Biography

Title

• Adjunct Clinical Professor, Université de Montréal (2019)

• Ph.D. Clinical Epidemiology & Health Research , 2016 – 2021. Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto
• Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship, The Hospital for Sick Children, 2016 - 2017. University of Toronto.
• Pediatric Intensive Care Subspecialty Training, CHU Sainte-Justine, 2012 - 2016. Université de Montréal.
• Clinician Investigator Program, 2013 - 2016. Université de Montréal.
• M.Sc., Biomedical Sciences - Clinical Research option, 2014 – 2016. Université de Montréal.
• M.D., C.M., McGill University, 2005 - 2009

1. Medication Safety: Dr. Roumeliotis' research focuses on establishing the nature, severity and risk factors of medications errors and adverse drug events in critical care. Understanding these events will help build better safety systems to reduce their occurrence
2. Discharge Safety: her research aims to evaluate the safety practice of discharging children directly home for the intensive care unit. While the practice is efficient and gaining in prevalence, she studies the healthcare utilization after discharge and aim to create tools to identify at-risk patients that need more support after discharge.
3. Indirect Impacts of COVID-19 restrictions on children: as a member of the nationwide POPCORN research group, their study examines the effect of school closure and public health restrictions on mental health visits in youth over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Clinical Epidemiology
• Safety Systems
• Health services research
• Pediatric Critical Care
• Cohort studies
• Health Administrative data

Career Summary

Nadia Roumeliotis is a pediatric intensivist and clinician scientist at CHU Sainte-Justine. Her doctoral work, funded by the Fonds de Recherche Quebec Santé (FRQS) (2017-2020) and the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group (CCCTG) focused on drug error and harm in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU).

As an early career investigator, she has received CIHR funding for two projects; a prospective multicenter cohort evaluating medication errors and adverse drug events in critical care, and for a Pan-Canadian cohort evaluating the safety of discharge home directly from the PICU . She has also been funded by a young clinician investigator salary award from the Faculty of Medicine of Université de Montréal and start-up funds from the Sainte-Justine Research Centre.

Her scientific work also includes leading a study on the mental health outcomes in youth during the COVID-19 pandemic, within the Pediatric Outcomes Improvement through Coordination of Research Networks (POPCORN) group. Her community engagement includes participation in the ‘Comité délibératif permanent’ of the Institut National d’Excellence en Santé et Services Sociaux (INESSS) in Quebec.

Awards and Distinctions

• Best Oral Presentation in Big Data, May 2018. Institute of Health Policy Management Evaluation, Research Day, University of Toronto
• Best Poster in Quality and Safety Science, June 2018. Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Research Day, University of Toronto
• Canadian Critical Care Trials Group (CCCTG)– Fellowship Award, 2017-2019. Amount : $25,000 per year, for 2 years
• IHPME GSU Poster Award, May 2017. IHPME Research Day, University of Toronto
• Rising Researcher Travel Award, Dept of Pediatrics, Sickkids Hospital, April 2017. For Canadian Child Health Clinician Scientist Program (CCHCSP), Annual Conference, Calgary
• Scholarship – ‘Bourse Perras, Cholette & Cholette’ –Subspecialty training award, 2016-2017. Amount : $20,000, Postgraduate Studies, Université de Montréal.
• Award – Prix Luc Chicoine, 2016. CHU Sainte-Justine, for Excellence in Clinical Pediatrics.
• Travel Award – Canadian Critical Care Trials Group Fellows Day, 2016. Amount : $500, Canadian Critical Care Trials Group (CCCTG), Halifax
• Salary scholarship – PGY-6 Clinician Investigator Program Scholarship, 2015-2016. Amount: $70,000, Régie de l’Assurance-Maladie du Québec (RAMQ)
• Award – Prix Jacques Lacroix, 2015. Department of Pediatric Critical Care, CHU Sainte-Justine.
• Scholarship – Bourse de la Financière de Professionnels, 2015. Amount: $4,000, Postgraduate Studies, Université de Montréal
• Scholarship - Excellence in Masters Program - CHU Sainte-Justine Foundation, 2014-2015. Amount: $5,000, CHU Sainte-Justine Research Centre, Montréal, Qc
• Scholarship - Biomedical Sciences Program of University of Montreal, 2014-2015. Amount: 4,000$, Postgraduate Studies- Biomedical Sciences, University of Montréal
• OMAF Scholarship, 2009. McGill International Health Initiative (MIHI), International Health Office and Centre for Tropical Diseases and Faculty of Medicine, for elective in Public Health, Capetown, South Africa.

