Biography

Title

• Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal
• Associate professor, Department of Pediatrics, Université de Montréal
• Investigator, CHU Sainte-Justine Research Center
• Head, Centre of Psycho-Oncology, Centre de Cancérologie Charles-Bruneau
• Head, Quality of Life lab, CHU Sainte-Justine

Internship opportunity(ies)

No open position

• Habilitation in Psychology (2003), Université Paris 10 – Nanterre (France)
• PhD, Psychology (1999), Université Paris 10 – Nanterre (France)

Following my experience as head of a research unit in psycho-oncology and health psychology at Université Paris Descartes, I have been appointed at the departments of psychology and pediatrics at U of Montreal. My lab is at the Cancer Care Centre at CHU Sainte-Justine.

My research encompasses core topics in psycho-oncology. We study psychosocial factors associated with the cancer trajectory in children, families and friends. I focus on 1) Evaluating and improving emotional distress and quality of life; 2) Understanding and improving clinical empathy in care.

• Psycho-Oncology
• Health psychology
• Cancer
• Quality of Life
• Intervention development
• Intervention evaluation
• Measures of behavioural and affective functioning

Awards and Distinctions

• VIE Project : Valorisation, Implication, Éducation. A research program to improve healthy lifestyles in children being treated for cancer. Grant support by the Sobeys Foundation / Charles Bruneau Foundation 2016-2021.
  PI : Daniel Sinnett; co-PIs : Valérie Marcil, Daniel Curnier, Serge Sultan
• PSY-ALL : Long-term psychoaffective status in pediatric leukemia survivors : Description, association with cognitive status, identification strategy, and treatment impact. Grant support by the FRQs-Cancer Grant 2014-2016.
  PI : Serge Sultan ; Co-applicants and collaborators : Sarah Lippé, Maja Krajinovic, Caroline Laverdière

Presentations

• Sultan, S. (2016, juin). Why clinicians are only moderately accurate in inferring feelings and thoughts of adult patients with cancer? The role of emotional expressivity and biases in self-judgments. 77e Congrès annuel de la Société canadienne de Psychologie, Victoria, Canada.
• Sultan, S (2016, juin). Original results at fair cost in pediatric psycho-oncology research. 77e Congrès annuel de la Société canadienne de Psychologie, Victoria, Canada.
• Sultan, S., Lippé, S., Streff, A., Abate, C., Krajinovic, M., Sinnett, D. & Laverdière, C. (2015, juillet). Differential effect of health status dimensions on psychological distress in a cohort of childhood ALL survivors. International Psycho-Oncology Society. Washington DC.
• Sultan, S., Abate, C., Krajinovic, M., Sinnett, D. & Laverdière, C. (2015, juillet). Differences between fathers and mothers of childhood ALL survivors: Description and differential factors. International Psycho-Oncology Society. Washington DC

Selected Publications

• Sultan, S., Rondeau, É., Levasseur, M. C., Dicaire, R., Decaluwe, H., & Haddad, É. (2017). Quality of Life, Treatment Beliefs, and Treatment Satisfaction in Children Treated for Primary Immunodeficiency with SCIg. Journal of Clinical Immunology, 1-9.
• Gouveia, L., Janvier, A., Dupuis, F., Duval, M., Sultan, S. (2017). Examining the role of two perspective taking strategies for detecting distress amongst parents of children with cancer: A randomised trial. PLoS ONE, 12(4), e0175342
• Avoine-Blondin, J., Parent, V., Lahaye, M., Humbert, N., Duval, M., Sultan, S. (2017). Identifying Domains of Quality of Life of Children with Cancer in Palliative Care: A Qualitative Study with Professionals (2017). Palliative and Supportive Care, 1-10.
• Lamothe, M., Rondeau, E., Malboeuf-Hurtubise, C., Duval, M., Sultan, S. (2016). Outcomes of Mindfulness in Health Care Providers: A Systematic Review with a Focus on Empathy and Emotion Competencies, Complementary Therapies in Medicine, 24, 19-28.
• Sultan, S., Leclair, T., Rondeau, E., Burns, W., & Abate, C. (2015). A systematic review on the determinants and consequences of parental distress as related to childhood cancer. European Journal of Cancer Care, 1-22. doi: 10.1111/ecc.12361