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Our Team

This CIHR Team is a collaborative network, supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes. Learn more about each of the members of our team including our:

Team Leaders

Paula Rochon

Paula Rochon, MD, MPH, FRCPC
Senior Scientist, Women's College Research Institute
Professor, Departments of Medicine and Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto

Expertise

  • Pharmacoepidemiology
  • Health Services Research
  • Geriatric Medicine
  • Chronic Diseases

 

Geoff Anderson

Geoffrey M. Anderson, MD, PhD
Chair in Health Management Strategies
Professor, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto

Expertise

  • Pharmacoepidemiology
  • Health Services Research
  • Research Methods

Team Investigators

Peter Austin

Peter C. Austin, PhD
Senior Scientist, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences
Associate Professor, Departments of Public Health Sciences and Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto

Expertise

  • Statistical Methods
  • Provider Profiling
  • Propensity Score Methods for Causal Inference
  • Statistical Methods for Prediction

 

Chiam Bell

Chaim Bell, MD, PhD, FRCPC
St. Michael's Hospital
Assistant Professor, Departments of Medicine and Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto

Expertise

  • General Internal Medicine
  • Pharmacosurveillance
  • Health Services Research

 

Sudeep Gill

Sudeep S. Gill, MD, MSc, FRCPC
St. Mary's of the Lake Hospital Assistant Professor, Department of Geriatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Queen’s University

Expertise

  • Geriatric Medicine
  • Chronic Diseases
  • Clinical Epidemiology

International Collaborators

Jerry Gurwitz

Jerry Gurwitz, MD
Meyers Primary Care Institute
Professor, University of Massachusetts

Expertise

  • Drug Prescribing and Utilization Patterns
  • Adverse drug events
  • Clinical Decision-Making in the Elderly Patient Population
  • Quality Improvement
  • Geriatric Medicine

 

Sharon-Lise Normand

Sharon-Lise Normand, PhD
Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health
Professor of Health Care Policy (Biostatistics)

Expertise

  • Statistics
  • Bayesian Inference
  • Provider Profiling
  • Trials of Medical Devices

National Collaborators

Arlene Bierman

Arlene Bierman, MD, MS
Senior Scientist, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital
Ontario Women’s Health Council Chair in Women's Health, University of Toronto

Expertise

  • Women's health
  • Quality of Care
  • Chronic Disease Prevention and Management

 

David Henry

David Henry, MBChB, MRCP, FRCP
President and CEO, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto

Expertise

  • Pharmacoepidemiology
  • Drug Policy
  • Clinical Pharmacology

 

Nathan Herrmann,

Nathan Herrmann, MD, FRCPC
Head, Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine University of Toronto

Expertise

  • Mental Health
  • Dementia
  • Geriatric Neuropsychopharmacology

 

David Juurlink

David Juurlink, MD, PhD, FRCPC
Attending Physician, Division of General Internal Medicine
Head, Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Assistant Professor, Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, University of Toronto

Expertise

  • Clinical pharmacology
  • Pharmacoepidemiology
  • Epidemiologic Aspects of Poisoning and Drug Overdose

 

 

Philip Lee, MD, FRCPC
St. Paul's Hospital
Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia

Expertise

  • Behavioural Neurology
  • Geriatric Medicine

 

Connie Marras

Connie Marras, MD, PhD, FRCPC
Toronto Western Hospital
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto

Expertise

  • Parkinson’s Disease and other Movement Disorders
  • Neurology

 

Ken I. Shulman

Ken I. Shulman, MD, SM, FRCPC
Chief, Neurosciences Program, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto

Expertise

  • Mental Health
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Psychiatry

 

Walter Wodchis

Walter Wodchis, MA, MAE, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto

Expertise

  • Health Management & Policy
  • Health Outcome Measurement
  • Health Economics

New Investigators

Susan E. Bronskill

Susan E. Bronskill, PhD
Scientist, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto

Expertise

  • Health Services Research Methods
  • Provider Profiling
  • Health Outcome Measurement

 

Lorraine Lipscombe

Lorraine Lipscombe, MD, MSc, FRCPC
Research Scientist, WCRI Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto

Expertise

  • Diabetes
  • Endocrinology
  • Clinical Epidemiology

 

Andrea Gruneir

Andrea Gruneir, PhD
Scientist, Women's College Research Institute

Expertise

  • Epidemiology
  • Research Methods

Trainees

Dallas Seitz

Dallas Seitz, MD, FRCPC
Psychiatrist
Assistant Professor, Queen's University

Expertise

  • Psychiatry
  • Psychopharmacology

 

 

Robert R. Quinn, MD, FRCPC
PhD Candidate
Clinical Associate, Division of Nephrology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Expertise

  • Nephrology

This research is sponsored by:

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research: Institutes of Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes

 

 

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Phone: 416-480-4055 x 89342
Fax: 416-480-6048
Email: henry.fletcher@ices.on.ca


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