Elodie Portales-Casamar

PhD

Affiliate Investigator, BC Children’s Hospital
Director, Data Management and IT, CHU Sainte-Justine Research Center

Elodie Portales-Casamar is the director of data management and IT infrastructure at the Azrieli Research Center at CHU Sainte-Justine (CHUSJ) and clinical associate professor in the department of pediatrics at Université de Montréal. She has a PhD in neuroscience and postdoctoral training in bioinformatics and genomics, and is an expert in clinical research informatics, research data management and standardization, and repurposing of clinical data for research. Elodie contributed to the development of bioinformatics tools and led the implementation of data platforms and registries for national networks such as NeuroDevNet (Kids Brain Health) Network of Centres of Excellence (https://kidsbrainhealth.ca/), the Canadian Pediatric Diabetes Consortium (CAPACIty; https://diabetesbc.ca/building-capacity-canadian-pediatric-diabetes-consortium/), the Pediatric Outcome imProvement through COordination of Research Networks (POPCORN; https://popcornpediatrics.ca), and most recently the Canadian Pediatric Rare Disease Clinical Trials and Treatment Network (RareKids-CAN; https://www.rarekidscan.com/). For the past 15 years, she has been developing and maintaining informatics infrastructure to support clinical research activities at Canadian pediatric hospitals for the sharing, integration, standardization and analysis of heterogenous data from healthcare.

Academic Affiliations

  • Research Theme: Evidence to Innovation

Contact Information

Location

CHU Sainte-Justine Research Center, 3175, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3T 1C5

Exposure to prenatal maternal stress is associated with epigenetic age acceleration and altered cell composition in the placenta: The QF2011 Queensland Flood Study

Placenta

Beraldo, E.O. and Inkster, A.M. and Pe{\~n}aherrera, M.S. and Price, E.M. and Schuetz, J. and Portales-Casamar, ?. and Kildea, S. and Vaillancourt, C. and King, S. and Robinson, W.P.

DOI: 10.1016/j.placenta.2025.09.003

Development of a Multimedia Electronic Consent Platform for Biobanking and Research Utilizing Opinions from Children, Teens, and Adults

Biopreservation and Biobanking

Kayda, I. and Ellis, A. and Nguyen, V. and Longstaff, H. and Portales-Casamar, E. and Robillard, J.M. and Virani, A. and McKerrow, A. and Dittrick, M. and Lei, G. and Vercauteren, S.

DOI: 10.1089/bio.2024.0165

TrustSphere - Enabling patient-directed access to clinical and patient-generated health data: a novel multi-source architecture (Preprint)

Tibor van Rooij and Taqdir Ali and J. Quetzalcatl Toledo-Marn and Alec Laws and Bonnie Barrett and Beth A Payne and Shazhan Amed and Elodie Portales-Casamar and Wyeth W Wasserman and Matthias Grges

DOI: 10.2196/preprints.70061

12 / 2024

Mental Health Hospitalizations in Canadian Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults Over the COVID-19 Pandemic

JAMA Network Open

Roumeliotis, N. and Carwana, M. and Trudeau, O. and Charland, K. and Zinszer, K. and Benigeri, M. and Diop, M. and Papenburg, J. and Ali, S. and Yaskina, M. and Wahi, G. and Forgeot d?Arc, B. and C{\^o}t{\'e}, S. and Sadarangani, M. and Basta, N.E. and Fontela, P.S. and Gantt, S. and Klassen, T.P. and Quach, C. and Doan, Q. and Ahira, S. and Allen, U. and Baerg, K. and Bale-Nick, M. and Banerjee, A. and Barton, M. and Beer, D. and Berthelot, S. and Bettinger, J. and Bhatt, M. and Buba, M. and Buchanan, F. and Bullard, J. and Burstein, B. and Burton, C. and Chanchlani, R. and Chass{\'e}, M. and Choong, K. and Constantin, E. and Constantinescu, C. and Costello, C. and Dewan, T. and Di Genova, T. and Drouin, O. and Dryden-Palmer, K. and Du Pont-Thibodeau, G. and Dugas, M.-A. and Dumont-Maurice, R. and Emeriaud, G. and Emsley, J. and Ferro, M. and Forbes, K. and Fortier, I. and Foster, J. and Foulds, J. and Freedman, S. and Freire, G. and Galanis, E. and Gill, P. and Gravel, J. and Gruenwoldt, E. and Guerra, G. and Guttman, A. and Hancock, B.J. and Harrison, R. and Holland, J. and Joffe, A. and Kakkar, F. and Kam, A. and Kellner, J.D. and Knisley, L. and Lacaze-Masmonteil, T. and Lalgudi Ganesan, S. and Langlois, M.-A. and Le Saux, N. and Lee, L. and Leifso, K. and Li, P. and Linares, A. and Mahant, S. and Marc, I. and Mater, A. and McNally, J. and Meckler, G. and Morris, S. and Mtaweh, H. and Murthy, S. and Muttalib, F. and Newhook, L.-A. and Nicoll, J. and Orr-Gaucher, N. and Pagano, J. and Pangilinan, A. and Pernica, J. and Poonai, N. and Portales-Casamar, E. and Porter, R. and Purewal, R. and Robeson, P. and Robinson, J. and Salvadori, M. and Samuel, S. and Scott, S. and Sehgal, A. and Shah, A. and Sotindjo, T. and Southward, C. and Stoesz, T. and Strang, R. and Suleman, S. and Szatmari, P. and Taheri, S. and Tam, J. and Thibeault, R. and Top, K. and Toulouse, K. and Tse, S.-M. and Wadhwa, A. and Wong, S. and Wright, B. and Yeung, R.

DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.22833

Parental Perspectives on Pediatric Surgical Recovery: Narrative Analysis of Free-Text Comments From a Postoperative Survey

Jmir Perioperative Medicine

Luo, J. and West, N.C. and Pang, S. and Robillard, J.M. and Page, P. and Chadha, N.K. and Gan, H. and Correll, L.R. and Ridgway, R. and Broemling, N. and G{\"o}rges, M. and Chen, J. and Sreepada, R.S. and Wood, M.D. and Loftsgard, K.C. and Portales-Casamar, E. and Morrison, C.

DOI: 10.2196/65198

Deploying an ethics needs assessment to inform a navigational tool for research compliance pathways at a provincial Canadian health authority

Accountability in Research

Fung, E. and Portales-Casamar, E. and Kadam, P. and Longstaff, H.

DOI: 10.1080/08989621.2023.2233419

An Individualized Postoperative Pain Risk Communication Tool for Use in Pediatric Surgery: Co-Design and Usability Evaluation (Preprint)

Michael D Wood and Nicholas C West and Christina Fokkens and Ying Chen and Kent C Loftsgard and Krystal Cardinal and Simon D Whyte and Elodie Portales-Casamar and Matthias Grges

DOI: 10.2196/preprints.46785

02 / 2023

Neonatal and Early Childhood Outcomes of Twin and Singleton Infants Born Preterm

Journal of Pediatrics

Melamed, N. and Weitzner, O. and Church, P. and Banihani, R. and Barrett, J. and Yang, J. and Wong, J. and Piedboeuf, B. and Shah, P.S. and Beltempo, M. and Kanungo, J. and Stavel, M. and Sherlock, R. and Mehrem, A.A. and Toye, J. and Ting, J. and Fajardo, C. and Bodani, J. and Strueby, L. and Seshia, M. and Louis, D. and Alvaro, R. and Mukerji, A. and Da Silva, O. and Augustine, S. and Lee, K.-S. and Ng, E. and Lemyre, B. and Daboval, T. and Khurshid, F. and Bizgu, V. and Barrington, K. and Lapointe, A. and Ethier, G. and Drolet, C. and Claveau, M. and St-Hilaire, M. and Bertelle, V. and Masse, E. and Mehdizadeh-Hakak, H. and Makary, H. and Ojah, C. and Hudson, J.-A. and Afifi, J. and Aslam, A. and Lee, S.K. and Abenhaim, H. and Andrews, J. and Armson, A. and Audibert, F. and Aziz, K. and Ballantyne, M. and Berard, A. and Blais, L. and Bocking, A. and Burrows, J. and Butt, K. and Canning, R. and Carson, G. and Chaillet, N. and Chandra, S. and Cieslak, Z. and Coughlin, K. and Crane, J. and Creighton, D. and Dahlgren, L. and Daspal, S. and de Cabo, C. and Deshpandey, A. and Dow, K. and Dunn, M. and Helou, S.E. and El-Chaar, D. and El-Naggar, W. and Foster, J. and Gagnon, R. and Gratton, R. and Han, V. and Harrison, A. and Hasan, S. and Helewa, M. and Hicks, M. and Joseph, K.S. and Kajetanowicz, A. and Kalapesi, Z. and Khairy, M. and Lacaze-Masmonteil, T. and Lodha, A. and Luu, T.M. and Ly, L. and Majnemer, A. and Marc, I. and McDonald, S.D. and McMillan, D. and Metcalfe, A. and Moddemann, D. and Monterrosa, L. and Morais, M. and Mundle, W. and Murphy, L. and Murphy, K. and Nuyt, A.-M. and Nwaesei, C. and O'Brien, K. and Offringa, M. and Ouellet, A. and Pasquier, J.-C. and Pechlivanoglou, P. and Pelausa, E. and Portales-Casamar, E. and Premji, S. and Puligandla, P. and Pullenayegum, E. and Reichert, A. and Robson, K. and Schneider, C. and Shah, V. and Shivananda, S. and Singhal, N. and Skarsgard, E. and Skoll, A. and Smith, G. and Synnes, A. and Thriault, K. and Tough, S. and Ubhi, J. and Vincer, M. and Whittle, W. and Whyte, H. and Wilson, D. and Wood, S. and Ye, P. and Yee, W. and Zwicker, J. and Pillay, T. and Synnes, A. and Colby, L. and Anson, S. and Moodley, A. and Hendson, L. and Ricci, M.F. and McKnight, S. and Kelly, E. and Raghuram, K. and Thomas, K. and Nguyen, K.-A. and Mandel, R. and Morin, A. and Blanger, S.

DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2023.02.021

Impact of Perinatal Exposure to SARS-CoV-2 Infection on Early Health Outcomes among Infants Born from 2020 to 2021 in British Columbia, Canada

Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology

Richter, L.L. and Ho, M.S.P. and Zhang, Q. and Bone, J.N. and Portales-Casamar, E. and Yang, C.L. and Roberts, A. and Kang, K. and Kieran, E. and Lam, C. and Lisonkova, S. and Ting, J.Y.

DOI: 10.1155/2023/9968774

An Individualized Postoperative Pain Risk Communication Tool for Use in Pediatric Surgery: Co-Design and Usability Evaluation

JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting

Wood, M.D. and West, N.C. and Fokkens, C. and Chen, Y. and Loftsgard, K.C. and Cardinal, K. and Whyte, S.D. and Portales-Casamar, E. and Grges, M.

DOI: 10.2196/46785

The application of epiphenotyping approaches to DNA methylation array studies of the human placenta

Epigenetics and Chromatin

Khan, A. and Inkster, A.M. and Peaherrera, M.S. and King, S. and Kildea, S. and Oberlander, T.F. and Olson, D.M. and Vaillancourt, C. and Brain, U. and Beraldo, E.O. and Beristain, A.G. and Clifton, V.L. and Del Gobbo, G.F. and Lam, W.L. and Metz, G.A.S. and Ng, J.W.Y. and Price, E.M. and Schuetz, J.M. and Yuan, V. and Portales-Casamar, ?. and Robinson, W.P.

