Dr. Campbell-Yeo is a professor, certified neonatal nurse practitioner and clinician scientist with a cross appointment in the Department of Pediatrics, Psychology and Neuroscience. She holds grants examining maternal driven interventions to improve outcomes of medically at risk newborns specifically related to pain, stress and neurodevelopment.

 

Dr. Campbell-Yeo has expertise in mulit-site randomized controlled clinical trials and mixed methods. Her projects are interdisciplinary in nature and she has ongoing collaborations with nurses, neonatologists, psychologists, epidemiologists, obstetricians, and pharmacists. She has secured over $40M in training and operating grants, published over 150 peer reviewed  and contributed to a Cochrane Systematic Review. She is a recognized leader with over 100 invited presentations related to the impact of maternally-led interventions on the immediate health outcomes of at-risk newborns. 

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​Background

 

Dr. Campbell-Yeo completed her Bachelor of Nursing in 1987 and Masters of Nursing in 1999, both from Dalhousie University In 1999 she completed the requirements for certification as a Neonatal Nurse Practitioner from State University of New York and obtained her PhD in Nursing from McGill University in 2012. She began lecturing at Dalhousie University in 2008, and was appointed to the School of Nursing faculty in 2012.  

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​Improving Neonatal Outcomes

Dr. Campbell-Yeo’s passion for improving neonatal outcomes arises from over 30 years of caring for critically ill newborns and their families as a clinician, educator, and researcher. She continues to provide clinical care in her role as a neonatal nurse practitioner to critically ill infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the IWK Health and is one of a very few practicing Nurse Clinician Scientists in Canada.

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​Demonstrated Leadership & Notable Awards

Dr. Campbell-Yeo leads ongoing national and international interdisciplinary research teams consisting of clinicians, researchers and stakeholders from diverse backgrounds and disciplines. Most notably, she has received the Leadership in Advocacy Award from Research Canada (2023), an Honorary Doctorate from the Faculty of Medicine and Science from Orebro University, Sweden (2023), invited as a member of the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists (2018), the recipient of the Inaugural Dalhousie University President's Award for research excellence (2018), and was named one of 150 Nurses championing innovation in health for Canada by the Canadian Nurses Association to mark the 150th anniversary of Confederation.

 

Additionally, she is also the recipient of the Canadian Institute of Health Research New Investigator Award (2016), Early Career Research Excellence Award, Faculty of Health (2016), Canadian Child Health Clinician Scientist Career Development Award (2015),  Canadian Pain Society Early Career Investigator Award (2015), Excellence in Nursing Research Award, College of Registered Nurses of Nova Scotia (2014), Mayday Pain and Society Fellowship (2014) and the Global Health REAL Award (2013). 

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Her commitment to knowledge translation is shown through her success in securing funding from the Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation in order to support ongoing dissemination of her parent-focused YouTube video entitled “Power of a Parent’s Touch.” These in addition to a CIHR fellowship (2008-2012), Ruby Blois Scholarship (2010), Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation Doctoral Award (2005-2007), The Quebec Interuniversity Nursing Intervention Research Group (GRIISIQ) Fellowship (2005-2007). 

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Committee memberships and working groups

 

Dr. Campbell-Yeo currently serves as the president of the International Association for the Study of Pain's Special Interest Group on Pain in Childhood, an Executive member of the Council of International Neonatal Nurses, and she is also a member of Assisting Safe Deliveries in Tanzania. Nationally, she is an active member of the Canadian Pediatric Society, Canadian Pain Society, and the Canadian Nurses Association, and the Inaugural Chair of the Canadian Premature Babies Foundation Scientific Advisory Committee. Locally, she contributes to numerous committees within and outside of Dalhousie University and participates in various scientific and legislative committees.

 

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