Composition of the coordinating centre and trial steering committee {5d}
Tomfohr-Madsen
HIGH-RISK PREGNANCIES, RECRUITMENT, BRAIN
The University of Calgary’s Cumming School of Medicine will be the coordinating centre for the trial. Co-PI Chaput is an early career investigator and perinatal epidemiologist in the departments of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Community Health Sciences and Paediatrics in the University of Calgary’s Cumming School of Medicine. Her program of research centres on maternal mental health and substance use in pregnancy and the postpartum. Co-PI Tomfohr-Madsen is a clinical psychologist and associate professor of psychology at the University of Calgary. Chaput and Tomfohr-Madsen will lead the study operations and analysis with oversight and input from an experienced interdisciplinary steering committee:Carly McMorris, is a Clinical Psychologist in the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary, whose research focuses on maternal and child mental health and development. Dr. Amy Metcalfe, epidemiology lead of the P3 cohort, is a perinatal epidemiologist and an Associate Professor in the Departments of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Community Health Sciences, and Medicine at the University of Calgary. Her research program focuses on the management of high-risk pregnancies.Laurel Hicks is a research scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Renee Crown Wellness Institute and a Licensed Clinical Social worker who specialized in perinatal mental health and is an expert in the Alma BA peer-mentorship intervention.Sona Dimidjian, University of Colorado, is a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and Director of the Renee Crown Wellness Institute at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is the developer of the Alma BA peer intervention.Suzanne Tough is an epidemiologist and professor in the department of Paediatrics at the University of Calgary and brings expertise in design and management of longitudinal epidemiologic studies of maternal health, and a vast network for knowledge translation.The Cumming School of Medicine offers Randomised Trial supports including database management and compliance monitoring. Through memberships in the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, the Hotchkiss Brain Institute, and the O’Brien Institute for Public Health, the team has access to graduate training studentships, student project funding, methods consultation, communications support, interdisciplinary research rounds, support for online data collection and management, knowledge translation support, and yearly research symposia. UCalgary provides Equity Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) facilitation for hiring and trainee selection, and departmental meeting facilities, administrative support, and research nurses to aid with recruitment.