CYHRNet - Ronald Barr

Committee Member Fast Facts:

Name: Ronald G. Barr

Affiliation: CFRI, UBC

Titles: Canada Research Chair in Community Child Health Research at UBC. Professor of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, UBC. Director, Centre for Community Child Health Research, BC Research Institute for Children's and Women's Health. Director, "Experience-based Brain and Biological Development" Programme, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.

CYHRNet Role: Oversight Committee Member

Research Interests: Development of an integral framework for youth engagement through the exploration of case studies of existing youth engagement programs in Canada.

Website: Dr. Barr's Website

Email: rbarr@cw.bc.ca

CYHRNet's Oversight Committee

Ronald G. Barr, MA, MDCM, FRCPC

Canada Research Chair in Community Child Health Research at UBC.

Professor of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, UBC.

Director, Centre for Community Child Health Research, BC Research Institute for Children's and Women's Health

Director, "Experience-based Brain and Biological Development" Programme, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.

Ronald Barr's clinical work and research have focused on the needs of infants and young children. He is well-known for his studies on the biological and behavioral determinants of behavior, including pain, behavioral state and crying, cognition and memory, as well as for the outcomes of early clinical manifestations of these behaviors for later development (temperament, reactivity). In addition, his current interests include primary community prevention of Shaken Baby Syndrome.

His research has been funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, the Hospital for Sick Children's Foundation, the Howard Webster Fund, and the WT Grant Foundation. He was a Fellow of the Center for the Advanced Study of Behavioral Sciences at Stanford in 2000-2001. He was Associate Editor of the leading journal Child Development and serves on the editorial boards of more than a dozen pediatric, child development and anthropology journals.

He was the past President of the Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. He is chair of the "Developmental Committee" of the Canadian Centre of Excellence Network focused on dissemination of our understanding of current knowledge on early child development.

Dr. Barr and his work are featured in CYHRNet's Researcher Spotlight.

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