Christine Sieberg is faculty for Education in C/T Science at Harvard Catalyst. An alumni of the Grant Review and Support Program (GRASP), she has served as a work plan mentor for the program since 2019. Sieberg is a licensed clinical psychologist and grant-funded investigator specializing in chronic pain at the Center for Health Outcomes and Interdisciplinary Research (CHOIR) at Mass General Hospital. She is also an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Previously, Sieberg was based at Boston Children’s Hospital where she directed the Biobehavioral Pain Innovations (BPI) Lab, co-directed the Pain and Affective Neuroscience Center, and served as the associate director of the Center for Pain and the Brain. She remains as a scientific research associate in the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital and has been an affiliated faculty member at the Boston Center for Endometriosis since 2016. Sieberg has built a research foundation in the biobehavioral aspects and the treatment and assessment of chronic pain. The focus of her current grant funding is on chronic post-surgical pain and endometriosis-associated pain, and she is the recipient of an R35 Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) from the National Institutes of Health. Sieberg is committed to service and mentoring. In addition to being a faculty member with Harvard Catalyst, she is also a member of the Harvard Faculty of Medicine IRB. Nationally, she leads the Research Subgroup for the Society of Pediatric Psychology’s Gender Diversity and Pain Special Interest Group and is a member of the United States Association for the Study of Pain’s Advocacy Committee. Internationally, she is a board member for the European Pediatric Psychology Network and serves as an associate editor for the Clinical Journal of Pain.