DOI: 10.1186/s13072-023-00507-5

Identifying Risk Factors, Patient-Reported Experience and Outcome Measures, and Data Capture Tools for an Individualized Pain Prediction Tool in Pediatrics: Focus Group Study

JMIR Perioperative Medicine

Michael D Wood and Nicholas C West and Rama S Sreepada and Kent C Loftsgard and Luba Petersen and Julie M Robillard and Patricia Page and Randa Ridgway and Neil K Chadha and Elodie Portales-Casamar and Matthias Grges

DOI: 10.2196/42341

11 / 2022

Identification of Requirements for a Postoperative Pediatric Pain Risk Communication Tool: Focus Group Study With Clinicians and Family Members

JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting

Michael D Wood and Kim Correa and Peijia Ding and Rama Sreepada and Kent C Loftsgard and Isabel Jordan and Nicholas C West and Simon D Whyte and Elodie Portales-Casamar and Matthias Grges

DOI: 10.2196/37353

07 / 2022

Profiling placental DNA methylation associated with maternal SSRI treatment during pregnancy

Amy M. Inkster and Chaini Konwar and Maria S. Peaherrera and Ursula Brain and Almas Khan and E. Magda Price and Johanna M. Schuetz and lodie Portales-Casamar and Amber Burt and Carmen J. Marsit and Cathy Vaillancourt and Tim F. Oberlander and Wendy P. Robinson

DOI: 10.1101/2022.06.21.22276723

06 / 2022

Toward Building a Provincial Diabetes Registry of Children and Youth Living With Diabetes in British Columbia, Canada

Canadian Journal of Diabetes

Aysha Ayub and Crystal Ng and Elodie Portales-Casamar and Daniel Metzger and Shazhan Amed

DOI: 10.1016/j.jcjd.2021.11.006

06 / 2022

Identification of Requirements for a Postoperative Pediatric Pain Risk Communication Tool: Focus Group Study With Clinicians and Family Members (Preprint)

Michael D Wood and Kim Correa and Peijia Ding and Rama Sreepada and Kent C Loftsgard and Isabel Jordan and Nicholas C West and Simon D Whyte and Elodie Portales-Casamar and Matthias Grges

DOI: 10.2196/preprints.37353

02 / 2022

Applications of Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis on Psychiatric Clinical Notes to Study Suicide in Youth.

AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium

PubMed: 34457137

05 / 2021

Association of timing of birth with mortality among preterm infants born in Canada

Journal of Perinatology

Rizzolo, A. and Shah, P.S. and Bertelle, V. and Makary, H. and Ye, X.Y. and Abenhaim, H.A. and Piedboeuf, B. and Beltempo, M. and Abenhaim, H. and Afifi, J. and Alvaro, R. and Andrews, J. and Armson, A. and Audibert, F. and Aziz, K. and Ballantyne, M. and Barrett, J. and Beltempo, M. and Berard, A. and Bertelle, V. and Blais, L. and Bocking, A. and Bodani, J. and Burrows, J. and Butt, K. and Canning, R. and Carson, G. and Chaillet, N. and Chandra, S. and Church, P. and Cieslak, Z. and Coughlin, K. and Crane, J. and Creighton, D. and Da Silva, O. and Daboval, T. and Dahlgren, L. and Daspal, S. and de Cabo, C. and Deshpandey, A. and Dow, K. and Drolet, C. and Dunn, M. and el Helou, S. and El-Chaar, D. and El-Naggar, W. and Fajardo, C. and Foster, J. and Gagnon, R. and Gratton, R. and Han, V. and Harrison, A. and Hasan, S. and Helewa, M. and Hicks, M. and Joseph, K.S. and Kajetanowicz, A. and Kalapesi, Z. and Khairy, M. and Lacaze-Masmonteil, T. and Lee, K.-S. and Lemyre, B. and Lodha, A. and Louis, D. and Luu, T.M. and Ly, L. and Majnemer, A. and Makary, H. and Marc, I. and Masse, E. and McDonald, S.D. and McMillan, D. and Melamed, N. and Metcalfe, A. and Moddemann, D. and Monterrosa, L. and Morais, M. and Mukerji, A. and Mundle, W. and Murphy, L. and Murphy, K. and Nuyt, A.-M. and Nwaesei, C. and O?Brien, K. and Offringa, M. and Ojah, C. and Ouellet, A. and Pasquier, J.-C. and Pechlivanoglou, P. and Pelausa, E. and Piedboeuf, B. and Portales-Casamar, E. and Premji, S. and Puligandla, P. and Pullenayegum, E. and Reichert, A. and Robson, K. and Schneider, C. and Seshia, M. and Shah, P.S. and Shah, V. and Sherlock, R. and Shivananda, S. and Singhal, N. and Skarsgard, E. and Skoll, A. and Smith, G. and Synnes, A. and Thriault, K. and Ting, J. and Tough, S. and Toye, J. and Ubhi, J. and Vincer, M. and Whittle, W. and Whyte, H. and Wilson, D. and Wood, S. and Ye, P. and Yee, W. and Zwicker, J.

DOI: 10.1038/s41372-021-01092-9

An interrupted time-series analysis of pediatric emergency department visits during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic

Pediatric Emergency Care

Irvine, M.A. and Portales-Casamar, E. and Goldman, R.D.

