Patrick J. McGrath, OC, FRSC FCAHS is a Canadian psychologist noted for his contribution to research on childhood pain.
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Biography
Patrick McGrath was born in Ottawa and initially attended the University of Ottawa but transferred to the University of Saskatchewan where he completed his BA Psychology. He subsequently obtained his PhD in psychology from Queen's University at Kingston. His first post was a clinical post in the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa. It was there that he became interested in childhood pain. He then transferred to Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia to establish a graduate training programme in clinical psychology. It was here that he established the Centre for Pediatric Pain Research and the Centre for Family Health Research. He retired from that institution as emeritus professor of psychiatry.
Research
He has published extensively in the area of pediatric pain and on delivery of psychological care at a distance. He has published hundreds of peer-reviewed articles and his Google Scholar h index is over 100 with over 45,000 citations.
Administrative experience
He was on the Governing Council of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for 7 years (2004-2011) and was Integrated Vice President Research, Innovation and Knowledge Translation at the IWK Health Centre and the Nova Scotia Health Authority for a decade until September 2017. He is a founder and was chairman of the board of the Strongest Families Institute which delivers mental health care to families who have children with mental health problems. He now leads development of the Superminds for Superhumans, a mental health program in Lviv Ukraine.
Honours and awards
1972-73: R.S. McLaughlin Fellowship, Queen's University at Kingston
1973-74: Canada Council, Doctoral Fellowship
1982-89: Career Scientist Award, Ontario Ministry of Health
1988 : Fellow, Canadian Psychological Association
1988 : Book of the Year Award, awarded by the American Journal of Nursing for Pain in Children and Adolescents.
1993-98: Bristol-Myers Squibb Unrestricted Research Award and Grant Holder
1995 : Canadian Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Contribution to Canadian Psychology as a Profession
1995 : Fellow, Royal Society of Canada
1995 : Co-author of paper winning the Best Paper of the International Meeting on Pediatric Pain, Atlanta
1997 : Co-author of paper winning the Best Paper of the meeting at the American Association for the Study of Headache, New York
1998-2003: Distinguished Scientist Award, Medical Research Council of Canada (now Canadian Institutes of Health Research
1999 : Research Award, IWK Health Centre
1999 : Fellow, Canadian Psychological Association, Clinical Division
1999 : Interview included in the John C. Liebskind History of Pain Collection UCLA
Books
McGrath, P.J. & Firestone, P. (Eds.). (1983). Pediatric and adolescent behavioral medicine: Issues in treatment. New York: Springer.
Firestone, P., McGrath, P. & Feldman, W. (Eds.). (1983). Advances in behavioral medicine for children and adolescents. Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Feldman, W., Rosser, W. & McGrath, P. (1987). Primary medical care of children and adolescents. Oxford University Press.
McGrath, P. & Unruh, A. (1987). Pain in children and adolescents. Amsterdam: Elsevier. Published in hardcover and softcover editions.
Anand, K.J.S. & McGrath, P.J. (Eds.). (1993). Pain in Neonates. Amsterdam: Elsevier. Also available in paperback.
Finley, G.A. & McGrath, P.J. (Eds.) (1998). Measurement of pain in infants and children. Seattle: IASP Press.
WHO working group (P.J. McGrath and 21 others). (1998). Cancer Pain Relief and Palliative Care in Children. Geneva, WHO.
McGrath, P.J. & Finley, G.A. (Eds.) (1999) Chronic and recurrent pain in children and adolescents. Seattle: IASP Press
Anand, K.J.S., Stevens, B. & McGrath, P.J. (Eds.) (2000). Pain in Neonates, 2nd edition, Amsterdam, Elsevier
Finley, G.A. & McGrath, P.J. (Eds.) (2001) Acute and procedure pain in infants and children. Seattle, IASP Press.
McGrath, P.J. & Finley, G.A. (eds.) (2003) Pediatric Pain: Biological and Social Context. Seattle, IASP Press