Plenary Session 2
| Wednesday, April 14, 2027 |
| 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM |
| Arena 1B |
Speaker
Dr Jennifer Stinson
The Hospital for Sick Children
Designing the Future of Pediatric Pain Care Using Digital Therapeutics
1:30 PM - 2:00 PMBiography
Dr. Jennifer Stinson is the inaugural Mary Jo Haddad Nursing Chair in Child Health and a Senior Scientist in the Child Health Evaluative Sciences research program within the Research Institute at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids). Since its inception, Dr. Stinson has been a Nurse Practitioner in the Chronic Pain Program, supporting children and youth with chronic pain, and their families, as part of an interdisciplinary pain team within the Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine at SickKids. She is also Co-Director of the SickKids Centre for Pain Management, Research and Education 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. Her global expertise in equitable co-design and development of digital therapeutics for the assessment and management (e.g., pain apps, virtual reality, robots) of pain in youth with chronic conditions was recognized by the Canada Gairdner 2025 Peter Gilgan Momentum Award. Dr. Stinson is also an advocate for interprofessional pain education, which is demonstrated in her leadership of innovative training programs (Pain in Child Health) and Paediatric Project ECHO which provides virtual mentorship to community health-care providers on the management of complex paediatric patients.