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Nicholas Barrowman

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Assistant ProfessorPediatricsUniversity of Ottawa

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Latest papers

Single dose IV ketamine for adolescent suicidal ideation in the emergency department: a pilot randomized trial.
BMC psychiatry · 2026
Taking Care of the Caregivers: A Quality-of-Life Measure for the Parents of Children With Transfusion-Dependent Thalassemia.
Pediatric blood & cancer · 2026
Using personal mobile technology to identify obstructive sleep apnea in children with Down syndrome (UPLOAD).
Sleep medicine · 2026

All 66 publications

Latest funding

Characterizing blood-brain barrier permeability and its association with brain health, blood biomarkers, symptoms and mood after a pediatric concussion
CIHR · 2026 · Co-investigator
$1,090,125
CanFos: Improving the Health of Canadian Children in Foster Homes.
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$638,776
Dexamethasone vs. Placebo in Children and Youth Hospitalized for Orbital Cellulitis (DOC): a Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$417,012

All 23 grants and awards

66 publications.

Single dose IV ketamine for adolescent suicidal ideation in the emergency department: a pilot randomized trial.

Schlegelmilch M, Plint AC, Barrowman N, Gray C, Crawford T, Kutcher SA, Bhatt M

BMC psychiatry2026

DOI: 10.1186/s12888-026-08042-9 PMID: 41937124

Taking Care of the Caregivers: A Quality-of-Life Measure for the Parents of Children With Transfusion-Dependent Thalassemia.

Klaassen RJ, Khelifi RS, Barrowman N, Merelles-Pulcini M, Vichinsky EP, Kirby-Allen M, Neufeld EJ, Kwiatkowski JL, Wu J, Young NL

Pediatric blood & cancer2026

DOI: 10.1002/pbc.32163 PMID: 41216956

Using personal mobile technology to identify obstructive sleep apnea in children with Down syndrome (UPLOAD).

Katz SL, Shamsi R, Bijelić V, Barrowman N, Pothos M, Nair A, Dupuis A, Dussah N, Seguin E, Munro N, Barwell T, Leitman AR, Ersu R

Sleep medicine2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2026.109070 PMID: 42250439

Renal ultrasound after first febrile urinary tract infection in hospitalized children: The ROUTINE prospective observational study protocol

Mahant S, Mistry K, Bayliss A, Barrowman N, Born K, Borkhoff C, Chawla R, D'Arienzo D, D'Hondt A, De Castris‐Garcia K

Journal of Hospital Medicine2026

DOI: 10.1002/jhm.70332

BRAVA: A randomized controlled trial of a brief group intervention for youth with suicidal ideation and their caregivers.

Kennedy A, Gray C, Sheridan N, Dunn L, Stewart J, Drouin S, Elliott H, Adeponle A, Barrowman N, Sucha E, Cappelli M, Norris ML, Jabbour M, Cloutier P

Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health2025

DOI: 10.1186/s13034-025-00941-1 PMID: 40671103

Improving transitions in care for children and youth with mental health concerns: implementation and evaluation of an emergency department mental health clinical pathway.

Tucci A, Cloutier P, Polihronis C, Kennedy A, Zemek R, Gray C, Reid S, Pajer K, Gardner W, Barrowman N, Cappelli M, Jabbour M

BMC health services research2025

DOI: 10.1186/s12913-025-12524-z PMID: 40165260

Home video clips compared to polygraphy for obstructive sleep apnea diagnosis in children with autism spectrum disorder: A pilot study.

Cox G, Katz SL, Bijelić V, Barrowman N, Barwell T, Shamsi R, Blinder H, Cleroux M, Brunet M, Remedios J, Johansen T, Dussah N, Ersu R

Sleep medicine2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2025.106737 PMID: 40819419

Preliminary Estimates of the Diagnostic Accuracy of Video Clips for Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Children.

Katz SL, Barwell T, Bijelić V, Barrowman N, Blinder H, Dussah N, Shamsi R, Leitman AR, Ersu R

Pediatric pulmonology2025

DOI: 10.1002/ppul.71228 PMID: 40844073

Screening for obstructive sleep apnea in the resource-limited setting of the COVID-19 pandemic (SPARE study).

Ersu R, Shamsi R, Bjelic V, Barrowman N, Blinder H, Dussah N, Cox G, Leitman AR, Katz SL

Sleep medicine2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2025.106559 PMID: 40378649

TRANSCENDENT (Transforming Research by Assessing Neuroinformatics across the Spectrum of Concussion by Embedding iNterdisciplinary Data-collection to Enable Novel Treatments): protocol for a prospective observational cohort study of concussion patients with embedded comparative effectiveness research within a network of learning health system concussion clinics in Canada

Zemek R, Albrecht LM, Johnston S, Leddy J, Ledoux A-A, Reed N, Silverberg N, Yeates K, Lamoureux M, Anderson C

BMJ Open20254 citations

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-095292

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Nicholas Barrowman

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Single dose IV ketamine for adolescent suicidal ideation in the emergency department: a pilot randomized trial.

Taking Care of the Caregivers: A Quality-of-Life Measure for the Parents of Children With Transfusion-Dependent Thalassemia.

Using personal mobile technology to identify obstructive sleep apnea in children with Down syndrome (UPLOAD).

Renal ultrasound after first febrile urinary tract infection in hospitalized children: The ROUTINE prospective observational study protocol

BRAVA: A randomized controlled trial of a brief group intervention for youth with suicidal ideation and their caregivers.

Improving transitions in care for children and youth with mental health concerns: implementation and evaluation of an emergency department mental health clinical pathway.

Home video clips compared to polygraphy for obstructive sleep apnea diagnosis in children with autism spectrum disorder: A pilot study.

Preliminary Estimates of the Diagnostic Accuracy of Video Clips for Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Children.

Screening for obstructive sleep apnea in the resource-limited setting of the COVID-19 pandemic (SPARE study).

Frequent collaborators

Franco Momoli

Roger Zemek

Matthew Bromwich

Laurent Legault

Evelyn Constantin

Laurent Legault

Evelyn Constantin

Refika Ersu

Mona Jabbour

Brigitte Lemyre

Robert Slinger

Sanjay Mahant

Giles Santyr

Grace Parraga

Gita Wahi

Giles Santyr

Nick Reed

William Splinter

Nadya Ben Fadel

Lucia Giglia

Sherri Katz

Suzanne Schuh

Mario Cappelli

Thomas Kovesi

Viren Naik

Karen Born

Nicole Rouvinez-Bouali

Craig Campbell

Philipp Mossdorf

Stephen Feder