Profile
Peter Rosenbaum is a Developmental Paediatrician, Professor of Paediatrics and clinical and health services researcher in the Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster University, where he also holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Childhood Disability, Mentoring and Dissemination. He has extensive clinical experience working with children with a range of developmental disabilities and their families. After many years of clinical service and teaching, in the 1980s Peter became involved with colleagues doing clinical research in this broad field.
Having become seriously infected by the challenges and fun of clinical and health services research, he pursued formal academic course work in clinical epidemiology, and teamed up with like-minded colleagues to help create, in 1989, what is now CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research. This health system-linked research unit was funded by the Research Branch of the Ministry of Health and Long-term Care for 20 years. CanChild actively pursues research programs in collaboration with all 20 regional Ontario programs comprising the Ontario Association of Children's Rehabilitation Services (OACRS). CanChild has also had productive links with the Ontario Ministry of Children and Youth Services, with which it undertook policy-relevant research.
Through his Canada Research Chair he has had the opportunity to work with graduate students both in Canada (at McMaster and the University of Toronto) and internationally (Universities of Oxford (UK), Witwatersrand (South Africa), Hahnemann (US), Utrecht (Netherlands) and Ljubljana (Slovenia) as well as to collaborate on research projects with colleagues in several countries. He has published almost 275 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters, and is a regular keynote speaker at childhood disability conferences around the world.
Research Specialty
Peter's research foci include a wide range of issues concerning childhood disability: how to describe and measure it; what services ‘work'; how to support families; how to inform practitioners and policy people.
Fun Fact
Peter's hobbies include cooking and reading novels – something that surprises him now, recalling how much he hated to read as a teenager!
Taking Graduate Students
I am currently working actively with 5 doctoral students and 1 master's student, as well as mentoring several colleagues in Canada and the US. I am open to discussing graduate possibilities with people, but only those whose interests align closely with mine.
Lab/Research Institute
CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research
McMaster Child Health Research Institute
Courses Taught
MSc OT, RS, McMaster University
2010-2011
RS 703: Selected Topics in Rehabilitation Science, Instructor
RS 707: Research Methods in Rehabilitation Science, Instructor
OT Term 4: Youth & Development of Self: Inquiry & Integration, Lecturer
2009-2010
RS 707: Research Methods in Rehabilitation Science, Instructor
OT Term 4: Youth & Development of Self: Inquiry & Integration, Lecturer
2008-2009
RS 707: Research Methods in Rehabilitation Science, Instructor
OT Term 4: Youth & Development of Self: Inquiry & Integration, Lecturer
Recent Research
Project Title: Development of the Autism Classification System of Functioning: Social Communication. Investigators: Rosenbaum PL (PI), Mr. B. Di Rezze, Dr. M. Hidecker, Dr. M. Law, Prof. P. Stratford, Dr. P. Szatmari, Dr. L. Zwaigenbaum
Funding Agency: CIHR
Amount: $465, 000
Funding Period: 2011-14
Project Title: TRansition to Adulthood with Cyberguide Evaluation (TRACE) among youth with chronic health conditions: long-term utilization in adult health care and program transfer to a second pediatric site. Funded Jan 2011 for 2 years ($196,493) by the Alternate Funding Program of MOHLTC
Investigators: Gorter JW (Principal Investigator), Punthakee Z (Co-PI), Morrison A, Galuppi B, Nagel K, Arora S, Brill H, Don-Wauchope A, Grant C, Stewart D, Rosenbaum P, Cairney J, Cohen E, Amaria K. Funding Agency: Alternate Funding Program of MOHLTC.
Amount: $196, 493
Funding Period: Jan 2011-2013
Project Title: Advancing an innovative model of service delivery: Partnering to promote knowledge exchange
Investigators: Missiuna, C., Pollock, N., Bennett, S., Gaines, R., Hecimovich, C., Rosenbaum, P., Cairney, J., Campbell, W., & Levac, D.
