The Department of Pediatrics of the University of British Columbia and British Columbia’s Children’s Hospital consists of physicians, scientists, allied health professionals and administrative staff trained in pediatric and allied child health disciplines. Department members include full-time, part-time and community-based pediatricians. The Department’s mandate is to provide leadership and excellence in patient care, education, research and child advocacy.
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Bettinger, Julie | Public and population health; Epidemiology; Vaccination; Infectious diseases; Health Promotion; Community Health / Public Health; Infectious disease epidemiology; vaccine clinical trials; Vaccine hesitancy; vaccine programs; vaccine safety |
| Blydt-Hansen, Tom | Childhood Diseases; Pediatric kidney transplant; Injury phenotype; Rejection; Biomarkers; Metabolomics; Chemokines |
| Boerner, Katelynn | Pediatrics; Health equity; Gender and health relationship; Sex and gender-based analysis; Health psychology; Clinical child psychology; Developmental psychology; Patient and citizen engagement research; chronic pain; pediatric psychology; Qualitative research; intensive longitudinal methods; sex and gender based analysis; gender diversity; Autism; neurodiversity; clinical psychology; Health Equity; rehabilitation; chronic illness; eating disorders; medical trauma; Health Psychology; Development; Adolescence |
| Brown, Kelly | Medical, health and life sciences; childhood rheumatic diseases; Inflammation; phagocytes |
| Brussoni, Mariana | Developmental psychology; Psychosocial, sociocultural and behavioral determinants of health; Population health interventions; injury prevention; Children's outdoor play; Risky play; Parenting; health behaviour change; Implementation Science |
| Carleton, Bruce | Pediatrics, clinical pharmacology, outcomes research, drug policy evaluation, health services research, drug safety and adverse drug reactions |
| Dell, Sharon | Asthma in Children; Bronchial Disorders; Children's Health; Interstitial Lung Diseases; Rare diseases; Primary ciliary dyskinesia |
| Devlin, Angela | Human nutrition and dietetics; Human reproduction and development sciences; Pathology (except oral pathology); cardiovascular disease; Children; developmental programming; Diabetes; Obesity |
| Doan, Quynh | Medical, health and life sciences; Health Services; Child and youth mental health; Emergency medicine work load modelling |
| Eddy, Rachel | COPD; Asthma; magnetic resonance imaging |
| Elango, Rajavel | Protein Nutrition, Maternal-Fetal Nutrition, Childhood Malnutrition, Amino Acid Metabolism, Human Nutrition |
| Goldman, Ran | Evidence to Innovation; Pediatric Research in Emergency Therapeutics (PRETx) Program |
| Grunau, Ruth V | Biobehavioural regulation, brain and neurodevelopment in premature infants and children, Long-term effects of neonatal pain on stress regulation, brain, behavior, neurodevelopment, Infant pain and stress, Parenting stress, parent-infant interaction |
| Harris, Kevin | Evidence to Innovation; Preventive Cardiology; Cardiovascular Outcomes; Interventional Pediatric Cardiology |
| Hawkes, Michael | Pediatric infectious diseases; global pediatric infections |
| Khan, Rabia | |
| Kissoon, Niranjan | Sepsis and critical care |
| Lavoie, Pascal | Neonatal Immunity, Infection/Inflammation, Inheritance/Genetics of Neonatal Morbidities, Neonatal Chronic Lung Disease |
| Lim, Chinten James | Cancer progression and metastasis; Solid cancer tumours; Hematological tumours; tumour cell biology; mechanisms of drug resistance; integrin cell adhesion and migration; tumour microenvironment; pediatric oncology |
| Loock, Christine Ann | Brain, Behaviour & Development; Social Pediatrics; Health Inequities; Child-health medical-home: children/families, integration / patient care / community services; Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders; Pediatric Sleep Disorders |
| Loucks, Catrina | Medical, health and life sciences; Pharmacogenomics; Pain management; Medical Genetics; Model organism genetics; Drug reactions |
| Lunken, Genelle | Clinical nutrition; Human nutrition and dietetics, n.e.c.; Gastroenterology; Personalised nutrition therapies; Dietary fibre; Inflammatory bowel disease; Gut microbiome; Food additives |
