Over the past few weeks, our clinical and research teams made news worth sharing. Continue reading
Stollery Children’s Hospital
Clinic + Research News for the New Year
It hasn’t been long since the last post in 2017, but a lot has happened since then!
Clinical Experience + Research = Improved Access to Care
Few things are more gratifying for a clinical researcher than knowing that your research had a direct impact on clinical care. Continue reading
Branching Out
On a day-to-day basis, most of the research we do relates to managing and preventing obesity in children. However, a number of years ago, one of my mentors gave me advice to ‘branch out’ a bit to develop additional research interests and projects, especially ones that were complementary to the studies I spent most of my time on. Continue reading
First of Many
If you ask, most researchers will recall vividly that point in time (and the excitement!) when they learned that their first manuscript was accepted for publication. Yesterday, we learned that… Continue reading
Congratulations, Shayne!
About one year ago, after several years of lobbying and planning to have a Social Worker join our clinical team at the Pediatric Centre for Weight and Health, we were very happy to have Shayne Vars join us to help better support our families. Continue reading
Celebrating 15 Years
Our research group has been fortunate to receive financial support from a number of sources over the years. Continue reading
Welcome New Team Members!
Over the past few weeks, we’ve had a couple exciting additions to our team.
New Publication – PAC
Over recent years, we developed, tested, and disseminated our Parents as Agents of Change intervention for parents of children with obesity. Since dropout is a common phenomenon in the field, Dr. Nicholas Spence (former post-doc with us at UAlberta) led a study… Continue reading
Connecting with Our Community
Over the years, we’ve received lots of support (research grants, scholarships for students) for our research through the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation, by way of the Women and Children’s Health Research Institute (WCHRI) at UAlberta.
