Ensuring Equity and Inclusion in Virtual Care Best Practices for Diverse Populations of Youth with Chronic Pain

Affiliations

• ¹ An assistant professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at the University of Calgary; the Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute; and the Hotchkiss Brain Institute. She is also the associate scientific director of SKIP. Kathryn is a clinical psychologist and lead for the Partnering For Pain patient-oriented research program in Calgary, AB, and the traditional territories of the people of the Treaty 7 Region in Southern Alberta and Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3. She can be contacted at [email protected].
• ² A postdoctoral fellow at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, ON. Tieghan is also a registered nurse and a postdoctoral researcher.
• ³ A person with lived experience and is a member of NYAP, CHILD-BRIGHT Network in Vancouver, BC.
• ⁴ A parent partner and former director of Citizen Engagement at CHILD-BRIGHT Network in Toronto, ON.
• ⁵ A person with lived experience and an innovation manager at Canadian Cancer Society in Toronto, ON.
• ⁶ A person with lived experience and a parent partner in Squamish, BC.
• ⁷ A parent partner in Vancouver, BC.
• ⁸ A person with lived experience and an MD student at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine in Thunder Bay, ON.
• ⁹ A member of Yellow Quill First Nation (Treaty 4) and is a woman with lived experience on Treaty 6 territory (Saskatoon, SK), which is the traditional lands of the Cree, Saulteaux, Dene, Dakota, Lakota, Nakota and Métis nations.
• ¹⁰ The CHILD-BRIGHT Citizen Engagement program coordinator, working with parents and youth, and is a member of the Board of Directors at Soutien Autism Support (S.Au.S), a community organization that provides leisure programs to families and youth living with autism in Montreal, QC.
• ¹¹ The president/CEO of SCAGO in Toronto, ON.
• ¹² A professor at the Department of Pediatrics, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, and an attending physician at the Complex Pain Service, BC Children's Hospital in Vancouver, BC.
• ¹³ A staff haematologist at The Hospital for Sick Children and an associate professor at the University of Toronto in Toronto, ON.
• ¹⁴ The executive director of the NEIHR National Coordinating Centre and an associate professor at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, SK.
• ¹⁵ A clinical professor at the University of British Columbia, medical director of Canuck Place Children's Hospice and an investigator and division head of BC Children's Hospital in Vancouver, BC.
• ¹⁶ A member of Yellow Quill First Nation (Treaty 4) and is an assistant professor in the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto in Toronto, ON.
• ¹⁷ An associate professor and clinical psychologist at the University of Calgary, the Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute and the Hotchkiss Brain Institute in Calgary, AB.
• ¹⁸ A research associate at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, ON.
• ¹⁹ A senior scientist at The Hospital for Sick Children and a professor at the University of Toronto in Toronto, ON.