Pediatric Pain
Melanie Noel, PhD, RPsych is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at UCalgary and directs the Pain Education, Advocacy, Knowledge Research Laboratory. She adopts a bio-psycho-social-structural conceptualization of pain, rooted in early life trauma, which harnesses preclinical, clinical, and population health data to advocate for systems level changes. She partners to co-design trauma- and equity-informed solutions to prevent and treat these rising epidemics. She received career awards from the International Association for the Study of Pain, the Canadian and American Pain Societies, the Canadian Psychological Association, and the Society of Pediatric Psychology, was named a Killam Emerging Research Leader (2020), and holds the Killam Memorial Emerging Leader Chair. In 2022, she was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada. Her clinical interests include child clinical and pediatric psychology populations, with particular interest in the intersection between children's physical and mental health.