Our Team
Our team, dedicated to the advancement of health research and resources, is composed of diverse skills and backgrounds.
Executive Director | Centre Investigators | Affiliated Investigators | Centre Staff
Executive Director
Dr. Patrick McGrath, OC, PhD, FRSC
Dr. Patrick McGrath is a clinical psychologist, senior health administrator, scientist and social entrepreneur. His major career goal has been to use research to improve healthcare. He is VP Research, Innovation and Knowledge Translation at IWK Health Centre and Nova Scotia Health Authority. He created the Translating Research into Care grants, a partnership amongst scientists, administrators, patients and foundations and founded BIOTIC, a translational imaging research facility. His own research is in pediatric pain and e-health. He founded the not for profit Strongest Families Institute that won the Manning Principal award as the best innovation in Canada, and delivers mental health care to thousands of families across Canada, in Finland and in Vietnam…more
Centre Investigators
Dr. Alexa Bagnell, PhD
Dr. Bagnell is the Associate Chief of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the IWK Health Centre. She specializes in the assessment and treatment of anxiety …more
Dr. Janet Curran, PhD
Dr. Curran’s program of research is focused on developing and evaluating interventions to improve transitions in care for patients and their caregivers. Dr. Curran’s program of research is supported by a CIHR New Investigator Award in Knowledge Translation.….more
Dr. Anna Huguet, PhD
Dr Huguet is a Research Scientist at IWK Health Centre and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Community of Health and Epidemiology at Dalhousie University. She has been specializing…more
Dr. Patricia Lingley-Pottie, PhD
Dr. Lingley-Pottie is a Research Scientist at the IWK Health Centre and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Dalhousie University, she conducts clinical research in the area of distance interventions…more
Dr. Anita Unruh, PhD
Dr. Unruh is a Professor in Health Promotion and Leisure Studies and cross-appointed to Occupational Therapy. Much of her work has been in the area of children and pain…more
Affiliated Investigators
Dr. Carl von Baeyer, PhD
Carl von Baeyer is Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Associate Member in Pediatrics, University of Saskatchewan. He was trained at the University of British Columbia…more
Dr. Jill Chorney, PhD
Dr. Chorney is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesia at Dalhousie University and a Clinical Psychologist with the Complex Pain Team at the IWK Health Centre….more
Dr. Penny Corkum, PhD
Dr. Corkum is a Registered Psychologist as well as an Associate Professor of the Clinical Psychology Program in the Department of Psychology at Dalhousie University and is…more
Dr. Charles Cunningham, PhD
Dr. Cunningham is a psychologist at McMaster Children’s Hospital and a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University, where he holds the Jack Laidlaw Chair in Patient-Centred Health Care…more
Dr. Bruce Dick, PhD
Dr. Dick received his B.Sc. at the University of Alberta in 1997. He obtained his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Dalhousie University in 2002. His doctoral research was carried out in the Pediatric Pain Research Laboratory. During his doctoral…more
Dr. Allen Finley, MD, FRCPC, FAAP
Dr. Finley completed his undergraduate and medical school training at Dalhousie University in Halifax, then his anesthesia residency at the University of Toronto. After a year of research training at…more
Dr. Mandi Newton, PhD
Dr. Newton is a clinician scientist and health outcomes researcher in the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta who is interested in improving child and adolescent emergency psychiatric care…more
Dr. James Reynolds, PhD
Dr. Reynolds is a Professor in the Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences at Queen’s University, Ontario. His research interests are: Fetal Brain Injury…more
Dr. Andre Sourander, PhD
Dr. Sourander has extensive experience in longitudinal population studies from pregnancy, epidemiological, childhood intervention and ethological studies of neuropsychiatric disorders…more
Dr. Bonnie Stevens, PhD
Dr. Stevens received her BScN from McMaster University, her MScN from the University of Toronto, and her PhD from McGill University. Dr. Stevens is currently…more
Dr. Sherry Stewart, PhD
Dr. Stewart is a Killam Research Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Community Health and Epidemiology at Dalhousie University, as well as a licensed…more
Dr. Jennifer Stinson, PhD
Dr. Stinson is an Assistant Professor in the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, at the University of Toronto. She is also a Clinician Scientist in Child Health Evaluative…more
Dr. Michael Ungar, PhD
Dr. Ungar is the author of 9 books and more than 70 articles and book chapters. His works include We Generation: Raising Socially Responsible Kids, Too Safe for Their Own Good…more
Dr. John Walker, PhD
Dr. Walker is a Professor in the Department of Clinical Health Psychology at the University of Manitoba and Director of the Anxiety Disorders Program at St. Boniface General Hospital…more
Dr. Carolyn Watters, PhD
Dr. Watters is Dalhousie University’s Vice-President Academic and Provost. A professor of computer science, Dr. Watters is well known at Dalhousie, having served for many years as Associate Dean…more
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Centre Staff
Research Associate
Dr. Lori Wozney
Research Staff
Karen Turner, Vanessa Varalli, Sharlene Rozario, Emily Annand
Administration & IT
Adam Cummins, Nicole Gray, Shawn Wilson, Simon MacIntyre
Graduate Trainees
Olof Kristjansdottir, Amos Hundert, Yifeng Wei, Kristen Bailey, Logan Lawrence
Summer Students
Alyssa Miller, Chelsea Yeo, Megan Cowie
