2026-27 IMPaCT Fellows

Alexandra Hudson

Early Career Researcher
Project: Artificial intelligence assisted handheld intestinal ultrasound probe measurement of bowel wall inflammation in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease

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Ashley Hayward

Early Career Researcher
Project: From Isolation to Kindship Care: Evaluating Community-Based Indigenous Doula Care for Urban Indigenous Families in Winnipeg

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Bernadette Kina Kombo

Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: Family Circles for Perinatal Wellbeing: A Hybrid Type II Trial Protocol to Culturally Adapt and Evaluate a Behavioural Family-Based Mental Health Intervention for Black Immigrant Mothers in Winnipeg

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Bob Sun

Early Career Researcher
Project: Reducing Wildfire Smoke Indoors for Children with Asthma

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Busisiwe Zapparoli

Early Career Researcher
Project: Adapting and Piloting a Cognitive Intervention for Adolescents with Neurofibromatosis, Type 1

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Carmen Riggioni

Early Career Researcher
Project: Validation of Clinical and Immunological Eligibility Criteria for Home up dosing in Food Oral Immunotherapy

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Elisabeth McClymont

Early Career Researcher
Project: Optimizing infant protection: a randomized clinical trial of repeat RSV vaccination in subsequent pregnancies

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Emma Stallwood

Doctoral Student
Project: Comparing the Effectiveness of a One-Day versus Traditional 12-week Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Generalized Anxiety Disorder During Pregnancy and Postpartum

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Erin Hamanishi

Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: First-in-Child Trial of a CD24-Targeted Antibody in Pediatric Patients With Relapsed or Refractory Solid Tumors

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Faly Golshan

Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: Feasibility and Clinical Potential of Technology-assisted Mindfulness for Emotion Regulation in Autistic Children

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Janys Lim

Early Career Researcher
Project: Use of an Orexin Receptor Antagonist for Improving Sleep in Neurodevelopmental Disorders in the Pediatric Population – A Pilot Study

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Judith Zarek

Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: A Randomized Clinical Trial of Liraglutide for the Treatment of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)

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Julia St Louis

Doctoral Student
Project: The GIFT (Guided Intervention for Family-centred organ donaTion) Trial: A Pragmatic Cluster-Randomized Trial to Improve Organ Donation Processes in Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care

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Kelsey Cochrane

Early Career Researcher
Project: Prenatal colostrum expression: A natural alternative to artificial labour induction?

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Lauren Irving

Doctoral Student
Project: Post Partum Cardiovascular Risk Reduction in People Who Have Experienced Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy: A Brief Action Plan Feasibility Trial in the Primary Care Setting

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NaDeana Norris

Doctoral Student
Project: Examining the effect of dexmedetomidine for pain management in newborns with a hypoxic brain injury undergoing therapeutic cooling.

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Sabine Laguë

Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: Improving heart and lung health and quality of life in children with pulmonary hypertension

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Scott Ramsay

Early Career Researcher
Project: Telehealth Examination for Pediatric Concussion Follow-up: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial

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Wallace Wee

Early Career Researcher
Project: Determining the right antibiotic duration for children with PCD

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