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Marie-Pierre Sylvestre

ResearcherUniversité de Montréal

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Marie-Pierre Sylvestre

Researcher

Health Sciences

Université de Montréal

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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32 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 8 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 4 research grants (4 CIHR), most recently in 2022.
Supervisor on 1 trainee award (1 CIHR), most recently in 2025.

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Research

Gender Mental Health Blood Pressure Cannabis Use Ecological Momentary Assessment Study Genetics Mediation Polysubstance Use

Latest papers

Digital Screening Tool to Help Parents and Adolescents Quit Smoking and Vaping: Effectiveness of the CanCEASE Pilot Trial.
Academic pediatrics · 2026
A brief digital screening tool to address parental and adolescent tobacco and electronic cigarette use in paediatric medical care in Canada: a pilot randomized controlled trial.
Pilot and feasibility studies · 2026
Diet quality and change in weight in young adults.
Applied physiology, nutrition, and metabolism = Physiologie appliquee, nutrition et metabolisme · 2026

All 84 publications

Latest funding

Éclairer le travail de nuit : Une approche innovante pour investiguer les activités professionnelles à partir d'objets connectés
SSHRC · 2026 · Co-investigator
$79,857
Data, Dignity, and Direction: A Global Study of Orphans and Children Lacking Parental Care
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$941,670
Onset of Regular Cannabis Use via Vaping in Adolescence: Trends, Drivers, and Consequences
CIHR · 2025 · Supervisor
$120,000

All 26 grants and awards

84 publications.

Digital Screening Tool to Help Parents and Adolescents Quit Smoking and Vaping: Effectiveness of the CanCEASE Pilot Trial.

Diamant É, Chadi N, Perez T, Namuhoranye C, Sylvestre MP, O'Loughlin J, Winickoff JP, Drouin O

Academic pediatrics2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.acap.2026.103328 PMID: 42002138

A brief digital screening tool to address parental and adolescent tobacco and electronic cigarette use in paediatric medical care in Canada: a pilot randomized controlled trial.

Drouin O, Perez T, Diamant É, Namuhoranye C, Mitri S, Al-Saleh A, Sylvestre MP, O 'Loughlin J, Winickoff JP, Chadi N

Pilot and feasibility studies2026

DOI: 10.1186/s40814-026-01782-1 PMID: 41680853

Diet quality and change in weight in young adults.

L'Espérance K, Koushik A, Riglea T, Sylvestre M, O'Loughlin J

Applied physiology, nutrition, and metabolism = Physiologie appliquee, nutrition et metabolisme2026

DOI: 10.1139/apnm-2025-0527 PMID: 42033349

Individual, intergenerational, and contextual factors associated with coping strategies, coping variability, and perceived coping efficacy among young adults.

Trudel-Fitzgerald C, O'Loughlin J, Mezuk B, Bouizegarene N, Sauvageau E, Sylvestre MP

Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1007/s00127-025-02926-z PMID: 40425889

Factors associated with lower-risk cannabis use in adults in their mid-thirties.

Dubé G, O'Loughlin J, Fallu JS, Huỳnh C, Sylvestre MP

Journal of cannabis research2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1186/s42238-025-00374-9 PMID: 41373037

Trajectories of food bank use among new users in Quebec, Canada: Evidence from the pathways study.

Dey R, Roncarolo F, Mercille G, Riva M, Perez EJ, Blanchet R, Carabali M, Adam C, Potvin L, Sylvestre MP

Annals of epidemiology2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2025.05.003 PMID: 40374130

Disentangling the effects of sex and gender on APOE ɛ4-related neurocognitive impairment.

Dessy T, Barhdadi A, Cyr MC, Sandoval J, Bherer L, Rouleau J, Provost S, Lemieux Perreault LP, Sylvestre MP, Gagliano Taliun SA, Dubé MP

Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands)2025

DOI: 10.1002/dad2.70111 PMID: 40352685

Body mass index modifies genetic susceptibility to high systolic blood pressure in adolescents and young adults: results from an 18-year longitudinal study.

