Trainee Award Recipients

One Child Every Child

Sam Siu

Graduate Future Leaders Awards - 2025

Designed to attract and retain exceptional talents at the graduate level, promote transformational, transdisciplinary research in Child Health and Wellness, and position scholars for success as the research leaders of tomorrow.

Tori Wilde 

Master's student
Supervisor: Deinera Exner Cortens
Project: Exploring Health Inequities, Consent, and Shared Decision-Making in the Use and Outcomes of Intrapartum Interventions for Black Birthing People in Canada.

Carlie Unrau 

Master's student 
Supervisor: Emma Climie 
Project: Parents, schools and the well-being of children with and without ADHD

Tarek Drissi 

Master's student 
Supervisor: Li-Fang (Jack) Chu 
Project: Investigating the Role of Notch Signaling in Regulating the Timing of Photoreceptor Genesis in Species-Specific Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Retinal Organoids

Camilla Fonseca Rezende 

Master's student (University of Alberta) 
Supervisor: Andrea Haqq 
Project: Individualized pediatrics health management using novel body composition tools

Dorian Rojas Villalta

PhD student
Supervisor: Marie-Claire Arrieta
Project: Integrative Multi-Omics Analysis of the Mother-Infant Microbiome Transmission Process and Its Role in the Development of the Immune Responses in Pre-Term Neonates.
 

Benedicta Antepim

PhD student 
Supervisor: Tiffany Boulton 
Project: Exploring Health Inequities, Consent, and Shared Decision-Making in the Use and Outcomes of Intrapartum Interventions for Black Birthing People in Canada.

James King 

PhD student 
Supervisor: Tyler Williamson
Project: Defining the incidence of celiac disease over time and discovering a link to environmental risk factors: When, why, and which Albertans are getting screened for and diagnosed with celiac disease?

Sam Siu 

PhD student 
Supervisor: Chad Bousman 
Project: Pharmacogenomics of Methylphenidate Treatment Response in Youth
 

Christiane Roth

PhD student
Supervisor: Jennifer Zwicker 
Project: Strengthening the data-to-policy pipeline by understanding access to health and social services for Children with (ADHD), (ASD), and other Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (NDDs) in British Columbia (BC) and the impact on their health and well-being.

Postdoctoral Future Leaders Excellence Award

This program supports exceptional postdoctoral scholars conducting innovative research to improve child health outcomes across Alberta. 

Meaghan Reitzel

Supervisor: Jennifer Zwicker 
Project: Inclusive Disability Tax Credit Eligibility: Co-Designed, Function-Focused Recommendations to Support Youth with Neurodevelopmental Disabilities

Ulises Charles Rodriguez

Supervisor: Katherine Lawless 
Project: Resilient Futures: Land-Based and Intergenerational Connection for Youth Mental Health and Climate Adaptation in the Circumpolar North 

Alicia Hilderley

Supervisor: Adam Kirton 
Project: Brain computer interface solutions to enable youth living with severe disabilities

Annabel Bugbird

Supervisor: Danielle Whittier 
Project: Investigating the Impact of Early Changes in Bone Marrow Adiposity on Bone Growth in Children with Diabetes

Leila Rezaei

Supervisor: Gerald Giesbrecht 
Project: Metabolic Modeling: A New Lens to View the Microbial World and the Role of Microbes in Early Childhood Neurodevelopment and Mental Health 

Rachel De Barros Oliveira

Supervisor: Nicole Letourneau 
Project: Exploring Neurobiological Markers of Early Childhood Intervention: Pilot Study of the ATTACH™ Parenting Program to Prevent Neurodevelopmental Conditions and Symptoms (NCS) 

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