Our more than 1,000 researchers are driven by a tireless commitment to help children and their families receive the best possible care and live the healthiest possible lives.
Together with our generous and visionary partners, funders and donors, and the families who participate in our research, we are at the forefront of child health. We continuously pursue new discoveries and innovations that benefit not only the 1 million kids in BC and Yukon who depend on us, but also kids around the world.
We are part of BC Children’s Hospital, the only hospital in BC devoted exclusively to pediatric patients. In the lab, clinic and community, our clinicians and scientists are:
- Improving treatments and finding cures
- Developing breakthrough technologies
- Advancing knowledge of child health and development
- Informing policy and practice
We do this through a wide and varied research portfolio organized into four themes: Childhood Diseases; Brain, Behaviour & Development; Healthy Starts; and Evidence to Innovation.
We are supported by BC Children’s Hospital Foundation, are part of the Provincial Health Services Authority, and work in close partnership with the University of British Columbia.
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Affiliated UBC Faculty & Postdocs
| Name | Role | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Ansari Dezfouli, Ehsan | Postdoctoral Fellow | Clinical medicine; Lipid nanoparticles and nucleic acid delivery; Cancer vaccine and drug development; Targeting delivery and organ-specific; CAR T-cell therapy; Cancer therapy and infectious diseases |
| Ansermino, John Mark | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Other clinical medicine; Sepsis in children; Health information systems; Physiological Monitoring; Technological Innovations; Artificial Intellegence; Automation in healthcare; Global Health; Mobile Health; Outcome prediction |
| Arbour, Laura | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | northern and aboriginal health issues as they pertain to genetics |
| Austin, Jehannine | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Clinical genetics (except cancer genetics); genetic counseling; genetics services; mental health |
| Barr, Alasdair | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Mental health and addictions, with a particular emphasis on psychosis and the medications used in its treatment, Anesthesiology |
| Bayrampour Basmenj, Hamideh | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Psychosocial, sociocultural and behavioral determinants of health; Electronic health (e-Health); Mobile health (mHealth); Midwifery; Health information systems (including surveillance); Perinatal mental health; Perinatal Anxiety; Pregnancy Outcomes; eHealth; mHealth |
| Beasley, Clare Louise | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | identify changes in the brains of individuals with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder that may elucidate the etiology of these disorders and provide clues to novel treatments; white matter pathology and inflammation; effects of antipsychotic medications on the brain |
| Bedaiwy, Mohamed | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Other clinical medicine; Recurrent Pregnancy Loss; Endometriosis; Minimally Invasive Surgery; Assisted Reproductive Technologies |
| Beristain, Alexander Guillermo | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Healthy Starts; cellular and molecular processes that direct trophoblast cell biology in early placental development; Examining the A Disintegrin And Metalloproteinase (ADAM) family in trophoblast biology; Examining the effects of obesity-associated inflammation on the maternal-fetal interface; Identifying gene expression differences in subpopulations of trophoblasts in normal and pathological pregnancies |
| Bettinger, Julie | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | 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 |
| Boerner, Katelynn | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | 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 | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Medical, health and life sciences; childhood rheumatic diseases; Inflammation; phagocytes |
| Brown, Carolyn Janet | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Epigenetics and epigenomics; Other basic medicine and life sciences; Gene regulation and expression; Genomics; Developmental genetics (including sex determination); Applied Genetics; Chromosomes: Structure / Organization; DNA methylation; Epigenetic control of gene expression; Gene Regulation and Expression; Genes escaping X-chromosome inactivation; Long non-coding RNAs; X-chromosome inactivation; XIST RNA |
| Brussoni, Mariana | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | 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 |
| Chan, Meingold | Postdoctoral Fellow | Developmental psychology; Psychosocial, sociocultural and behavioral determinants of health; Social Epigenetics; Children's socioemotional development; Parenting; Racial/cultural differences; Quantitative methodology |
| Charlton, Julia | Faculty (non-G+PS member) | Critical care medicine and emergency medicine; Neonatology; Fetal development and medicine; Neonatal neurology; neurodevelopment; Congenital Anomalies; Neonatal cardiac care |
| Collet, Jean-Paul | Faculty (non-G+PS member) | Clinical sciences, n.e.c.; Stress measurement - stress management -; Child development - children with neurodevelopment disability |
| Conibear, Elizabeth | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Other basic medicine and life sciences; Protein trafficking in cell biology; Molecular genetics; Functional genomics; Membranes; Enzymes and Proteins; Vesicle Trafficking; Molecular Genetics; Neurodegenerative diseases; Protein Palmitoylation; Cell Signaling and Cancer |
| Cook, Laura | Faculty (non-G+PS member) | Cellular immunology; Regulatory T cells; CD4+ T cells; Immunology; Infectious disease; Immune memory; Immune tolerance |
| Crowell, Philip | Faculty (non-G+PS member) | Philosophy; Medical Ethics |
| Dawson, Jessica | Postdoctoral Fellow | Neurodegeneration; human genetics; neurodegeneration; Huntington disease; Genetic Modifiers; Sequence diversity; Triplet repeat disorders |
| de Jongh Gonzalez, Olivia | Postdoctoral Fellow | Psychosocial, sociocultural and behavioral determinants of health; Parenting practices and styles; Childhood obesity; Health behavior change; Intervention design, implementation, adherence, effectiveness; mHealth apps / interventions; Quantitative Methods; Statistical analyses |
| Delaidelli, Alberto | Postdoctoral Fellow | Medical, health and life sciences; pediatric cancer; Brain tumors; Neurodegenerative diseases |
