Rebecca Pillai Riddell

Rebecca Rita Elizabeth Riddell (née Pillai) is a Canadian clinical psychologist and a basic-behavioural scientist.

After earning her PhD, Pillai Riddell became the director of the Opportunities to Understand Childhood Hurt (OUCH) Laboratory at York University.

OUCH Lab at York University was launched in 2004 to understand how caregivers and children interact within the context of pain.

[2] On January 14, 2015, she was named the inaugural Tier 2 York Research Chair in Pain and Mental Health.

[4] Pillai Riddell was also the recipient of the President's Emerging Research Leadership Award from York University.