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Grants & Awards

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  • 2023 Apr – 2025 Mar:  2022/2023 HAHSO Innovation Grant Competition. Long-term maternal and neonatal outcomes following forceps, vacuum, and cesarean delivery in the second stage of labour. PI Muraca G. Co-I: D’Souza R. CAD 195,567 
  • 2023 Apr – 2027 Mar:  Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). Advancing equity in maternal and perinatal care In Canada: Population-based investigations of racial and ethnic disparities in severe maternal morbidity and severe perinatal morbidity and mortality. PI: D’Souza R.  NPI: Muraca G; Co-Is: Barrett J, Darling J, Dzakpasu S, Fell D, Lisonkova S,  Malhame I, Maxwell C, Mehrabadi A, Park M, Shah P, Shehata N, Tunde-Byass M. CAD 336,600 
  • 2023 Apr – 2024 Mar: Canadian Institutes of Health Research: Bridge Funding. Conceptualizing Maternal Morbidity by Engaging Individuals with Pregnancy Experience – an International Group Concept Mapping Study. PI: Muraca G;  Malhamé I, Ospina M. NPI D;Souza R. Co-I: Anderson L, Murray-Davis B, Barrett J, Dore S, Guyatt G, Roy R, Banner H, Berry N, J Cook, Keepanasseril A, Lacaze-Masmonteil T, O’Campo P, Metcalfe A. CAD 100,000 
  • 2022 Nov – 2023 Nov:  2022 ISTH SSC Small Grant FundingRequest: Understanding shared decision-making process regarding the choice of anticoagulant for pregnant patients with mechanical heart valves: an international, qualitative research study. PI Rohan D’Souza [Co-PI with Nadine Shehata] Co-I: Malhamé I, Keepanasseril A, Silversides C, Shahil-Feroz A.  USD 20,000 
  • 2023 Mar – 2025 Feb: Juravinski Research Institute (JRI). Towards a bright path for every child in Hamilton. Georgiades S, Kraus de Camargo O, Morrison K,     Wahi G. PI Rohan D’Souza. CAD $1,550,000 
  • 2023 Apr – 2024 Mar: Helliwell Foundation for Hematology Research. Optimizing antithrombotics for pregnant individuals with mechanical heart valves.  PI – Shehata N. [Co-I Rohan D’Souza].  CAD $80,000 
  • 2023 Apr – 2025 Mar: Hamilton Academic Health Science Organization (HAHSO). Launching the Canadian Obstetric Survey System: a pilot study. PI Rohan D’Souza and Jon Barrett. CAD $196,091
  • 2022 Jul – 2023 Jun: McMaster Faculty of Health Sciences Infrastructure Grant. PI Rohan D’Souza. CAD $29,566
  • 2022 Oct – 2025 Sep: CIHR Project Grant. The Predicting Short-term Adverse Cardiovascular outcomes in preeclampsia using biomarkers (SARABI) Pilot Study. PI Isabelle Malhamé and Styliani Daskalopoulou. [Co-I Rohan D’Souza]. CAD $401,626
  • 2022 Apr – 2023 Mar: SOGC Kitty Carr Research Grant. Building and enhancing capacity for conducting standardized facility-based reviews to reduce maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity in Canada through a multi-modal educational intervention. PI – Isabelle Malhamé [Co-I Rohan D’Souza]. CAD $9,990
  • 2022 Apr – 2026 Mar: CIHR Project Grant. Expanding midwifery services in Canada: Improving equitable access to sexual and reproductive healthcare through midwifery contributions. PI – Elizabeth Darling, Ellen Blais, Karen Marie Lawford. Co-I Rohan D’Souza. CAD $1,422,900
  • 2022 Apr – 2024 Mar: Academic Health Science Organization. Racial/Ethnic disparities in postpartum hemorrhage in Canada. PI: Giulia Muraca, Rohan D’Souza and Dustin Costescu. CAD $189,306.84
  • 2022 Apr – 2024 Mar: Academic Health Science Organization. A collaborative care approach to improve screening, assessment and services to address the mental health consequences of severe maternal morbidity– a pilot study. PI Alison Shea, Rohan D’Souza and Susan Ellis. Post-doctoral fellow: Kristin Horsley. CAD $184,145.59
  • 2021 Sep – 2023 Aug: Ferring Racial Equality Research Grants. Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Postpartum Haemorrhage in Canada. PI – Giulia Muraca [Co-I Rohan D’Souza]. Euro $20,000
  • 2021 Oct – 2024 Sep: CIHR Project Grant Spring competition. Improving Maternity Outcomes by Engaging Stakeholders in a Holistic Assessment of the Social and Clinical Determinants of Serious Maternal Morbidity in Canada – a Feasibility Study. PI Rohan D’Souza and Isabelle Malhamé. CAD $321,300
  • 2021 Oct – 2023 Sep: CIHR Project Grant Spring Competition. The Atrial Fibrilation in Pregnancy: assessing severe maternal morbidity and anticoagulation strategies” (AFIB-PREG) study. PI – I Malhamé, S Bernatsky, A Bérard, L Pilot. [Co-I Rohan D’Souza]. CAD $275,000
  • 2021 Jul – 2023 Jun: Public Health Agency of Canada, Immunization Partnership Fund. Increasing Confidence, Acceptance and Uptake of COVID-19 Vaccine. Supporting Canadian Health Service Users with Decision-Making on COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy and lactation. PI Jon Barrett and Rohan D’Souza. CAD $500,000
  • 2021 Jul – 2023 Jun: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Encouraging vaccine confidence in Canada Spring 2021 competition. Encouraging vaccine confidence among pregnant and breastfeeding Canadians. PI Jon Barrett and Rohan D’Souza. CAD $50,000
  • 2021 Jul – 2023 Jun: Canadian COVID-19 Vaccine Registry for Pregnant and Lactating Individuals: An Evaluation of Safety, Effectiveness, and Acceptability. Money D (PI). [Co-I Rohan D’Souza]. CAD $798,901

