Stacy Ackroyd-Stolarz

Home Department: Emergency Medicine
Supervisor: Dr. Judith Guernsey
Interdisciplinary Areas: Emergency Medicine, Community Health & Epidemiology

Research Interests: Injury prevention & surveillance. In injury prevention, I have been involved in a falls prevention study based out of the Emergency Department. In surveillance I have done a couple of studies looking at the epidemiology of injury in Nova Scotia and am involved in a study looking at outcomes for persons with traumatic brain injury.

Email: ackroyd@dal.ca

Sharon Batt

Home Department: Bioethics
Supervisor: Dr. Janice Graham
Interdisciplinary Areas: Bioethics, Social Science and Policy

Research Interests: I am interested in advocacy by community-based health organizations. I plan to study the funding of breast cancer advocacy groups by pharmaceutical corporations and the potential effects of such funding on health policy. I will be examining these issues within a bioethics framework using ethnographic methods.

Email: Sharon.Batt@dal.ca

Link: CIHR Bioethics Trainee Fellows

Tressie Dutchyn

Home Department: Psychology
Supervisor: Dr. Patrick McGrath
Interdisciplinary Areas: Psychology and Philosophy

Research Interests: I will be researching the 'semantic underpinnings' of cancer in North American society and more importantly exploring the meaning of cancer as it applies to adolescents. This knowledge will then be used to develop a distance treatment module that will assist adolescents who are dealing with the diagnosis of cancer in a parent. Semantic underpinnings in this context refer to the meanings and associations (i.e., death and dying) the dominant culture ascribes to cancer as an illness.

Email: tressiedu@hotmail.com

Link: CIHR Psychosocial Oncology Research Training Program

Denis Falvey

Home Department: Ophthalmology
Supervisors: John Clements in Math, Keith Taylor in Science, Milan Horacek in Physiology, Thomas Trappenburg in Computing and Francois Tremblay in Ophthalmology/Electrophysiology
Interdisciplinary Areas: Mathematics, Electrophysiology, and Computational Neuroscience

Research Interests: My research interest is in quantifying retinal ischemia. In many diseases that affect the eye, the retina suffers from lack of oxygen or ischemia; of particular note is diabetic retinopathy.

To date no one has adequately quantified the degree of ischemia in the retina beyond 'This one looks worse than that one'.

I want to specifically look at the electroretinogram (ERG), which is a tracing of electromagnetic activity produced by the retina stimulated by light, using techniques arising from wavelet and Fourier analysis, Hilbert space theory, and computational neuroscience or statistical learning theory to better characterize the ERG and hopefully quantify retinal ischemia.

Email: denisfalvey@eastlink.ca

Lilith Finkler

Home Department: School of Planning,Law School
Co-Supervisors: Dr. Jill Grant and Dr. Archie Kaiser
Interdisciplinary Areas: Urban Planning, Disability and Law

Research Interests: By examining legal texts which address urban planning issues, I hope to gain greater undertsanding of the ways in which disability, as a social category, is both produced and reproduced.

Email: efinkler@dal.ca

Andreas D. Flouris

Home Department: School of Health and Human Performance
Supervisors: Dr. Stephen Cheung, Dr. David Westwood, Dr. Ray Klein
Interdisciplinary Areas: Environmental Physiology, Neuroscience, Engineering

Research Interests: (i) Human cardiovascular and thermoregulatory responses in space and other extreme environments (extravehicular activities in space, exposure to extreme temperatures, the effects of altitude, working below sea-level, various toxicants, smoke, and pollution). (ii) Computerized modeling and simulation for the development and optimization of life system technologies (liquid conditioning garment systems and suit development for extravehicular activities in space, diving equipment optimization). (iii) Human bioenergetics and its applications (dynamics of different energy transferring and utilization systems in diverse performances, cardiovascular regulation and integration). (iv) Biostatistics in Physiological and Epidemiological research (curve fitting, validation of screening/diagnostic instruments, analysis of longitudinal data).

Email: aflouris@dal.ca

Link: Environmental Ergonomics Laboratory

Marie-Claude Grégoire

Home Department: Anesthesiology and Pediatrics
Supervisor: Drs Allen Finley and Christine Chambers
Interdisciplinary Areas: Pediatrics, Psychology, Nursing

Research Interests: My research interests focus on symptoms evaluation, such as dyspnea, fatigue and pain for children, especially in the context of palliative care. During my PhD studies, I will work on the development of symptoms assesment scales, both in French and English.

