Offord Centre for Child Studies Symposium Showcases Research Synergies, Mentorships

The Offord Centre for Child Studies Research Symposium: Bridging Science to Practice in Children’s Mental Health, held May 3, 2018, was a well-received event showcasing the breadth and depth of research done by the various collaborative teams and studies at the Centre. The event was held at McMaster Innovation Park in Hamilton, which is the…

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Harriet MacMillan Recognized as Distinguished University Professor

  Offord Centre for Child Studies researcher, and member of the McMaster Faculty of Health Sciences, Harriet MacMillan, MD, PhD, has been recognized as a Distinguished University Professor, the highest award that McMaster University can confer on a faculty member.   The title, created in 1996, is conferred only on faculty members who have demonstrated distinction…

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McMaster Collaborating on Multinational Autism Study Funded by NIH

McMaster University and McMaster Children’s Hospital in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, is participating in a new National Institutes of Health (NIH) – funded project on autism and neurodevelopment disorders. Led by the University of California, San Francisco, and called “Development of a standardized measure of social-communication abilities for children with neurodevelopmental disorders,” the project aims to…

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