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Alexandra Neville

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Dr. Alexandra Neville is a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University School of Medicine in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, & Pain Medicine. She holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Calgary and completed her pre-doctoral residency at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario. Dr. Neville’s work has included seminal papers on the experience of diagnostic uncertainty from the perspectives of youth with chronic primary pain, their parents, and clinicians. Her work includes the first studies of associations between diagnostic uncertainty among youth with chronic pain and poorer pain-related outcomes, as well as findings reporting the way physicians manage uncertainty is critical to how a diagnosis of chronic pain is communicated, the investigations undertaken, and ultimately youths’ pain experiences. Dr. Neville has a particular interest in understanding the individual perspectives and experiences of youth living with chronic pain and is committed to including the voices of patients and families in research. Her postdoctoral research is funded by a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Fellowship. 

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