Early Career Researchers & Mentorship
Early Career Researchers
POPCORN is pleased to have 4 outstanding early career researchers on the POPCORN team through our collaboration with the ENRICH program (ENRICH: Empowering Next-Generation Researchers in Perinatal and Child Health) and IMPaCT.
Each has been awarded a 2-year training award ($30,000 per awardee) to participate in the ENRICH PILLAR pathway (PILLAR: Programs and Institutions Looking to Launch Academic Researchers) as POPCORN early career researchers and trainees. Please see their bios below!
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Dr. Olivier Drouin is a clinician-scientist in the Division of General Pediatrics at the CHU Sainte-Justine in Montréal. He is also a Clinical Associate Professor in both the Department of Pediatrics and Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at Université de Montréal. He holds a Clinical Research Scholar - Junior 2 award from the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Santé. His research expertise includes both inpatient and outpatient general pediatrics, health services research, behavioural sciences, implementation science, health economics and public health. He is a board member of the Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research and national co-lead for research for the Pediatric Inpatient Research Network.
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Dr. Peter Gill is an Early Career Researcher, hospital pediatrician, Scientist at SickKids and its Research Institute, Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto and Co-Founder and Vice-Chair of the Canadian Paediatric Inpatient Research Network (PIRN). He is an epidemiologist and national leader in patient-oriented research in Pediatric Hospital Medicine. He conducts outcomes-based comparative effectiveness, patient-oriented and implementation science research, with experience leading large multisite studies and using administrative data. In his role as one of POPCORN's ECRs, Dr. Gill is part of the scientific committee.
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Dr. Mireille Guillot is a neonatologist and clinician-researcher at CHU de Québec-Université Laval. She completed a research-intensive fellowship in Neonatal Neurology at The Hospital for Sick Children at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on identifying modifiable risk factors in the neonatal period to improve brain development and long-term outcomes in children born preterm. Mireille’s POPCORN ENRICH mentor is Dr. Isabelle Marc.
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Dr. Lisa Knisley was recently appointed as an Assistant Professor within the College of Nursing at the University of Manitoba. She has been the Executive Director since 2012 for Translating Emergency Knowledge for Kids (TREKK), a national knowledge mobilization network based at the Children's Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba. Through TREKK, Lisa leads provincial and national research to accelerate the speed at which the latest evidence in children’s emergency care is accessible to and useful for healthcare providers and patients/families. Lisa’s POPCORN ENRICH mentor is Dr. Terry Klassen.
Mentorship & Training Program
Dr. Evelyn Constantin, co-lead; Dr. Jennifer Tam, co-lead
POPCORN is committed to providing mentorship and training to its investigators and trainees through its mentorship and training stream, which is led by Dr. Evelyn Constantin & Dr. Jennifer Tam, with the collaboration of Dr. Susan Samuel (CCHCSP/ENRICH) and Dr. Lauren Kelly (IMPaCT), and is supported by co-applicants from all participating networks. POPCORN will develop a specific mentorship and training stream that leverages the close affiliations and already established child health mentorship and training programs. To achieve this vision, our strategies and our main objectives will be to:
Develop POPCORN-specific educational resources for mentorship and training, based on a POPCORN-specific needs assessment exercise;
Harmonize the mentorship and training programs across the POPCORN pillars and develop a national POPCORN platform for investigators and trainees;
Create a national POPCORN-specific repository of national mentors and mentees, with pairing of mentor and mentee dyads (matching ECRs and trainees to more senior investigators); and
Engage with established POPCORN-affiliated national programs, such as ENRICH, AMMI & IMPaCT for the formal ECR training and mentorship program.
POPCORN’s mentorship and training programs run for one year from April 1 to March 31. You can view our entire Terms of Reference here.