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Lisa Isaac
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Latest papers
"It Helped Me Understand What I Was Walking into:" Youth and Caregiver Acceptability and Satisfaction with a Psychological Perioperative Pain Management Intervention.
Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
Innovative Program to Prevent Pediatric Chronic Postsurgical Pain: Patient Partner Feedback on Intervention Development.
Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024 · senior author
Call for action: engaging pain practitioners and other health care teams in anti-racism
Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d anesthésie · 2023 · first author
Latest funding
- $10,000
Developing a Screening Measure of Risk for Pediatric Chronic Post-Surgical Pain: A Multi-Stakeholder Consensus Conference
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
- $99,998
Partnering For Pain: Mobilizing Stakeholders to Co-Design Healthcare Services to Prevent Pediatric Chronic Pain
CIHR · 2019 · Co-investigator
- $306,531
The Transition from Acute Postsurgical Pain to Chronic Pain: The Role of Pain Anxiety and Parental Influences in Paediatric Pain
CIHR · 2009 · Co-investigator
23 publications.
"It Helped Me Understand What I Was Walking into:" Youth and Caregiver Acceptability and Satisfaction with a Psychological Perioperative Pain Management Intervention.
MacKenzie NE, Rana R, Isaac L, Tyrrell J, Ruskin D
Innovative Program to Prevent Pediatric Chronic Postsurgical Pain: Patient Partner Feedback on Intervention Development.
Ruskin D, Szczech K, Tyrrell J, Isaac L
Call for action: engaging pain practitioners and other health care teams in anti-racism
Development of a five point enhanced recovery protocol for pectus excavatum surgery.
Downing L, Ramjist JK, Tyrrell A, Tsang M, Isaac L, Fecteau A
Don't judge a book by its cover: Exploring low self-reported distress and repressive coping in a pediatric chronic pain population.
Ruskin DA, Dentakos S, Craig S, Campbell F, Isaac L, Stinson J, Tyrrell J, Lyon RE, O'Connor K, Brown SC
Development and expansion of a pediatric transitional pain service to prevent complex chronic pain.
Isaac L, Rosenbloom BN, Tyrrell J, Ruskin DA, Birnie KA
The "STOP Pain" Questionnaire: using the Plan-Do-Study-Act model to implement a patient-family preferences-informed questionnaire into a pediatric transitional pain clinic.
Stratton C, Tyrrell J, Goren R, Lalloo C, Isaac L
Variability in discharge opioid prescribing practices for children: a historical cohort study.
Sun N, Steinberg BE, Faraoni D, Isaac L
Mapping the current state of pediatric surgical pain care across Canada and assessing readiness for change.
Birnie KA, Stinson J, Isaac L, Tyrrell J, Campbell F, Jordan IP, Marianayagam J, Richards D, Rosenbloom BN, Clement F, Hubley P
Maternal and iatrogenic neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome: Differences and similarities in recognition, management, and consequences.
