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Samina Ali

ResearcherPediatricsUniversity of Alberta

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Samina Ali

Researcher

Pediatrics

Health Sciences

University of Alberta

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Supervision signals

Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
70 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 21 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 6 research grants (5 CIHR, 1 SSHRC), most recently in 2025.

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Academic metrics

163

Publications

519

Citations

h-index

117

Collaborators

Grants

Publications by year

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Research

Language Barriers Newcomers Pediatrics Research Prioritization Acetaminophen Child Medications Meta-Analysis

Latest papers

Acetaminophen (Paracetamol) or Opioid Plus Ibuprofen for Children's Musculoskeletal Injury-Reply.
JAMA · 2026 · first author
Emergency Department Prescribing and Opioid-Related Harms Among Adolescents in Alberta: 2010-2020.
Pediatrics · 2026
Understanding the impact of Schwartz Rounds on healthcare workers.
CJEM · 2026 · senior author

All 163 publications

Latest funding

Foundational Research Toward Machine Learning-Based Decision Support for Safer Opioid Prescribing in Emergency Department Patients with Acute Fractures
CIHR · 2026 · Co-investigator
$100,000
Nothing About Us, Without Us: Establishing Research Priorities with Children, Youth, and Families to Address Language Barriers in Healthcare Delivery-A James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership
CIHR · 2025 · Nominated PI
$149,844
Just the Facts for Families: Intranasal Fentanyl
CIHR · 2024 · Nominated PI
$500

All 14 grants and awards

From the 150 most recent of 163 publications.

Acetaminophen (Paracetamol) or Opioid Plus Ibuprofen for Children's Musculoskeletal Injury-Reply.

Ali S, Drendel AL, Poonai N

JAMA2026First author

DOI: 10.1001/jama.2026.4220 PMID: 42160076

Emergency Department Prescribing and Opioid-Related Harms Among Adolescents in Alberta: 2010-2020.

Li H, Ali S, Holodinsky JK, Innes G, Hayward J

Pediatrics2026

DOI: 10.1542/peds.2025-071974 PMID: 42025289

Understanding the impact of Schwartz Rounds on healthcare workers.

Ali H, Storm L, Ali S

CJEM2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1007/s43678-026-01216-0 PMID: 42573947

Emergency department care of people with opioid use disorder and people at risk of opioid-related harms: time for evidence-based national guidelines and system-wide changes.

Koh JJ, Moe J, Kestler A, Miles I, Hulme J, Li H, Ali S, Orkin AM, Gupta S, Dong K

CJEM2026

DOI: 10.1007/s43678-026-01125-2 PMID: 41721190

Acetaminophen (Paracetamol) or Opioid Analgesia Added to Ibuprofen for Children's Musculoskeletal Injury: Two Randomized Clinical Trials.

Ali S, Klassen TP, Candelaria P, Bhatt M, Sawyer S, Stang A, Yaskina M, Heath A, Pechlivanoglou P, Offringa M, Drendel AL, Hickes S, Poonai N, KidsCAN PERC Innovative Pediatric Clinical Trials No OUCH Study Team

JAMA2026First author

DOI: 10.1001/jama.2025.25033 PMID: 41505155

A Randomized Controlled Trial of Commercially Available Virtual Reality for Intravenous Cannulation-Related Distress in Children.

Ali S, Hudson S, Rajagopal M, Stinson JN, Gourlay K, Ma K, Candelaria P, Vandermeer B, Felkar B, Schreiner K, Proctor A, Hartling L

The Journal of pediatrics2026First author

DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2025.114803 PMID: 40962105

Paediatrician perspectives and experiences accessing language interpretation services in Paediatric healthcare settings: a POPCORN network qualitative descriptive study

Guo H, Kim JY, Desai P, Saroufim M, Parvez M, Buchanan F, Carwana M, Costello C, Southward C, Suleman S

Paediatrics and Child Health2026

DOI: 10.1093/pch/pxag019

Opioid Administration and Reduction of Pediatric Ileocolic Intussusception.

Burke K, Shavit I, Cohen DM, MacDowell D, Mistry RD, Mintegi S, Craig S, Roland D, Miller MR, Ali S, Poonai N, Pediatric Emergency Research Networks (PERN) PAINT Study Group

JAMA network open2025

DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.33584 PMID: 40991284

Canadian paediatric tertiary care hospitals' response to the needs of children with medical complexity during acute visits and hospitalisations: A landscape study.

Parreira Pinto J, Whiteley A, Ghanbari Miandoab S, Marsolais S, McKinnon A, Côté AJ, D Trottier E, Thompson G, Ali S, Rouge Elton P, Gill PJ, Lim A, Dewan T, Gaucher N

Paediatrics & child health2025

DOI: 10.1093/pch/pxaf063 PMID: 41424630

Home Use of Nonpharmacologic Interventions For Fracture Pain After Pediatric Emergency Department Discharge.

Wiersma AJ, Nielsen B, Webb M, Alpern E, Brousseau DC, Chamberlain JM, Zorc JJ, Babcock L, Frey T, Leonard JC, Ali S, Barney BJ, Drendel AL, PECARN IMPROVE and PECARN Registry Study Groups

The Journal of emergency medicine2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2025.08.018 PMID: 40992346

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Samina Ali

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Acetaminophen (Paracetamol) or Opioid Plus Ibuprofen for Children's Musculoskeletal Injury-Reply.

Emergency Department Prescribing and Opioid-Related Harms Among Adolescents in Alberta: 2010-2020.

Understanding the impact of Schwartz Rounds on healthcare workers.

Emergency department care of people with opioid use disorder and people at risk of opioid-related harms: time for evidence-based national guidelines and system-wide changes.

Acetaminophen (Paracetamol) or Opioid Analgesia Added to Ibuprofen for Children's Musculoskeletal Injury: Two Randomized Clinical Trials.

A Randomized Controlled Trial of Commercially Available Virtual Reality for Intravenous Cannulation-Related Distress in Children.

Paediatrician perspectives and experiences accessing language interpretation services in Paediatric healthcare settings: a POPCORN network qualitative descriptive study

Opioid Administration and Reduction of Pediatric Ileocolic Intussusception.

Canadian paediatric tertiary care hospitals' response to the needs of children with medical complexity during acute visits and hospitalisations: A landscape study.

Home Use of Nonpharmacologic Interventions For Fracture Pain After Pediatric Emergency Department Discharge.

Reducing Children's Procedural Pain and Distress through Innovative Research Design with Value of Information Methods

Using AI-Enhanced Social Robots to Improve Children's Healthcare Experiences

Frequent collaborators

Naveen Poonai

Lisa Hartling

Maryna Yaskina

Anna Heath

Antonia Stang

Mo Eltorki

Anna Heath

Jennifer Stinson

Antonia Stang

Mohamed Eltorki

April Kam

Petros Pechlivanoglou

Fiona Campbell

Kathryn Dong

Martin Offringa

Sylvie Le May

Shannon Scott

Melanie Noel

Patricia Poulin

Marco Battaglia

Henry Li

Xiaoli Pang

Tieghan Killackey

Graham Thompson

Lawrence Richer

Chitra Lalloo

Laura Weingarten

Gita Wahi

Monica Taljaard

Peter Szatmari

Christopher McCabe

Janet Curran

Jason Walter Busse

Andy Willan

Ian Colman

Behnam Sadeghirad

Terry Klassen

Anne Marie Holbrook

Karen Li-mei Choong

Lehana Thabane