Sharon Smile
MD, MSc
Investigator and Division Head of Developmental Pediatrics, BC Children's Hospital
Co-Investigator. Listening to the Margins: Building a New Research Network to Support the Social Needs of Racialized Children with Disabilities in Canada. Funding Source: SSHRC
Co-Principal Investigator. Equity in Access: Have telemedicine autism spectrum disorder diagnostic assessments inadvertently disadvantaged children from marginalized populations? Funding Source: AHSC AFP Innovation Fund
Principal Investigator. ASD and ARFID Feeding Hub: Improving Health. Funding Source: Autism Speaks Canada Family Services Community Grant
Principal Investigator. Applying a multidisciplinary framework, the Medico Oral/Motor Behaviour Sensory Environmental approach, MOBS E approach, to assess feeding challenges in children with neurodevelopmental and neurobehavioural disorder. A feasibility study. Funding Source: AHSC AFP Innovation Fund
At BC Children’s, we are making discoveries that save lives and transform health care for children in our province and around the world. Our research portfolio includes basic, clinical, population, and public health research.
EXPLORE OUR RESEARCH
Sign up for compelling stories about innovative science, the doctors and researchers who turn ideas into discoveries and treatments, and the kids and families whose lives are changed.
BC Children's Hospital Research Institute operates on the ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples — xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Further, this acknowledgement, gratitude, and respect extends to all of the First Nations communities on whose territories the Research Institute builds relationships and operates in British Columbia.
© 2026 BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute. All rights reserved.
Crafted with by Forge and Smith