DOI: 10.1097/PEC.0000000000002404

Rates and Determinants of Mother's Own Milk Feeding in Infants Born Very Preterm

Journal of Pediatrics

Dharel, D. and Singhal, N. and Wood, C. and Cieslak, Z. and Bacchini, F. and Shah, P.S. and Ye, X.Y. and Alshaikh, B. and Abenhaim, H. and Afifi, J. and Alvaro, R. and Andrews, J. and Armson, A. and Audibert, F. and Aziz, K. and Ballantyne, M. and Barrett, J. and Beltempo, M. and Berard, A. and Bertelle, V. and Blais, L. and Bocking, A. and Bodani, J. and Burrows, J. and Butt, K. and Canning, R. and Carson, G. and Chaillet, N. and Chandra, S. and Church, P. and Coughlin, K. and Crane, J. and Creighton, D. and Da Silva, O. and Daboval, T. and Dahlgren, L. and Daspal, S. and de Cabo, C. and Deshpandey, A. and Dow, K. and Drolet, C. and Dunn, M. and el Helou, S. and El-Chaar, D. and El-Naggar, W. and Fajardo, C. and Foster, J. and Gagnon, R. and Gratton, R. and Han, V. and Harrison, A. and Hasan, S. and Helewa, M. and Hicks, M. and Joseph, K.S. and Kajetanowicz, A. and Kalapesi, Z. and Khairy, M. and Lacaze-Masmonteil, T. and Lee, K.-S. and Lemyre, B. and Lodha, A. and Louis, D. and Mai Luu, T. and Ly, L. and Majnemer, A. and Makary, H. and Marc, I. and Masse, E. and McDonald, S.D. and McMillan, D. and Melamed, N. and Metcalfe, A. and Moddemann, D. and Monterrosa, L. and Morais, M. and Mukerji, A. and Mundle, W. and Murphy, L. and Murphy, K. and Nuyt, A.-M. and Nwaesei, C. and O'Brien, K. and Offringa, M. and Ojah, C. and Ouellet, A. and Pasquier, J.-C. and Pechlivanoglou, P. and Pelausa, E. and Piedboeuf, B. and Portales-Casamar, E. and Premji, S. and Puligandla, P. and Pullenayegum, E. and Reichert, A. and Schneider, C. and Seshia, M. and Shah, V. and Sherlock, R. and Shivananda, S. and Skarsgard, E. and Skoll, A. and Smith, G. and Synnes, A. and Thriault, K. and Ting, J. and Tough, S. and Toye, J. and Ubhi, J. and Vincer, M. and Whittle, W. and Whyte, H. and Wilson, D. and Wood, S. and Ye, P. and Yee, W. and Zwicker, J.

DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2021.04.037

Costs of Neonatal Intensive Care for Canadian Infants with Preterm Birth

Journal of Pediatrics

Rios, J.D. and Shah, P.S. and Beltempo, M. and Louis, D. and Mukerji, A. and Premji, S. and Shah, V. and Lee, S.K. and Pechlivanoglou, P. and Abenhaim, H. and Afifi, J. and Alvaro, R. and Andrews, J. and Armson, A. and Audibert, F. and Aziz, K. and Ballantyne, M. and Barrett, J. and Berard, A. and Bertelle, V. and Blais, L. and Bocking, A. and Bodani, J. and Burrows, J. and Butt, K. and Canning, R. and Carson, G. and Chaillet, N. and Chandra, S. and Church, P. and Cieslak, Z. and Crane, J. and Creighton, D. and Da Silva, O. and Daboval, T. and Dahlgren, L. and Daspal, S. and de Cabo, C. and Deshpandey, A. and Dow, K. and Drolet, C. and Dunn, M. and Salhab el Helou and El-Chaar, D. and El-Naggar, W. and Fajardo, C. and Gagnon, R. and Gratton, R. and Han, V. and Harrison, A. and Hasan, S. and Helewa, M. and Hicks, M. and Joseph, K.S. and Kajetanowicz, A. and Kalapesi, Z. and Khairy, M. and Lacaze-Masmonteil, T. and Lee, K.-S. and Lemyre, B. and Lodha, A. and Mai Luu, T. and Ly, L. and Majnemer, A. and Makary, H. and Marc, I. and Masse, E. and McDonald, S.D. and McMillan, D. and Melamed, N. and Metcalfe, A. and Moddemann, D. and Monterrosa, L. and Morais, M. and Mundle, W. and Murphy, L. and Murphy, K. and Nuyt, A.-M. and Nwaesei, C. and O'Brien, K. and Offringa, M. and Ojah, C. and Ouellet, A. and Pasquier, J.-C. and Pelausa, E. and Piedboeuf, B. and Portales-Casamar, E. and Puligandla, P. and Pullenayegum, E. and Reichert, A. and Robson, K. and Schneider, C. and Seshia, M. and Sherlock, R. and Shivananda, S. and Singhal, N. and Skarsgard, E. and Skoll, A. and Smith, G. and Synnes, A. and Thriault, K. and Ting, J. and Tough, S. and Toye, J. and Ubhi, J. and Vincer, M. and Whittle, W. and Whyte, H. and Wilson, D. and Wood, S. and Ye, P. and Yee, W. and Zwicker, J. and Jaideep Kanungo and Mehrem, A.A. and Sankaran, K. and Adie, M. and Khurshid, F. and Barrington, K. and Lapoint, A. and Ethier, G. and Claveau, M. and Emberley, J.

DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2020.09.045

Applications of Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis on Psychiatric Clinical Notes to Study Suicide in Youth

AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium

George, A. and Johnson, D. and Carenini, G. and Eslami, A. and Ng, R. and Portales-Casamar, E.

Mode of delivery and neonatal outcomes in extremely preterm Vertex/nonVertex twins

