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Researchers Search Results
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| Name: |
Siden, Harold |
| Titles: |
Associate Clinician Scientist, CFRI
Clinical Associate Professor, Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia
Medical Director, Canuck Place Children's Hospice
Past Medical Director, Telehealth, BC Children's Hospital and BC Women's Hospital & Health Centre / Provincial Health Services Authority |
| Degrees / Designations: |
MD, MHSc |
| Primary Area of Research: |
Developmental Neurosciences & Child Health |
| Secondary Area(s) of Research: |
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| Email: |
hsiden@cw.bc.ca |
| Phone: |
604-875-2776 |
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| Assistant: |
Shalu Duggal |
| Assistant Phone: |
604-875-2000 ext 5289 |
| Mailing Address: |
BC Children's Hospital
Room F602A, 4500 Oak Street
Vancouver, BC V6H 3N1 |
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| Research Areas |
• Paediatric palliative care
• Paediatric palliative medicine
• Pain assessment and treatment in children
• Telehealth and technologically mediated healthcare |
| Summary |
Pediatric palliative care and palliative medicine are my main areas of interest. Children and families living with life-threatening disease face a number of challenges. Pediatric palliative care is quite different than adult palliative care – there are different diseases, the trajectories are different, and the needs of children and families are different.
I am also interested in pain assessment and pain management. Pain is not well understood in children who are cognitively normal. It is also poorly understood in children with neurological impairment. Finding new treatments and tools for assessing pain is important. I am specifically interested in some new and emerging areas in biological markers of pain in children as well as imaging.
In my previous work as the founder and Medical Director of the Children's & Women's / Provincial Health Authority Telehealth system, my research included community needs assessment methods and technology-participant interaction. |
| Current Projects |
I am the principal investigator of a CIHR–funded New Emerging Team (NET), Transitions in Paediatric Palliative and End of Life Care. We will be using a model of 3 lenses or prisms – biomedical/clinical, psychosocial, and health services – to examine important transitions that occur along the trajectory for children and families with life-threatening diseases.
Smaller projects include examining therapy of bone pain in children with cancer, studying methadone as an analgesic, and studying end-of-life events in children with mitochondrial diseases. More information about this project can be found at www.pallpedsNET.ca |
| Selected Publications |
Siden, H. “Haloperidol as a Palliative Anti-Emetic in a Toddler: An Evidence Base Challenge. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 2008; 35(3): 253-8
Siden, H. “The boy who refused an IV: a case report of subcutaneous clodronate for bone pain in a child with Ewing Sarcoma”. Journal of Medical Case Reports. 2007; 1:7.
Siden, H. “Quality assurance”, in Goldman A, Hain R, Liben S. eds. Oxford Textbook of Palliative Care for Children. (Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2006).
Siden H, Collin K. “Three Patients and Their Drugs: A Parallel Case Report”. Paediatrics and Child Health. 2005; 10(3): 163-8.
Siden H, Nalewajek G. High Dose Opioids in Pediatric Palliative Care (letter). Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 2003; 25(5): 397-400.
Siden H, Young L, Tredwell S, Starr E. Telehealth: Connecting with Families to Promote Health and Healing. Journal of Family Nursing. 2001; 7(4): 315-327. |
| Research Group Members |
NET Co-Investigators:
Susan Cadell, MSW, PhD (Wilfrid Laurier University)
Betty Davies, RN, PhD (UCSF)
Rose Steele, RN, PhD (York University)
Lynn Straatman, MD (UBC)
NET Team:
Gail Andrews , M.Ed. – Research Coordinator
Shalu Duggal - Research Assistant |
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