Jennifer Stinson
Full Biography
Principal Applicant
Dr. Jennifer 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 in Toronto. She is also an Associate Professor in the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, Institute of Medical Sciences and Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto.
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 painful chronic and life threatening illnesses.
Her innovative research work using digital health technologies has been recognized by her receiving several prestigious New Investigator Career Scientist Awards including the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, the Canadian Arthritis Network, The Early Researcher Award and the CIHR Peter Lougheed CIHR. She is also the inaugural Mary Jo Haddad Nursing Research Chair in Child Health at SickKids.
Dr. Stinson has also been actively involved in the Canadian Pain Society, serving as secretary, newsletter editor and, most recently, as co-chair of the scientific program committee.