Christine Chambers | |
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Born | Christine Therese Chambers |
Alma mater | Dalhousie University (BSc) University of British Columbia (MA, PhD) |
Known for | It Doesn't Have To Hurt |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Pediatric Pain Parents & Families Implementation Science Knowledge Translation Health psychology [1] |
Institutions | Dalhousie University |
Thesis | The impact of maternal behaviour on children's pain experiences: An experimental analysis (2001) |
Doctoral advisor | Kenneth D. Craig [2] |
Website | pediatric-pain |
Christine Therese Chambers is a Canadian clinical psychologist at Dalhousie University. [1] She holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Children's Pain. [3] [4]
Chambers became interested in psychology as a child. She completed her undergraduate degree at Dalhousie University. She spent her summers at the IWK Health Centre. [5] She joined the University of British Columbia for her graduate studies (MA, PhD), [2] working with Kenneth D. Craig on pain. [6]
At Dalhousie University, Chambers works in the Centre for Paediatric Pain Research. [7] She serves as Assistant Director of the North American Pain School. [8] She leads a large research team of doctoral students and research staff, studying the developmental, social and psychological influences on children's pain. [9] A 2012 analysis of the research productivity of clinical psychology professors in Canada identified Chambers in the top-ten list for most productive women. [10]
Chambers has served on the scientific programming committee for the International Association for the Study of Pain in 2014 and 2016. She is a member of the council for the IASP. In 2014 Chambers spoke at TED xMount Allison University. [11] She has been a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Children's Pain since 2015. [12] She specializes in chronic pain and is interested in how scientists can use social media to promote their research. [13] Chambers is the secretary of the board of directors for the Society of Pediatric Psychology, [14] She took part in Soapbox Science in 2018. [6]
In 2019, Chambers was announced as the new Scientific Director of the CIHR Institute of Human Development, Child and Youth Health, effective January 2020. [15]
Chambers is the principal investigator of It Doesn’t Have to Hurt (#ItDoesntHaveToHurt), an information platform supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. [16] The platform brings together parents, researchers and experts in digital media to communicate evidence about how young people experience pain. [17] They use integrated knowledge translation to better connect to their audience. [18] They work with Erica Ehm's Yummy Mummy Club to create informative social media campaigns. [19] She contributes to the magazine Parents Canada. Their social media work generated hundreds of millions of impressions and the group several won awards for their campaigning. They held a knowledge transfer event at Twitter in Canada in 2016. [20] [21] She developed a YouTube video to talk about ways to make injections less painful for children. [22]
She was awarded the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) Ulf Lindblom Young Investigator Award in 2010. [23] [24] Chambers was awarded the American Pain Society Jeffrey Lawson Award in 2016. [25]
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