Esme Fuller-Thomson
Professor; Sandra Rotman Chair in Social Work; Interim Director, Institute for Life Course and Aging, University of Toronto
Long-term health impacts of adverse childhood experience including maltreatment and parental divorce, grandparents raising grandchildren and social determinants of disability among older adults.
Media
A history of cannabis dependence associated with many negative mental health outcomes
Eurek Alert!Online
URL: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-04/uot-aho042120.php
Canadian study: One in four women with ADHD has attempted suicide
One in four women with ADHD has attempted suicide
Eurek Alert!Online
URL: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-12/uot-oif121520.php
Is there a link between lifetime lead exposure and dementia?
Eurek Alert!Online
URL: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-12/uot-ita121819.php
Biography
Esme Fuller-Thomson is appointed to the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work and cross appointed to the faculties of Medicine and Nursing. She joined the University of Toronto after completing her M.S.W. and Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley in 1995. She also holds a B.A. and a B.S.W. from McGill University. Fuller-Thomson's research has been published in prestigious academic journals, as well as outside the academic community. She has been an investigator on research grants funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement, among others. Her three major areas of research are the long-term health impacts of adverse childhood experiences including maltreatment and parental divorce, grandparents raising grandchildren and social determinants of disability among older adults.