Andrea Cross

Dr. Andrea Cross, PhD

Andrea is a postdoctoral fellow at CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research and the Department of Pediatrics and an Assistant Professor (part-time) in the School of Rehabilitation Science at McMaster University.  She graduated in 2011 from Wilfrid Laurier University with a Master’s of Science in Kinesiology and in 2018 with a PhD in Rehabilitation Science from McMaster University. Andrea’s doctoral research aimed to disseminate the F-words in Child Development (Functioning, Family, Fitness, Fun, Friends, and Future). Andrea’s postdoctoral research focuses on family engagement in research and implementation science.

Andrea is currently coordinating the F-words Research and Knowledge Translation Program and is a co-investigator on the ENVISAGE and ENVISAGE-SP projects and the Family Engagement in Research Training Program. Andrea holds a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) post-doctoral fellowship in patient-oriented research.