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Karel O'Brien

ResearcherPediatricsUniversity of Toronto

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Karel O'Brien

Researcher

Pediatrics

Health Sciences

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
16 publications in the last five years, latest in 2025.
Senior (last) author on 4 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 3 research grants (3 CIHR), most recently in 2016.

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Publications

1,245

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Research

Developmental Interventions Economic Analysis Knowledge Translation Neonatology Network Obstetrics Outcomes Improvement Perinatal Health

Latest papers

Mental disorders among postpartum individuals with medically high-risk infants and/or obstetrical complications: A population requiring further attention.
Paediatrics & child health · 2025
The Family Snapshot-Innovation to integrate family context into daily interactions in the NICU.
Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2025
Family integrated care: State of art and future perspectives.
Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2025

All 52 publications

Latest funding

Connecting families to improve parental self-efficacy and parent psychosocial and infant health outcomes in the NICU using an eHealth solution: a stepped wedge cluster randomized controlled trial (The CONNECT study)
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
$921,826
Parental presence restrictions due to COVID-19: Examining impact and priorities for neonatal care (The PRESENCE Study)
CIHR · 2021 · Co-investigator
$193,100
Developmental outcomes of preterm infants enrolled in a randomized clinical trial of a parent administered sensorimotor intervention in the neonatal intensive care unit.
CIHR · 2018 · Co-investigator
$104,055

All 6 grants and awards

52 publications.

Mental disorders among postpartum individuals with medically high-risk infants and/or obstetrical complications: A population requiring further attention.

Diamond L, Esser K, Moretti M, Cohen E, Ungar WJ, Bruno N, Lapinsky SC, O'Brien K, Vigod SN, Orkin J

Paediatrics & child health2025

DOI: 10.1093/pch/pxaf039 PMID: 41323947

The Family Snapshot-Innovation to integrate family context into daily interactions in the NICU.

Dahan M, Rotteau L, Rolnitsky A, Higazi S, Kwakye O, Lai GWS, Moulsdale W, Sampson L, Stannard J, O'Brien K, Church PT

Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992)2025

DOI: 10.1111/apa.17503 PMID: 39568410

Family integrated care: State of art and future perspectives.

Moreno-Sanz B, Alferink MT, O'Brien K, Franck LS

Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992)2025

DOI: 10.1111/apa.17272 PMID: 38738866

Outcomes of Preterm Infants Admitted to Canadian NICUs Before and During the SARS-COV Pandemic.

Campbell-Yeo M, Mireault A, Bacchini F, Beltempo M, Shah PS, Alcock L, Comeau J, Dol J, Grant A, Gubbay J, Hughes B, Hundert A, Inglis D, Lalani Y, MacNeil M, Luu TM, Mitra S, Narvey M, O'Brien K, Robeson P, Science M, Canadian Neonatal Network Cnn Investigators

Children (Basel, Switzerland)2025

DOI: 10.3390/children12020193 PMID: 40003295

Facilitators and Barriers to the Implementation of Family Integrated Care in Ontario Level II Neonatal Intensive Care Units.

Al Bizri A, Bueno M, Shah V, Bacchini F, Campbell DM, Benzies KM, O'Brien K

Children (Basel, Switzerland)2025Senior author

DOI: 10.3390/children12111548 PMID: 41300664

A parent-administered sensorimotor intervention for oral feeding in infants born preterm: A randomized clinical study.

Fucile S, Snider L, O'Brien K, Smith L, Dow K

Developmental medicine and child neurology2025

DOI: 10.1111/dmcn.16046 PMID: 39101659

Facilitators and constraints to family integrated care in low-resource settings informed the adaptation in Uganda.

Kabajassi O, Reiter A, Tagoola A, Kenya-Mugisha N, O'Brien K, Wiens MO, Feeley N, Duby J

Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992)2024

DOI: 10.1111/apa.17182 PMID: 38411347

Practice recommendations regarding parental presence in NICUs during pandemics caused by respiratory pathogens like COVID-19.

Campbell-Yeo M, Bacchini F, Alcock L, Mitra S, MacNeil M, Mireault A, Beltempo M, Bishop T, Campbell DM, Chilcott A, Comeau JL, Dol J, Grant A, Gubbay J, Hughes B, Hundert A, Inglis D, Lakoff A, Lalani Y, Luu TM, Morton J, Narvey M, O'Brien K, Robeson P, Science M, Shah P, Whitehead L

Frontiers in pediatrics2024

DOI: 10.3389/fped.2024.1390209 PMID: 38983460

Benefits and Challenges of Implementing an Adaptation of Family Integrated Care in a Ugandan Setting.

Feeley N, Kabajaasi O, Kenya-Mugisha N, Tagoola A, O'Brien K, Duby J

Advances in neonatal care : official journal of the National Association of Neonatal Nurses2024

DOI: 10.1097/anc.0000000000001161 PMID: 38547483

Family Integrated Care in Uganda: a feasibility study.

Duby J, Kabajaasi O, Muteteri J, Kisooka E, Barth D, Feeley N, O'Brien K, Nathan KM, Tagoola A, Wiens MO

Archives of disease in childhood2023

DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2022-324638 PMID: 36385005

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Karel O'Brien

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Mental disorders among postpartum individuals with medically high-risk infants and/or obstetrical complications: A population requiring further attention.

The Family Snapshot-Innovation to integrate family context into daily interactions in the NICU.

Family integrated care: State of art and future perspectives.

Outcomes of Preterm Infants Admitted to Canadian NICUs Before and During the SARS-COV Pandemic.

Facilitators and Barriers to the Implementation of Family Integrated Care in Ontario Level II Neonatal Intensive Care Units.

A parent-administered sensorimotor intervention for oral feeding in infants born preterm: A randomized clinical study.

Facilitators and constraints to family integrated care in low-resource settings informed the adaptation in Uganda.

Practice recommendations regarding parental presence in NICUs during pandemics caused by respiratory pathogens like COVID-19.

Benefits and Challenges of Implementing an Adaptation of Family Integrated Care in a Ugandan Setting.

Family Integrated Care in Uganda: a feasibility study.

Connecting families to improve parental self-efficacy and parent psychosocial and infant health outcomes in the NICU using an eHealth solution: a stepped wedge cluster randomized controlled trial (The CONNECT study)

Parental presence restrictions due to COVID-19: Examining impact and priorities for neonatal care (The PRESENCE Study)

Developmental outcomes of preterm infants enrolled in a randomized clinical trial of a parent administered sensorimotor intervention in the neonatal intensive care unit.

Improving Outcomes for Preterm Infants and their Families: A Canadian Collaborative Network

Association of parent-infant interaction and chronic stress at 8 and 18 months of age with child behaviour following Family Integrated Care (FICare) in the neonatal intensive care unit

A Family Integrated Care Model for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Frequent collaborators

Bonnie Stevens

Joseph Beyene

Vibhuti Shah

Vibhuti Shah

Kate Robson

Annie Dupuis

Elizabeth Asztalos

Sharon Unger

Orlando da Silva

Michelle Science

Marc Beltempo

Julia Orkin

Paula Robeson

Marc Beltempo

Justine Dol

Souvik Mitra

Leahora Rotteau

Yasmin Lalani

Eu-gene Ng

Marsha Campbell-Yeo

Eyal Cohen

Rebecca Pillai Riddell

Mariana Bueno

Theo Moraes

Sandra Fucile

Anne Synnes

Patrick McGrath

Andy Willan

Robin Sydney Roberts

Joanne Langley