| Dennis, Jessica | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Bioinformatics; Genetic medicine; Complex Trait Genetics; genetic epidemiology; statistical genetics; Psychiatric conditions; neurodegenerative disease; Precision Health; Administrative health data; Electronic health records; Machine Learning |
| Devlin, Angela | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Human nutrition and dietetics; Human reproduction and development sciences; Pathology (except oral pathology); cardiovascular disease; Children; developmental programming; Diabetes; Obesity |
| Diamond, Adele | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | executive functions; prefrontal cortex; dopamine; working memory; self-control; self-regulation; cognition; COMT gene; Sex differences; stress; ACEs (adverse childhood experiences); ELS (early life stress); resilience; social determinants of health; ADHD; depression; PTSD; Physical Activity; the arts; mindfulness |
| Dixon, David | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Fixed-bed leaching |
| Doan, Quynh | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Medical, health and life sciences; Health Services; Child and youth mental health; Emergency medicine work load modelling |
| Dubland, Joshua | Faculty (non-G+PS member) | Clinical sciences; Newborn Screening; Biochemical Genetics; Lipids; Metabolism; mass spectrometry |
| Dumont, Guy A | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | biomedical engineering; automatic drug delivery; mobile health; global health; anesthesia; physiological monitoring;, Adaptive control, predictive control, control of distributed parameters systems, advanced process control, applications of wavelet analysis, biomedical applications of control, pulp and paper process control |
| Dutz, Jan Peter | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Immunity in Health & Disease, diabetes, dermatology |
| Eddy, Rachel | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Cardiorespiratory medicine and hematology; Medical and biomedical engineering; Artificial intelligence (AI); Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI); Hyperpolarized 129Xe; Computed tomography (CT); Pulmonary imaging; Lung structure-function; Lung health; Respiratory disease |
| Elango, Rajavel | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Protein Nutrition, Maternal-Fetal Nutrition, Childhood Malnutrition, Amino Acid Metabolism, Human Nutrition |
| Elliott, Alison | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Other health sciences; rare disease; genomics; Congenital Malformations; Skeletal and limb anomalies; Genetic Counselling; Health services implementation science |
| Friedman, Jan Marshall | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Other clinical medicine; Genetic medicine; Genomics; Health counselling; Application of whole genome sequencing to diagnose genetic disease; Birth defects epidemiology; Clinical genomics; Developmental Genetics; Genetics and Heredity; Neurofibromatosis |
| Giaschi, Deborah | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; amblyopia; reading; dyslexia; motion perception; binocular vision; visual development |
| Gibson, William | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Genetic medicine; Genetic Diseases; Chromosomes: Structure / Organization; Epigenetics |
| Goerges, Matthias | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Electronic health (e-Health); Health information systems (including surveillance); Expert systems technologies in artificial intelligence; Anesthesiology; Medical devices; Human-computer systems and interface; Bio-signal processing and analysis; Digital health; predictive analytics; decision support systems; Critical Care Medicine; Biomedical Technologies; Health Care Technologies; Human Computer Interaction and Design; Medical informatics; Software Development; patient-oriented research; Data sharing / open data |
| Goldman, Ran | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Evidence to Innovation; Pediatric Research in Emergency Therapeutics (PRETx) Program |
| Grunau, Ruth V | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | 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 | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Evidence to Innovation; Preventive Cardiology; Cardiovascular Outcomes; Interventional Pediatric Cardiology |
| Hayden, Michael | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Genetic medicine; Health counselling; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Diabetes; Disease progression; Drug development; Gene Therapy; Genetic Diseases; Huntington disease; Neurodegenerative diseases; Neurodegenerative disorders |
| Hieawy, Ahmed | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Endodontics; Dental Trauma; Endodontic Treatment Outcome; Endodontic Microsurgery; Endodontic Instrumentation; Pediatric Endodontics; Endodontic Treatment for Medically Compromised Patients |
| Hoffman, Bradford | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Understanding how the genes critical to endocrine pancreas development, as well as ?-cell function and proliferation are regulated is essential for the development of novel strategies for the production of insulin-secreting cells, and for improving the efficacy of available transplantable material. |
| Holsti, Liisa | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Medical, health and life sciences; premature infants; neurodevelopment; stress; pain; measurement; technology transfer; sucrose; rehabilitation; pediatrics |
| Honer, William | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Brain disorders, risk factors for disease |
| Houghton, Kristin | Faculty (non-G+PS member) | Health sciences; pediatric rheumatology, exercise and physical activity, knee injury |
| Hutcheon, Jennifer | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Perinatal epidemiology ; Perinatal research methods; Fetal growth restriction; Severe maternal morbidity; Improving the reference charts used to assess fetal growth and maternal weight gain in pregnancy; Evaluating the impact of obstetrical health care policies on maternal and infant health; Developing clinical prediction models for the identification of adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes |
| Janssen, Patricia | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Health sciences; Public and population health; Gestation / Parturition; health of marginalized women; Lifestyle Determinants and Health; maternal child health; mobile health for pregnancy and parenting; Perinatal Period; social determinants of health |
| Joseph, K.S. | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Pregnancy complications, preterm birth, fetal growth, infant mortality, neonatal |