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CURRICULUM VITAE

Christine Tong
Professor, Business Analytics, St. Lawrence College
100 Portsmouth Ave, Kingston, ON, Canada K7L 5A6
Email:  [email protected]
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Education

  • Ph.D. (2020) - Brain, Behaviour & Cognitive Science, Psychology, Queen's University
  • M.A. (2001) - Brain, Behaviour & Cognitive Science, Psychology, Queen's University
  • B.A.H. (1999) - Psychology, First Class Honours,  Queen's University
  • B.Ed. (1997) - Intermediate Senior Division (Mathematics, Chemistry, ESL), Queen's University
  • B.A. (1996) - Mathematics (minor), Queen's University
  • B.Sc. (1995) - Biochemistry, Queen's University

Awards

  • CIHR Doctoral Research Award (2003-07)
  • IRIS PRECARN HQP - Highly Qualified Personnel - Scholarship (2003) 
  • NSERC Postgraduate Award B (2001-03)
  • IRIS PRECARN HQP - Highly Qualified Personnel - Scholarship (2002)
  • NSERC Postgraduate Award A (1999-01)
  • Queen's University Prince of Wales Prize Honourable Mention (2000)
  • NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (1999)
  • Ann Adamson Scholarship in Psychology (1998)
  • Paul Park Mathematics, Science and Technology Education Award (1996)
  • Susan Near Prize in Psychology (1996)  
  • NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (1994)
  •  NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (1993)
  • Annie Bentley Lillie Prize in Calculus (1992)
  • Canada Scholarship (1991-95)
  • Queen's University Provincial Scholarship (1991-95)
  • Peel Region Top Ontario Scholar (1991) 

Academic Employment

Positions held at Queen's University unless otherwise stated.

Research
  • Research associate, Cancer Research Institute (2007-present)
  • Research assistant, Touch Lab, Psychology Dept (2003)
  • Research assistant, Cognition & Action Lab, Psychology Dept (2000-01)
  • NSERC Undergraduate summer research student, Psychology (1999)  
  • NSERC Undergraduate summer research student, Biochemistry (1994)
  • NSERC Undergraduate summer research student, Chemistry (1993)
Teaching
  • Professor, Quantitative Research Methods and Introduction to Statistical Analysis I/II (2019-Present)
  • Lab instructor, Introductory Statistics for Nursing (2005-2006)
  • Teaching assistant, Cognitive Psychology (2004-05)
  • Teaching assistant, Research Methods (2003-04)
  • Lab instructor, Psychometrics (2001) 
  • Teaching assistant, Statistics in Psychology (2000)
  • Teaching assistant, Introductory Psychology (1999-00)
  • Teacher (practicum) - Mathematics, Chemistry, General Sciences - Peel Region Board of Education (1996-97)
  • Teaching Assistant, Calculus for Applied Science (1995)
  • Teaching Assistant, Differential & Integral Calculus (1992-95)  

Publications

Peer-reviewed Journals
  • Feldman-Stewart D, Madarnas Y, Mates M, Tong C, Grunfeld E, Verma S, Carolan H,  Brundage MD (2013)  Information for decision making by post-menopausal women with hormone receptor positive early-stage breast cancer considering adjuvant endocrine therapy.  The Breast, 22(5):919-925
  • Feldman-Stewart D, Madarnas Y, Mates M, Tong C, Grunfeld E, Verma S, Carolan H,  Brundage MD (2013)  Information needs of post-menopausal women with hormone receptor positive early-stage breast cancer considering adjuvant endocrine therapy. Patient Education and Counseling, 93(1):114-121
  • Feldman-Stewart D, Tong C, Siemens R, Alibhai S, Pickles T, Robinson J, Brundage MD (2012) The impact of explicit values clarification exercises in a patient decision aid emerges after the decision is actually made: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial. Medical Decision Making, 32(4):616-626
  • Feldman-Stewart D, Brundage MD, Tong C (2011) Information that affects patients’ treatment choices for early stage prostate cancer:  a review.  Canadian Journal of Urology, 18(6):5998-6006
  • Feldman-Stewart D, Capirci C, Brennenstuhl S, Tong C, Abacioglu U, Gawkowska-Suwinska M, Heyda A, Igdem S, Macias V, Monteiro Grillo I, Moynihan C, Parker C, Pijls-Johannesma M, Pimentel N, van Gils F, Wördehoff H (2011) Information needed for decision making by early-stage prostate cancer patients:  A comparison of information needs in nine countries. Medical Decision Making, 31(5):754-66
  • Feldman-Stewart D, Capirci C, Brennenstuhl S, Tong C, Abacioglu U, Gawkowska-Suwinska M, Heyda A, Igdem S, Macias V, Monteiro Grillo I,  Moynihan C, Parker C, Pijls-Johannesma M, Pimentel N, van Gils F, Wördehoff H (2010) Overall information needs of early-stage prostate cancer patients:  A comparison of nine countries.  Radiotherapy and Oncology, 94:328-333 DOI information: 10.1016/j.radonc.2009.12.038
  • Klassen J, Tong C, Flanagan JR (2005) Learning and recall of incremental kinematic and dynamic sensorimotor transformations.  Experimental Brain Research, 164: 250-259
  • Tong C, Flanagan JR (2003) Task-specific internal models for kinematic transformations. Journal of Neurophysiology, 90: 578-585
  • Tong C, Wolpert DM, Flanagan JR (2002) Kinematics and dynamics are not represented independently in motor working memory: Evidence from an interference study. Journal of Neuroscience, 22: 1108-1113
  • Wigmore V, Tong C, Flanagan JR (2002)  Visuomotor rotation of varying size and direction compete for a single internal model in motor working memory.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 28: 447-457
  • Lederman, S.J., Klatzky, R.L., Martin, A. & Tong, C (2003) Relative performance using haptic and/or touch-produced auditory cues in a remote absolute texture identification task. IEEE VR'03, 11th International Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator systems, 151-158

