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Paula Rochon, MD, MPH, FRCPC
Vice-President, Research, Women’s College Hospital
Senior Scientist, Women’s College Research Institute
Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto
Professor, Department of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto
Dr. Paula Rochon is vice-president, research at Women's College Hospital and a senior scientist at Women's College Research Institute. She is a well-known health services researcher, whose career has focused on improving the use of medications to treat older adults. Dr. Rochon is also a professor of medicine at the University of Toronto and an adjunct scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES).
Dr. Rochon has authored more than 150 peer-reviewed papers, reviews and chapters, focused on how medications can be used to improve the health of older adults – particularly women. Using large provincial databases, her multidisciplinary team performs pharmaco-epidemiologic studies to study patterns of adverse drug events and to explore the impacts of drug therapies commonly prescribed to older adults. Her research proposes real-world strategies to better manage multiple complex and chronic conditions in vulnerable older people.
Dr. Rochon is a co-principal investigator of the Women’s Cancer Survivorship Team at Women’s College Research Institute. Funded by the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) and Cancer Care Ontario (CCO), this Team explores the after-effects of cancer treatments and the relationships between cancer and other chronic conditions.
The recipient of a number of individual awards, Dr. Rochon serves as Panel Chair for the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR), for the Health Services Evaluation and Interventions Grants Committee. She is a member on various editorial boards, including The American Journal of Geriatric Pharmacotherapy and Drugs & Aging. She is also the Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto’s Gender Issues Committee.