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: 1-6

Qualifications

BSc (Bristol), PhD (Bristol)

Teaching and administrative duties

I am Director, MRes and SEERS representative and Balkans research network. I also sit on the Psychology Teaching Committee, Ethics Sub-Committee and Postgraduate Studies Committee.

Department responsibilities

• Director: MSc Psychological Research Methods.
• Director: Child and Family Research Group.

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.

Key Publications

EISER, C., EISER JR., MAYHEW, AG. and GIBSON, AT. (2005)
Parenting the premature infant: balancing vulnerability and quality of life.
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 1169-1177

EARLE, EA., DAVIES, H., GREENFIELD, D., ROSS, R. and EISER, C. (2005)
Follow-up care for young people who have been treated for cancer: A focus groups analysis.
European Journal of Cancer 41, 2882-2886

EISER, C, EISER, J.R. and GRECO, V (2004)
Surviving childhood cancer: Quality of life and parental regulatory focus.
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 30, 123-133.

VANCE, YH., MORSE, RC., JENNEY, M. and EISER C. (2001)
Methodological issues in measuring quality of life in childhood cancer: Measures, proxies and parental mental health.
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 42, 661-667.

EISER C. & MORSE R. (2001)
Can parents rate their child's health related quality of life? Results of a systematic review.
Quality of Life Research 10, 347-357

WALLACE, W. H. B., BLACKLAY, A., EISER, C., DAVIES, H., HAWKINS, M., LEVITT, G. A., JENNEY, M. E. M. (2001)
Developing strategies for long term follow up of survivors of childhood cancer.
British Medical Journal 323, 271-274

SHEPPARD L, EISER C, DAVIES HA, CARNEY S, CLARKE SA, URQUHART T, RYDER MJ, STONER A, WRIGHT NP, BUTLER, G.
The effects of growth hormone treatment on health-related quality of life in children.
Hormone Research 2006; 65: 243-260.

EISER C, ABSOLOM K, GREENFIELD D, SNOWDEN J, COLEMAN R, HANCOCK B, DAVIES H, (2007).
Follow-up care for young adult survivors of cancer: Lessons from Pediatrics.
Journal of Cancer Survivorship: Research and Practice, 1, 75-86

View a full list of Christine Eiser's publications.

Postgraduate Students

• Rebecca Beeken - PhD Student
• Erin Walker - PhD Student
• Sally-Anne Clarke - PhD Student
• Maria Karagiannidou - Masters student

Research Staff

• Kate Absolom
• Gisela Michel
• Gill Wales

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