Email: marie-claude.gregoire@dal.ca

Links: CIHR Strategic Training Program: Pain in Child Health
           Canadian Network of Palliative Care for Children

Kent Groves

Home Department: Faculty of Management
Interdisciplinary Areas: College of Pharmacy, School of Business, Administration and School of Public Administration

Research Interests: Factors influencing physician prescribing behavior, as well as the influence of corporate marketing strategy and government policy on prescription drug adoption and market diffusion.

Email: kgroves@dal.ca

Christina Holmes

Home Department: Bioethics
Supervisor: Dr. Janice Graham
Interdisciplinary Areas: Anthropology, Bioethics, and Biology

Research Interests: My PhD is on social issues surrounding the scientific use of genetically engineering in plant breeding. Other interests include medical anthropology, anthropology of agriculture and food, science studies, and new genetic technologies.

Email: cpholmes@dal.ca

Link: Graduate Students at Bioethics

Nicole Hartnell

Home Department: College of Pharmacy
Supervisor: Dr. Neil MacKinnon
Interdisciplinary Areas: College of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, and Psychology

Research Interests: My research interests are focused on the factors that encourage/discourage the reporting of medication errors by healthcare professionals (physicians, nurses, and pharmacists) in Canada. I am not looking at why errors occur, or what errors occur, but rather why they are not reported when they do occur.

Email: nicole.hartnell@dal.ca

Alain Joseph

Home Department: Engineering (Electrical and Computer)
Supervisor: Dr. Larry Hughes
Interdisciplinary Areas: Engineering, Environmental Studies (SRES) and Biology

Research Interests: Studying energy and material flows in ecosystems. Investigating electricity, transportaion, and other sectors to develop predictive models which contribute to energy management policies.

Email: aajoseph@dal.ca

Olof Kristjánsdottir

Home Department: Psychology
Supervisor: Dr. Patrick McGrath
Interdisciplinary Areas: Nursing and Psychology

Research Interests: pediatric procedural pain, non-pharmacological interventions to manage pediatric pain, pain language and cultural aspect of pain.

Email: OL939557@DAL.CA

Judith Lipp

Home Department: School for Resource and Environmental Studies
Supervisors: Larry Hughes and Peter Duinker
Interdisciplinary Areas: Environmental Studies, Public Admin and Economics

Research Interests: To analyse policy-related barriers to the deployment of renewable energy in Atlantic Canada. A critical analysis of current policy affecting renewable energy development will be prepared which will be assessed through various policy perspectives, especially resource management, economic development and environmental protection. The policy analysis will be used to develop a model for an integrated policy approach for sustainable development,leading to a decision-making tool that can inform and assist policy makers to utilise this clean, abundant resource for the benefit of the region's society and environment.

Email: jlipp@dal.ca

Gregor MacAskill

Home Department: School for Resource and Environmental Studies
Supervisor: Peter Tyedmers
Interdisciplinary Areas: Ecology, Environmental Studies, Planning

Research Interests: Improving the delivery of ecological information to citizens and decision-makers: informing municipal governance, policy, adaptation, and decision-making. The development of municipal sustainability indicators and full cost accounting, particularly in the area of landscape management.

Email: gregormacaskill@eastlink.ca

Susan J. McWilliam

Home Department: The School of Health and Human Performance
Supervisor: Dr. Jacqueline Gahagan
Interdisciplinary Areas: Health Promotion, Health Service Administration, Women's Health, Sociology/Political Science

Research Interests: My PhD thesis will present an interdisciplinary synthesis of the Canadian HIV/AIDS Strategy, specifically looking at the sociopolitical determinants that influence how it can be applied to HIV prevention among Nova Scotian women. A comparative analysis will be conducted to determine how the Strategy has influenced policy and research in both Nova Scotia and Ontario.

