Fayed | School of Rehabilitation Therapy

Dr. Nora Fayed

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Associate Professor

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About

Dr. Fayed, (she/her), conducts and disseminates research on child health and wellbeing outcomes. Her mission is to improve the quality of life of children with diverse abilities, and their families, through justice-based and evidence-informed, measurement, systems and policy research. She has published as a first or senior author in top-tier journals, (e.g., JAMA Peds, Neurology, CMAJ, & Value In Health), and held prestigious grants as a principal scientist (e.g., SPOR, SSHRC) and fellowships (e.g., CIHR, EU Marie-Curie). Core competencies include measurement of latent constructs in childhood and adolescence, health classification, university teaching, and health care systems evaluations.

Teaching the next generation of clinicians and researchers is a priority. Dr. Fayed has developed and taught courses in occupational therapy and research methods at the graduate levels. Her scholarship is informed by clinical experiences as an occupational therapist and international research experience.

Education

Doctor of Philosophy (Rehabilitation Science, McMaster University)
Master of Science (Occupational Therapy, Western University)
BScH (Kinesiology, University of Waterloo)

Research

There is a strong need in health service provision and policy to understand and improve systems on the basis of the most important outcomes for children and their families. This goal requires good measurement practices, access to data, patient-partnered change, and pragmatic implementation of real- world evidence.

“Everything that Counts” is a research program dedicated to learning about what is important to children growing up with disabilities and non-communicable disease and evaluating health and social services for patients and service-providers. The ultimate aim is to implement changes into the system based upon person-important and evidence-based outcomes.

Current Research Projects

Developing Patient Reported Experience Measures of Medical Technology and Feeding/ Eating for Children with Complex Health Conditions and their Caregivers
Patient-Important Outcomes In Pragmatic Pediatric Trials

Supervision

Dr. Fayed supervises the students listed below.

Dr. Lindsay Crawford (Rehabilitation and Health Leadership DSc Alumni)
Dr. Eshetu Haileselassie Engeda (Rehabilitation Science PhD Alumni)
Roya Heydaripourkoshkooei (Rehabilitation Science MSc Student)
Malcolm McNeil (Rehabilitation Science MSc Alumni)
Dr. Samantha Noyek (Rehabilitation Science PhD Alumni)

To learn more about these individuals, visit the Our Community pages.

Dr. Fayed has opportunities for RHSB graduate students interested in outcomes, measurement, and analysis of latent constructs.

Peer Reviewed Publications

For a list of Dr. Fayed's publications, please refer to the following:

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Volunteers for Teaching & Research

If you are interested in participating in teaching or research, please contact us at: etcounts@queensu.ca

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