Catherine
Pharmaceutical Industry
SickKids
Australia
Biography
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UofT, a specialist in Pediatric Medicine, HSC, and Project Director, HSC Research Institute. She completed a Master’s Degree in clinical epidemiology. Her research interests are in the area of socioeconomic determinants of injury in children, and obesity prevention. She has received funding for the pilot study to reduce media use in preschool aged children, which will be expanded into a full clinical trial. She developed and now supervises the Child Advocacy Initiative in post graduate medical education. Through her work in injury prevention and child advocacy, she has developed partners in the community and Toronto district school boards to build capacity for knowledge translation. She chairs the Obesity Prevention Working Group of the Provincial Council on Children’s Health.
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