Email: smcwilli@dal.ca

Heather L. O'Brien

Home Department: School of Information Management
Supervisor: Dr. Elaine Toms, CRC Management Informatics
Committee Members: Dr. Kori Inkpen, Dr. Ray Klein
Interdisciplinary Areas: Computer Science, Psychology

Research Interests: My thesis work is focused on understanding the process of engagement between computer users and various types of computer applications, e.g. video games, the Web, presentation software. I am developing a conceptual framework to explore how people become and stay engaged with a variety of systems and how to evaluate such interactions. The ultimate goal of my research is to be able to identify attributes of computer interfaces that create engaging experiences for users.

Email: hlobrien@dal.ca

Grace Paterson

Home Department: Faculty of Computer Science
Supervisor: Dr. Mike Shepherd
Interdisciplinary Areas: Computer Science and Medicine

Research Interests: Semantic Web and clinical pragmatics -- practical data entry, presentation and retrieval for clinical tasks.

Email: grace@cs.dal.ca

Qiufen Qi

Home Department: Faculty of Computer Science
Supervisors: Dr. Evangelos E. Milios, Dr. Qigang Gao, and Dr. G. Allen Finley
Interdisciplinary Areas: Computer Science, Medicine (Pediatric Pain)

Research Interests: Knowledge Acquisition (capturing tacit knowledge from medical discussion forum data, such as Pediatric Pain Mailing List data), Knowledge Formalism (representing the captured tacit knowledge into hierarchical concept map), and Knowledge Transfer (linking the captured tacit knowledge to the explicit knowledge, such as published medical literatures).

Email: qiufen@cs.dal.ca

Links: CIHR HI Phd/Postdoc Strategic Training Program
           Pediatric Pain
           CIHR Strategic Training Program: Pain in Child Health

Karyn Robertson

Home Department: Psychology
Supervisors: Dr. Jeff Karabanow & Dr.Darcy Santor
Interdisciplinary Areas: Psychology/Women's Studies/Social Work

Research Interests: Feminist theory, psychotherapeutic techniques and social service delivery. I'm currently the Project Co-ordinator for the Racism, Violence and Health Project here at Dalhousie.

Email: roberts2@dal.ca

Link: Racism,Violence and Health Project

Nancy Salmon

Home Department: School of Health and Human Performance
Supervisors: Dr. Anita Unruh, Dr. Susan Tirone
Interdisciplinary Areas: Sociology, Psychology, Leisure Studies

Research Interests: Exploring "friendship in youth with disabilities" from a Disability Studies perspective.

Email: nsalmon@eastlink.ca

Susan Street

Home Department: Philosophy
Supervisor: Dr. Susan Sherwin
Interdisciplinary Areas: Philosophy, Health & Human Performance, Occupational Therapy

Research Interests: My main area of research involves a feminist (e.g., gender-based) analysis of women's occupational health research, with a particular emphasis on occupational health research in Canada. My proposed research will take into consideration a set of fundamental questions that have to do with determining who and what is counted as salient in women's health research, as well as identifying and understanding the gaps and barriers that interfere with full understanding of women's occupational health. Using a research design that involves a triangulation of feminist qualitative approaches, I shall argue that the "political business" of scientific health research has greatly contributed to the paucity of gender-based research that specifically addresses women's occupational health issues.

Email: slstreet@ca.inter.net

Mikiko Terashima

Home Department: Community Health and Epidemiology
Supervisor: Dr. Judy Guernsey
Interdisciplinary Areas: Epidemiology, Environmental Health, Geographic Information Systems

Research Interests: Arsenic in drinking water and its effects on human health. Spatial Epidemiology. Mapping diseases and other health determinants using Geographic Information Systems. Health inequality. Social determinants of health. Policy analysis on health risk reduction and risk assessment in rural areas. Remote sensing.

Email: mikiko.terashima@dal.ca

Hendricus Van Wilgenburg

Home Department: School for Resource & Environmental Studies
Co-Supervisors: Dr. Peter Duinker & Dr. Steven Burns
Interdisciplinary Areas: School for Resource & Environmental Studies and Philosophy

Research Interests: environmental impact assessment, public participation, and population health

Email: huddy@ns.sympatico.ca

Sandra Znajda

Home Department: School of Resource Management and Environmental Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Liette Vasseur
Interdisciplinary Areas: Biology, Resource Management, Political Science, International Development

Research Interests: Community-based habitat conservation, public participation and community empowerment, Latin America.

Email: S.Znajda@Dal.Ca