Paediatrics Publications
Research in The Department of Paediatrics at Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry is divided into eighteen areas of focus. These areas include cardiology, child development, critical care medicine, endocrinology/diabetes, genetics/metabolics, infectious disease, and neurology.
Submissions from 2021
Implementing virtual care in the emergency department: building on the pediatric experience during COVID-19, Daniel Rosenfield, Rodrick Lim, and Sandy Tse
Reldesemtiv in Patients with Spinal Muscular Atrophy: a Phase 2 Hypothesis-Generating Study, Stacy A. Rudnicki, Jinsy A. Andrews, Tina Duong, Bettina M. Cockroft, Fady I. Malik, Lisa Meng, Jenny Wei, and Andrew A. Wolff
Correction to: Reldesemtiv in Patients with Spinal Muscular Atrophy: a Phase 2 Hypothesis-Generating Study (Neurotherapeutics, (2021), 18, 2, (1127-1136), 10.1007/s13311-020-01004-3), Stacy A. Rudnicki, Jinsy A. Andrews, Tina Duong, Bettina M. Cockroft, Fady I. Malik, Lisa Meng, Jenny Wei, Andrew A. Wolff, Angela Adelantado, Peter Damm, Elizabeth Reinhardt Mathiesen, Dorte Moeller Jensen, Lise Lotte T. Anderson, Annunziata Lapolla, Maria G. Dalfrà, Alessandra Bertolotto, Ewa Wender-Ozegowska, Agnieszka Zawiejska, David J. Hill, and Frank J. Snoek
Treatment-resistant major depressive disorder: Canadian expert consensus on definition and assessment, Yuri E. Rybak, Ka S.P. Lai, Rajamannar Ramasubbu, Fidel Vila-Rodriguez, Daniel M. Blumberger, Peter Chan, Nicholas Delva, Peter Giacobbe, Caroline Gosselin, Sidney H. Kennedy, Hani Iskandar, Shane McInerney, Paula Ravitz, Verinder Sharma, Ari Zaretsky, and Amer M. Burhan
Clinical epigenomics: genome-wide DNA methylation analysis for the diagnosis of Mendelian disorders, Bekim Sadikovic, Michael A. Levy, Jennifer Kerkhof, Erfan Aref-Eshghi, Laila Schenkel, Alan Stuart, Haley McConkey, Peter Henneman, Andrea Venema, Charles E. Schwartz, Roger E. Stevenson, Steven A. Skinner, Barbara R. DuPont, Robin S. Fletcher, Tugce B. Balci, Victoria Mok Siu, Jorge L. Granadillo, Jennefer Masters, Mike Kadour, Michael J. Friez, Mieke M. van Haelst, Marcel M.A.M. Mannens, Raymond J. Louie, Jennifer A. Lee, Matthew L. Tedder, and Marielle Alders
Correction: Clinical epigenomics: genome-wide DNA methylation analysis for the diagnosis of Mendelian disorders (Genetics in Medicine, (2021), 23, 6, (1065-1074), 10.1038/s41436-020-01096-4), Bekim Sadikovic, Michael A. Levy, Jennifer Kerkhof, Erfan Aref-Eshghi, Laila Schenkel, Alan Stuart, Haley McConkey, Peter Henneman, Andrea Venema, Charles E. Schwartz, Roger E. Stevenson, Steven A. Skinner, Barbara R. DuPont, Robin S. Fletcher, Tugce B. Balci, Victoria Mok Siu, Jorge L. Granadillo, Jennefer Masters, Mike Kadour, Michael J. Friez, Mieke M. van Haelst, Marcel M.A.M. Mannens, Raymond J. Louie, Jennifer A. Lee, Matthew L. Tedder, and Marielle Alders
Investigating the Sources of Heterogeneity in Systematic Review of Recurrence Rate after Hemithyroidectomy for Low-Risk Well-Differentiated Thyroid Cancer., Axel Sahovaler, Marco Ferrari, Jonathan Athayde, Adrian Mendez, Kevin Fung, John Yoo, Anthony C Nichols, and S Danielle MacNeil
Efficient Epileptic Seizure Detection Using CNN-Aided Factor Graphs, Bahareh Salafian, Eyal Fishel Ben, Nir Shlezinger, Sandrine De Ribaupierre, and Nariman Farsad
Pannexin 1 binds β-catenin to modulate melanoma cell growth and metabolism, Samar Sayedyahossein, Kenneth Huang, Zhigang Li, Christopher Zhang, Alexandra M. Kozlov, Danielle Johnston, Daniel Nouri-Nejad, Lina Dagnino, Dean H. Betts, David B. Sacks, and Silvia Penuela
