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Stephen Freedman

ResearcherPediatricsUniversity of Calgary

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Stephen Freedman

Researcher

Pediatrics

Health Sciences

University of Calgary

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Supervision signals

Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
5 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 1 recent paper, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 11 research grants (11 CIHR), most recently in 2021.
Supervised 1 trainee who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2018.

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Research

Public Policy Emergency Pediatric Viral Load Emergency Department Coronavirus Outcomes Antibodies

Latest papers

Derivation and validation of clinical prediction models for viral etiologies of acute diarrhea in North American children presenting for emergency care.
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026
Evaluating pediatric emergency knowledge mobilization resources for Canadian healthcare providers: a concurrent triangulation mixed-methods usability study.
CJEM · 2026
Predictors of Adherence to Short-Course Probiotics Among Children with Gastroenteritis who are Enrolled in a Clinical Trial.
Clinical and investigative medicine. Medecine clinique et experimentale · 2023 · senior author

All 11 publications

Latest funding

Prenatal exposure to maternal SARS-CoV-2 infection and early childhood development
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
$895,050
Prenatal exposure to maternal SARS-CoV-2 infection and neurodevelopment in children
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
$247,310
Changing the face of pediatric migraine: A phase 2a randomized controlled trial of a novel neuromodulation device for refractory acute migraine in children and adolescents
CIHR · 2021 · Co-investigator
$105,000

All 17 grants and awards

11 publications.

Derivation and validation of clinical prediction models for viral etiologies of acute diarrhea in North American children presenting for emergency care.

Fonseca-Romero P, Smith T, Ahmed SM, Jones A, Alekhina N, Brintz BJ, Bard JD, Chapin KC, Cohen DM, Festekjian A, Jackson JT, Kanwar N, Larsen CD, Leber AL, Selvarangan R, Freedman S, Pavia AT, Leung DT

medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences2026

DOI: 10.64898/2026.05.14.26353143 PMID: 42238429

Evaluating pediatric emergency knowledge mobilization resources for Canadian healthcare providers: a concurrent triangulation mixed-methods usability study.

Lai VKW, Knisley L, Hartling L, Elliott SA, Freedman S, Bale-Nick M, Scott S, Reid S, Lang E, MacPhee S, Jabbour M, Aregbesola A, Sinclair D, Klassen TP

CJEM2026

DOI: 10.1007/s43678-026-01275-3 PMID: 42632870

Predictors of Adherence to Short-Course Probiotics Among Children with Gastroenteritis who are Enrolled in a Clinical Trial.

Hurley KF, Fitzpatrick EA, Xie J, Urquhart S, Farion KJ, Gouin S, Schuh S, Poonai N, Freedman S

Clinical and investigative medicine. Medecine clinique et experimentale2023Senior author

DOI: 10.25011/cim.v46i1.39560 PMID: 36966390

International variation in evidence-based emergency department management of bronchiolitis: a retrospective cohort study.

Lirette MP, Kuppermann N, Finkelstein Y, Zemek R, Plint AC, Florin TA, Babl FE, Dalziel S, Freedman S, Roland D, Lyttle MD, Schnadower D, Steele D, Fernandes RM, Stephens D, Kharbanda A, Johnson DW, Macias C, Benito J, Schuh S, Pediatric Emergency Research Networks (PERN)

BMJ open2022

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-059784 PMID: 36600373

Evaluation of parent and youth experiences in advisory groups as part of a mental healthcare clinical trial: protocol for a mixed-method study

Rasiah J, Freedman S, Macdonald L, Prisnie K, Eltorki M, Finkelstein Y, Hopkin G, Santana M-J, Thull-Freedman J, Stang A

BMJ Open20226 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-059689 PMID: W4283013923

A living WHO guideline on drugs for covid-19 (2020-2023)

Agarwal A, Hunt BJ, Stegemann M, Rochwerg B, Lamontagne F, Siemieniuk RA, Agoritsas T, Askie L, Lytvyn L, Leo Y-S

The BMJ20201,024 citations

DOI: 10.1136/bmj.m3379

Introducing an innovative model of acute paediatric mental health and addictions care to paediatric emergency departments: a protocol for a multicentre prospective cohort study

Freedman S, Thull-Freedman J, Lightbody T, Prisnie K, Wright B, Coulombe A, Anderson LM, Stang AS, Mikrogianakis A, VanRiper L

BMJ quality improvement reports202013 citationsFirst authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1136/bmjoq-2020-001106 PMID: W3111428384

Case 19-2018: A 15-Year-Old Girl with Acute Kidney Injury.

Grisaru S, Berenger B, Freedman S

The New England journal of medicine2018Senior author

DOI: 10.1056/nejmc1809972 PMID: 30422596

Left post-auricular swelling in a child.

Park E, Papsin B, Freedman S

Journal of paediatrics and child health2016Senior author

DOI: 10.1111/jpc.1_13159 PMID: 30240084

Ondansetron enhances efficacy of oral rehydration.

Freedman S

The Journal of pediatrics2016First author

DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2016.02.026 PMID: 27112086

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Stephen Freedman

Research

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Latest funding

Derivation and validation of clinical prediction models for viral etiologies of acute diarrhea in North American children presenting for emergency care.

Evaluating pediatric emergency knowledge mobilization resources for Canadian healthcare providers: a concurrent triangulation mixed-methods usability study.

Predictors of Adherence to Short-Course Probiotics Among Children with Gastroenteritis who are Enrolled in a Clinical Trial.

International variation in evidence-based emergency department management of bronchiolitis: a retrospective cohort study.

Evaluation of parent and youth experiences in advisory groups as part of a mental healthcare clinical trial: protocol for a mixed-method study

A living WHO guideline on drugs for covid-19 (2020-2023)

Introducing an innovative model of acute paediatric mental health and addictions care to paediatric emergency departments: a protocol for a multicentre prospective cohort study

Case 19-2018: A 15-Year-Old Girl with Acute Kidney Injury.

Left post-auricular swelling in a child.

Ondansetron enhances efficacy of oral rehydration.

Frequent collaborators

Suzanne Schuh

Shannon MacPhee

Lisa Hartling

Wendy Ungar

Antonia Stang

Gina Dimitropoulos

Michael Stubbs

Matthias Götte

Katrina Hurley

Antonia Stang

Lee Macdonald

Yaron Finkelstein

Suneeta Monga

Upton Allen

Silviu Grisaru

Laurie Plotnick

Douglas Sinclair

Allan Coates

Roger Zemek

Naveen Poonai

Ellen Louise Lipman

Andy Willan

Dena Zeraatkar

Bram Rochwerg

Romina Brignardello

Thomas Agoritsas

Gordon Guyatt

Angelo Mikrogianakis

Mo Eltorki

Arnav Agarwal

Mona Jabbour

Laurence Katz

Shannon Scott