Professor Christine Eiser BSc, PhD

Address
The University of Sheffield
Sheffield S10 2TP
UK
Tel: (+44) 0114 222 6621
Fax: (+44) 0114 276 6515
Email C.Eiser@sheffield.ac.uk
Room: 1-16

Qualifications

BSc (Bristol), PhD (Bristol)

Research Interests

• Quality of life issues for children and families associated with chronic physical problems (e.g. cancer, diabetes).
• Transition of care from paediatrics to adult health care.
• Late psychological effects of life-threatening illness and treatment.

Grants

• Immediate and longer-term consequences for men who bank sperm prior to cancer treatment. Eiser C and Pacey A. CR-UK (2008-2011)
• Living with advanced myeloma: A study to identify preventable and manageable late effects of modern clinical management. Snowden, J, Eiser C. et al Myeloma-UK (2008-2010).
• Quality of life in children undergoing growth hormone treatment. Novo Nordisk, Serono and Pfizer pharmaceuticals. Eiser C, Butler G. (University of Reading) Wright N. and Wales J.
• Long term cancer survival: models of follow-up; evidence and impact of late-effects. D. Greenfield, C. Eiser, H. Davies, R. Ross & R. Coleman. (2004-2008) Weston Park Hospital Cancer Appeal
• Quality of life during treatment for childhood leukaemia (with Dr M Jenney (Cardiff) and Prof AJ Vora (Sheffield) MRC 2003-2009.
• Palliative care in children with brain tumours. Eiser C and Brook L. Lisa Thaxter Trust 2008-2009
• Development of a skills training package for children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus. DAFNE 2 Project: Dose Adjustment For Normal Eating. K. Price, S. Heller, & C. Eiser. Diabetes Research UK 2004-Dec. 2006.
• Views about long-term follow-up in survivors of childhood cancer and their parents. The Lisa Thaxter Trust C. Eiser, D. Greenfield, H. Davies & R. Ross. (2004-2005)

Committees

• Sheffield Children’s Hospital Appeal.
• CCLG (Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group) Working Groups: Late effects (1995-present); Psychosocial (Joint Chair) (November 1999-2002); Palliative Care (2005-present); Quality of Survival (2008- )
• Sheffield Children’s Hospital-Scientific Advisory Committee (2002-present)
• Department of Health Advisory group: Informed Consent procedures (2001-2002)
• Northern Paediatric Endocrine Group (2005-present)

Editorial Boards

• Care, Health and Development (2001-present)
• Child Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry (2001-present)
• British Journal of Health Psychology, 2000-2002
• European Editor for the Journal of Pediatric Psychology (1996-2003)
• Paediatric Rehabilitation (2003-present)

Invited Talks

• Parenting styles on long-term outcomes, (Plenary) Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario, Toronto, November 2006
• Psychosocial and neurocognitive consequences of childhood cancer. A symposium in tribute for Raymond K. Mulhern. St Jude Children’s Hospital, Memphis, September 2006
• Assessment of Quality of life in clinical trials. Pan European Sarcoma Trials: Moving forward in a climate of increasing economic and regulatory pressure, Stuttgart November 2006.
• Determinants of long-term behavioral outcomes. Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario, Toronto, November 2006
• Cure and Care After Childhood Cancer Erice, Sicily, September 2006
• European Symposium on late complications after childhood cancer, Lund, Sweeden. Neuropsychological consequences of childhood cancer. (April 2007)
• Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, London, Childhood cancer and beyond. (June 2007).
• Seminal aspects of 21 years of psychosocial research in Paediatric oncology, Current and Future Issues. 21st BPOS Conference, University of Sussex, December 2005.
• The impact of asthma 7th Annual Symposium on Paediatric Respiratory Disease University of Sheffield, UK, 16-17th June 2005.
• Children with cancer: A history. EFPOS, Glasgow, UK, September 2003.
• Uses of measures in evaluation and clinical trials. Measuring child health: Critical challenges in developing and applying health status and outcome measures, Chicago, USA, March 24-25th, 2003.

Conferences Organised

• Eiser, C. (symposium) "Children with cancer” British Health Psychology annual meeting, Sheffield, September 2002.
• Eiser C. (symposium) Chronic illness in children annual meeting of European Health Psychology Association, University of Galway 2005
• RE Coleman, RJ Ross, H.Davies, C Eiser and D Greenfield. Late effects in cancer survivors.9-10th February 2006, Sheffield
• Children with cancer in the Balkans’, City College, Thessaloniki.

Research Staff

• Barbara Johnson
• Kieran Ayling
• Chris Rowland

Publications

A list of key publications can be found below.  For a full list of publications please click here