Member Accomplishments
We would like to recognize and congratulate the members of our TRAC-PG team for their wonderful accomplishments in the work they do.
Congratulations to:
Adam Rapoport, Christine Newman, Maria Rugg & Rose Steele for their award winning poster at the 2010 18th International Congress on Palliative Care held in Montreal, Quebec: “Parental Perception of forgoing artificial delivery of nutrtion and hydration during end-of-life care for their children”.
Maru Barrera for her outstanding contribution to research and clinical care in pediatric oncology as she was awarded the 2010 Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario (POGO) Companionship Award.
Christine Newman for her 2010 Norman Saunders Humanitarian Award, SickKids.
Recipients of the 2010 Innovation Fund in Children’s Palliatve Care Research:
Ceilidh E Russell, CCLS, MSc(candidate), Max & Beatrice Wolfe Children’s Centre; Maru Barrera, PhD, SickKids; Laura Beaune, MSW, SickKids; Susan Cadell, PhD, Lyle S. Hallman Faculty of Social Work Wilfrid University; Adam Rapoport, SickKids; Maria Rugg, RN, MN, SickKids, Rose Steele, RN PhD, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health, York University; Kimberley Widger, RN, PhD (c), Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto.
Susan Cadell who has accepted a position as the Acting Dean of Social Work (Lyle S. Hallman Faculty of Social Work, Wilfrid Laurier University) for the next 18 months.
Susan Cadell and her colleagues for their publication: Macdonald, M.E., Chilibeck, G., Affleck, W. & Cadell, S. (2009). Gender imbalance in pediatric palliative care research samples, Palliative Medicine 0(00), 1-10.
Dr. Lillian Sung in being awarded the Canadian Cancer Society 2009 William E. Rawls Prize, which recognizes her contributions as a young investigator leading to advances in cancer control in the past decade.
Recipients of the 2009 Innovation Fund in Children’s Palliative Care Research:
Mary Ellen Macdonald, PhD, Stephen Liben, MD, Montreal Children’s Hospital; Susan Cadell, PhD, Wilfrid Laurier University; Ms. Lorie Kloda, Life Sciences Librarian, McGill University “A systematic review of bereavement after the death of a child: A meta-synthesis of literature on family bereavement experiences and interventions”. $4,459.00
Dr. David Nicholas, PhD, University of Alberta; Laura Beaune, MSW, Res. Dip. SW, Dr. Maru Barrera, PhD, The Hospital for Sick Children; Jonathan Bloomberg, The Wire. “Understanding the experiences and support needs of fathers of children with life-limiting illnesses”. $5,000.00 plus $2,000.00 from the SickKids Social Work Research Endowment Fund
Barbara Muskat, PhD, MSW, RSW, Samantha Anthony, MSW, RSW, Res.Dip.SW, Laura Beaune, MSW, Res Dip. SW, David Brownstone, MSW, RSW, Pam Hubley, RN, MSc, ACNP, Christine Newman, MD FRCP(C), Adam Rapoport, MD, FRCPC, MHSc, The Hospital for Sick Children. “Experiences and perceptions of paediatric health professionals providing end of life and palliative care”. $5,000.00 plus $2,000.00 from the SickKids Social Work Research Endowment Fund
Recipients of the 2008 Innovation Fund in Children’s Palliative Care:
Susan Cadell PhD, MSW, Rose Steele RN, PhD, and Anita DeLongis PhD. “Better Understanding How Couples Cope with a Child’s Life-Threatening Illness”. Manulife Centre for Healthy Living, Lyle S. Hallman Faculty of Social Work.Wilfrid Laurier University. $1800.00
Kimberley Widger RN PhD(c), CHPCN(c) Ann Tourangeau, RN, PhD, Rose Steele RN, PhD, David Streiner, PhD. “Development and testing of an instrument to measure parents’ perspectives of the quality of children’s end-of-life care. Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing. University of Toronto.$4,874.00
