Dr Christine Sieberg, Harvard Medical School

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When the Pain Really is in Your Head: Phenotyping, Modeling, and Treating Centralized Pain

Christine Sieberg, PhD, EdM, MA is the Co-founder and Director  of the Biobehavioral Pediatric Pain Lab, Boston Children’s Hospital, an Attending Psychologist in the Department of Anesthesia at Boston Children's Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Sieberg is also an affiliated faculty member at both the Center for Pain and the Brain (P.A.I.N. Group) at Boston Children's Hospital and the Boston Center for Endometriosis. She studies the biobehavioral aspects of chronic pain in young people with a focus on adolescents and young adults. A major focus of her grant funded research is to identify young people who have changes in how their central nervous system processes pain-related information and who are at increased risk for unfavorable outcomes related to pain and for reduced benefits of pain treatment. She also examines the risk of chronic pain from a lifespan perspective, in both animals and people, with a focus on how early-life experiences shape later pain outcomes, with an emphasis on surgical and endometriosis pain.