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Hiersch, L. and Shah, P.S. and Khurshid, F. and Masse, E. and Murphy, K. and McDonald, S.D. and Carson, G. and Barrett, J. and Melamed, N. and Ting, J. and Cieslak, Z. and Sherlock, R. and Abou Mehrem, A. and Toye, J. and Fajardo, C. and Kalapesi, Z. and Bodani, J. and Sankaran, K. and Daspal, S. and Seshia, M. and Louis, D. and Alvaro, R. and Mukerji, A. and Da Silva, O. and Adie, M. and Lee, K.-S. and Dunn, M. and Lemyre, B. and Pelausa, E. and Barrington, K. and Lapoint, A. and Ethier, G. and Drolet, C. and Piedboeuf, B. and Claveau, M. and Beltempo, M. and Bertelle, V. and Canning, R. and Makary, H. and Ojah, C. and Monterrosa, L. and Emberley, J. and Afifi, J. and Kajetanowicz, A. and Lee, S.K. and Abenhaim, H. and Andrews, J. and Armson, A. and Audibert, F. and Aziz, K. and Ballantyne, M. and Berard, A. and Blais, L. and Bocking, A. and Burrows, J. and Butt, K. and Chaillet, N. and Chandra, S. and Church, P. and Coughlin, K. and Crane, J. and Creighton, D. and Daboval, T. and Dahlgren, L. and de Cabo, C. and Deshpandey, A. and Dow, K. and el Helou, S. and El-Chaar, D. and El-Naggar, W. and Foster, J. and Gagnon, R. and Gratton, R. and Han, V. and Harrison, A. and Hasan, S. and Helewa, M. and Hicks, M. and Joseph, K.S. and Lacaze-Masmonteil, T. and Lodha, A. and Luu, T.M. and Ly, L. and Majnemer, A. and Marc, I. and McMillan, D. and Metcalfe, A. and Moddemann, D. and Morais, M. and Mundle, W. and Murphy, L. and Nuyt, A.-M. and Nwaesei, C. and O'Brien, K. and Offringa, M. and Ouellet, A. and Pasquier, J.-C. and Pechlivanoglou, P. and Portales-Casamar, E. and Premji, S. and Puligandla, P. and Pullenayegum, E. and Reichert, A. and Robson, K. and Schneider, C. and Shah, V. and Shivananda, S. and Singhal, N. and Skarsgard, E. and Skoll, A. and Smith, G. and Synnes, A. and Thriault, K. and Tough, S. and Ubhi, J. and Vincer, M. and Whittle, W. and Whyte, H. and Wilson, D. and Wood, S. and Ye, P. and Yee, W. and Zwicker, J.

DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2020.12.002

Benefit of antenatal corticosteroids by year of birth among preterm infants in Canada during 2003"2017: a population-based cohort study

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Melamed, N. and Murphy, K. and Barrett, J. and Asztalos, E. and McDonald, S.D. and Yoon, E.W. and Shah, P.S. and Kanungo, J. and Ting, J. and Cieslak, Z. and Sherlock, R. and Mehrem, A.A. and Toye, J. and Fajardo, C. and Kalapesi, Z. and Bodani, J. and Sankaran, K. and Daspal, S. and Seshia, M. and Louis, D. and Alvaro, R. and Mukerji, A. and Da Silva, O. and Adie, M. and Lee, K.-S. and Dunn, M. and Lemyre, B. and Khurshid, F. and Pelausa, E. and Barrington, K. and Lapoint, A. and Ethier, G. and Drolet, C. and Piedboeuf, B. and Claveau, M. and Beltempo, M. and Bertelle, V. and Masse, E. and Canning, R. and Makary, H. and Ojah, C. and Monterrosa, L. and Emberley, J. and Afifi, J. and Kajetanowicz, A. and Lee, S.K. and Abenhaim, H. and Andrews, J. and Armson, A. and Audibert, F. and Aziz, K. and Ballantyne, M. and Berard, A. and Blais, L. and Bocking, A. and Burrows, J. and Butt, K. and Carson, G. and Chaillet, N. and Chandra, S. and Church, P. and Coughlin, K. and Crane, J. and Creighton, D. and Daboval, T. and Dahlgren, L. and de Cabo, C. and Deshpandey, A. and Dow, K. and el Helou, S. and El-Chaar, D. and El-Naggar, W. and Foster, J. and Gagnon, R. and Gratton, R. and Han, V. and Harrison, A. and Hasan, S. and Helewa, M. and Hicks, M. and Joseph, K.S. and Khairy, M. and Lacaze-Masmonteil, T. and Lodha, A. and Luu, M. and Ly, L. and Majnemer, A. and Marc, I. and McMillan, D. and Metcalfe, A. and Moddemann, D. and Morais, M. and Mundle, W. and Murphy, L. and Nuyt, A.-M. and Nwaesei, C. and O'Brien, K. and Offringa, M. and Ouellet, A. and Pasquier, J.-C. and Pechlivanoglou, P. and Portales-Casamar, E. and Premji, S. and Puligandla, P. and Pullenayegum, E. and Reichert, A. and Robson, K. and Schneider, C. and Shah, V. and Shivananda, S. and Singhal, N. and Skarsgard, E. and Skoll, A. and Smith, G. and Synnes, A. and Thriault, K. and Tough, S. and Ubhi, J. and Vincer, M. and Whittle, W. and Whyte, H. and Wilson, D. and Wood, S. and Ye, P. and Yee, W. and Zwicker, J.

DOI: 10.1111/1471-0528.16511

Paediatric patients seen in 18 emergency departments during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Emergency medicine journal : EMJ

Goldman RD and Grafstein E and Barclay N and Irvine MA and Portales-Casamar E

DOI: 10.1136/emermed-2020-210273 PubMed: 33127743

10 / 2020

What You Need to Know Before Implementing a Clinical Research Data Warehouse: Comparative Review of Integrated Data Repositories in Health Care Institutions.

JMIR formative research

Gagalova KK and Leon Elizalde MA and Portales-Casamar E and Grges M

DOI: 10.2196/17687 PubMed: 32852280

08 / 2020

What You Need to Know Before Implementing a Clinical Research Data Warehouse: Comparative Review of Integrated Data Repositories in Health Care Institutions (Preprint)

Kristina K Gagalova and M Angelica Leon Elizalde and Elodie Portales-Casamar and Matthias Grges

DOI: 10.2196/preprints.17687

01 / 2020

Poor Correlation of Oral Swabs with Esophageal Eosinophil Counts

Dysphagia

Avinashi, V. and Chan, J.M. and Bush, J.W. and Vallance, B.A. and Yang, H. and Portales-Casamar, E. and Soller, L. and Mill, C. and Chan, E.S.