| Macnab, Andrew | Developmental Neurosciences, Child Health, Diabetes, Nutrition & Metabolism (Nutrition & Metabolism) |
| Matsell, Douglas | Childhood kidney disease, Congenital urinary tract obstruction |
| Maxwell, Christopher | Mechanisms of carcinogenesis; Cell differentiation, proliferation and death; Pediatric cancer; Cancer progression and metastasis; Hereditary Cancer; Cell division; Cell migration; Differentiation; Cell polarity |
| Meckler, Garth | Evidence to Innovation; Pediatric Simulation; Continuing Medical Education; Pediatric Headache |
| Miller, Steven | Birth defects, Concussion, Preterm labor, Steroids |
| O'Donnell, Maureen | Pediatrics, children with disabilities, prenatal antidepressant exposure, cerebral palsy, austism, purple crying, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, social disparities |
| Oberlander, Timothy | Population epidemiological studies that characterize neurodevelopmental pathways that reflect risk, resiliency and developmental plasticity |
| Pike, Ian | Health promotion and disease prevention; Child and Youth Injury Prevention; Safety-oriented culture; Indigenous child injury prevention; Social Marketing; Child Passenger Safety; Risky play; Drowning prevention |
| Rauscher, Alexander | Other physical sciences; Medical and biomedical engineering; magnetic resonance imaging; physics; quantitative susceptibility mapping; myelin water imaging; brain; maschine learning |
| Razack, Saleem | Models of Care for Children with Medical Complexity in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Anti-Racism in Medical Education, Professional Socialization for Greater Social Justice |
| Reid, Gregor | Basic medicine and life sciences; paediatric cancer; cancer immunology; animal models of cancer |
| Roland, Elke | Pediatric Neurology; Neurodevelopmental disorders; Developmental Neurology; Pediatric Neuroscience; Neurological diseases; Clinical Neurology; Neurological disorders |
| Rothstein, Ralph | Pediatric Endocrinology |
| Sadarangani, Manish | Immunology; Microbiology; Clinical sciences; Antimicrobial resistant bacteria; Bacterial Vaccines; Childhood infections; Epidemiology; Immune System; Vaccine Development; Vaccine immunity; Clinical trials and observational studies |
| Samuel, Susan | improving care and outcomes of children with chronic health conditions, kidney disease, nephrotic syndrome |
| Sanatani, Shubhayan | Arrhythmia; Sudden death, ion channelopathies, supraventricular tachycardia, autonomic nervous system |
| Schrewe, Brett | |
| Schultz, Kirk | Pediatric Cancer Blood and Marrow Transplantation Transplantation immunology Graft-versus-Host Disease Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Aplastic Anemia Myelodysplastic Syndrome, Oncology, immune system, childhood leukemia, blood and marrow transplatation, tumour immunology |
| Selvanathan, Thiviya | Medical, health and life sciences; neurodevelopment in newborns; early-life brain injury; Brain development; Neuroimaging; Prematurity; congenital heart disease; neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy |
| Sly, Laura | Innate immunity; Inflammatory bowel disease; Inflammation; macrophages; Cell signalling |
| Stockler-Ipsiroglu, Sylvia | Diabetes, Nutrition & Metabolism (Nutrition & Metabolism), pathophysiology and treatment of neurometabolic disorders, ceberal creatine deficiency syndromes, cerebral glucose dificiency syndromes, epilepsy, mental retardation |
| Turvey, Stuart | Immunology; Microbiology; Asthma; Immune System; Immunodeficiencies; Microbiome cohort studies; Precision Medicine; Primary Immune Deficiencies |
| Vallance, Bruce | Enteric bacterial pathogens, innate immunity, instestinal inflammation, host defense, inflammatory bowel disease, immunity in health and disease |
| Voss, Christine | Pediatrics; Physical Activity; Children and youth; Health behaviours; Diabetes; congenital heart disease |
| Weber, Alexander | Neurocognitive patterns and neural networks; Central nervous system; Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI); Quantitative MRI; Brain Disorders; resting state functional MRI; myelin water imaging; Arterial Spin Labelling; Diffusion Tensor Imaging; Fractal based analysis; Concussion; Diagnostic Imaging; Epilepsy; Seizures; Traumatic Brain Injury; open science; Biomedical Engineering; Rett Syndrome |