Dr. Helena Piccinini, MD, MSc, CCFP, FCFP

Nova Scotia Health Research Fund
$99,942.00
Charting our own course : Practical and ethical considerations implementing Ai-supported charting in primary care
Principal Investigator : Dr. Mathew Grandy: Co-Investigators: Marshall EG, Thomson C, Piccinini H, Welton S, Rudzicz F, Green, Zed J, Horrey, K, Lavergne R, Pottie K, Stringer K, Atkinson S, Sadler L

CIHR Project Grant: Changing primary care capacity in Canada (4C): A cross-provincial mixed methods study to inform workforce planning.
2024 – 2028
NPI: Lavergne MR; Co-PIs: Easley JK, Grudniewicz A, Hedden LK, McDonald JT, Rudoler T, Sauré A. Co-Is: Bergin F, Correia R, Hakim J, Johnson C, Jose C, Katz A, Martin-Misener R, McCracken R, Moody E, Nethery E, Patrick J, Piccinini-Vallis H, Simkin S, Wilson E.
$1,041,430.

SSHRC Insight Development Grant: Ready for pregnancy and told to lose weight: Exploring the intersect between weight and infertility stigma.
2023 – 2025
PI: Nagpal TS; Co-As: Alberga A, Cote M, Nutter S. Collaborators: Adamo K, Baillargeon JP, Brennand E, Daniel A, Heslehurst N, Piccinini-Vallis H. $33,633 

CIHR Transforming Health with Integrated Care (THINC) Implementation Science Team Grants. PriCARE Integration – Case management in primary healthcare for people with complex healthcare needs to improve integrated care: a large-scale implementation study.
2023-2028
NPI: Hudon C. Co-PIs: Chouinard M-C, Doucet S, Piccinini-Vallis H. Co-PKU: Fairman K, Lachance P, Sampalli T, Zed J, Benoît R, Gaudreau A, Rubenstein D, Wilhelm L, Rock-Hervieux A-L. Co-I: Brodeur M, Chênevert D, Depelteau A, Dupont M, Karam K, Légaré F, Luke A, Macdonald M, Morvannou A, Ramsden V, Rodriguez del Barrio L. Co-KU: Beaulieu M-C, Boutilier N, Tomblin-Murphy G.
$1,448,560

NSH Research Fund: GUT LINK: A Pilot Study to Evaluate the Comparative Effectiveness of an Evidence-based Care Pathway Across Primary and GI Specialty Care. PI: Stewart M. Co-PIs: Cassidy C, Piccinini-Vallis H, Jones J.
$99,317.54
2022-2024

CIHR Project Grant: SmartMoms Canada: An evaluation of a mobile app intervention to support a healthy pregnancy. PI: Adamo K. Co-Is: Baillargeon J, Nerenberg K, Piccinini-Vallis H, Redman L, Shen G.
2021-2024
$439,874

CIHR Operating Grant: ECIs in Maternal, Reproductive, Child & Youth Health. Conversation Cards for Moms: A mixed methods study to create and evaluate a new clinical tool for use in maternity care settings. 
2021-2023
PIs: Alberga A, Cohen T. CoIs: Piccinini-Vallis H, Ball G, Farnesi C, Adamo K, Nagpal T, Rhodes R, Gaudet L, Vallis M.
$243,199

NSH Research Fund: Establishing a Platform for the Systematic Extraction of Primary Care Prenatal Data from Electronic Medical Records: a Retrospective Cohort Study of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus.
2021-2023 
PI: Piccinini-Vallis H. Co-Is: Andreou P, Bussey L, Coolen J, Grandy M, MacKeen L, Sabri S.
$31,706

 SSHRC Partnership Engagement Grant: Understanding internalized weight bias during pregnancy.
2021-2022
PI: Nagpal T. Co Is: Piccinini-Vallis H, Adamo K. Collaborators: Vallis M, Gaudet L, Bell R, Davenport M, Nerenberg K, da Silva D, Liu R. $ 24,572

