Grace Lee
RN, MSc PhD student
Grace Lee is in her second year of doctoral studies in the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto. Grace is currently the Central Coordinator of Nursing Research at the Centre for Nursing at The Hospital for Sick Children. She is also a research trainee in the Research Institute at the Hospital for Sick Children and the CIHR Pain in Child Health program. She is also a Knowledge Translation subcommittee member of the University of Toronto Centre for the Study of Pain. Grace’s research interests are on the assessment and management of pain in infants. She is actively participating in various research projects under Dr. Bonnie Stevens’ supervision. These projects include the Infants at Risk for Neurologic Impairment, Premature Infant Pain Profile-Revised, and Cochrane sucrose review. Grace will be examining pain management of infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in her PhD dissertation.
University:University of Toronto
Principal Faculty:Faculty of Nursing (Lawrence S. Bloomberg)
Principal Department/Program:Nursing
Supervisor:Bonnie Stevens
Principal Hospital Appointment(s):Hospital for Sick Children
Telephone:416-813-7654, ext. 1539
E-mail Address:graceyc.lee@mail.utoronto.ca
Major Research/Education Interests: Assessment and management of pain in infants
Pain Research Interests: Assessment and management of pain in infants
Top Awards:
(1) CIHR Pain in Infants at risk for Neurologic Impairment (PINI) Doctoral Fellowship
(2) Rosenstadt Nursing Fellowship, Registered Nurses’ Foundation of Ontario (RNFOO)
(3) Maternal Child Nurses’ Interest Group (MCNIG) Doctorate Scholarship
(4) Kathleen King Doctoral Fellowship
(5) Ontario Graduate Scholarship
(6) Nora J. Parker Ph.D. Admission Fellowship
(7) University of Toronto Fellowship
Key Publications:
(1) Stevens, B., & Lee, G. Y. (in press). Neonatal Pain Measurement. In McGrath, P.J., Stevens, B., Walker, S., & Zempsky, W (Eds.). Oxford Textbook of Paediatric Pain. Oxford University Press: Oxford.
(2) Stevens, B., Yamada, J., Lee, G., & Ohlsson A. (under review). Sucrose for analgesia in newborn infants undergoing painful procedures. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Art. No.: CD001069. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD001069.pub3.
(3) Stevens, B., Dionne, K., Gibbins, S., Yamada, J., Lee, G., Herzog, L., Graydon, B., Johnston, C., & Taddio, A. (2012). Feasibility of the Premature Infant Pain Profile-Revised (PIPP-R), presented at the 15th Annual Neonatal Advanced Practice Nursing Forum. Show Me The Evidence: Celebrating 15 Years of Excellence in Neonatal Advanced Practice Nursing, Washington, DC.
(4) Stevens, B., Gibbins, B., Yamada, J., Dionne, K., Lee, G., McGrath, P., Asztalos, E., O’Brien, K., Beyene, J., McNamara, P., Johnston, C., Pillai Riddell, R., Karim, A., Rosenbloom, B. (2012). Health Care Professionals’ Perceptions of Acute Pain Indicators in Extremely Low Gestational Age (ELGA) Infants, presented at the Annual Canadian Pain Society Conference. Pain Hurts Everyone – Search for Solutions, Whistler, B.C.
(5) Yamada, J., Lee, G.Y., Khan, S., Ohlsson, A., Stevens, B. (2011). Sucrose for Analgesia in Newborn Infants: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, presented at the International Forum on Pediatric Pain, Halifax, NS.

