Dr. Patrick McGrath
Fellow
Current Employer
Dalhousie University
Election Year
1995
Academy
Academy of Social Sciences
Discipline
Psychology
Department
Research Services
Keywords
Psychology, child, pediatric, pain, health
PATRICK JOHN MCGRATH, Professor, Departments of Psychology, Pediatrics and Psychiatry, Dalhousie University has contributed significantly to the understanding of pain in children in several areas. His landmark work on measurement of pain in children has been the standard against which other measures are compared and has allowed for the evaluation of treatment of childhood pain. He has also made significant contributions to our understanding of postoperative pain, headache, cancer pain and recurrent abdominal pain. Hs recent work has expanded our view of children's understanding of pain and reaction to everyday pain. Hs works on children's pain for parents have been translated and distributed world-wide.