Dalhousie Medical Education, Living Laboratory Fund. Virtual Integrative IP Access (VIIA): Advancing medical and Interprofessional (IP) education through a Virtual Family Medicine (FM), Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy (OT-PT) Collaboration.
2020-2021 
PI: Zed J, Co Is: Shaw L, Stringer K, O’Keefe C, Pereira D, Harris J, Smith D, Piccinini-Vallis H, Townsend L.
$5000

Dalhousie Medical Education Living Laboratory Fund. Comparison of Patients’ Perceptions of Family Physicians’ Patient-Centredness between Virtual and In-Person Clinical Encounters.
2021-2022
PI; Piccinini-Vallis H; Co-Is: Zed J, Easley J.
$4,200

Pearce N, Nagpal T, Hawa R, Sockalingam S, Lee-Baggley D, Abraham J, Dhaliwal K, Forhan M, Furlano J, Kushner R, McMillan M, Nutter S, Piccinini-Vallis H, Vallis M, Wharton S, Wiljer D, Hadjiyannakis S. Mapping obesity education in Canada: What has been done and where do we go from here? Obesity. 31(S2):53-289. https://doi.org/10.1002/oby.23939

Pearce N, Nagpal T, Hawa R, Sockalingam S, Lee-Baggley D, Abraham J, Dhaliwal K, Forhan M, Furlano J, Kushner R, McMillan M, Nutter S, Piccinini-Vallis H, Vallis M, Wharton S, Wiljer D, Hadjiyannakis S. Mapping obesity education in Canada: What makes you a competent Doc? Obesity. 31(S2):53-289. https://doi.org/10.1002/oby.23939

Abraham JR, Nagpal TS, Pearce N, Dhaliwal KK, El-Hussein M, Forhan M, Hadjiyanakis S,  Hawa R, Kushner RF, Lee-Baggley D, McMillan M, Nutter S, Piccinini-Vallis H, Vallis M, Wharton S, Wiljer D, Sockalingam S. Transforming the Landscape of Obesity Education - The Canadian Obesity Education Competencies. Obesity Pillars. 2023 Oct 16:100091.

Zed J, Shaw L, Domm D, Piccinini-Vallis H, Stringer K. Virtual interprofessional (VIP) education, a family medicine-occupational therapy-physiotherapy collaborative experience: The perspectives of patients, learners and providers on the opportunities and challenges. Journal of Interprofessional Care. 2023 Oct 22:1-9.

Nagpal TS, Pearce N, Sockalingam S, Hawa Raed, Dhalwal KK, Lee-Baggley D, El-Hussein M, Nutter S, Piccinini-Vallis H, Vallis M, Dennett L, Forhan M, Hadjiyanankkis S, Kushner RF, McMillan M, Wharton S, Wilier D, Abraham R. A scoping review of obesity education interventions for current and prospective medical professionals in Canada. Obesity Pillars. 2023 Aug 19:100085.  

King A, Piccinini-Vallis H. (Senior Author). Patient-perceived patient-centeredness during pregnancy. JOGC. 2023 Aug 23:102194.

Langille C, Andreou P, Piccinini-Vallis H (Senior Author). The Prevalence of Pregnancy-Specific Perinatal Anxiety in Nova Scotia. Maternal and Child Health. 2023 Jul;27(7):1127-32. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-023-03639-y

Piccinini-Vallis H, Zed J, Easley J. Comparison of patients’ perceptions of family physicians’ patient-centredness between virtual and in-person clinical encounters: a cross-sectional study. Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care. 12(3):p 517-522, March 2023. DOI: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1511_22

Adamo KB, Semeniuk K, da Silva DF, Souza SC, Baillargeon JP, Redman LM, Piccinini-Vallis H, Shen GX, Nerenberg K. SmartMoms Canada: An evaluation of a mobile app intervention to support a healthy pregnancy. Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2023 Mar 1;126:107066.