Presentations

• Que sait-on des impacts de la pandémie de COVID-19 sur la santé mentale et l’éducation des enfants? Pediatric Grand Rounds, CHU Sainte-Justine, Feb 2023
• Canadian Critical Care Forum “Setting up a Research Forum, Dec 2021
• Grand rounds – “Et si on réfléchissait ensemble à la culture dans notre hôpital?” Mar 2020, Department of Pediatrics, CHU Sainte-Justine
• Evaluating Safety Practices in Critical Care”, Scientific research rounds, CHU Sainte-Justine Research Centre, Nov 2020
• Pediatric Follow-up Clinics, Invited Speaker - World Congress Intensive Care, Melbourne, Oct 2019

Publications

• Roumeliotis N, Ramil J, Garros D, Alnaji F, Bourdages M, Brule V, Dryden-Palmer K, Muttalib F, Nicoll J, Sauthier S, Murthy S and Fontela P. Designing a national pediatric critical care database: a Delphi consensus study. Accepted Can J Anaesth 2022
• Daoust D, Dodin P, Sy E, Lau V, Roumeliotis N. Prevalence and Readmission Rates of Discharge Directly Home from the Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Units: a Systematic Review. Ped Crit Care Med 2023 Jan 1;24(1):62-71. PMID: 36594800.
• Roumeliotis N, Hadj Hassine, Ducruet T, Lacroix J. Discharge directly home from the pediatric intensive care unit: a retrospective cohort study. Ped Crit Care Med 2023 Jan 1:24(1):e9-e19. Epub Sept 2022. PMID: 36053070.
• Roumeliotis N, Pullenayegum E, Taddio A, Rochon P, Parshuram C. Liver enzymes after short-term acetaminophen error in critically ill children. Eur J Pediatr 2022 May 18. doi: 10.1007/s00431-022-04502-y. PMID: 35585255
• Roumeliotis N, Frndova H, Pullenayegum E, Taddio A, Rochon P, Parshuram C. Dosing of enteral acetaminophen in Critically Ill Children: A Cohort Study. Arch Dis Child Apr 2022; 107(4):388-393. PMID: 34580057
• Ducharme-Crevier L, La KA, Francois T, Gerardis G, Beauchamp M, Harrington K, Roumeliotis N, Farrell C, Toledano B, Lacroix J, Du Pont-Thibodeau G.PICU Follow-up Clinic: Patient and Family Outcomes 2 Months After Discharge. Ped Crit Care Med 2021 Nov 1;22(11):935-943. PMID: 34101680.
• Roumeliotis N, Pullenayegum E, Taddio A, Rochon P, Parshuram C. A Modified Delphi to Define Drug Dosing Errors in Pediatric Critical Care. BMC Pediatrics 2020 Oct 21;20(1):488. doi: 10.1186/s12887-020-02384-3
• Roumeliotis N, Sniderman J, Newton A, Anand V, Adams-Webber T, Rochon P, Taddio A, Parshuram C. Effect of Electronic Prescribing Strategies on Medication Error and Harm in Hospital: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. J Gen Intern Med. 2019. Oct;34(10)2210-2223.
• Roumeliotis N, Parisien G, Charette S, Arpin E, Brunet F, Jouvet P. Reorganizing Care with the Implementation of Electronic Medical Records: A Time-Motion Study in the PICU. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2018 Apr;19(4):e172-e179.
• Roumeliotis N, Ducruet T, Bateman S, Randolph A, Lacroix J, Emeriaud G. Determinants of red blood cell transfusion in pediatric trauma patients admitted to the intensive care unit. Transfusion. 2017 Jan;57(1):187-194.