada—The Peter Lougheed CIHR New
Investigator Award (2013–2018)—for her research on using e-health and m-health
to promote chronic disease self-management in youth with painful chronic and
life-threatening health conditions. She also received the Canadian Pain Society
Early Career Award in 2012 and the Early Career Award from the International
Association for the Study of Pain in 2015.
Research Keywords & Expertise
Chronic Pain
EHealth
Pain Management
Self-management
Patient engagement
adolescent
Mixed-methods
mHealth
paediatric
Virtual care
Fingerprints
adolescent
Self-management
Chronic Pain
Pain Management
Mixed-methods
mHealth
EHealth
paediatric
Virtual care
Patient engagement
Short Biography
Dr. Jennifer N Stinson is a Nurse Clinician Scientist in Child
Health Evaluative Sciences and an Advanced Practice Nurse in the Chronic Pain
Program at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto. 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.
In recognition of her important work in the area of pain, disease
self-management, and e-health, Dr. Stinson has received a Career Scientist Award
from the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care (2009–2011) and a
Canadian Arthritis Network Investigator Award (2011–2013). She also received
the top new investigator award in Canada—The Peter Lougheed CIHR New
Investigator Award (2013–2018)—for her research on using e-health and m-health
to promote chronic disease self-management in youth with painful chronic and
life-threatening health conditions. She also received the Canadian Pain Society
Early Career Award in 2012 and the Early Career Award from the International
Association for the Study of Pain in 2015.
