Jennifer Stinson (supplied image)
Jennifer Stinson receives Order of Merit from Canadian Nurses Association
Published: October 20, 2025
Jennifer Stinson, a senior scientist in child health evaluative sciences at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and professor in U of T's Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, has been recognized with the Order of Merit Award (Nurse Practitioner) from the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA).
The annual awards honour excellence in clinical nursing practice.
Stinson is recognized for her significant contributions to health care using evidence-based interventions, as well as her impact on the status and public recognition of the nursing profession.
Her work has long focused on ways to address chronic pain in children and young people, often through digital interventions. This has included the development of a mobile and web-based app called ICanCope, which provides young people living with sickle cell disease the skills to self-manage their pain, including through personalized cognitive behavioural therapy-based coping mechanisms.
“This award recognizes my unique role as a nurse clinician-scientist and how important these roles are in contributing to the sustained and positive impact on improving pediatric pain management and advancing the nursing profession through my roles as a clinician, scientist and educator,” says Stinson. “Receiving this award inspires me to continue to provide high quality clinical care and a robust program of research that directly informs and improves that care.”