DOI: 10.1007/s00455-019-10082-1

Data access and usage practices across a cohort of researchers at a large tertiary pediatric hospital: Qualitative survey study

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Ho, H.K.K. and Grges, M. and Portales-Casamar, E.

DOI: 10.2196/medinform.8724

Pediatric eosinophilic esophagitis is associated with increased lamina propria immunoglobulin g4-positive plasma cells

Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition

Mohammad, N. and Avinashi, V. and Chan, E. and Vallance, B.A. and Portales-Casamar, E. and Bush, J.W.

DOI: 10.1097/MPG.0000000000001949

Unpacking the Heterogeneity of Cognitive Functioning in Children and Adolescents with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: Determining the Role of Moderators and Strengths

Advances in Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Kaitlyn McLachlan and Angelina Paolozza and Katrina Kully-Martens and Elodie Portales-Casamar and Paul Pavlidis and Gail Andrew and Ana Hanlon-Dearman and Christine Loock and Audrey McFarlane and Sarah M. Nikkel and Jacqueline Pei and Tim F. Oberlander and Dawa Samdup and James N. Reynolds and Carmen Rasmussen

DOI: 10.1007/s41252-017-0034-4

09 / 2017

An environmental scan of data access and usage practices across a cohort of researchers at a large tertiary paediatric hospital

Hoi Ki Kiki Ho and Matthias Grges and Elodie Portales-Casamar

DOI: 10.2196/preprints.8724.a

08 / 2017

Data Access and Usage Practices Across a Cohort of Researchers at a Large Tertiary Pediatric Hospital: Qualitative Survey Study (Preprint)

Hoi Ki Kiki Ho and Matthias Grges and Elodie Portales-Casamar

DOI: 10.2196/preprints.8724

08 / 2017

Many Children Referred to a Tertiary Care Pediatric Allergy Clinic Do Not Have an Allergy

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Victoria E. Cook and Jordan Yeo and Christopher Mill and Kyla Hildebrand and Elodie Portales-Casamar and Edmond S. Chan

DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2016.12.134

02 / 2017

Profiling placental and fetal DNA methylation in human neural tube defects

Epigenetics and Chromatin

Price, E.M. and Peaherrera, M.S. and Portales-Casamar, E. and Pavlidis, P. and Van Allen, M.I. and McFadden, D.E. and Robinson, W.P.

DOI: 10.1186/s13072-016-0054-8

Interactive Exploration, Analysis, and Visualization of Complex Phenome"Genome Datasets with ASPIREdb

Human Mutation

Tan, P.P.C. and Rogic, S. and Zoubarev, A. and McDonald, C. and Lui, F. and Charathsandran, G. and Jacobson, M. and Belmadani, M. and Leong, J. and Van Rossum, T. and Portales-Casamar, E. and Qiao, Y. and Calli, K. and Liu, X. and Hudson, M. and Rajcan-Separovic, E. and Lewis, M.E.S. and Pavlidis, P.

DOI: 10.1002/humu.23011

RAAV-compatible MiniPromoters for restricted expression in the brain and eye

Molecular Brain

De Leeuw, C.N. and Korecki, A.J. and Berry, G.E. and Hickmott, J.W. and Lam, S.L. and Lengyell, T.C. and Bonaguro, R.J. and Borretta, L.J. and Chopra, V. and Chou, A.Y. and D'Souza, C.A. and Kaspieva, O. and Laprise, S. and McInerny, S.C. and Portales-Casamar, E. and Swanson-Newman, M.I. and Wong, K. and Yang, G.S. and Zhou, M. and Jones, S.J.M. and Holt, R.A. and Asokan, A. and Goldowitz, D. and Wasserman, W.W. and Simpson, E.M.

DOI: 10.1186/s13041-016-0232-4

DNA methylation signature of human fetal alcohol spectrum disorder

Epigenetics and Chromatin

Portales-Casamar, E. and Lussier, A.A. and Jones, M.J. and MacIsaac, J.L. and Edgar, R.D. and Mah, S.M. and Barhdadi, A. and Provost, S. and Lemieux-Perreault, L.-P. and Cynader, M.S. and Chudley, A.E. and Dub, M.-P. and Reynolds, J.N. and Pavlidis, P. and Kobor, M.S.

DOI: 10.1186/s13072-016-0074-4

Communication error analysis of sleep/wake-behaviour assessments: The need for optimizing communication and data gathering with new technologies

Sleep Medicine

G. McAllister and D. Elbe and N. De Pietro and E. Portales-casamar and D. Lin and T. Rosenfeld and D. Penn and S. Stockler and D. Mount and O. Ipsiroglu

DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2015.02.1492

Sharing with more caring: Coordinating and improving the ethical governance of data and biomaterials obtained from children

PLoS ONE

Longstaff, H. and Khramova, V. and Portales-Casamar, E. and Illes, J.

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0130527

LORIS: Enhanced tools for data management in neurodevelopmental studies

International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience

C. Rogers and P. Kostopoulos and D. McFarlane and Z. Mohades and D. Brien and N. St-Georges and E. Portales-Casamar and S. Das and A. Evans

DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdevneu.2015.04.334

DNA methylation changes in fetal alcohol spectrum disorder

International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience

Elodie Portales-Casamar and Sarah M. Mah and Julie L. MacIsaac and Amina Barhdadi and Sylvie Provost and Marie-Pierre Dub and James N. Reynolds and Paul Pavlidis and Michael S. Kobor

DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdevneu.2015.04.336

A SNP in the HTT promoter alters NF-B binding and is a bidirectional genetic modifier of Huntington disease

Nature Neuroscience

Becanovic, K. and N?rrem?lle, A. and Neal, S.J. and Kay, C. and Collins, J.A. and Arenillas, D. and Lilja, T. and Gaudenzi, G. and Manoharan, S. and Doty, C.N. and Beck, J. and Lahiri, N. and Portales-Casamar, E. and Warby, S.C. and Connolly, C. and De Souza, R.A.G. and Tabrizi, S.J. and Hermanson, O. and Langbehn, D.R. and Hayden, M.R. and Wasserman, W.W. and Leavitt, B.R.

