Christine Chambers

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Christine Chambers
Born
Christine Therese Chambers
Alma materDalhousie University (BSc)
University of British Columbia (MA, PhD)
Known forIt Doesn't Have To Hurt
Scientific career
FieldsPediatric Pain
Parents & Families
Implementation Science
Knowledge Translation
Health psychology[1]
InstitutionsDalhousie University
ThesisThe impact of maternal behaviour on children's pain experiences: An experimental analysis (2001)
Doctoral advisorKenneth D. Craig[2]
Websitepediatric-pain.ca/faculty/christine-chambers

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]

Education[edit]

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]

Research and career[edit]

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 TEDxMount 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]

It Doesn't Have to Hurt[edit]

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]

Awards and honors[edit]

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]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Christine Chambers publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ a b Chambers, Christine Therese (2001). The impact of maternal behaviour on children's pain experiences: An experimental analysis. ubc.ca (PhD thesis). University of British Columbia. doi:10.14288/1.0090765. hdl:2429/13679. Free access icon
  3. ^ King, Sara; Chambers, Christine T.; Huguet, Anna; MacNevin, Rebecca C.; McGrath, Patrick J.; Parker, Louise; MacDonald, Amanda J. (2011). "The epidemiology of chronic pain in children and adolescents revisited: A systematic review". Pain. 152 (12): 2729–2738. doi:10.1016/j.pain.2011.07.016. ISSN 0304-3959. PMID 22078064. S2CID 18074346. Closed access icon
  4. ^ Chambers, C. T. (2002). "The Impact of Maternal Behavior on Children's Pain Experiences: An Experimental Analysis". Journal of Pediatric Psychology. 27 (3): 293–301. doi:10.1093/jpepsy/27.3.293. ISSN 1465-735X. PMID 11909936.
  5. ^ "pediatric pain management | Spirit of Giving". iwkfoundation.wordpress.com. Retrieved 2018-11-06.
  6. ^ a b "It Doesn't Have To Hurt: Making a difference for children in pain - Dr. Christine Chambers, Professor of Paediatrics, Psychology and Neuroscience at Dalhousie University - Womanthology". Womanthology. 2018-05-30. Retrieved 2018-11-06.
  7. ^ "Christine Chambers". Dalhousie University. Retrieved 2018-11-06.
  8. ^ "The Centre for Pediatric Pain Research | Science Helping Children". pediatric-pain.ca. Retrieved 2018-11-06.
  9. ^ "The Centre for Pediatric Pain Research | Science Helping Children". pediatric-pain.ca. Retrieved 2018-11-06.
  10. ^ Carleton, R. Nicholas; Parkerson, Holly A.; Horswill, Samantha C. (2012). "Assessing the publication productivity of clinical psychology professors in Canadian Psychological Association-accredited Canadian psychology departments". Canadian Psychology. 53 (3): 226–237. doi:10.1037/a0027731. ISSN 1878-7304.
  11. ^ TEDx Talks (2014-06-16), It doesn't have to hurt | Dr. Christine Chambers | TEDxMountAllisonUniversity, retrieved 2018-11-06
  12. ^ Government of Canada, Industry Canada (2012-11-29). "Canada Research Chairs". Retrieved 2018-11-06.
  13. ^ "MSSU Seminar Series: Using social media to promote your research | Maritime SPOR SUPPORT Unit". www.spor-maritime-srap.ca (in French). Retrieved 2018-11-06.
  14. ^ "Christine Chambers, PhD, RPsych". ChildKind International. 2017-02-12. Retrieved 2018-11-06.
  15. ^ "Dalhousie researcher lands prestigious new role with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research". Dalhousie News. Retrieved 2019-11-23.
  16. ^ "It Doesn't Have to Hurt". Retrieved 2018-11-06.
  17. ^ "It Doesn't Have to Hurt". Retrieved 2018-11-06.
  18. ^ Research, Government of Canada, Canadian Institutes of Health (20 June 2016). "It Doesn't Have to Hurt - CIHR". www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca. Retrieved 2018-11-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  19. ^ "Team". It Doesn't Have to Hurt. Retrieved 2018-11-06.
  20. ^ "Progress Notes" (PDF). Society of Pediatric Psychology. Retrieved 2018-11-06.
  21. ^ "Twitter party spreads research on pediatric pain management". marketingmag.ca. Retrieved 2018-11-06.
  22. ^ IWK Health Centre (2013-11-04), It Doesn't Have To Hurt, retrieved 2018-11-06
  23. ^ "Winners: Congress-Related Awards - IASP". www.iasp-pain.org. Retrieved 2018-11-06.
  24. ^ "A global perspective on pain – learning from neonates to the elderly | EdelmanNews.ca". edelmannews.ca. Retrieved 2018-11-06.
  25. ^ Society, American Pain. "2016 Lawson Award - Chambers | APS". americanpainsociety.org. Retrieved 2018-11-06.
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