We are pleased to announce that one of our esteemed colleagues and supporters, Dr Jill Hayden has been awarded the CCRF DalhousieUniversityProfessorship in Epidemiology.

This Research Professorship is funded by a partnership between Dalhousie University and CCRF and builds on CCRF’s research capacity program which establishes Research Chairs and Professorships in universities across Canada. Dr Hayden takes up this new CCRF Professorship in the Faculty of Medicine as of 1 July 2011.

Dr Hayden is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health & Epidemiology at Dalhousie University. She was previously Scientist at the Centre for Research Expertise in Improved Disability Outcomes (CREIDO), University HealthNetwork (2006-2008) and Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation at the University of Toronto. In 2007 she completed her PhD in Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Toronto, specifically on the methods of systematic review of prognosis studies. She was based at the Institute for Work & Health in Toronto between 1999 and 2006.

Dr Hayden’s research experience and expertise includes prognostic research, systematic review methods and musculoskeletal health, specifically low back pain. She has been involved with The Cochrane Collaboration for many years, as review author, Advisory Board Member for the Back Review Group, and Co-Convenor of the Prognosis Methods Group. Dr Hayden is Principal Investigator of the Nova Scotia Cochrane Resource Centre, funded by the Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation to build regional capacity in systematic reviews and evidence-informed health care decision-making. She has been the recipient of several training and achievement awards and holds a CCRF/CIHR New Investigator Award (2007-2012).

Dr Hayden has published 25 scientific papers to date and has been awarded research grants from both Federal and provincial funding agencies including a recent CIHR Knowledge Synthesis grant investigating psychological predictor of chronic pain in children and adolescents and a NSHRFgrant focusing on building Cochrane Collaboration activities in Nova Scotia.

Dr Hayden has made very significant contributions to the chiropractic community during the past several years. Her extraordinary dedication to advancing the profession and her leadership skills will continue to bring tremendous benefit to the profession in the coming years.

We offer her our congratulations and wish her every success in this new role.