Welcome
The British Columbia Research Institute
for Children's & Women's Health
Centre for Community Child Health Research
Faculty
Bob Armstrong
Director
Director - Bob Armstrong
Ph.D, MD, FRCPC; Associate Professor Pediatrics, UBC Vice President Medical Services and Quality Promotion, Developmental Pediatrician, Children's & Women's Health Centre of British Columbia
Research Focus:population and individual measure of disease and health status, identification of at-risk populations, and the development and evaluation of clinical and population-based interventions.
e-mail: barmstrong@sunnyhill.bc.ca
Associate Director - Chris Lovato
Ph.D; Associate Professor, Health Care and Epidemiology, UBC
Research Focus: health promotion and prevention medicine, with a special interest in developing population-based interventions to reduce tobacco use, sun exposure and injuries among children and youth.
Jacqueline Smit Alex
Managing Director
Managing Director
Jacqueline Smit Alex, MSW
e-mail: smit-alex@sunnyhill.bc.ca
Telephone: (604) 875-3687
Ruth Eckstein Gruneau
Ph.D; Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, UBC Psychologist, BC's Children's Hospital
Research Focus: biobehavioural responses to pain/stress in infants; long term cognitive, academic and psycho-social functioning of very low birth weight and other medically high risk newborns.
Anton Miller
MD, FRCPC; Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics, UBC Developmental Pediatrician, Sunny Hill Health Centre for Children
Research Focus:evaluation of strategies to reduce disability from hearing loss in infancy; evaluation of diagnostic and management strategies in attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder.
Tim Oberlander
MD, FRCPC; Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, UBC Developmental Pediatrician, Sunny Hill Health Centre for Children
Research Focus: biobehavioural responses to pain/stress in infants; pain in children with significant neurologic impairment, long term outcome of low birth weight and critically ill newborns.
Maureen O'Donnell
MD, FRCPC; Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, UBC Developmental Pediatrician, Sunny Hill Health Centre for Children
Research Focus: growth and nutritional needs in children with cerebral palsy; sleep disorders in children with major neurological impairment; treatment for spasticity in children; patterns of health care use among children and youth with disabilities.
Parminder Raina
Ph.D; Assistant Professor, Health Care and Epidemiology, UBC
Research Focus: epidemiology, health services and population health research, quality of life, survey methodology, surveillance and epidemiology of injuries and disabilities.
Post Doctoral Fellow- Hassan Soubhi
M.D., Ph.D Candidate Post-Doctoral Fellow, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UBC; Dept. of Health Care and Epidemilogy, UBC
e-mail: hsoubhi@sunnyhill.bc.ca
Telephone: 875-3682
Research Associates
Judith Pegg
Ph.D., Research Assistant, Division of Developmental Psychology, Department of UBC
e-mail: jpegg@sunnyhill.bc.ca
Telephone: (604) 875-3571
Jean Shoveler
Ph.D., Research Assistant, Division of Prevention and Health Promotion, Dept. of Health Care and Epidemiology, UBC
e-mail: jshovell@unixg.ubc
Telephone: (604) 875-3568
Administrative Assistant
Lisa Lund, BPE
e-mail: llund@sunnyhill.bc.ca
Telephone: (604) 875-3567
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CANADA
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Fax: (604) 875-3569
Last updated: November 3, 1998
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