Melanie Noel, PhD, RPsych is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Calgary and a Full Member of the Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute and the Hotchkiss Brain Institute. She directs the PEAK (Pain Education, Advocacy, Knowledge) Research Lab within the Vi Riddell Pain & Rehabilitation Centre at the Alberta Children’s Hospital in Canada.

Safira grew up in Calgary and is in the last year of completing her Bachelor’s in Psychology at the University of Calgary. She is passionate about exploring how physical health affects psychological well-being, especially in children. Safira will be completing her Honours thesis this fall, investigating sleep, pain, and headache in pediatric mild traumatic brain injury.

Jaimie is a PhD Candidate in the Clinical Psychology program at the University of Calgary. Her research examines the connections between adversity, chronic pain, and mental health in parents and their children. She hopes to identify both risk and resiliency factors that can be addressed in interventions to improve the outcomes of families living with chronic pain

Queenie is passionate about finding ways that we can live better together. She believes a key to achieving thriving communities is to support those in the most vulnerable positions, including children and marginalized individuals. As such, her breadth of research experience in psychology, public health, and education is connected by a focus on advocacy and justice.

As a person with lived experience dealing with chronic pain in his childhood, Merek has a great interest in learning more about how psychology and pain come together, and using this knowledge to help others struggling with pain. Merek began as a volunteer, and has completed a summer studentship and honours thesis under Dr. Noel, with hopes of continuing on to the clinical psychology program.

Josep was born in Menorca, Spain and completed his Bachelor's degree in Psychology at the University of the Balearic Islands in 2017. In 2024, he obtained his PhD at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili under the supervision of Prof. Jordi Miró. In 2023, Josep was the recipient of a grant from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, enabling him to investigate the factors involved in the transition from acute pain to chronic pain in youth as a visting scholar at UCalgary. Josep is now completing his Postdoctoral Fellowship with the lab.

Tatiana is a PhD Candidate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Calgary. Tatiana’s research interests surround how chronic and acute pain narratives are co-constructed between parents and children across early childhood and into adolescence. Tatiana is passionate about pediatric psychology and investigating ways to promote children’s physical and mental health. Her previous research experience explored children’s cognitive and language development. Tatiana remains interested in cognitive factors involved in children’s development and how shared language regarding painful experiences can serve as a context within which to study children’s broader social and emotional development.

Kailey grew up in Winnipeg and completed her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology degree at the University of Manitoba in 2021. She is moving to Calgary to pursue her career goal of becoming a clinical psychologist. She has strong interests in child and family mental health and how this is related to pain.