Tara Moreau, PhD
Sessional Instructor
Associate Director, Sustainability and Community Programs
Sustainable agriculture, organic agriculture, urban agriculture, community-based research, biodiversity, integrated pest management, best management practices, climate change, mitigation, adaptation, resilience, food policy, non-profit organizations, social enterprise, biological diversity, sustainable development, crop farming, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases
Dr. Matthew Chow, MD, FRCPC
Clinical Instructor
President, Doctors of BC
Mental Health, Children and Youth, Health Policy, Physicians, Physician Leadership,
Dr. Sheila Marshall, PhD
Professor
adolescence, parent-child relationships, mattering,
Natalie Clark, PhD
Instructor
Trauma, child and youth mental health, Indigenous health, girls health
Adam Lund
Clinical Associate Professor
Event medicine, mass gathering medicine, mass gathering health, music festivals, electronic dance music events, special events, marathon, triathlon, emergency medicine, obstacle adventure courses, emergency department overcrowding, opioids, fentanyl, prehospital care, paramedicine
Jennifer A. Vadeboncoeur, PhD
Professor
Human Development, Learning, and Culture
Cultural-historical psychology, child/parent relationships, student/ teacher relationships, play and performance based learning, bridging school and out of school contexts for learning
John Carsley, MD, CM, MSc
Clinical Associate Professor
Public health practice and teaching, healthy public policy, preventive medicine, determinants of health, injury prevention, maternal and child health
Amori Mikami, PhD
Associate Professor
Peer relationships, friendships, peer rejection, bullying, social skills training, social networking, Facebook, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, ADHD, children, adolescents
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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Stephen Petrina, PhD
Professor of Media & Technology
Co-Director, Institute of Critical Education Studies
Academic freedom, craft, cultural history, design studies, design and technology, digital literacy, digital media, educational technology and learning technologies, environmental studies, higher education, history of education, history and philosophy of research, history of medicine, history of social sciences, maker movement, media, media studies, learning, open access, research design and methodology, subcultures, science and technology studies (STS), STEM education, technology
Stephen Berg, PhD
Assistant Professor
Children’s physical activity and health, physical education, health education, curriculum, pedagogy
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
Naznin Virji-Babul, PT, PhD
Assistant Professor
Concussion, traumatic brain injury, adolescent brain development, infant brain development, perception-action development, perception-emotion development
Brenda Lau, MD, FRCPC
Program Director
Clinical Associate Professor
Anesthesiology, pain medicine, pain interventions, autonomic nervous system, rehabilitation, opioids, pain training, point of care, ultrasound, community clinics, regional pain services, movement rehabilitation, yoga, nutrition, prevention, post surgical pain, post trauma pain, headaches, back pain, whiplash, abdominal, fibromyalgia, widespread pain, neuropathic pain, chronic disease, Royal College pain medicine subspecialty, practice based evidence, injury prevention, post surgical care, non opioid pain services, myofacial release, IMS
Tanya Forneris, PhD
Instructor
Associate Director
Post-secondary student development and well-being, coping skills or life skills
Emily Jenkins, PhD, MPH, RN
Associate Professor
Mental health, mental health promotion, adolescent substance use, cannabis, youth engagement, population mental health, social determinants of health
Anthony Bailey, MBBS, FRCPC
Professor
Chair of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), genetics, neurobiology, brain imaging, mental health
Jackie Whittaker , PT, PhD
Assistant Professor
Physical Therapy, Knee Injuries, Sport Injury Prevention, Knee Osteoarthritis, Osteoarthritis Prevention, Rehabilitation, Physical Activity, Sport and Exercise Medicine, Exercise Therapy, Ultrasound Imaging, Wearable Activity Tracker, Exercise Counselling
Alison Taylor, EdD
Professor
School-to-work transitions; community-engaged learning; students’ work