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

  • 2021 Jul – 2022 Jun: Connection to Perinatal Care for the Management of Maternal Non-Communicable Diseases: PI El-Chaar D, Fell D. [Co-I Rohan D’Souza]. CAD $100,000
  • 2017 Oct – 2022 Sep: Prevention of postpartum haemorrhage: addressing critical knowledge gaps for the use of Tranexamic acid. PI Rohan D’Souza. CAD $225,000

University of Toronto Chair’s Summer Studentship

  • 2020 Apr – 2022 Jun: Composite Adverse Obstetric Outcome Study. PI Rohan D’Souza Student – Dylan Herman. CAD $7,500
  • 2019 Apr – 2019 Sep: qualitative evaluation of the representation of CanMEDS roles as a component of OBGYN training programs. PI Rohan D’Souza, Medical Student – Tommy Hana. CAD $7,500
  • 2018 Jul – 2018 Sep: Using social media to understand attitudes of pregnant women and healthcare providers to induction of labour. PI Rohan D’Souza Medical student: Sivaani Sivaselvachandran. CAD $8,229
  • 2016 Jul – 2016 Aug: Eliciting preferences of pregnant women for health states related to iron-deficiency anaemia PI- Rohan D’Souza. Summer student – Vanessa Nguyen. CAD $3,500
  • 2017 Mar – 2017 Sep: The use of anticoagulants in pregnant women – whose preferences count? PI Rohan D’Souza. CAD $7,000
  • 2016 Jul – 2016 Aug: Eliciting preferences of pregnant women for health states related to epilepsy and the use of antiepileptic medications during pregnancy PI Rohan D’Souza. Summer student – Danielle Wuebbolt. CAD $3,500
  • 2015 Jun – 2015 Sep: Eliciting Patient Preferences for Combined Maternal and Fetal Health States arising from the use of Anticoagulation in Pregnant Women with Mechanical Heart Valves PI Rohan D’Souza,.Danielle Wuebbolt, Vanessa Nguyen, Wynn Peterson, Adam Komorowski. CAD $20,000
  • 2017 Feb – 2017 Sep: Falling third-trimester insulin requirements and adverse pregnancy outcomes. CAD $3,500

