Faculty profile

Mark Ferro

ResearcherUniversity of Waterloo

This profile is built from public research funding records (CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC) and PubMed. We have not imported them from a University of Waterloo directory, so their courses and email address may be missing. Find their university profile.

Mark Ferro

Researcher

Health Sciences

University of Waterloo

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Supervision signals

Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
1 publication in the last five years, latest in 2025.
Senior (last) author on 1 recent paper, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 8 research grants (8 CIHR), most recently in 2024.
Supervisor on 1 trainee award (1 CIHR), most recently in 2020.

These signals come from public records, including CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions. Ask the professor or the graduate program whether they are taking new students.

Academic metrics

Publications

152

Citations

Collaborators

Grants

Publications by year

Counts cover the publications linked to this profile. Citations and the h-index appear when the source records them.

Profiles and links

Search on Google Scholar

Find them onX · LinkedIn · Bluesky · YouTube

Signals and details

Research

Mental Illness Physical Illness Comorbidity/Multimorbidity Prospective Study Trajectory Modelling Child Young Adult Youth

Latest papers

Mental health service contact in children with and without physical-mental multimorbidity.
Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2025 · senior author
Daily, but not occasional, cannabis use is selectively associated with more impulsive delay discounting and hyperactive ADHD symptoms in binge-drinking young adults
Psychopharmacology · 2021
Longitudinal changes in emotional functioning following pediatric resective epilepsy surgery: 2-Year follow-up
Epilepsy and Behavior · 2021

All 9 publications

Latest funding

Multimorbidity in Children and Youth Across the Life-course (MY LIFE): A Long-term Follow-up
CIHR · 2024 · Nominated PI
$1,272,196
Multimorbidity in Children and Youth Across the Life-course (MY LIFE): A Long-term Follow-up
CIHR · 2023 · Nominated PI
$100,000
Multimorbidity in Children and Youth Across the Life-course (MY LIFE): A Long-term Follow-up
CIHR · 2023 · Nominated PI
$100,000

All 21 grants and awards

9 publications.

Mental health service contact in children with and without physical-mental multimorbidity.

Reaume S, Dubin J, Perlman C, Ferro M

Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1007/s00127-025-02877-5 PMID: 40131381

Daily, but not occasional, cannabis use is selectively associated with more impulsive delay discounting and hyperactive ADHD symptoms in binge-drinking young adults

Petker T, Ferro M, Van Ameringen M, Murphy J, MacKillop J

Psychopharmacology202116 citations

DOI: 10.1007/s00213-021-05781-3

Longitudinal changes in emotional functioning following pediatric resective epilepsy surgery: 2-Year follow-up

Phillips NL, Widjaja E, Speechley K, Ferro M, Connolly M, Major P, Gallagher A, Ramachandrannair R, Almubarak S, Hasal S

Epilepsy and Behavior20214 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2020.107585

Seizure freedom improves health‐related quality of life after epilepsy surgery in children

Jain P, Smith ML, Speechley K, Ferro M, Connolly M, Ramachandrannair R, Almubarak S, Andrade A, Widjaja E, Team PS

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology202033 citations

DOI: 10.1111/dmcn.14390

Latent Profile Analysis of Heavy Episodic Drinking in Emerging Adults: A Reinforcer Pathology Approach

Minhas M, Oshri A, Amlung M, Dennhardt A, Ferro M, Halladay J, Munn C, Tucker J, Murphy J, MacKillop J

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research202021 citations

DOI: 10.1111/acer.14438

Psychiatric Disorders in the Adolescent Offspring of Mothers with Thyroid Problems During Pregnancy

Young J, Savoy C, Colman I, Ferro M, Van Lieshout RJ

Child Psychiatry and Human Development20204 citations

DOI: 10.1007/s10578-020-00957-y

The children of preterm survivors: shyness, parenting, and parental stress

Van Lieshout RJ, Favotto L, Ferro M, Niccols A, Saigal S, Morrison KM, Schmidt LA

Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease20201 citations

DOI: 10.1017/s2040174419000692

Parent Proxy Discrepancy Groups of Quality of Life in Childhood Epilepsy

Fayed N, Avery L, Davis AM, Streiner DL, Ferro M, Rosenbaum P, Cunningham C, Lach L, Boyle M, Ronen GM

Value in Health201922 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.jval.2019.01.019 PMID: W2946511627

Child maltreatment and adult multimorbidity: results from the Canadian Community Health Survey

England-Mason G, Casey R, Ferro M, MacMillan HL, Tonmyr L, Gonzalez A

Canadian Journal of Public Health201851 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.17269/s41997-018-0069-y PMID: W2801643864

Multimorbidity in Children and Youth Across the Life-course (MY LIFE): A Long-term Follow-up

Nominated PICIHR2024Project Grant

Principal investigators: Ferro, Mark

Keywords: Child; Comorbidity/Multimorbidity; Mental Illness; Physical Illness; Prospective Study; Trajectory Modelling; Young Adult; Youth

$1,272,196

Multimorbidity in Children and Youth Across the Life-course (MY LIFE): A Long-term Follow-up

Nominated PICIHR2023Project Grant - PA: Human Development, Child and Youth Health

