Christina Amaro, PhD, Instructor of Pediatrics

Christina Amaro, PhD, Instructor of Pediatrics

Department of Pediatrics, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

 

Dr. Christina Amaro is a pediatric psychologist and an Instructor of Pediatrics in the Section of Pediatric Population Science, Disparities, and Outcomes Research in the Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology in the Department of Pediatrics at the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She is also a member of the Rutgers Cancer Institute and the New Jersey Hematology and Oncology Center of Excellence (NJ PHORCE).

Dr. Amaro received her doctoral degree in clinical child psychology from the University of Kansas and completed a clinical internship at Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware. She then pursued a research postdoctoral fellowship through Boston University and Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware.

Broadly, Dr. Amaro’s research aims to improve healthcare delivery and outcomes for youth and families, including siblings, impacted by pediatric cancer and sickle cell disease through (1) identifying social-ecological influences on health outcomes to inform potential psychosocial treatment targets; (2) applying these findings to the development and evaluation of family-centered psychosocial interventions; and (3) examining professional issues in the pediatric healthcare workforce.

Her recently awarded New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and Translational Science (NJ ACTS) Institutional K12 Career Development Award will engage community members (i.e., adolescent siblings and parents of youth with cancer, and psychosocial providers) to develop and refine a digital single-session intervention to meet the unique psychosocial needs of adolescent siblings of children with cancer.

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