Affiliated Researchers
- Alfonso Abizaid, Ph.D. Dr. Abizaid is an Associate Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at Carleton University. He is interested in the way the brain integrates sensory and hormonal information to modulate feeding, reproduction, and activity rhythms. His interests also include the effects of social stressors on metabolic function. He is also interested in hormonal regulation of circadian rhythms.
- Louise Balfour, Ph.D., C.Psych. Dr. Balfour is a clinical health psychologist at The Ottawa Hospital. She is an Assistant Professor with the Division of Infectious Diseases in the Faculty of Medicine, a Clinical Professor in the School of Psychology, and is a member of the Faculty of Graduate and Post-Doctoral Studies at the University of Ottawa. She is affiliated with the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. Dr. Balfour currently holds several CIHR research grants and she has an active Psychological Behavioral Medicine Research Lab at The Ottawa Hospital. Dr. Balfour’s program of clinical research focuses on patients’ medical treatment readiness and treatment knowledge, medication adherence, coping with depression and stigma, smoking cessation, program evaluation, psychometric scale validation, and knowledge translation. Dr Balfour has been active in international research on medical treatment adherence in both Guyana and Colombia. Contact: lbalfour@toh.on.ca
- Martine Flament, M.D., Ph.D. Martine Flament is Director of the Youth Psychiatry Research Unit and Full Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Ottawa. Dr. Flament’s longstanding research interests are in youth psychiatry with a focus on obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), eating disorders, mood and anxiety disorders and substance use disorders. Recent interests include the pharmacological treatment of OCD in youth and adults, and clinical response to antidepressant drugs in adult patients with depression. Dr. Flament has also developed measurement instruments for studying youth
- Mary Gick, Ph.D., C.Psych. Dr. Gick is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Carleton University. Her research interests include several areas in health psychology. One long-standing interest is in emotional and individual difference factors (e.g., attachment style, conscientiousness) that influence health, coping with medical problems, and seeking treatment for them. Newer interests include 1) using a health framework to understand and promote environmental behaviour, and, 2) the effects of singing on health and well-being.
- Andrée Gruslin, M.D., FRCS. Dr. Gruslin is an Associate Professor in the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa. She is also an Associate Scientist with the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. She is interested in the treatment of hypertension in pregnancy, and the identification of a severity score to evaluate pre-eclampsia, a disease associated and related to poor placental growth and development.
- Valerie Krysanski, Ph.D., C.Psych. Dr. Krysanski is a psychologist and clinician researcher in the Department of Clinical Health Psychology at the Victoria General Hospital in Winnipeg. She is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Manitoba. She also provides clinical supervision of individuals in their doctoral training. Her research interests include: eating disorders, adult attachment and trauma; and individual and group psychotherapy process and outcome. Contact: vkrysanski@vgh.mb.ca.
- Kerri Ritchie, Ph.D., C.Psych. Dr. Ritchie is the Co-Training Director in Psychology at The Ottawa Hospital and she works in Maternal Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She is a Clinical Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of Ottawa. Her research interests include attachment, women's health, antepartum and post partum mental health, and disease processes. Contact: kritchie@toh.on.ca