Nicole Letourneau RN, PhD, is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Science and Professor in the Faculty of Nursing and Cumming School of Medicine (Pediatrics, Psychiatry and Community Health Sciences) at the University of Calgary, Canada, where she holds the Alberta Children’s Hospital Chair in Parent-Infant Mental Health and is Director of RESOLVE (Research and Education for Solutions to Violence) Alberta. Formerly, she was Canada Research Chair in Healthy Child Development. She is Principal Investigator (PI) of the Child Health Intervention and Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Studies Program (www.CHILDStudies.ca), examining parenting and child health & development in the context of maternal depression, family violence and other toxic stressors. She is also PI of APrON, the Alberta pregnancy cohort of 2200 families funded for follow-up to 12 years of child age, mainly focusing on predictors of and intersections between parental mental health and child behavioural development. She has attained more than $58 million CDN in research funding for her work.
She is the author of two books including Scientific Parenting: What Science Reveals About Parental Influence published in 2013 and What Kind of Parent Am I? published in 2018, both by Toronto’s Dundurn Publishing Company, as well as more than 180 peer reviewed papers. A regular contributor of opinion-editorials appearing in online and print media such as the HuffPost and Toronto Star, she is the most followed nurse on Twitter in the world (@DrNLetourneau). She has attained many honours including Canada’s Top New CIHR Investigator in 2006, Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 in 2007, Awards for Research Excellence from the College and Association of Registered Nurses of Alberta in 2015 and the Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing in 2017, named a Difference Maker by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in 2017 and the Excellence in Leadership Award from the Canadian Association of Perinatal and Women’s Health Nurses. She is the incoming President of the College and Association of Registered Nurses of Alberta and founder of the ATTACHTM (attach.teachable.com) and VID-KIDS community health programs.
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Website: http://www.childstudies.ca
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