DOI: 10.1038/nn.4014

Neurocarta: online platform for integration and sharing of phenotypic and genomics information

Frontiers in Neuroinformatics

Portales-Casamar Elodie and Chng Carolyn and Lui Frances and St-Georges Nicolas and Zoubarev Anton and Pavlidis Paul

DOI: 10.3389/conf.fninf.2014.08.00025

Targeted CNS delivery using human MiniPromoters and demonstrated compatibility with adeno-associated viral vectors

Molecular Therapy - Methods and Clinical Development

de Leeuw, C.N. and Dyka, F.M. and Boye, S.L. and Laprise, S. and Zhou, M. and Chou, A.Y. and Borretta, L. and McInerny, S.C. and Banks, K.G. and Portales-Casamar, E. and Swanson, M.I. and D'Souza, C.A. and Boye, S.E. and Jones, S.J. and Holt, R.A. and Goldowitz, D. and Hauswirth, W.W. and Wasserman, W.W. and Simpson, E.M.

DOI: 10.1038/mtm.2013.5

Meta-analysis of human methylomes reveals stably methylated sequences surrounding CpG islands associated with high gene expression

Epigenetics and Chromatin

Edgar, R. and Tan, P.P.C. and Portales-Casamar, E. and Pavlidis, P.

DOI: 10.1186/1756-8935-7-28

Neurocarta: Aggregating and sharing disease-gene relations for the neurosciences

BMC Genomics

Portales-Casamar, E. and Ch'ng, C. and Lui, F. and St-Georges, N. and Zoubarev, A. and Lai, A.Y. and Lee, M. and Kwok, C. and Kwok, W. and Tseng, L. and Pavlidis, P.

DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-129

Non-coding-regulatory regions of human brain genes delineated by bacterial artificial chromosome knock-in mice

BMC Biology

Schmouth, J.-F. and Castellarin, M. and Laprise, S. and Banks, K.G. and Bonaguro, R.J. and McInerny, S.C. and Borretta, L. and Amirabbasi, M. and Korecki, A.J. and Portales-Casamar, E. and Wilson, G. and Dreolini, L. and Jones, S.J.M. and Wasserman, W.W. and Goldowitz, D. and Holt, R.A. and Simpson, E.M.

DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-11-106

The transcription factor encyclopedia.

Yusuf D and Butland SL and Swanson MI and Bolotin E and Ticoll A and Cheung WA and Zhang XY and Dickman CT and Fulton DL and Lim JS and Schnabl JM and Ramos OH and Vasseur-Cognet M and de Leeuw CN and Simpson EM and Ryffel GU and Lam EW and Kist R and Wilson MS and Marco-Ferreres R

DOI: 10.1186/gb-2012-13-3-r24 PubMed: 22458515

MIR@NT@N: A framework integrating transcription factors, microRNAs and their targets to identify sub-network motifs in a meta-regulation network model

BMC Bioinformatics

Le Bchec, A. and Portales-Casamar, E. and Vetter, G. and Moes, M. and Zindy, P. and Saumet, A. and Arenillas, D. and Theillet, C. and Wasserman, W.W. and Lecellier, C.-H. and Friederich, E.

DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-12-67

The NeuroDevNet Neuroinformatics Core

Seminars in Pediatric Neurology

Portales-Casamar, E. and Evans, A. and Wasserman, W. and Pavlidis, P.

DOI: 10.1016/j.spen.2011.02.001

Laboratory Animal Management Assistant (LAMA): A LIMS for active research colonies

Mammalian Genome

Milisavljevic, M. and Hearty, T. and Wong, T.Y.T. and Portales-Casamar, E. and Simpson, E.M. and Wasserman, W.W.

DOI: 10.1007/s00335-010-9258-6

Global mapping of binding sites for Nrf2 identifies novel targets in cell survival response through chip-seq profiling and network analysis

Nucleic Acids Research

Malhotra, D. and Portales-Casamar, E. and Singh, A. and Srivastava, S. and Arenillas, D. and Happel, C. and Shyr, C. and Wakabayashi, N. and Kensler, T.W. and Wasserman, W.W. and Biswal, S.

DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq212

A regulatory toolbox of MiniPromoters to drive selective expression in the brain

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Portales-Casamar, E. and Swanson, D.J. and Liu, L. and De Leeuw, C.N. and Banks, K.G. and Ho Sui, S.J. and Fulton, D.L. and Ali, J. and Amirabbasi, M. and Arenillas, D.J. and Babyak, N. and Black, S.F. and Bonaguro, R.J. and Brauer, E. and Candido, T.R. and Castellarin, M. and Chen, J. and Chen, Y. and Cheng, J.C.Y. and Chopra, V. and Docking, T.R. and Dreolini, L. and D'Souza, C.A. and Flynn, E.K. and Glenn, R. and Hatakka, K. and Hearty, T.G. and Imanian, B. and Jiang, S. and Khorasan-zadeh, S. and Komljenovic, I. and Laprise, S. and Liao, N.Y. and Lim, J.S. and Lithwick, S. and Liu, F. and Liu, J. and Lu, M. and McConechy, M. and McLeod, A.J. and Milisavljevic, M. and Mis, J. and O'Connor, K. and Palma, B. and Palmquist, D.L. and Schmouth, J.-F. and Swanson, M.I. and Tam, B. and Ticoll, A. and Turner, J.L. and Varhol, R. and Vermeulen, J. and Watkins, R.F. and Wilson, G. and Wong, B.K.Y. and Wong, S.H. and Wong, T.Y.T. and Yang, G.S. and Ypsilanti, A.R. and Jones, S.J.M. and Holt, R.A. and Goldowitz, D. and Wasserman, W.W. and Simpson, E.M.

