“My research focuses on using information and communication technologies to improve the assessment and management of pain and other symptoms in children with chronic and life threatening health conditions”

Dr. Jennifer Stinson is the inaugural Mary Jo Haddad Nursing Chair in Child Health in the Research Institute, a Nurse Practitioner in the Chronic Pain Program, and Co-Director of the SickKids Centre for Pain Management, Research and Education at the Hospital for Sick Children, and a Professor at the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. She became a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences in 2024.

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 program of research focuses on co-design and development of digital therapeutics for assessment and management of pain in youth with painful chronic conditions as well as patient reported outcome measures. Dr. Stinson also focuses on interprofessional pain education, which is demonstrated in her leadership in innovative training programs (Pain in Child Health and University of Toronto Centre for Study of Pain) and Pediatric Project ECHO at which provides virtual mentorship to community healthcare providers on the management of complex pediatric pain patients.

Dr. Stinson is currently funded by the Canadian Institute of Health Research, National Institutes of Health, The Arthritis Society, and The Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute. She has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers in prestigious journals such as Pain.

In recognition of her important work in the area of pain, disease self-management and e-health, Dr. Stinson has received multiple awards throughout her career, highlighted below:
• Career Scientist Award from the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (2009-2011)
• Canadian Arthritis Network Investigator Award (2011-2013)
• Peter Lougheed CIHR New Investigator Award (2013-2018)
• Canadian Pain Society Early Career Award (2012)
• Early Career Award from the International Association for the Study of Pain (2015)
• Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario, Leadership Award in Nursing Research (2016)
• Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing (2017)
• Member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada (2018)