Conference abstracts & presentations
  • Tong C, Feldman-Stewart D, Brundage MD. Prostate cancer patients' preferences for information and decision support: Where, when and how? Presented at 7th Annual Meeting for Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Health Services Research, Toronto, Ont, June 2015
  • Tong C, Pukall C, Hutchins G, Jeske N. Living Apart Together (LAT) - Beyond government surveys and qualitative interviews: A research proposal. Presented at 2014 Annual Meeting for Canadian Sex Research Forum, Kingston, Ont, October 2014
  • Feldman-Stewart D, Svenson O,  Tong C, Brundage, MD. Patient decision aid study feeds back to theory: Tests of differentiation and consolidation.  Presented at 35th Annual meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making, Baltimore, Md, October 2013
  • Feldman-Stewart D, Tong C, Madarnas Y, Mates M, TeBrake M, Brundage MD,  Grunfeld E, Verma S.  Decision support needs to be tailored to the individual patient: adjuvant endocrine therapy for post-menopausal women with receptor-positive early-stage breast cancer.  Presented at 34th Annual meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making, Phoenix, Az, October 2012
  • Feldman-Stewart D, Brundage MD, Tong C, Siemens R, Alibhai SMH, Pickles T, Robinson J. Patient decision aids help early-stage prostate cancer patients. Presented at 26th Annual meeting of Canadian Association of Radiation Oncology, Ottawa, Ont, September 2012
  • Feldman-Stewart D, Tong, C, Madarnas Y, TeBrake M, Brundage MD, Eisen A. Grunfeld E. Information and decision-making needs of post-menopausal women with early-stage breast cancer considering adjuvant endocrine therapy. Ontario Institute of Cancer Research, Annual Health Services Research Meeting Toronto, Ont, May 2012
  • Feldman-Stewart D, Brundage MD, Tong C, Siemens R, Alibhai SMH, Pickles T, Robinson J.  Attributes affecting treatment choice for early-stage prostate cancer:  many changes and wide differences produce stable results.  International Shared Decision Making Conference, Maastricht, The Netherlands, June 2011
  • Feldman-Stewart D,  Madarnas Y, TeBrake M, Eisen A, Tong C, Brundage M, Grunfeld E.  Critical First Steps in Knowledge Translation and Decision Support:  Evidence from Physicians and from Patients.  Presented at 3rd Annual meeting of Ontario Institute of Cancer Research Health Services Research Program,  Hamilton, Ont., February 2011
  • Feldman-Stewart D, Brundage MD, Tong C, Siemens R, Alibhai SMH, Pickles T, Robinson J.  The impact of values clarification in a decision aid:  Evidence from a randomized controlled trial emerges slowly over time.  Presented to Society for Medical Decision Making, Oct 2010, Toronto, ON. Published: Medical Decision Making January/February 2011 31: E54-E180, doi:10.1177/0272989X10393877
  • Feldman-Stewart D, Brundage MD, Tong C, Siemens R, Alibhai SMH, Pickles T, Robinson J.  The ‘Value' Of Values Clarification In A Decision Aid: Evidence From A Randomized Controlled Trial And Qualitative Exit Interviews.  Presented to Society for Medical Decision Making, Hollywood, CA, October 2009
  • Tong C, Lederman SJ, Klatzky RL, Hamilton C. (2005). The role of viscosity in roughness estimates of virtual gratings. Poster presented at the World Haptics Conference, Pisa, Italy
  • Tong C, Flanagan JR. (2004). Eye-hand coordination in drawing and tracing. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting for Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, USA
  • Tong C, Flanagan JR. (2003). Eye-hand coordination in skill acquisition. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting for Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, USA
  • Flanagan JR, Tong C, Wolpert DM (2002). State-dependent organization of motor working memory. Paper presented at the Annual Neural Control of Movement Meeting, Naples, USA
  • Flanagan JR, Tong C, Johansson RS (2002). Predictive and reactive coordination of gaze and hand movements in object manipulation. Paper presented at the Annual Neural Control of Movement Meeting, Naples
  • Tong C, Flanagan JR (2001). Task-specific internal models for kinematic transformations. Poster presented at the Annual Neural Control of Movement meeting, Seville, Spain
  • Tong C, Wolpert DM, Flanagan JR (2001). State-dependent interference between kinematic and dynamic learning. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting for the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, USA
  • Tong C, Wigmore V, Beninger RJ, Flanagan JR (2000). Visuomotor rotations of varying size and direction compete for a single internal model in working motor memory. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting for the Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, USA

Professional Activities & Development

Review activities
  • Journal Reviewer, Human Movement Science (2004)
  • Journal Reviewer, Experimental Psychology (2003)
  • Journal Reviewer, Experimental Brain Research (2002)

Courses
  • JAVA Programming Language (SL-275), Oracle University (2011)
  • Fundamentals of the JAVA Programming Language (SL-110), Sun Educational Services (2010)

Skills & Hobbies

  • C/C++, Javascript, SQL, PHP, R, Python, Matlab
  • Web design
  • Fluent in English and Cantonese 
  • Digital photography
  • Chinese calligraphy & painting
  • Knitting & crocheting
  • Molecular gastronomy





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