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Research
Latest papers
Building Emotional Awareness and Mental Health in Parenting (BEAM): protocol for a parallel-group randomized controlled non-inferiority trial for an app based intervention to improve postpartum mental health and support children's brain development in Western Canada.
Trials · 2026
Obstetrical outcomes in pregnant patients following a gluten-free diet: A prospective cohort study.
International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics: the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics · 2026
The Weeke Score Is an Easy-to-Teach and Reliable System for Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scoring.
Neuropediatrics · 2026
Latest funding
- $684,676
Studying brain development from birth to school-entry age to understand the underpinnings of poor school readiness in children born moderate to late preterm
CIHR · 2025 · Nominated PI
- $1,170,450
Sildenafil to repair the injured brain of critically-ill neonates with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
- $1,366,288
A multidisciplinary prospective exploration of prenatal exposure to cannabis and associations with infant and child neurodevelopment to age 3
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
6 publications.
Building Emotional Awareness and Mental Health in Parenting (BEAM): protocol for a parallel-group randomized controlled non-inferiority trial for an app based intervention to improve postpartum mental health and support children's brain development in Western Canada.
Tomfohr-Madsen LM, Roos LE, Martinez AM, Muslu H, Gill H, Cameron EE, Freeman M, Dewsnap K, Giesbrecht GF, Oberlander TF, Leijser L, MacMaster F, Geeraert B, McNeil D, Lebel C
Obstetrical outcomes in pregnant patients following a gluten-free diet: A prospective cohort study.
Srajer A, Harris M, Santos J, Dalere J, King JA, Skiffington JC, Slater D, Leijser L, Metcalfe A
The Weeke Score Is an Easy-to-Teach and Reliable System for Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scoring.
Li J, Assis Z, Venkata SKRG, Scott J, Ding M, Leijser L, Zein H, Mohammad K
Improving skull-stripping for infant MRI via weakly supervised domain adaptation using adversarial learning.
Omidi A, Shamaei A, Aktar M, King R, Leijser L, Souza R
Hemodynamic Quality Improvement Bundle to Reduce the Use of Inotropes in Extreme Preterm Neonates.
Gurram Venkata SKR, Srivastava A, Murthy P, Scott JN, Zein H, Leijser L, Ghosh A, Momin S, Thomas S, Mohammad K
Neuroprotection Care Bundle Implementation to Decrease Acute Brain Injury in Preterm Infants.
Murthy P, Zein H, Thomas S, Scott JN, Abou Mehrem A, Esser MJ, Lodha A, Metcalfe C, Kowal D, Irvine L, Scotland J, Leijser L, Mohammad K
Studying brain development from birth to school-entry age to understand the underpinnings of poor school readiness in children born moderate to late preterm
Principal investigators: Leijser, Lara M
Keywords: Brain Development; Moderate To Late Preterm Infants; Neuro-Imaging; Neurodevelopmental Outcomes; Preterm Birth; School Readiness
Sildenafil to repair the injured brain of critically-ill neonates with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy
Principal investigators: Wintermark, Pia; Altit, Gabriel; Lapointe, Anie
Keywords: Birth Asphyxia; Brain; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Neonates; Neuroprotection; Neurorestoration; Targeted Neonatal Echocardiography
A multidisciplinary prospective exploration of prenatal exposure to cannabis and associations with infant and child neurodevelopment to age 3
Principal investigators: Chaput, Kathleen H; Lebel, Catherine A; Mcmorris, Carly A
Keywords: Cohort; Infant Development; Maternal Health; Neurodevelopment; Pregnancy; Prenatal Cannabis
Role of prenatal stress in the co-development of children's gut microbiome and socioemotional problems
Principal investigators: Giesbrecht, Gerald F
Keywords: Gut-Brain-Axis; Mental Health; Microbiome Maturation; Prenatal Stress; Socioemotional Development
Prediction of Intraventricular Hemmorhage using Echocardiography and Near Infrared Spectroscopy (PIE-NIRS)
Principal investigators: Deshpande, Poorva
Keywords: .
A multidisciplinary prospective exploration of prenatal exposure to cannabis and associations with infant and child neurodevelopment to age 3
Principal investigators: Chaput, Kathleen H; Lebel, Catherine A; Mcmorris, Carly A
Keywords: Child Brain Health; Cognitive Functioning; Cohort; Infant Neurodevelopment; Prenatal Cannabis Use; Socio-Emotional Functioning
Examining child neurodevelopment, brain and mental health outcomes associated with prenatal cannabis use in the prospective All Our Families pregnancy cohort
Principal investigators: Chaput, Kathleen H; McDonald, Sheila W; Mcmorris, Carly A
Keywords: Cannabis; Mental Health; Neurodevelopment; Pregnancy; Prospective Cohort
Perinatal psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic and the effects on infant brain development during the first year of life
Principal investigators: Lebel, Catherine A; MacMaster, Frank P
Keywords: Big Data; Brain; Functional Imaging; Infant; Longitudinal; Mri; Multimodal; National; Pandemic; Perinatal
Associations between prenatal maternal psychological distress, brain growth, and behaviour in young children
Principal investigators: Lebel, Catherine A; Duerden, Emma; Oberlander, Timothy F
Keywords: Anxiety; Behaviour; Brain Development; Depression; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Pergnancy
Examining the current Canadian social context of prenatal cannabis consumption and intersections with maternal and infant health outcomes.
Principal investigators: Chaput, Kathleen
Keywords: Prenatal cannbis use Social status Financial vulnerability Pregnancy Maternal health Mental health neonatal health infant development
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Pediatrics
- Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Radiology
- Medicine
- Physiology and Pharmacology
- Psychology
Co-authors at University of Calgary, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Catherine Lebel
Radiology
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Amy Metcalfe
Obstetrics and Gynecology
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Donna Slater
Physiology and Pharmacology
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Frank MacMaster
Psychology
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Deborah Mcneil
Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Abhay Lodha
Pediatrics
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Ayman Abou Mehrem
Pediatrics
1 shared papers, latest 2020
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