Nicole Letourneau

Nicole Letourneau RN PhD FCAHS authored "Scientific Parenting: What Science Reveals About Parental Influence" (2013) and "What Kind of Parent Am I?" (2018) as well as over 140 peer reviewed papers. As Professor in the Faculty of Nursing and Cumming School of Medicine (Pediatrics, Psychiatry and Community Health Sciences) at the University of Calgary, she holds the Alberta Children’s Hospital Chair in Parent-Infant Mental Health and is Director of RESOLVE Alberta. She leads the Child Health Intervention and Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Studies Program (www.CHILDStudies.ca) examining parenting and child development in the context of maternal depression, family violence and other toxic stressors with over $50 million in career funding. She has attained many honours including Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 (2007), Awards for Research Excellence from the College and Association of Registered Nurses of Alberta (2015) and the Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing (2017), and named a Difference Maker by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (2017).