Serge Sultan
- Professeur titulaire
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Faculté de médecine - Département de pédiatrie
- Professeur titulaire
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Faculté des arts et des sciences - Département de psychologie
Marie-Victorin office C-348
Travail 1 : 514 345-4931 #7068
Web : Autre site web
Doctorat
1999
, Psychologie , Université Paris 10 - Nanterre (France)
Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches HDR
2003
, Université Paris 10 Nanterre (France)
Affiliations
- Directeur – CPO — Centre Psycho-Oncologie
- Membre – Centre de recherche Azrieli du CHU Sainte-Justine
Education Programs
- Social Sciences and Social Action Social Sciences
Courses
- PSY79902 Analyse critique en psychologie clinique 2
Areas of Expertise
- Quality of life
- Psychologie de la santé
- Psychosocial oncology
- Emotional distress
- Empathy
- Psychosomatics
- Chronic disease
- Affect regulation
- Psychological assessment
- Depression
My research lies at the crossroads of health psychology and clinical psychology.
In my current work, two lines of research can be distinguished. First, I am trying to identify the psychological repercussions of disease, taking account of the central aspects of quality of life and adjustment to the illness.
I am interested in measuring and detecting the emotional distress and psychopathological repercussions of disease. This modelling and the subsequent measurement are an essential step leading to psychological intervention. Second, I study relations between patients and caregivers, through concepts like empathetic understanding. I am trying to define and measure clinical empathy, to understand the factors promoting and inhibiting empathy, and to assess the health effects of clinical empathy.
In particular, I am developing research in the field of cancer and psychosocial oncology, taking account of the impact of and adjustment to illness for the individual, couples and family. Accordingly, my work concerns both child and adult psychology.
My work is based on a constant back and forth between research and practice, so as to ask clinically relevant research questions and to enrich clinical activity with new data.
My laboratory is based at the CHU Sainte-Justine research centre, where I am responsible for the quality of life theme of the Centre of Excellence in Immunology-Hematology-Oncology. This team also welcomes doctoral candidates, post-doctoral fellows, and MSc and honours thesis students.
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Cycle : Master's
Grade : M. Sc.
Research projects Expand all Collapse all
Improving adherence to controller medication in children with asthma - the unexplored contribution of behavioural sciences Projet de recherche au Canada / 2021 - 2027
Améliorer la santé à long terme des adolescents et jeunes adultes atteints de cancer grâce à une intervention multimodale sur les habitudes de vie : apprendre de la Covid-19 et amoindrir ses impacts. Projet de recherche au Canada / 2023 - 2025
Le programme VIE: Interventions intégrées pour les patients traités en oncologie pédiatrique Projet de recherche au Canada / 2022 - 2025
Sensitivity and specificity: identification of an optimal cognitive screening measure in pediatric oncology Projet de recherche au Canada / 2022 - 2024
Comprendre les comportements sociaux chez les survivants de tumeurs cérébrales pédiatriques : vers une intervention ciblée sur les compétences sociales Projet de recherche au Canada / 2021 - 2023
Combattre la douleur procédurale en oncologie pédiatrique à l'aide de stratégies de communication : une étude pilote de la formation Rel@x Projet de recherche au Canada / 2020 - 2022
RQSPAL/Étude préparatoire à la construction d'un outil d'évaluation formelle de la Qualité de Vie en soins palliatifs pédiatriques. Projet de recherche au Canada / 2019 - 2020
Recherche touchant aux soins palliatifs pédiatriques dans les pays du Sud. Projet de recherche au Canada / 2015 - 2016
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Articles sélectionnés:
Levesque, A., Curnier, D., Marcil, V., Bélanger, V., Bouchard, I., Delorme, J., Laverdière, C., Meloche, C., Napartuk, M., Ogez, D., Rondeau, É., Péloquin, K., Sinnett, D., Caru, M., Sultan, S. (2025). Exploration of the impact of participation in a multidisciplinary family lifestyle intervention on physical activity and diet quality during treatment for childhood cancer: The VIE program. BMC Pediatrics, 25, 452, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-025-05727-0
Sultan S., Duval, S., Aramideh, A., Bőthe, B., Latendresse, A., Bedu, M., Lévesque, A., Rondeau, É., LeMay, S., Moussa, A., Bourque, C.J., Tsimicalis, A., Doré-Bergeron M.J., Gravel, J., Ogez, D. (2025). Training healthcare professionals in hypnosis-derived communication to mitigate procedural pain in children. Scientific Reports, 15, 8266. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-91267-
Robichaud L.-A., Felipe J., Duval M., Michon B., Olivier-D'Avignon M., Perreault S., Tyo-Gomez M., Marquis M.-A., Sultan S. (2024) Quality-of-Life Assessment in Pediatric Advanced Cancer: Development of the Patient-Reported Outcome Measure Advance QoL. Current Oncology, 31(4), 2289-2304. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11049209/
Chapados, P., Aramideh, J., Lamore, K., Dumont, É., Lugasi, T., Clermont, M.-J., Laberge, M., Scott, R., Laverdière, C., Sultan, S. (2021). Getting ready for transition to adult care : Tool validation and multi-informant strategy using the Transition Readiness Assessment Questionnaire in pediatrics. Child: Care, Health and Development, 47(5), 645-653. https://doi.org/10.1111/cch.12872
Lamothe, M., Rondeau, É., Duval, M., McDuff, P., Pastore, Y., Sultan, S. (2020). Changes in hair cortisol and self-reported stress measures following mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR): A proof-of-concept study in pediatric hematology-oncology professionals. Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice, 41, 101249. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ctcp.2020.101249
Anestin, A. S., Lippé, S., Robaey, P., Bertout, L., Drouin, S., Krajinovic, M., Laverdière, C., Sinnett, D., Sultan, S. (2018). Psychological risk in long-term survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia and its association with functional health status: A PETALE cohort study. Pediatric Blood and Cancer, 65, e27356.. https://doi.org/10.1002/pbc.27356
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