Riglea T, Dessy T, Kalubi J, Goulet D, Ikwa Ndol Mbutiwi F, Williams SM, Engert JC, Chen HY, O'Loughlin J, Sylvestre MP

Journal of human hypertension2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1038/s41371-025-01003-x PMID: 40089570

Adapting and applying tobacco dependence indicators to cannabis dependence.

Wellman RJ, Strong DR, O'Loughlin EK, Sylvestre MP, O'Loughlin JL

Drug and alcohol dependence2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2025.112613 PMID: 40014906

Association between food security status and dietary patterns in a cohort of first-time food-aid users.

Teasdale E, Mercille G, Roncarolo F, Riva M, Sylvestre MP, Blanchet R, Potvin L

Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2025

DOI: 10.17269/s41997-024-00932-3 PMID: 39436533

Éclairer le travail de nuit : Une approche innovante pour investiguer les activités professionnelles à partir d'objets connectés

Co-investigatorSSHRC2026Insight Development Grants

Principal investigators: Vincelette, Christian

$79,857

Data, Dignity, and Direction: A Global Study of Orphans and Children Lacking Parental Care

Co-investigatorCIHR2025Project Grant

Principal investigators: Johri, Mira; Boyle, Elizabeth H; Druetz, Thomas; Mac-Seing, Muriel

Keywords: Adolescent; Child; Child Development; Epidemiologic Methods; Health Equity; Human Rights; Orphans; Qualitative Research; Social Determinants Of Health; Vulnerable Populations

$941,670

Onset of Regular Cannabis Use via Vaping in Adolescence: Trends, Drivers, and Consequences

SupervisorCIHR2025DRA : Canada Graduate Research Scholarship - Doctoral Program (CGRS D)

Principal investigators: Provencher, Sabrina

Keywords: Academic Engagement; Adolescents; Cannabis; Cannabis Vaping; Mental Health; Modes Of Consumption; Onset Of Cannabis Use; Patterns Of Use; Substance Use; Well-Being

$120,000

Peripheral and CNS inflammation and injury profiles in children with Tuberous Sclerosis Complex and their association with neurological disability and treatment with mTOR inhibitors: a multicentre, longitudinal study cohort.

Co-investigatorCIHR2025Project Grant

Principal investigators: Keezer, Mark; House, Andrew A; Larochelle, Catherine; Major, Philippe; Nabavi Nouri, Maryam; Sham, Lauren

Keywords: Biomarkers; Epilepsy; Genetics; Immune System; Intellectual Disability; Tuberous Sclerosis Complex

$1,453,500

Unpacking resilience: Identifying individual-to-societal predictors of favorable affect regulation

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Trudel-Fitzgerald, Claudia

Keywords: Coping; Emotion regulation; Resilience; Pandemic; Stressors; Individual factors; Intergenerational factors; Societal factors; At-risk populations; Mental health disparities

$59,555

THE FUTURE TENSE LIFE OF COLONEL TALBOT

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Schneider, Aaron J.

Keywords: Thomas Talbot; fiction; historiographic metafiction; counter history; public memory

$42,550

Changes in sport and physical activity participation from the childhood to emerging adulthood

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Bélanger, Mathieu

Keywords: Sport; Behaviour; Life-course; Prospective study; Physical activity; Trajectories

$61,282

Changes in sport and physical activity participation from the childhood to emerging adulthood

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Sport Participation Research Initiative

Principal investigators: Bélanger, Mathieu

Keywords: Sport; Behaviour; Life-course; Prospective study; Physical activity; Trajectories

$15,000

Effectiveness of integrated screening and facilitated referral to smoking cessation resources with health navigators for parents with unmet social needs - The CanCEASE randomized controlled trial

