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| Name | Bio Link | Departments | Research Interests | Contact Email | Add. Info. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Beristain | https://bcchr.ca/our-research/researchers/results/Details/alexander-g-beristain | Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Trophoblast biology and human placentation | aberista@mail.ubc.ca | |
| Alexander Rauscher | https://www.bcchr.ca/arauscher | Department of Pediatrics | Neuroimaging, quantitative MRI, brain mapping, machine learning | rauscher@physics.ubc.ca | |
| Alexander Weber | https://www.bcchr.ca/aweber | Department of Pediatrics | Magnetic resonance imaging, neuroimaging, brain, neonatal health | aweber@bcchr.ca | https://weberlab.github.io/ |
| Ali Amid | https://www.bcchr.ca/aamid | Department of Pediatrics | Hematology, red blood cells disorders, bleeding disorders, clotting disorders, iron metabolism | ali.amid@cw.bc.ca | |
| Aline Talhouk | https://bmiai.ubc.ca/people/aline-talhouk | Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Epidemiology, prevention, gynecological cancer, machine learning, digital health | a.talhouk@ubc.ca | |
| Angela Devlin | https://bcchr.ca/adevlin | Department of Pediatrics | Nutrition, developmental programming, childhood diabetes, vascular disease | adevlin@bcchr.ubc.ca | |
| Anita Coté | https://www.twu.ca/profile/anita-cot%25C3%25A9 | School of Human Kinetics, Trinity Western University; Affiliate Investigator, BC Children’s Hospital | Cardiovascular function, exercise, women’s cardiovascular health, young athlete’s heart, ventricular-vascular interactions | anita.cote@bcchr.ca | |
| Bruce Carleton | https://cpnds.ubc.ca | Department of Pediatrics; Department of Medical Genetics; Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences; School of Population and Public Health; Centre for Health Services and Policy Research | Clinical pharmacology, pharmacogenomics, adverse drug reactions, drug effectiveness, drug outcomes | bcarleton@cw.bc.ca | |
| Bruce Vallance | https://www.bcchr.ca/vallance-lab | Department of Pediatrics | Inflammatory bowel disease, enteric infections, microbiology, microbiome, organoids, mucus, nutrition | bvallance@cw.bc.ca | |
| Bruce Verchere | https://www.bcchr.ca/bverchere; Twitter: @bruceverchere | Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Department of Surgery | Childhood diabetes | bverchere@bcchr.ca | |
| Catrina Loucks | https://www.bcchr.ca/cloucks | Department of Pediatrics & Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics | Pharmacogenomics, pain management, childhood cancer treatment, drug-related toxicities, genetic testing | cloucks@popi.ubc.ca | |
| Christine Voss | https://smp.med.ubc.ca/about/contact/christine-voss/ | Department of Pediatrics | Physical activity, wearables, chronic disease management, congenital heart disease, rural/remote health | christine.voss@ubc.ca | https://www.bcchr.ca/cvoss |
| Christopher Maxwell | https://bcchr.ca/maxwell-lab | Department of Pediatrics | Childhood cancer, cell division, hereditary breast cancer, cell migration | cmaxwell@bcchr.ubc.ca | |
| David Huntsman | https://www.bccrc.ca/dept/mo/labs/huntsman-lab | Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology; Pathology and Laboratory Medicine | Diagnostics, biologically informed prevention, cell context specific treatment strategies for ovarian cancers | dhuntsma@bccancer.bc.ca | |
| David Wright | https://www.bcchr.ca/dwright | School of Kinesiology, and Faculty of Land and Food Systems | Exercise, obesity, metabolic side effects of antipsychotics, energy expenditure, nutrition | david.wright@ubc.ca | |
| Deborah Money | https://ridprogram.med.ubc.ca/ | Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Pregnancy, women’s health, infectious disease, microbiome | deborah.money@ubc.ca | |
| Dina Panagiotopoulos | Department of Pediatrics | ||||
| Dzung Vo | https://www.bcchr.ca/dvo | Department of Pediatrics | Adolescents, resilience, mindfulness, coping, chronic illness, eating disorders, substance use disorders, chronic pain, somatization | dvo@cw.bc.ca | |
| Elisabeth McClymont | https://ridprogram.med.ubc.ca/ | Departments of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Department of Pediatrics | Infectious disease, congenital infections, pregnancy, vaccines | elisabeth.mcclymont@cw.bc.ca | |
| Emily Kieran | https://www.bcchr.ca/ekieran | Department of Pediatrics | Preterm and newborn infants, complex medical needs, community transition, enhanced communication | emily.kieran@cw.bc.ca | |
| Garth Meckler | https://www.bcchr.ca/gmeckler | Department of Pediatrics | Health services research, pediatric headache, prehospital emergency care, out-of-hospital cardiac arrest | Garth.Meckler@cw.bc.ca | |
| Genelle Lunken | https://www.bcchr.ca/glunken | Department of Pediatrics | Nutrition, dietary fibre, gut microbiome, dietary assessment, inflammatory bowel disease, digital health | genelle.lunken@bcchr.ca | |
| Geoffrey Cundiff | https://obgyn.ubc.ca/person/geoffrey-cundiff/ | Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology | Prevention of maternal obstetrical trauma, patient centered outcomes, outcomes research for pelvic floor disorders, surgical education, and epidemiology of pelvic floor disorders | geoff.cundiff@ubc.ca | https://whri.org/staff/geoffrey-cundiff/; https://www.cheos.ubc.ca/team-member/geoffrey-william-cundiff/?teamCat=55 |
| Gillian Hanley | https://www.bcchr.ca/ghanley | Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology | Ovarian cancer research, gynecologic cancer research, prescription drug use during pregnancy | gillian.hanley@vch.ca | |
| Gina Ogilivie | School of Population and Public Health | ||||
| Gregor Reid | https://www.bcchr.ca/greid | Department of Pediatrics | Childhood cancer, leukemia, immunology, mouse models, personalized medicine | grogreid@mail.ubc.ca | |
| Hamideh Bayrampour | https://bcchr.ca/hbayrampour | Department of Family Practice | Maternal mental health, anxiety, and pregnancy outcomes | hamideh.bayrampour@ubc.ca | |
| Harold Siden | https://bcchr.ca/hsiden; https://www.paindetectives.org/; https://pediatricpalliative.com/ | Department of Pediatrics | Pediatric palliative care, biomedical investigations of symptoms, psychosocial care of families, health services research, children with health complexity, cannabinoid medicine in children | hsiden@bcchr.ca | |
| Ian Pike | https://www.bcchr.ca/ipike | Department of Pediatrics | Injury prevention, child and youth, indigenous, road safety, injury indicators, social marketing | ipike@bcchr.ca | |
| James Lim | https://bcchr.ca/jlim | Department of Pediatrics | Childhood cancer, molecular and cellular biology, cell signaling, cell adhesion and migration in disease | c.james.lim@ubc.ca | |
| Janice Kwon | Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | ||||
| Jennifer Hutcheon | https://www.bcchr.ca/jhutcheon | Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Perinatal epidemiology, maternal and child health, epidemiologic methods, health policy, health services | jhutcheon@bcchr.ca | |
| Jill Zwicker | Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy | ||||
| Jonathan Bush | https://pathology.ubc.ca/2022/12/01/jonathan-bush/ | Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine | Pathology, childhood cancer, gastrointestinal pathology, placenta pathology, stillbirth, autopsy | jonathan.bush@cw.bc.ca | |
| Jonathan Rayment | https://www.bcchr.ca/jrayment | Department of Pediatrics | Technical development and clinical implementation of advanced diagnostic tools for measuring lung health in children, translational medicine, pediatric respiratory medicine | jonathan.rayment@bcchr.ca | |
| Julie Bettinger | https://www.bcchr.ca/jbettinger | Department of Pediatrics | Vaccines, immunization, vaccine safety, infectious diseases, vaccine preventable disease, epidemiology, vaccine hesitancy, behavioral science | jbettinger@bcchr.ubc.ca | https://www.spph.ubc.ca/person/julie-bettinger/ |
| K.S. Joseph | https://bcchr.ca/kjoseph | Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, School of Population and Public Health | Maternal, fetal, and infant health services research | kjoseph@cw.bc.ca | |
| Karen Sherwood | Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine | ||||
| Katelynn Boerner | https://www.bcchr.ca/kboerner | Department of Pediatrics | Chronic pain, health equity, child clinical and health psychology, gender, autism | katelynn.boerner@bcchr.ca | |
| Katrina Bouchard | https://phaselab.med.ubc.ca/research-team-2/ | Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Women’s sexual health, couples’ sexual health, vulvar health, psychological interventions, sexual response | katrina.bouchard@ubc.ca | https://www.vchri.ca/researchers/katrina-bouchard |
| Kelly Brown | http://www.kbrownlab.ca/ | Department of Pediatrics | Inflammation, immune-mediated inflammatory diseases, childhood vasculitis, neutrophils, biomarkers | kbrown@bcchr.ca | |
| Kevan Jacobson | https://www.bcchr.ca/kjacobson | Department of Pediatrics | Intestinal epithelial cell biology, Inflammatory Bowel disease (IBD), Epidemiology and environmental determinants of IBD | kjacobson@cw.bc.ca | |
| Kevin Harris | https://www.bcchr.ca/kcharris | Department of Pediatrics | Congenital heart disease, preventive cardiology, vascular health, cardiac catheterization | kharris2@cw.bc.ca | |
| Kimberly Morishita | https://www.bcchr.ca/kmorishita | Department of Pediatrics | Childhood rheumatic diseases, vasculitis, juvenile arthritis, uveitis, outcomes | KMorishita@cw.bc.ca | |
| Laura Schummers | https://www.bcchr.ca/lschummers; https://pharmsci.ubc.ca/directory/laura-schummers | Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences | Reproductive epidemiology, perinatal epidemiology, epidemiologic methods, health services and policy research | laura.schummers@ubc.ca | |
| Laura Sly | https://www.bcchr.ca/lsly | Department of Pediatrics | Inflammatory bowel disease, inflammation, macrophages, macrophage activation, cell signaling (PI3K and SHIP) | laura.sly@ubc.ca | |
| Lori Brotto | https://www.vchri.ca/researchers/lori-brotto | Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Women’s sexual health; mindfulness-based treatments; sexual desire; sexual psychophysiology; psychosocial oncology; asexuality | lori.brotto@vch.ca | https://brottolab.med.ubc.ca/ |
| Mandeep Tamber | https://www.bcchr.ca/mtamber | Department of Surgery | Pediatric neurosurgery, hydrocephalus, epilepsy surgery, clinical epidemiology, biostatistics | mandeep.tamber@cw.bc.ca | |
| Manish Sadarangani | https://www.bcchr.ca/msadarangani | Department of Pediatrics | Childhood immunization, clinical trials, ear infections, meningitis, pneumonia, sepsis | msadarangani@bcchr.ubc.ca | https://www.bcchr.ca/vec |
| Manon Ranger, she/her/elle | https://www.bcchr.ca/mranger | School of Nursing, and Department of Pediatrics; Investigator, Healthy Starts, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute | Brain development, prematurity, early-stress, pain, translational research | Manon.Ranger@ubc.ca | |
| Mariana Brussoni | https://brussonilab.ca/ | Department of Pediatrics | Child development, outdoor play, risky play, injury prevention | mbrussoni@bcchr.ubc.ca | |
| Marianne Vidler | https://whri.org/staff/marianne-vidler/ | Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Global health, postpartum care, hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, severe maternal morbidity, patient-oriented research | marianne.vidler@cw.bc.ca | |
| Mark Carey | Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | ||||
| Matthew Wiens | https://www.bcchr.ca/mwiens | Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics | Pediatric sepsis, global health, prediction modelling, epidemiology, post-discharge outcomes research | matthew.wiens@bcchr.ca | |
| Michael Anglesio | https://www.vchri.ca/researchers/michael-anglesio | Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Gynecological cancer, endometriosis, microenvironment, model systems, genomic pathology, molecular biology, cancer prevention | m.anglesio@ubc.ca | |
| Mina Matsuda-Abedini | Department of Pediatrics | ||||
| Mohamed Bedaiwy | https://whri.org/staff/mohamedbedaiwy/ | Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Endometriosis, recurrent pregnancy loss, fertility preservation in cancer patients, infertility, laparoscopy | mohamed.bedaiwy@cw.bc.ca | |
| Nichole Fairbrother | https://parlab.med.ubc.ca/our-team/ | Department of Family Practice | Perinatal mental health, perinatal anxiety disorders, new mothers’ thoughts of infant-related harm, perinatal obsessive-compulsive disorder, fear of childbirth | nichole.fairbrother@ubc.ca | |
| Pascal Lavoie | https://www.bcchr.ca/plavoie | Department of Pediatrics | Infant and newborn development, immune ontogeny and infections, COVID-19 vaccine and transmission in schools | plavoie@bcchr.ca | |
| Patricia Janssen | https://www.bcchr.ca/pjanssen | Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, School of Population and Public Health | Perinatal epidemiology, maternal child health, population health, randomized controlled trials, midwifery, labour management, mobile health for parenting education, perinatal outcomes of Indigenous women | patti.janssen@ubc.ca | |
| Paul Yong | https://yonglab.med.ubc.ca/ | Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Endometriosis, pelvic pain, reproduction, dyspareunia, sexual medicine | pyong@cw.bc.ca | |
| Peter Leung | https://www.bcchr.ca/pcleung | Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Reproductive and placental endocrinology | peter.leung@ubc.ca | |
| Quynh Doan | https://www.bcchr.ca/qdoan | Department of Pediatrics | Health services research, pediatric emergency medicine, child and youth mental health, health systems and operations, point of care testing/screening | qdoan@cw.bc.ca | |
| Rachel Eddy | https://www.bcchr.ca/reddy | Department of Radiology, Department of Pediatrics | Lung health and disease, pulmonary imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, lung structure-function | Rachel.Eddy@bcchr.ca | |
| Rajavel Elango | https://bcchr.ca/relango | Department of Pediatrics | Nutrition, protein and amino acid requirements, and metabolism during pregnancy | relango@bcchr.ubc.ca | |
| Roxana Geoffrion | https://obgyn.ubc.ca/person/roxana-geoffrion/ | Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology | Surgical optimization, patient outcomes following pelvic floor surgeries, pelvic pain, surgical education, patient education | rgeoffrion@providencehealth.bc.ca | |
| Rubee Dev | https://nursing.ubc.ca/our-people/rubee-dev | School of Nursing | Women’s health, global health, maternal and child health, sexual and reproductive health, sex and gender science, primary health care, noncommunicable diseases prevention and management | rubee.dev@ubc.ca | |
| Ruth Grunau | https://bcchr.ca/rgrunau | Department of Pediatrics | Preterm infants, developmental programming, pain, stress, cognition, behavior | rgrunau@bcchr.ca | |
| Sandesh Shivananda | Department of Pediatrics | ||||
| Sarka Lisonkova | https://www.bcchr.ca/slisonkova | Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Severe maternal morbidity, preterm birth, perinatal health | slisonkova@bcchr.ca | |
| Sharon Dell | https://www.bcchr.ca/sdell | Department of Pediatrics | Primary ciliary dyskinesia, asthma, respiratory epidemiology, diagnostic testing, health related quality of life, genotype-phenotype relationships | sharon.dell@cw.bc.ca | |
| Shelina Babul | https://bcchr.ca/sbabul | Department of Pediatrics | Concussions, mild traumatic brain injuries, injury prevention, knowledge translation, mental health | sbabul@bcchr.ca | |
| Shubhayan Sanatani | https://www.bcchr.ca/ssanatani | Department of Pediatrics | Pediatric and inherited arrhythmias, autonomic nervous system, sudden cardiac death | ssanatani@cw.bc.ca | |
| Souvik Mitra | https://bcchr.ca/smitra | Department of Pediatrics | Neonatal intensive care, premature babies, clinical trials, evidence-based medicine | souvik.mitra@cw.bc.ca | |
| Srinivas Murthy | https://bcchr.ca/smurthy | Department of Pediatrics | Infectious Diseases, clinical trials, critical care, epidemiology | srinivas.murthy@cw.bc.ca | |
| Sriya Roychaudhuri | Department of Pediatrics | ||||
| Steven Miller | https://www.bcchr.ca/spmiller | Department of Pediatrics | Neonatal neurology, brain injury, white matter, preterm birth, congenital heart disease | steven.miller@cw.bc.ca | |
| Susan Samuel | Department of Pediatrics | ||||
| Sylvia Cheng | https://www.bcchr.ca/scheng | Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology/BMT | Pediatric brain tumours, pediatric cancer, pediatric neuro-oncology | cwillems@cw.bc.ca | |
| Tamara Cohen | https://nutritioneatingbehaviour.landfood.ubc.ca/ | Department of Food, Nutrition and Health | Nutrition and diet, childhood obesity, lifestyle behaviour interventions, gestational weight gain, dietetics | tamara.cohen@ubc.ca | |
| Ted Steiner | https://www.bcchr.ca/tsteiner | Department of Medicine | Infectious diseases, inflammatory bowel disease, T cells, intestinal immunology | tsteiner@mail.ubc.ca | |
| Tex Kissoon | https://www.bcchr.ca/tkissoon | Department of Pediatrics | Sepsis, Severe Infections, Septic Shock, Epidemiology, Low- and middle-income countries | nkissoon@cw.bc.ca | |
| Thiviya Selvanathan | Department of Pediatrics | ||||
| Tim Oberlander | https://www.bcchr.ca/toberlander | Department of Pediatrics | Developmental effects of prenatal psychotropic medication exposure, pharmacoepidemiology and child development, pain and children with developmental disabilities | toberlander@bcchr.ca | |
| Tom Blydt-Hansen | https://www.bcchr.ca/tblydt-hansen | Department of Pediatrics | Kidney transplantation, biomarkers, multiomic profiling, mental health outcomes | tom.blydthansen@cw.bc.ca | https://www.bcchr.ca/SOT |
| Wendy Norman | https://cart-grac.ubc.ca/ | Department of Family Practice | Family planning health services and policy research, sexual health and preconception surveillance and indicator development, continuing professional development and support tools for providers of abortion and contraception | wendy.norman@ubc.ca | https://research.familymed.ubc.ca/wendy-norman/ |
| Wendy Robinson | http://robinsonresearch.ca/ | Department of Medical Genetics | Genetics, epigenetics, placenta, fetal development, sex | wrobinson@bcchr.ca | |
| Yvonne Lamers | https://vitamins.landfood.ubc.ca/ | Department of Food, Nutrition and Health | Maternal nutrition from preconception to postpartum, toddler nutrition, neurodevelopmental outcomes, nutritional biomarker assessment, nutrition-gut microbiome-brain axis | yvonne.lamers@ubc.ca | |
| Katelynn Boerner | https://www.bcchr.ca/kboerner | Department of Pediatrics | Pediatric psychology, chronic pain, gender diversity, neurodiversity and autism, sex and gender science, health equity, eating disorders | katelynn.boerner@bcchr.ca |