Dr. Patrick McGrath's Research Team

Anna Huguet, PhD (Rovira i Virgili University, Spain)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Research Interests: Psychosocial mechanisms involved in the development of pediatric chronic pain and pain-associated disability; epidemiology of chronic pain; assessment of pain in children; delivering psychosocial treatment for adolescents with chronic pain using information and communication technologies.

E-mail: anna.huguet@iwk.nshealth.ca
Phone: (902) 470-7282
Fax: (902) 470-6534

Paula Forgeron, RN, MN, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Clinical Nurse Specialist with the Pediatric Pain Service at the IWK Health Centre

Research Interests: Friendships of adolescents with chronic pain using both qualitative and quantitative research approaches; improving the pain care for children in less developed countries and exploring the factors that facilitate and challenge improvements to pain care.

E-mail: paula.forgeron@iwk.nshealth.ca
Phone: (902) 470-3927

Ólöf Kristjánsdóttir, RN, MS

Interdisciplinary PhD Student (Dalhousie University; co-supervised by Dr. Guðrún Kristjánsdóttir, University of Iceland)

Research interests: Cross-cultural comparison in child pain; Nonpharmacological procedural pain interventions for infants and children.

E-mail: olof.kristjansdottir@iwk.nshealth.ca

Mark Petter, BA (Hons.) (The University of Western Ontario)

Doctoral Student in Clinical Psychology (Dalhousie University; co-supervised by Dr. Christine Chambers)

Research Interests: The role of behavioural medicine in the prevention and management of chronic illness, mindfulness-based interventions for acute and chronic pain.

E-mail: mark.petter@dal.ca

Kim Caddell

Research Manager
Pain in Infants at risk for Neurological Impairment: A program of research: Phase III

E-mail: kim.caddell@iwk.nshealth.ca

Barb Brown

Research Manager
Pain in Child Health, an innovative, international, trans-disciplinary research training consortium - Phase II

E-mail: barb.brown@iwk.nshealth.ca

Michelle Tougas, BA (Hons.) (Dalhousie University)

Research Assistant

Research Interests: New technology and pain; psychological management of pain

E-mail: michelle.tougas@iwk.nshealth.ca