Lab Updates 2024 - 2025
Congratulations to Lab Director Rebecca Pillai Riddell for her award of a 2023 Tier 1 York Research Chair in Pain and Mental Health.
Congratulations to Oana Bucsea (Former CIHR CGS Doctoral Fellow) on being awarded a 2023-2024 Ontario Graduate Scholarship.
Congratulations to Ilana Shiff on receiving a 2023-2026 CIHR Doctoral Canada Graduate scholarship.
Proud of Sara Jasim's successful 2023-2024 Ontario Graduate Scholarship application and her Lillian Meighen Wright Award.
Congratulations and big OUCH Lab welcome to Katie Di Pierdomenico who joined us on a postdoctoral fellowship sponsored by Strong Minds Strong Kids and DIVERT Mental Health.
Congratulations to Lojain Hamwi on her DRI EDIA Champion Program Award from Digital Research Alliance of Canada.
Congratulations to Haleh Hashemi for receiving a 2024-2025 SSHRC Master's Canadian Graduate Scholarship.
Proud of Estreya Cohen for her invited talk on Parental Acculturation and Perceptions of Toddler Immunization Pain at the 2024 Annual Pain Centre Conference-Building Bridges to Reduce Disparities in Pediatric Pain
Welcome Nichaela Garvey as our new master's student and congratulations on receiving a 2024-2025 Ontario Graduate Scholarship
VISION
Welcome to the Opportunities to Understand Childhood Hurt (O.U.C.H.) Laboratory website. The Lab is run by Dr. Rebecca Pillai Riddell, a Full Professor at York University (Department of Psychology), an Honorary Professor at University College London (Department of Neuroscience, Physiology, and Pharmacology), a Scientific Staff member at Sick Kids (Department of Psychiatry Research), and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Toronto (Department of Psychiatry). Our Laboratory primarily focuses on understanding how caregivers and children interact within the context of pain. Our research is performed in a variety of settings from our lab space on the York University Campus to the Neonatal Intensive Care Units of major hospitals within North America and beyond.
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4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON M3J1P3
Office:
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health
Room 2006, Sherman Health Science Research Centre
416 736 2100 x 20177