Hélène Ouellette-Kuntz
SUMMARY OF RESEARCH:
Hélène Ouellette-Kuntz is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Community Health & Epidemiology and Psychiatry at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. She is also appointed to a community-based agency for persons with intellectual disabilities in Southeastern Ontario (Ongwanada) where she works as an epidemiologist. Through the Division of Developmental Disabilities in the Department of Psychiatry at Queen’s University, Hélène works with a multidisciplinary team providing service, teaching and research related to the health of persons with intellectual disabilities. She has recently undertaken doctoral studies in Health Geography at Queen’s University.
Hélène is the Director of the Southeastern Ontario Community-University Research Alliance in Intellectual Disabilities. This extensive research partnership, involving a dozen researchers and over 40 community agencies that support approximately 4,000 individuals with intellectual disabilities, is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The research partnership is focusing on the impact of community integration policy across a service system (see www.seocura.org). She is also the Director of a national study of the epidemiology of autism through the Autism Spectrum Disorder Canadian-American Research Consortium which is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
In addition to research, Hélène supervises graduate students in epidemiology and undergraduate students in nursing who conduct research or complete clinical placements in the field of intellectual disabilities. She is also involved in planning and delivering medical undergraduate teaching in the field of intellectual disabilities at Queen’s University.
Over the years, through her research, teaching and service to community agencies, Hélène has become acutely aware of health disparities and inequities faced by individuals with intellectual disabilities. To address these concerns, she and 12 other Canadians have recently created the Canadian Association for Research and Education in Intellectual Disability (CARE-ID).
CURRENT RESEARCH GRANTS and CONTRACTS:
2005-09 - Developmental Disabilities Program, Queen’s University ($10,000; principal investigator) - “Evaluating the Performance of Several Parent and Teacher Screening Questionnaires for Autism Spectrum Disorders”
2005-2006 - Developmental Disabilities Program, Queen’s University ($4,600; principal investigator) - “Training in Intellectual Disabilities – Perceptions of Medical Clerks”
2004-08 - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council ($992,780 over 5 years; principal investigator) - “Southeastern Ontario’s Community-University Research Alliance in Intellectual Disabilities”
2004-08 - Canadian Foundation for Innovation ($2,871,206 over 5 years; co-investigator; J. Holden – P.I.) - “Mobile Laboratories for Phenotyping Families with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Intellectual Disabilities”
2003-09 - Canadian Institutes of Health Research & National Alliance for Autism Research ($240,000/year; mentor; J. Holden – P.I.) - “Transdisciplinary Inter-Institute Training Program in Autism Spectrum Disorders”
2001-06 - Canadian Institutes of Health Research ($934,082/year; co-investigator; J. Holden -P.I.) - “Unravelling the Mystery of Autism: From Genotyping and Phenotyping to Prospective Identification and Prevention”
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
Ouellette-Kuntz, H., Garcin, N, Lewis, S., Minnes, P., Freeman, C. & Holden, J. (2005). Addressing Health Disparities through Promoting Equity for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 96(2), S8-S22. (CIHR commissioned paper)
Balogh, R. Ouellette-Kuntz, H. & Hunter, D. (2005). Hospital utilization among persons with an intellectual disability, Ontario, 1995-2001. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 18, 181-190.
Ouellette-Kuntz, H. (2005). Understanding health disparities and inequities faced by individuals with intellectual disabilities. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disability, 113-121.
Wallace, R., Schluter, P.J., Duff, M., Ouellette-Kuntz, H., Scheepers, M., Webb, P.M. (2004). A review of the risk factors for, consequences, diagnosis and management of Helicobacter pylori in adults with intellectual disability. Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 1(3/4), 147-163.
Clark, E., Lutke, J., Minnes, P. & Ouellette-Kuntz, H. (2004). Secondary disabilities among adults with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder in British Columbia. Journal of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome International, 2:e13, 1-12.
Balogh, R., Ouellette-Kuntz, H. & Hunter, D. (2004). Regional variation in dental procedures among persons with an intellectual disability, Ontario, 1995-2001. Journal of the Canadian Dental Association, 70 (10), 673-679.
Balogh, R., Ouellette-Kuntz, H. & Hunter, D. (2004). Regional variation in dental procedures among persons with an intellectual disability, Ontario, 1995-2001 – Abridged Version. Journal of the Canadian Dental Association, 70 (10), 672.
Ouellette-Kuntz, H., Burge, P., Henry, D., Bradley, E. & Leichner, P. (2003). Attitudes of senior residents toward persons with intellectual disabilities. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 58(8), 538-545. (funding from Scottish Rite Charitable Foundation)
Saeed, H., Ouellette-Kuntz, H., Stuart, H. & Burge, P. (2003). Length of stay for psychiatric inpatient services: A comparison of admissions of people with and without developmental disabilities. The Journal of Behavioural Health Services and Research, 30(4), 405-417. (funding from NHRDP)
Burge, P., Ouellette-Kuntz, H., Saeed, H., McCreary, B., Paquette, D. & Sim, F. (2002). Acute psychiatric inpatient care for people with a dual diagnosis: Patient profiles and lengths of stay. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 47(3), 243-249. (funding from Scottish Rite Charitable Foundation)
Burge, P., Ouellette-Kuntz, H., McCreary, B., Bradley, E. & Leichner, P. (2002). Senior Residents in psychiatry: Views on training in developmental disabilities. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 47(6), 568-571. (funding from Scottish Rite Charitable Foundation)
Grant, H., Pickett, W., Ouellette-Kuntz, H., Lam, M. & O’Connor, M. (2001). Falls Among Persons who have DD in Institutional and Group Home Settings. Journal on Developmental Disabilities, 8 (1), 57-73. (funding from the Ministry of Health of Ontario)
Ouellette-Kuntz, H. & Paquette, D.(2001). The Prevalence of Developmental Disabilities in Lanark County, Ontario. Journal on Developmental Disabilities, 8(1), 1-16.
