Investigator

Clinician Investigator, Holland Bloorview & Associate Professor, University of Toronto Jessica Brian is a Psychologist and Clinician-Investigator at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital and Associate Professor in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto. She co-leads the Autism Research Centre through the Bloorview Research Institute. Jessica received her Ph.D. from the [...]

Family Engagement Facilitator, CanCHILD Rachel is a mom with 14 years experience caring for her disabled son who passed away this year. She currently works as a Research Engagement Strategist for CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research and Kids Brain Health Network assisting students through the Family Engagement in Research Course. She has [...]

Biography Kinga Pozniak is a sociocultural anthropologist with a Ph.D. from Western University. Her overarching research interest is the experiences of parents who have children with neurodevelopmental conditions. At present, she is studying the long-term effects of parent engagement in research on both parents and researchers, and parents’ experiences with [...]

Biography As Research Development Officer at CanChild, Dayle McCauley provides guidance and support for activities such as the identification of new funding opportunities, development of research protocols and budgets, project management, statistical analysis, database development and data management, knowledge translation and family engagement. Dayle is co-investigator on the P4C, C-BiLLT and [...]

Biography Jan Willem Gorter, MD, PhD, FRCP(C) is the Director of CanChild, and Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and an associate member in the School of Rehabilitation Science at McMaster University. He has been an investigator at CanChild since 2008. Jan Willem has training in rehabilitation medicine (physiatry) with [...]