Uterine kisspeptin receptor critically regulates epithelial estrogen receptor α transcriptional activity at the time of embryo implantation in a mouse model, Jennifer Schaefer, Angelos G. Vilos, George A. Vilos, Moshmi Bhattacharya, and Andy V. Babwah
Exploring sensory phenotypes in autism spectrum disorder, Nichole E. Scheerer, Kristina Curcin, Bobby Stojanoski, Evdokia Anagnostou, Rob Nicolson, Elizabeth Kelley, Stelios Georgiades, and Xudong Liu
DNA methylation epi-signature is associated with two molecularly and phenotypically distinct clinical subtypes of Phelan-McDermid syndrome, L. C. Schenkel, E. Aref-Eshghi, K. Rooney, J. Kerkhof, M. A. Levy, H. McConkey, R. C. Rogers, K. Phelan, S. M. Sarasua, L. Jain, R. Pauly, L. Boccuto, B. DuPont, G. Cappuccio, N. Brunetti-Pierri, C. E. Schwartz, and B. Sadikovic
How can surgical programs use peer support programs in times of crisis?, Leslie Scott, Rodrick Lim, Laura Foxcroft, and P. Andrea Lum
Correlates of Lifetime and Past Month Vape Use in a Sample of Canadian University Students, Jamie A. Seabrook, Jasna Twynstra, and Jason A. Gilliland
School's out: Parenting stress and screen time use in school-age children during the COVID-19 pandemic, Diane Seguin, Elizabeth Kuenzel, J. Bruce Morton, and Emma G. Duerden
A Pan-Canadian Validation Study for the Detection of EGFR T790M Mutation Using Circulating Tumor DNA From Peripheral Blood, Shamini Selvarajah, Sophie Plante, Marsha Speevak, Andrea Vaags, Darren Hamelinck, Martin Butcher, Elizabeth McCready, Daria Grafodatskaya, Normand Blais, Danh Tran-Thanh, Xiaoduan Weng, Rami Nassabein, Wenda Greer, Ryan N. Walton, Bryan Lo, Doug Demetrick, Stephanie Santos, Bekim Sadikovic, Xiao Zhang, Tong Zhang, Tara Spence, Tracy Stockley, Harriet Feilotter, and Philippe Joubert
Diagnosis of hypertension: Ambulatory pediatric American Heart Association/European Society of Hypertension versus blood pressure load thresholds, Ajay P. Sharma, Luis Altamirano-Diaz, Mohamed Mohamed Ali, Katryna Stronks, Amrit Kirpalani, Guido Filler, and Kambiz Norozi
Diagnosis of Pediatric Hypertension: European Society of Hypertension-Recommended 24-Hour vs. 24-Hour-Day-Night Ambulatory Blood Pressure Thresholds, Ajay P. Sharma, Kambiz Norozi, Michael Grattan, Guido Filler, and Luis Altamirano-Diaz
Is postpartum depression a clinically useful concept?, Verinder Sharma
Meta-analyses of deflazacort versus prednisone/prednisolone in patients with nonsense mutation Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Perry B. Shieh, Gary Elfring, Panayiota Trifillis, Claudio Santos, Stuart W. Peltz, Julie A. Parsons, Susan Apkon, and Basil T. Darras
Kindness as an Intervention for Student Social Interaction Anxiety, Resilience, Affect, and Mood: The KISS of Kindness Study II, Katie J. Shillington, Andrew M. Johnson, Tara Mantler, Shauna M. Burke, and Jennifer D. Irwin
Ontario adults’ health behaviors, mental health, and overall well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic, Katie J. Shillington, Leigh M. Vanderloo, Shauna M. Burke, Victor Ng, Patricia Tucker, and Jennifer D. Irwin
Understanding value in a healthcare setting: An application of the business model canvas, Jovana Sibalija, David Barrett, Mathushan Subasri, Lisa Bitacola, and Richard B. Kim
Influence of a virtual exercise program throughout pregnancy during the covid-19 pandemic on perineal tears and episiotomy rates: A randomized clinical trial, Cristina Silva-Jose, Miguel Sánchez-Polán, Ángeles Díaz-Blanco, Tirso Pérez-Medina, Vanessa Carrero Martínez, Irune Alzola, Rubén Barakat, Ignacio Refoyo, Michelle F. Ferlisi, and Naveen Poonai
Group A Streptococcal Septic Hip Arthritis in a Child With Spastic Triplegic Cerebral Palsy, Supriya Singh, Jacob Davidson, Timothy Carey, Michelle Barton Forbes, and Megan Cashin