Tom McLaughlin
MD, FAAP, FRCPC, MPP
Investigator and Pediatrician, BC Children's Hospital
Medical Director, Clinical Teaching Unit, BC Children's Hospital
Canadian Journal of Cardiology
Khoury, M. and Rodday, A.M. and Mackie, A.S. and Gill, P. and McLaughlin, T. and Harris, K.C. and Wong, P. and McCrindle, B.W. and Birken, C.S. and de Ferranti, S.D.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cjca.2020.05.035Paediatrics and Child Health (Canada)
McLaughlin, T. and Jong, G. and Gilpin, A. and Hepburn, C.M.
DOI: 10.1093/pch/pxz177Paediatrics and Child Health (Canada)
McLaughlin, T. and Jong, G. and Gilpin, A. and Hepburn, C.M.
DOI: 10.1093/pch/pxz176Paediatrics and Child Health (Canada)
Gill, P.J. and Mclaughlin, T. and Rosenfield, D. and Hepburn, C.M. and Yanchar, N.L. and Beno, S.
DOI: 10.1093/pch/pxy059Paediatrics and Child Health (Canada)
McLaughlin, T. and Korenblum, C. and Loverdos, I. and Toulany, A.
DOI: 10.1093/pch/19.8.e118The Journal of trauma
McLaughlin T and Hennecke P and Garraway NR and Evans DC and Hameed M and Simons RK and Doucet J and Hansen D and Annand S and Bell N and Brown DR
DOI: 10.1097/ta.0b013e318232e9e7 PubMed: 2207200811 / 2011
Nature Methods
Lecault, V. and Vaninsberghe, M. and Sekulovic, S. and Knapp, D.J.H.F. and Wohrer, S. and Bowden, W. and Viel, F. and McLaughlin, T. and Jarandehei, A. and Miller, M. and Falconnet, D. and White, A.K. and Kent, D.G. and Copley, M.R. and Taghipour, F. and Eaves, C.J. and Humphries, R.K. and Piret, J.M. and Hansen, C.L.
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.1614Canadian children and youth have worse access to struggle to effective, palatable, and affordable medications than their peers in other Western nations, and I am interested in researching the causes, consequences, and solutions to this problem. I have recently authored a position statement for the Canadian Paediatric Society on pharmaceutical coverage for children in Canada. I am interested in further exploring how different jurisdictions in Canada compare in their pharmaceutical coverage, and how that impacts children and youth.
By some estimates, many children are admitted to hospital unnecessarily, in order to expedite tests or treatments that can be provided in outpatient settings. This increases costs and is also difficult for children and their families. I am exploring innovative ways of reducing unnecessary inpatient length-of-stay.
2019-2021 - Hudson Scholar (BC Children's Hospital)
2020 - Hospital Pediatrician of the Year (BC Children's Hospital)
2018 - "Rookie of the Year" (BC Children's Hospital)
2017-2019 - Frank Knox Fellow (Harvard University)
2017 - Michael Ondaatje Teaching Award (The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto)
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