July 4, Halifax, NS – The CCRF Dalhousie University Professorship in Epidemiology has been awarded to Dr. Jill Hayden, DC, PhD.

Dr. Hayden has worked and published extensively in the areas of prognostic research, musculoskeletal health and systematic review methods.  She has received both federal and provincial funding including a recent CIHR Knowledge Synthesis grant for investigating psychological predictors of chronic pain in children and adolescents as well as an NSHRF grant aimed at enhancing systematic reviews and evidence-informed health care decision making through increasing Cochrane Collaboration activities in the province of Nova Scotia. Dr. Hayden is the principal investigator for the Nova Scotia Cochrane Resource Centre.

Dr. Hayden began her work, within this new professorship funded by Dalhousie University in partnership with the Canadian Chiropractic Research Foundation (CCRF), on July 1, 2011. The professorship is based within the Dalhousie Faculty of Medicine, a flagship Canadian medical training facility and research centre. The professorship builds upon the CCRF research program aimed at establishing professorships and research chairs in universities throughout Canada. 

Congratulations to the CCRF for working successfully in conjunction with Dalhousie University and to Dr. Jill Hayden for being awarded the professorship that is the result of their partnership. 

Source, Ontario Chiropractic Association News, July 2011