Mount Sinai Hospital (MSH) Obstetrics & Gynecology (OBGYN) Departmental Grant

  • 2019 Jul – 2020 Jun: Determining optimal anticoagulant strategies for pregnant women with mechanical heart valves using clinical decision analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis. [PI Rohan D’Souza OBGYN Resident: Anand Lakhani]. CAD $10,000
  • 2018 Jul – 2019 Jun: Falling third-trimester insulin requirements in pre-gestational diabetic pregnancies and adverse pregnancy outcomes. PI Rohan D’Souza OBGYN Resident: Marina Vainder. CAD $7,245
  • 2017 Feb – 2018 Jan: Determining the success of induction of labour: a prediction rule. PI Rohan D’Souza Medical student – Sepand Alavifard. CAD $11,242
  • 2016 Jul – 2017 Jun: Maternal endotoxin concentration in peripheral blood predicts the latency period to delivery and the development of chorioamnionitis in pregnancies complicated by preterm premature rupture of membranes: a pilot study Co-I Rohan D’Souza. [Clinical Fellow: Stefania Ronzoni]. CAD $8,500
  • 2012 Jul – 2013 Jun: PI (Fellow) Effects of Low molecular weight Heparin on the Maternal Cardiovascular system in pregnant women with previous placental-mediated complications of pregnancy. PI: John Kingdom. CAD $3,600

Tolnai Grant, Mount Sinai Hospital

  • 2020 Apr – 2022 Jun: Composite Adverse Obstetric Outcome Study. PI Rohan D’Souza Graduate Student – Dylan Herman. CAD $30,000
  • 2018 Jul – 2021 Jun: Developing a core outcome set for studies on pregnant women with cardiac disease. [PI Rohan D’Souza]. CAD $31,130

Other

  • 2020 May – 2021 Apr: NSERC Alliance Grants. Automatic COVID-19 pregnant patient prognosis algorithm. PI Dafna Sussman [Co-I Rohan D’Souza]. CAD $50,000
  • 2019 Mar – 2021 Mar: David Henderson-Smart Scholarship; Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand. Patient and stakeholder engagement in the development of a core outcome set for studies on vasa previa (COVasP). [PIs: Nasrin Zamani, Rohan D’Souza, John Kingdom]. AUD $10,000
  • 2017 Jul – 2020 Jun: Thoracic Society Grant-In-Aid Award. Mechanical Ventilation in pregnant women. [PI – Stephen Lapinsky] co-I Rohan D’Souza. CAD $50,000
  • 2017 Jul – 2020 Jun: Chest Foundation Research Grant. Mechanical ventilation in pregnancy. [PI – Stephen Lapinsky, co-I Rohan D’Souza. CAD $9,711
  • 2019 Jun – 2021 Jun: PI (industry-sponsored). Ferring Inc. Canada. Determining the safety and predictors of adverse events following outpatient labour induction. CAD $19,500
  • 2019 Jan – 2019 Dec: PI (industry-sponsored). Ferring Inc. Canada. Outpatient vs. inpatient labour induction. CAD $6,000
  • 2017 Jul – 2017 Dec: PI. Department of OBGYN, University of Toronto. Development of a platform for patient involvement around research in obstetrics – Stage 1: Establishing a steering committee. [Collaborators: Don Willison, Emily Nichols Angl, Jennifer Johanessen]. CAD $2,000
  • 2016 Jun – 2016 Sep: PI. Division of Maternal and Fetal Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital. SF-36 and MSFI-SF scores in patients with antepartum anaemia receiving intravenous iron. CAD $7,500
  • 2016 Jun – 2016 Sep: PI. Mount Sinai Hospital and the Division of Adult Congenital Heart Disease, Toronto General Hospital. Preferences of patients with cardiac disease for combined maternal-fetal health states. CAD $8,000
  • 2022 Jul – Sep: PI McMaster Chair’s Student Research Awards. Pregnancy-Related Maternal Morbidity: a concept analysis study. CAD $3,000