Dr. Peter Rosenbaum joined the faculty of McMaster University in 1973 and has been a Professor of Pediatrics since 1984. He is the inaugural chair holder of the Scotiabank Chair in Child Health and the director of the McMaster Child Health Research Institute. In 2009, he served as the Acting Chair of the Department of Pediatrics.

With Dr. Mary Law, Dr. Rosenbaum was the co-founder in 1989 of the award-winning CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research, a health system-linked research unit funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. CanChild is now recognized internationally for its research and dissemination activities in the field of childhood disability.

Dr. Rosenbaum holds one of the original Canada Research Chairs, first awarded in January 2001 to leading Canadian researchers. Dr. Rosenbaum has been president of the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine from 1996-1998 (the first Canadian so honoured). He was also the first Canadian to be invited to Sweden as the Folke Bernadotte Stipendiate, in 1995.

Dr. Rosenbaum has been a principal or co-investigator for more than 75 peer-reviewed research grants and is a contributing author to more than 260 peer-reviewed scientific papers and book chapters on a variety of topics concerning childhood disability. In June, 2000, Dr. Rosenbaum received the Ross Award from the Canadian Pediatric Society, the Society's most prestigious peer recognition. In 2002, he was awarded the United Cerebral Palsy Research and Educational Foundation Weinstein-Goldenson Scientific Award.

Publications

• Family-centred research: what does it mean and can we do it? (Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology)