Rajavel Elango, PhD
Assistant Professor
Protein nutrition, maternal-fetal nutrition, childhood malnutrition, amino acid metabolism, human nutrition, healthy eating, healthy diet
Angela Devlin, PhD
Associate Professor
Pediatrics, cardiometabolic disease, obesity, epigenetics/genetics
Francine Tessier, MD, FRCSC
Clinical Associate Professor
Maternal-fetal medicine, fetal echocardiography
Abby Collier, PhD
Professor
Drugs in children, drugs in pregnancy, developmental pharmacology, drug metabolism, pharmacokinetics
Dr. Farah Shroff, BSc, MEd (Primary Health Care), PhD
Public Health Researcher and Educator
public health, social equity, women’s health, global politics, social determinants of health, anti-racism, anti-imperialism, integrative health, holistic health practices, yoga, meditation, indigenous systems of health, health policy,
Soren Gantt, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases
Cytomegalovirus, Epstein-Barr virus, herpes simplex virus, congenital infection, newborn infection, Burkitt’s lymphoma
Edward Kruk, MSW, PhD
Associate Professor
Child and family policy and practice, fatherhood and fathering, family mediation and conflict resolution, co-parenting after divorce, substance and other addictions, harm reduction
Darko Odic, PhD
Assistant Professor
Cognitive development, language acquisition, mathematics, perception of time and space, psychophysics, visual cognition, preschoolers, confidence, statistics
Susan Birch, PhD Yale
Associate Professor
Social perspective taking, social learning, social cognition, imitation, nonverbal behavior, confidence, communication, decision-making, impression formation, child development, the study of children and adults’ social perspective taking abilities (i.e., their abilities to reason about other peoples’ mental states–their intentions, knowledge, and beliefs) and how their abilities to take another person’s perspective impacts how they form impressions of others, learn from others, communicate with others, and informs a range of socials. Of particular interest is a) how children make inferences about what is credible information to learn (e.g., how they decide whether someone is a credible source of information based on how confident that person seems) and b) how a widespread bias in perspective taking referred to as ‘the curse of knowledge bias’ (a difficulty reasoning about a more naive perspective as the result of being biased by one’s current knowledge) can impair communication (both written and in person) and decision-making across a range of fields (politics, law, education, economics, medicine, etc.)
Kirk Schultz, MD
Professor
Pediatric cancer, blood and marrow transplantation, transplantation immunology, graft-versus-host disease, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, aplastic anemia, myelodysplastic syndrome
Susan Herrington
Professor
Children’s outdoor play environments, playgrounds, natural play environments, risky play, landscape architecture, landscape architecture history, landscape theory
Dr. Dzung Vo, MD
Clinical Associate Professor
Head, Division of Adolescent Health and Medicine
Adolescent Medicine, Adolescent Health, Resilience, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Eating Disorders, Substance Use Disorders,
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Marie Tarrant, RN MPH PhD
Director and Professor
Maternal and child health, breastfeeding, influenza vaccine in pregnancy, childhood vaccinations
Ashley Miller
Clinical Assistant Professor
Child and adolescent mental health, mood and anxiety disorders, family therapy, interpersonal psychotherapy for depression, mindful parenting, parenting, relationships, parental mental health, social determinants of health, school-based mental health, psychotherapy, emotion-focused therapies, physician wellness
Bruce Carleton, BSc, PharmD
Professor
Human drug therapy, clinical pharmacology, adverse drug reactions, side effects, drug outcomes, pharmaceuticals, pediatric drug use, genetics of drug action, pharmacogenomics
Kimberley Brownlee
Professor of Philosophy
Loneliness, Isolation, Belonging, Social human rights, Freedom of association
Civil disobedience, Conscience, Protest, Punishment,
Dr. Lauren Emberson, PhD
Assistant Professor
developmental cognitive neuroscience, learning abilities, memory, perception (audition and vision),
Dr. Jill Zwicker, PhD, OT
Associate Professor
developmental coordination disorder, motor skills disorder, neurodevelopment, rehabilitation, brain imaging, pediatric, prematurity, brain development,