Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics


Harriet MacMillan

MD (Queens), MSc (McMaster), FRCPC

David R. (Dan) Offord Chair in Child Studies

Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences

Joint Member, Department of Pediatrics

Associate Member, Dept of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Associate Member, Department of Psychology

Member, Offord Centre for Child Studies

Member, Child Advocacy and Assessment Program

905.521.2100 x 74287
905.383.8068
macmilnh@mcmaster.ca

McMaster University
Faculty of Health Sciences
Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation
Chedoke Site, CH-P2
Hamilton, Ontario
L8N 3Z5

Administrative Assistant: Pearl Dodd
905.521.2100 x 74287
905.383.8068
doddp@mcmaster.ca

Academic Interests

Dr. MacMillan is a pediatrician and child psychiatrist conducting family violence research, including trials of interventions aimed at prevention of child maltreatment and intimate partner violence. 

Current HRM Graduate Students

Valerie O’Brien (MSc.)
Lorraine Weise-Kelly (MSc)
Gita Wahi (MSc)

Selected Publications

  1. MacMillan HL, Thomas BH, Jamieson E, Walsh CA, Boyle MH, Shannon H, Gafni A. Effectiveness of public health nurse home visitation in preventing the recurrence of child physical abuse and neglect: A randomized, controlled trial. Lancet 2005: May 21-27;365(9473):1786-93.
  2. MacMillan HL, Wathen CN, Jamieson E, Boyle M, McNutt L-A, Worster A, Lent B, Webb M for the McMaster Violence Against Women Group. Approaches to screening for intimate partner violence in health care settings: a randomized trial. Journal of the American Medical Association 2006;296:530-536.
  3. Tang B, Jamieson E, Boyle M, Libby AM, Gafni A, MacMillan HL. The influence of child abuse on the pattern of expenditures in women’s adult health service utilization in Ontario, Canada. Social Science and Medicine 2006;63:1711-1719.
  4. MacMillan HL, Wathen CN, Barlow J, Fergusson DM, Leventhal JM, Taussig HN. Interventions to prevent child maltreatment and associated impairment. Lancet 2009;373:250-266.
  5. MacMillan HL, Georgiades K, Duku E, Shea A, Steiner M, Niec A, Tanaka M, Gensey S, Spree S, Vella E, Walsh CA, De Bellis MD, Van der Meulen J, Boyle M, Schmidt, LA. Cortisol response to stress in female youths exposed to childhood maltreatment: Results of the Youth Mood Project.  Biological Psychiatry 2009;66:62-68.
  6. MacMillan HL, Wathen CN, Jamieson E, Boyle MH, Shannon HS, Ford-Gilboe M, Worster A, Lent B, Coben JH, Campbell JC, McNutt LA; McMaster Violence Against Women Research Group.  Screening for intimate partner violence in health care settings: a randomized trial.  JAMA. 2009;302:493-501.
  7. Miskovic V, Schmidt LA, Georgiades K, Boyle MH, MacMillan HL. Stability of resting frontal electroencephalogram (EEG) asymmetry and cardiac vagal tone in adolescent females exposed to child maltreatment. Developmental Psychobiology 2009;51:474-487.
  8. Afifi TO, Mather A, Boman J, Fleisher W, Enns MW, MacMillan HL, Sareen J. Childhood adversity and personality disorders: results from a nationally representative population-based study. J Psychiatr Res. 2011;45:814-22

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