Principal investigators: Ferro, Mark

Keywords: Child; Comorbidity/Multimorbidity; Mental Illness; Physical Illness; Prospective Study; Trajectory Modelling; Young Adult; Youth

$100,000

Multimorbidity in Children and Youth Across the Life-course (MY LIFE): A Long-term Follow-up

Nominated PICIHR2023Pr. Gr. - PA: Human Development Child and Youth Health - Mid Career Support

Principal investigators: Ferro, Mark

Keywords: Child, Youth, Young Adult; Comorbidity/Multimorbidity; Mental Illness; Physical Illness; Prospective Study; Trajectory Modelling

$100,000

Child Abuse, Sex, Gender Identity, Sexual Identity, Mental Health and Substance Use in Canada: A Nationally Representative Canadian Study

Co-investigatorCIHR2023Project Grant - Priority Announcement: Population and Public Health

Principal investigators: Afifi, Tracie O

Keywords: Child Abuse; Exposure To Intimate Partner Violence; Gender Identity; Mental Disorders; Physical Abuse; Population-Based Study; Sex; Sexual Abuse; Sexual Identity; Substance Use

$100,000

Canada Research Chair - Tier 2

Nominated PICIHR2022Canada Research Chairs - CIHR Funded - Tier 2

Principal investigators: Ferro, Mark

Keywords: Crc

$500,000

A Pan-Canadian Study of Physical-Mental Comorbidity in Children

Nominated PICIHR2022Operating Grant: Data Analysis Using Existing CDN Databases and Cohorts

Principal investigators: Ferro, Mark

Keywords: Children And Adolescents; Comorbidity; Epidemiological Study; Mental Health Service Use; Mental Illness; Neurodevelopmental Disorder; Physical Illness; Risk Factors

$75,000

Evaluating the ongoing impact of COVID-19 on youth substance use and mental health trajectories over time: renewal of the COMPASS prospective cohort.

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Project Grant

Principal investigators: Leatherdale, Scott; Patte, Karen

Keywords: Covid-19 (Knowledge, Attitudes, Behaviours); Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (Ethnicity And Gender); Knowledge Mobilization/Intergated Knowledge Exchange; Mental Health (Depression, Anxiety, Flourishing); Natural Experiments; Program And Policy Evaluation; Prospective Cohort/Longitudinal; School-Based Prevention; Substance Use (Alcohol, Cannabis, Vaping, Tobacco, Opioids); Youth/Adolescent

$2,555,100

COVID-19 Effects on Mental Health and Service Provision Effects on Children and Families: The MY LIFE Experience

Nominated PICIHR2020Op Gr: COVID-19 MH & Substance Use - Understanding Rapid System Transformations

Principal investigators: Ferro, Mark

Keywords: Acute Psychological Distress; Family-Centred Care; Mixed Methods; Physical-Mental Comorbidity

$165,000

A mixed-method examination of physical activity and its correlates among children with co-occurring physical and mental health illness

SupervisorCIHR2020CIHR Fellowship

Principal investigators: Bedard, Chloe T

Keywords: Adolescents; Children; Mental Health; Mixed-Methods; Multimorbidity; Physical Activity; Physical Health

$135,000

Evaluating the impact of local, provincial, and national cannabis policies among youth in the COMPASS system

Co-investigatorCIHR2019Partnerships for Cannabis Policy Evaluation

Principal investigators: Leatherdale, Scott; De Groh, Margaret; Laxer, Rachel E

Keywords: Cannabis Use; Longitudinal/Cohort Study; Mental Health (Deoression, Anxiety, Flourishing); National, Provincial, Local Stakeholders; Poly Substance Use (Tobacco, Alcohol, Opioids, E-Cig); Primary Prevention; Program And Policy Evaluation / Interventions; Quasi-Experimental Design; School-Based; Youth/Adolescent

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Something wrong or missing on this profile? Suggest a correction

Mark Ferro

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Mental health service contact in children with and without physical-mental multimorbidity.

Daily, but not occasional, cannabis use is selectively associated with more impulsive delay discounting and hyperactive ADHD symptoms in binge-drinking young adults

Longitudinal changes in emotional functioning following pediatric resective epilepsy surgery: 2-Year follow-up

Seizure freedom improves health‐related quality of life after epilepsy surgery in children

Latent Profile Analysis of Heavy Episodic Drinking in Emerging Adults: A Reinforcer Pathology Approach

Psychiatric Disorders in the Adolescent Offspring of Mothers with Thyroid Problems During Pregnancy

The children of preterm survivors: shyness, parenting, and parental stress

Parent Proxy Discrepancy Groups of Quality of Life in Childhood Epilepsy

Child maltreatment and adult multimorbidity: results from the Canadian Community Health Survey

Frequent collaborators

Kathy Speechley

James MacKillop

Elysa Widjaja

Rajesh Ramachandran Nair

Ryan Van Lieshout

Philippe Major

Louis Schmidt

G Alison Niccols

Michael Van Ameringen

Katherine Morrison

Jillian Halladay

Saroj Saigal

Charles E Cunningham

Michael Boyle

Gabriel Ronen

Harriet MacMillan

Ian Colman

Anne Gallagher

Lucyna Lach

Christopher Perlman

David Lloyd Streiner

Andrea Gonzalez