Fiona Blyth is a Professor of Public Health and Pain Medicine at the University of Sydney. She is a public health physician, pain epidemiologist and medical educator. She is internationally recognised for her work in characterising the burden of chronic pain conditions within populations and across the lifespan, and has been involved in studies of chronic disease epidemiology (with a specific interest in pain-related conditions) for more than 25 years. This includes large prospective cohort studies, RCTs, pharmaco-epidemiological studies, and health services research using linked routinely collected datasets. She was awarded an AM on Australia Day 2018 for her significant service to medical research and education in the fields of public health, pain management and ageing, and to health policy reform.

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 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. Designing the Future of Pediatric Pain Care Using Digital Therapeutics In this plenary lecture, Dr. Jennifer Stinson (2025 Canada Gairdner Laureate) will offer a high-level overview of the evolution of digital therapeutics, situating pediatric pain within broader advances in digital health. Drawing on exemplars from her work, Dr. Stinson will illustrate how co-design with children, youth, and families has informed the development of engaging, equitable, and clinically relevant digital pain interventions. The lecture will conclude with a forward-looking discussion of the challenges that must be addressed to ensure the sustainable implementation and real-world impact of digital therapeutics for pediatric pain, offering insights into future directions for the field.