Co-investigatorCIHR2023Project Grant

Principal investigators: Drouin, Olivier; Chadi, Nicholas

Keywords: Health Navigators; Screening; Secondhand Smoke; Smoking; Smoking Cessation; Tobacco; Unmet Social Needs

$1,044,228

CAN-DO (CANnabis research DevelOpment): A cells-to-society research program on cannabis and mental health in younger adults

Nominated PICIHR2022Op. Gr.:Cannabis Res. in Longit. studies-Neurosciences, Ment. health/Addiction

Principal investigators: Sylvestre, Marie-Pierre; O'Loughlin, Jennifer L

Keywords: Cannabis Use; Ecological Momentary Assessment Study; Gender; Genetics; Mediation; Mental Health; Polysubstance Use; Prime Working-Age Adults; Qualitative Study; Trajectories

$500,000

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

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Marie-Pierre Sylvestre

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Latest papers

Latest funding

Digital Screening Tool to Help Parents and Adolescents Quit Smoking and Vaping: Effectiveness of the CanCEASE Pilot Trial.

A brief digital screening tool to address parental and adolescent tobacco and electronic cigarette use in paediatric medical care in Canada: a pilot randomized controlled trial.

Diet quality and change in weight in young adults.

Individual, intergenerational, and contextual factors associated with coping strategies, coping variability, and perceived coping efficacy among young adults.

Factors associated with lower-risk cannabis use in adults in their mid-thirties.

Trajectories of food bank use among new users in Quebec, Canada: Evidence from the pathways study.

Disentangling the effects of sex and gender on APOE &#x25b;4-related neurocognitive impairment.

Body mass index modifies genetic susceptibility to high systolic blood pressure in adolescents and young adults: results from an 18-year longitudinal study.

Adapting and applying tobacco dependence indicators to cannabis dependence.

Association between food security status and dietary patterns in a cohort of first-time food-aid users.

Éclairer le travail de nuit : Une approche innovante pour investiguer les activités professionnelles à partir d'objets connectés

Data, Dignity, and Direction: A Global Study of Orphans and Children Lacking Parental Care

Onset of Regular Cannabis Use via Vaping in Adolescence: Trends, Drivers, and Consequences

Peripheral and CNS inflammation and injury profiles in children with Tuberous Sclerosis Complex and their association with neurological disability and treatment with mTOR inhibitors: a multicentre, longitudinal study cohort.

Unpacking resilience: Identifying individual-to-societal predictors of favorable affect regulation

THE FUTURE TENSE LIFE OF COLONEL TALBOT

Changes in sport and physical activity participation from the childhood to emerging adulthood

Changes in sport and physical activity participation from the childhood to emerging adulthood

Effectiveness of integrated screening and facilitated referral to smoking cessation resources with health navigators for parents with unmet social needs - The CanCEASE randomized controlled trial

CAN-DO (CANnabis research DevelOpment): A cells-to-society research program on cannabis and mental health in younger adults

Frequent collaborators

Jennifer O'Loughlin

Michal Abrahamowicz

Igor Karp

Mira Johri

Johanne Martel-Pelletier

Olivier Drouin

Olivier Drouin

Katerina Maximova

Sasha Bernatsky

Mylene Riva

Jack Siemiatycki

Lise Gauvin

Gilles Paradis

Andrew Wister

Andraea Van Hulst

Vicky Drapeau

Anita Koushik

Giada Sebastiani

Nicholas Chadi

Anita Koushik

Christina Wolfson

Robyn Tamblyn

Marie-Claude Rousseau

Lise Gauvin

An Tang

Jennifer Brunet

Louise Potvin

Sasha Bernatsky

Didier Jutras-Aswad

Guy Cloutier

Christina Wolfson

Evelyn Constantin

Marie-Pascale Pomey

Rosanne Blanchet

Evelyn Constantin

Andrea Benedetti

Julie Bruneau

Marie-Pascale Pomey

Louis-Mathieu Stevens

Louis Bherer

Disentangling the effects of sex and gender on APOE ɛ4-related neurocognitive impairment.