Funding Agency: CIHR
Amount: $39, 971
Funding Period: 2010-2011
Project Title: A Dialogue on the Health of Caregivers of Children with Disabilities
Investigators: PIs: Jamie C. Brehaut, Dafna E. Kohen, Rubab G. Arim. Co-Applicants: Rochelle Garner, Lucy Lach, Anton Miller, and Peter Rosenbaum
Funding Agency: CIHR Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant: Knowledge Translation Supplement
Amount: $40,000
Funding Period: 2010
Project Title: The Health of Canadian Caregivers: Using administrative health services data to understand the determinants of the health of caregivers of children with chronic health problems
Investigators: PIs: Jamie C. Brehaut and Dafna E. Kohen. Co-Applicants: Peter Rosenbaum, Anton Miller, Lucy Lach, Marni Brownell, Kim McGrail, Rochelle Garner, Rubab G. Arim, and Anne Guevremont (Collaborator)
Funding Agency: CIHR-Operating Grant
Amount: $349, 699
Funding Period: April 2010-2013
Project Title: PARENTING MATTERS! The biopsychosocial context of parenting children with neurodevelopmental disorders in Canada
Investigators: Rosenbaum PL, Lach L, (Co-PIs), Jamie Brehaut, Dafna Kohen, Rochelle Garner, Ted McNeill, David Nicholas, & Michael Saini Kohen D
Funding Agency: CIHR Emerging Team Grant: Children with
Amount: $790,000
Funding Period: March 2009- February 2012
Project Title: Moving Research into practice listing knowledge brokers disseminating the results for implementation
Investigators: Russell D (PI), Rosenbaum P, Bartlett D, Cameron D, Darrah J, Gorter JW, Hanna S, Roxborough L, Walter S
Funding Agency: CanChild, Centre for Research Disability. Knowledge Translation Supplement
Amount: $37,643
Funding Period: May 2009
Project Title: The utilization, utility and impact of a Transition Coordinator and the Youth Kit© among adolescents with chronic health conditions as they transition to adulthood. A pilot study.
Investigators: Punthakee Z (PI), Gorter JW, Brill H, Don-Wauchope A, Grant C, Stewart D, Rosenbaum P.
Funding Agency: Innovation Fund
Amount: $199,000
Funding Period: February 2009
Project Title: Functional status indicators for young children with cerebral palsy: Evaluating ability to detect change and determining clinically important change.
Investigators: Wright, V., Wright, J., Fehlings, D., Ferguson, J, Goldsmith, C., Mclean, M., Rigby, P., Rosenbaum, P., Stratford, P.
Funding Agency: CIHR
Amount: $75,000
Funding Period: 2008-2011
Project Title: Evaluating the Validity and Responsiveness of the FOCUS: Focus on the Outcomes of Communication Under Six
Investigators: Thomas-Stonell, N. Rosenbaum P., Oddson, B.
Funding Agency: CIHR Partnerships for Child and Youth Health Indicators
Amount: $175,000.00
Funding Period: 2008-2010
Project Title: Focus on the Outcomes of Communication Under Six(FOCUS): Evaluating Validity and Responsiveness to Change
Investigators: Thomas-Stonell, Nancy L, Oddson, Bruce, Rosenbaum, Peter L.
Funding Agency: CIHR
Amount: $92,063/year
Funding Period: January 2008-2010
Project Title: of life in children with epilepsy: What of factors is important?
Investigators: Ronen, Gabriel, Boyle, Michael, Cunningham, Charlie, Lach, Lucy, Rosenbaum, Peter, & Streiner, David
Funding Agency: CIHR
Amount: $767,485
Funding Period: 2008-2013
Project Title: An evaluation of the long-term effectiveness of botulinum toxin in children with spastic cerebral palsy
Investigators: Fehlings, D., Goldsmith, C., Narayanan, U., Rosenbaum, P., & Wright, V.
Funding Agency: CIHR
Amount: $442,307
Funding Period: 2008-2012. |