Isaac L, van den Hoogen NJ, Habib S, Trang T
Developing a Screening Measure of Risk for Pediatric Chronic Post-Surgical Pain: A Multi-Stakeholder Consensus Conference
Principal investigators: Birnie, Kathryn A; Jordan, Isabel; Newman, Gillian; Sun, Jenny; Wan, Michelle S; Rosenbloom, Brittany
Keywords: International Expert Consensus Meeting; Risk Factors For Pediatric Chronic Postsurgical Pain; Screening Measure Development
Partnering For Pain: Mobilizing Stakeholders to Co-Design Healthcare Services to Prevent Pediatric Chronic Pain
Principal investigators: Stinson, Jennifer N; Jordan, Isabel; Marianayagam, Justina; Birnie, Kathryn A
Keywords: Chronic Pain; Paediatric Pain; Patient Engagement; Pediatric
The Transition from Acute Postsurgical Pain to Chronic Pain: The Role of Pain Anxiety and Parental Influences in Paediatric Pain
Principal investigators: Katz, Joel D
Keywords: Chronic Pain; Pain Anxiety; Parent-Child Relationship; Pediatric Post-Operative Pain; Quantitative; Risk Factors
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Jennifer Stinson and Chitra Lalloo: 34 shared papers
- Jennifer Stinson and Fiona Campbell: 33 shared papers
- Fiona Campbell and Chitra Lalloo: 14 shared papers
- Fiona Campbell and Lisa Isaac: 14 shared papers
- Jennifer Stinson and Melanie Noel: 13 shared papers
- Jennifer Stinson and Lisa Isaac: 11 shared papers
- Joel Katz and Fiona Campbell: 9 shared papers
- Joel Katz and Lisa Isaac: 9 shared papers
- Jennifer Stinson and Joel Katz: 8 shared papers
- Joel Katz and Melanie Noel: 8 shared papers
- Fiona Campbell and Melanie Noel: 7 shared papers
- Chitra Lalloo and Melanie Noel: 6 shared papers
- Chitra Lalloo and Lisa Isaac: 5 shared papers
- James Lorne Henry and Chitra Lalloo: 3 shared papers
- Fiona Campbell and Stephen Brown: 3 shared papers
- Norman Buckley and James Lorne Henry: 2 shared papers
- Norman Buckley and Joel Katz: 2 shared papers
- James Lorne Henry and Fiona Campbell: 2 shared papers
- James Lorne Henry and Lisa Isaac: 2 shared papers
- Jennifer Stinson and Stephen Brown: 2 shared papers
- Joel Katz and Brittany Rosenbloom: 2 shared papers
- Joel Katz and Robert Cribbie: 2 shared papers
- Chitra Lalloo and Stephen Brown: 2 shared papers
- Stephen Brown and Lisa Isaac: 2 shared papers
- Norman Buckley and Jennifer Stinson: 1 shared paper
- Norman Buckley and Lisa Isaac: 1 shared paper
- Jennifer Stinson and Fiona Clement: 1 shared paper
- Jennifer Stinson and Pam Hubley: 1 shared paper
- Jennifer Stinson and Brittany Rosenbloom: 1 shared paper
- Jennifer Stinson and Stephanie Craig: 1 shared paper
- Fiona Clement and Fiona Campbell: 1 shared paper
- Fiona Clement and Pam Hubley: 1 shared paper
- Fiona Clement and Lisa Isaac: 1 shared paper
- Tuan Trang and Lisa Isaac: 1 shared paper
- Fiona Campbell and Pam Hubley: 1 shared paper
- Fiona Campbell and Brittany Rosenbloom: 1 shared paper
- Fiona Campbell and Maisie Tsang: 1 shared paper
- Fiona Campbell and Robert Cribbie: 1 shared paper
- Fiona Campbell and Stephanie Craig: 1 shared paper
- Melanie Noel and Lisa Isaac: 1 shared paper
- Pam Hubley and Lisa Isaac: 1 shared paper
- Brittany Rosenbloom and Lisa Isaac: 1 shared paper
- Annie Fecteau and Lisa Isaac: 1 shared paper
- Annie Fecteau and Maisie Tsang: 1 shared paper
- Lisa Isaac and Maisie Tsang: 1 shared paper
- Lisa Isaac and Robert Cribbie: 1 shared paper
- Lisa Isaac and Stephanie Craig: 1 shared paper
- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
- Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences
- Department of Surgery
- Community Health Sciences
- Department of Psychology
- Department of Anesthesia
- Other Psychology
- Other
Co-authors at University of Toronto, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Fiona Campbell
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
14 shared papers, latest 2023
Jennifer Stinson
Faculty
11 shared papers, latest 2023
Joel Katz
Faculty
9 shared papers, latest 2021
Chitra Lalloo
Faculty
5 shared papers, latest 2023
James Lorne Henry
Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences
2 shared papers, latest 2014
Stephen Brown
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
2 shared papers, latest 2017
Maisie Tsang
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Robert Cribbie
Other Psychology
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Stephanie Craig
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Norman Buckley
Department of Anesthesia
1 shared papers, latest 2013
Annie Fecteau
Department of Surgery
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Fiona Clement
Community Health Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Tuan Trang
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Melanie Noel
Department of Psychology
1 shared papers, latest 2019
Pam Hubley
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Brittany Rosenbloom
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2019
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