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Child and Adolescent Other research:
Psychiatry Research Researchers at the Centre for
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Pediatric Pain Research have
faculty had a productive research launched a new study into how a
year, with 46 presentations at local, robot can help to reduce procedural
national, and international levels, 22 pain and distress for children within
published articles and books, and two the blood collection clinic. The robot,
grants funded. purchased with funding from the
Canada Foundation for Innovation,
Grant Funding Highlights can be programmed to interact with
Dr. Stanley Kutcher: children in a clinical setting and has
a wide variety of capabilities ranging
• Carthy Foundation. National Pre- from calming breathing exercises to
Service Teacher Mental Health playing “rock-paper-scissors”.
Literacy Curriculum Resource: Phase
3B – Interactive Online Course. LeAnne Revell, a Research in
Principal Investigator ($87,000) Medicine student at Dalhousie
University is taking the lead on the
• Echo Foundation. National Pre- project under the supervision of
Service Teacher Mental Health Dr. Christine Chambers, Canada
Literacy Curriculum Resource: Phase Research Chair in Children’s Pain.
3B - Interactive Online Course.
Principal Investigator ($20,000)
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