Welcome
The British Columbia Research Institute
for Children's & Women's Health
Centre for Community Child Health Research
Faculty
Director - Bob Armstrong
Ph.D, MD, FRCPC; Associate Professor, Pediatrics, UBC; Vice President Medical Services and Quality Promotion, 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.
Associate Director - Chris Lovato
Ph.D; Associate Professor, Health Care and Epidemiology, UBC
Research Focus: health promotion and preventive medicine, with a special interest in developing population-based interventions to reduce tobacco use, sun exposure and injuries among children and youth.
Ruth Eckstein Gruneau
Ph.D, RPsych; Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics, UBC; Psychologist, B.C.'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; Director, B.C. Injury Research & Prevention Unit
Research Focus: epidemiology, health services and population health research, quality of life, survey methodology, surveillance and epidemiology of injuries and disabilities.
Research Associates
Judith Gilley
Ph.D; Research Associate, Sessional Instructor, Department of Psychology, UBC
Jean Shoveller
Ph.D; Research Associate, Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, UBC
Post Doctoral Fellow
Hassan Soubhi
M.D., MSC, Ph.D Candidate; Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Health Care and Epidemilogy, UBC
Managing Director
Jacqueline Smit Alex, MSW
Administrative Assistant
Lisa Lund, BPE
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E-mail: childhealth@sunnyhill.bc.ca
Last updated: March 11, 1999
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