Awards
- 2017 - Canadian Nurses Association: 150 Nurses for Canada, 1 of 150 Nurses selected to represent Canada to mark the 150th anniversary of Confederation
- 2016 - Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR): New Investigator Award, $300,000
- 2016- Faculty of Health: Early Career Research Excellence Award, $500
- 2015 - Canadian Child Health Clinician Scientist Program: Career Development Award, $280,000
- 2015 - First Prize - CIHR Institute of Human Development, Child and Youth Health (IHDCYH) Video Competition for Power of a Parent’s Touch $5,000
- 2015 - Canadian Pain Society Early Career Investigator Award
- 2014- Mayday Pain & Society Fellowship
- 2014 - Excellence in Nursing Research Award, College of Registered Nurses of Nova Scotia
- 2013-Global Honoree, The REAL Awards
- 2010-Ruby Blois Schoarlarship, IWK Health Centre Foundation Award $10,000
- 2007-2011-Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) fellowship $220 000
- 2007-2008-PhD Trainee Stipend, Pain in Child Health CIHR $10,000
- 2007-Canadian Nurses Foundation TD Meloche Monnex Doctoral Award $6,000