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1009158107

JASPAR 2010: The greatly expanded open-access database of transcription factor binding profiles

Nucleic Acids Research

Portales-Casamar, E. and Thongjuea, S. and Kwon, A.T. and Arenillas, D. and Zhao, X. and Valen, E. and Yusuf, D. and Lenhard, B. and Wasserman, W.W. and Sandelin, A.

DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp950

Transcriptional repression of microRNA genes by PML-RARA increases expression of key cancer proteins in acute promyelocytic leukemia

Blood

Saumet, A. and Vetter, G. and Bouttier, M. and Portales-Casamar, E. and Wasserman, W.W. and Maurin, T. and Mari, B. and Barbry, P. and Vallar, L. and Friederich, E. and Arar, K. and Cassinat, B. and Chomienne, C. and Lecellier, C.-H.

DOI: 10.1182/blood-2008-05-158139

The PAZAR database of gene regulatory information coupled to the ORCA toolkit for the study of regulatory sequences

Nucleic Acids Research

Portales-Casamar, E. and Arenillas, D. and Lim, J. and Swanson, M.I. and Jiang, S. and McCallum, A. and Kirov, S. and Wasserman, W.W.

DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn783

Identification of a set of genes showing regionally enriched expression in the mouse brain

BMC Neuroscience

D'Souza, C.A. and Chopra, V. and Varhol, R. and Xie, Y.-Y. and Bohacec, S. and Zhao, Y. and Lee, L.L.C. and Bilenky, M. and Portales-Casamar, E. and He, A. and Wasserman, W.W. and Goldowitz, D. and Marra, M.A. and Holt, R.A. and Simpson, E.M. and Jones, S.J.M.

DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-9-66

ORegAnno: An open-access community-driven resource for regulatory annotation

Nucleic Acids Research

Griffith, O.L. and Montgomery, S.B. and Bernier, B. and Chu, B. and Kasaian, K. and Aerts, S. and Mahony, S. and Sleumer, M.C. and Bilenky, M. and Haeussler, M. and Griffith, M. and Gallo, S.M. and Giardine, B. and Hooghe, B. and Van loo, P. and Blanco, E. and Ticoll, A. and Lithwick, S. and Portales-Casamar, E. and Donaldson, I.J. and Robertson, G. and Wadelius, C. and De bleser, P. and Vlieghe, D. and Halfon, M.S. and Wasserman, W. and Hardison, R. and Bergman, C.M. and Jones, S.J.M.

DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm967

Erratum: Trio controls the mature organization of neuronal clusters in the hindbrain (Journal of Neuroscience (2007) (10323-10332))

Journal of Neuroscience

Backer, S. and Hidalgo-Snchez, M. and Offner, N. and Portales-Casamar, E. and Debant, A. and Fort, P. and Gauthier-Rouvire, C. and Bloch-Gallego, E.

Trio controls the mature organization of neuronal clusters in the hindbrain

Journal of Neuroscience

Backer, S. and Hidalgo-Snchez, M. and Offner, N. and Portales-Casamar, E. and Debant, A. and Fort, P. and Gauthier-Rouvire, C. and Bloch-Gallego, E.

DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1102-07.2007

PAZAR: A framework for collection and dissemination of cis-regulatory sequence annotation

Genome Biology

Portales-Casamar, E. and Kirov, S. and Lim, J. and Lithwick, S. and Swanson, M.I. and Ticoll, A. and Snoddy, J. and Wasserman, W.W.

DOI: 10.1186/gb-2007-8-10-r207

M-cadherin activates Rac1 GTPase through the Rho-GEF Trio during myoblast fusion

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Charrasse, S. and Comunale, F. and Fortier, M. and Portales-Casamar, E. and Debant, A. and Gauthier-Rouvire, C.

DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E06-08-0766

Identification of novel neuronal isoforms of the Rho-GEF Trio

Biology of the Cell

Portales-Casamar, E. and Brian?on-Marjollet, A. and Fromont, S. and Triboulet, R. and Debant, A.

DOI: 10.1042/BC20050009

Human p63RhoGEF, a novel RhoA-specific guanine nucleotide exchange factor, is localized in cardiac sarcomere.

Souchet M and Portales-Casamar E and Mazurais D and Schmidt S and Lger I and Javr JL and Robert P and Berrebi-Bertrand I and Bril A and Gout B and Debant A and Calmels TP

PubMed: 11861769

02 / 2002

The antidepressant-like effect induced by the sigma1 (s1) receptor agonist igmesine involves modulation of intracellular calcium mobilization

Psychopharmacology

Urani, A. and Romieu, P. and Portales-Casamar, E. and Roman, F.J. and Maurice, T.

DOI: 10.1007/s00213-002-1150-y

Human p63RhoGEF, a novel RhoA-specific guanine nucleotide exchange factor, is localized in cardiac sarcomere

Journal of Cell Science

Souchet, M. and Portales-Casamar, E. and Mazurais, D. and Schmidt, S. and Lger, I. and Javr, J.-L. and Robert, P. and Berrebi-Bertrand, I. and Bril, A. and Gout, B. and Debant, A. and Calmels, T.P.G.

Trio: A multidomain guanine nucleotide exchange factor for Rho GTPases involved in axonal development,Trio: Un facteur d'change des GTPases Rho aux multiples facettes impliqu dans le guidage axonal

Medecine/Sciences

Bellanger, J.-M. and Schmidt, S. and Estrach, S. and Portales-Casamar, E. and Diriong, S. and Debant, A.

DOI: 10.1051/medsci/200117121316

Integrated Clinical Research Architecture Implementation - Technical Proof-of-Concept

There is a need for translational research infrastructure that enables interoperability between clinical and research systems, as well as between jurisdictions. We propose to demonstrate the utility and feasibility of a Canadian translational research informatics infrastructure by implementing the informatics Integrating Biology & the Bedside (i2b2) data warehousing framework. As a proof-of-concept, we will focus on two academic health institutions from two provinces (BCCHR, BC & WCHRI, AB) and one health domain (diabetes).

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