Research outline - Children's Hospital Education Research Institute (CHERI)

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Research program

  • Health-related quality of life and social support in children newly diagnosed with cancer
  • A randomized placebo-controlled study of lovastatin in children with neurofibromatosis type 1
  • Early identification of cognitive deficits in children with neurofibromatosis type 1
  • Full time workers caring for children with chronic illness: A national study
  • Does the cognitive and psychosocial profile of children with velocardiofacial syndrome (VCFS) differ from an IQ matched control group?
  • Outcome of acquired cerebellar disease in childhood: An assessment of motor and cognitive abilities
  • Reading and brain function in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
  • Everyday memory in children with idiopathic generalised epilepsy
  • The vocational development of adolescents with cystic fibrosis

Research support (2008/09)

Health related quality of life and social support in children newly diagnosed with cancer
Barton B, Dalla-Pozza L
Barbara Moore Research Grant - Australian Rotary Grant ($39,600 over 1 year)

Does the cognitive and psychosocial profile of children with velocardiofacial syndrome (VCFS) differ from an IQ matched control group?
Barton B, Dossetor D, Wilson M
Apex Foundation for Research into Intellectual Disability Ltd ($12,403 over 1 year)

Full time workers caring for children with chronic illness: A national study
Vickers M H, Wilkes L M, Barton B
ARC Linkage Grant ($270,379 over 4 years)

Early identification of cognitive deficits in children with neurofibromatosis type 1
North K, Hyman S, Shores A, Janusz J, Rosser T, Glass P, Packer R, Barton B
Department of Defense (DOD). United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (US $1,101,272 over 5 years)