Nagpal TS, Ramos Salas X, Vallis M, Piccinini-Vallis H, Adamo K, Alberga AS, Bell R, da Silva DF, Davenport MH, Gaudet L, Incollingo Rodriguez AC, Liu RH, Myre M, Nerenberg K, Nutter S, Russell-Mayhew S, Souza SCS, Vilhan C. Exploring weight bias internalization in pregnancy. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth (2022) 22:605. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-022-04940-4

McKeough R, Blanchard C, Piccinini-Vallis H (Senior Author). Pregnant and postpartum women's perceptions of barriers and enablers to physical activity during pregnancy: a qualitative systematic review. Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health. 2022 Jul;67(4):448-62. http://doi.org/10.1111/jmwh.13375

Bedford R, Woolcott C, Piccinini-Vallis H (Senior Author). The relationship between skin-to-skin contact and rates of exclusive breastfeeding at four months among a group of mothers in Nova Scotia: a retrospective cohort study. Canadian Journal of Public Health. 2022 Aug;113(4):589-97. https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-022-00627-7

Mosher A, Piccinini-Vallis H (Senior Author). Addressing the frequency with which primary care providers address sleep of infants and young children. Journal of Sleep Research. 2022 Oct;31(5):e13579. http://doi.org/10.1111/jsr.13579

Nagpal T, Souza S, Moffat M, Hayes L, Nuyts T, Liu R, Bogaerts A, Dervis S, Piccinini-Vallis H, Adamo K, Heslehurst N. Does pre-pregnancy weight change have an effect on subsequent pregnancy health outcomes? A systematic review and meta-analysis. Obesity Reviews. 2022;23(1):e13324

Souza SC, da Silva DF, Piccinini-Vallis H, Nagpal TS, Mattes VV, Paludo AC, Ramos Salas X, Adamo KB. Thinking ahead: Brazilian healthcare providers also need culturally relevant tools to communicate gestational weight gain recommendations. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 2022;115(2):588 - 589

Piccinini-Vallis H, Brown JB, Ryan BL, McDonald SD, Stewart M. Women's views on advice about weight gain in pregnancy: a grounded theory study. Maternal and Child Health. 2021;25(11):1717-1724

Nagpal TS, Ramos Salas X, Vallis M, Piccinini-Vallis H, Adamo KB, Alberga AS, Bell RC, da Silva DF, Davenport MH, Gaudet L, Incollingo Rodriguez AC, Liu RH, Myre M, Nerenberg K, Nutter S, Russell-Mayhew S, Souza SC, Vilhan C. Coming soon: An internalized weight bias assessment scale for use during pregnancy. Obesity. 2021;29(5):788-789

Stewart M, Fortin M, Brown JB, Ryan BL, Pariser P, Charles J, Pham T-N,  Boeckxstaens P, Reichert S, Zou GY, Bhattacharya O, Katz A, Piccinini-Vallis H, Sampali T, Wong S, Zwarenstein  M. Patient-centred innovation for multimorbidity care: a mixed-methods, randomized trial and qualitative evaluation of the patients’ experience. British Journal of General Practice. 2021;71(705): e320-e330

Piccinini-Vallis H, Woolcott C, Miller L, Snelgrove-Clarke E, Cahill S. The relationship between pre-pregnancy attempts to lose weight and gestational weight gain: an exploratory primary care prospective cohort study. JOGC. 2021;43(3):337-343

Wharton S, Lau DCW, Vallis M, Sharma AM, Biertho L, Campbell-Scherer D, Adamo K, Alberga A, Bell R, Boulé N, Boyling E, Brown J, Calam B, Clarke C, Crowshoe L, Divalentino D, Forhan M, Freedhoff Y, Gagner M, Glazer S, Grand C, Green M, Hahn M, Hawa R, Henderson R, Hong D, Hung P, Janssen I, Jacklin K, Johnson-Stoklossa C, Kemp A, Kirk S, Kuk J, Langlois MF, Lear S, McInnes A, Macklin D, Naji L, Manjoo P, Morin MP, Nerenberg K, Patton I, Pedersen S, Pereira L, Piccinini-Vallis H, Poddar M, Poirier P, Prud'homme D, Salas XR, Rueda-Clausen C, Russell-Mayhew S, Shiau J, Sherifali D, Sievenpiper J, Sockalingam S, Taylor V, Toth E, Twells L, Tytus R, Walji S, Walker L, Wicklum S. Obesity in adults: a clinical practice guideline. CMAJ. 2020;192(31):e875- 891