Yvonne Bombard

Faculty Member

Accepting Students

Initiative

Toward equity in cancer genetics: identifying racial disparities in cancer genetics services

Accepting Students

This study uses multiple methods to explore racialized patients’ and providers’ experiences, needs, barriers and enablers to accessing cancer genetics services and to identify the nature and extent of the disparities in cancer genetics services and cancer outcomes in Ontario.

Lead: Yvonne Bombard

Initiative

The genetic update: Designing and evaluating a patient platform to deliver updated genomic results

Accepting Students

This projects aims to create a patient palform for genomic sequencing to facilite recontact of updated results. This has the potential to reduce burden and stress on patients recontacting providers for results.

Lead: Yvonne Bombard

Initiative

The Genetics Adviser

Accepting Students

Genomic sequencing is increasingly being used in genetic medicine to diagnose and optimize care for patients with rare genetic disorders. This technology also has the ability to detect a patient’s risk for thousands of current and future conditions (incidental genetic […]

Lead: Yvonne Bombard

Initiative

Mainstreaming Adviser

Accepting Students

This project aims to create a digital web application to help support the delivery of genetic testing education and results for cancer patients.

Lead: Yvonne Bombard

Initiative

Genetics Navigator

Accepting Students

The Genetics Navigator is the first and only digital application to deliver the full spectrum of clinical genetic services that can improve access, reduce wait times, and administrative burdens.

Lead: Yvonne Bombard

Initiative

Developing a practical guide for conducting equitable genomics research with underrepresented and racialized populations

Accepting Students

This study aims to identify barriers and solutions to conducting equitable genomics research through qualitative interviews with key stakeholders, including racialized community members and genomics researchers.

Lead: Yvonne Bombard

Dr. Yvonne Bombard is a genomics health services researcher and Scientist at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto. She is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto and directs the Genomics Health Services Research Program at St. Michael’s Hospital. She sets research direction at national and international levels as Board Member of the American Society of Human Genetics and CIHR’s Institute of Genetics. Dr. Bombard advises on funding recommendations on emerging genetic testing technologies for Ontario. She also shapes genomics health services research as an editor for Genetics in Medicine Open, the leading genetics practice journal. Dr. Bombard was the inaugural recipient of the Maurice McGregor Award for Demonstrated Excellence and Leadership Potential from the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH) and also received a ‘Rising Star’ award from CIHR’s Institute of Health Services and Policy Research. She has been awarded a CIHR Foundation grant as an Early Career Investigator, CIHR Maud Menten Early Career Prize in Genetics and recently received Canadian Cancer Society’s early career investigator award for her work and policy change. 

Carly Butkowsky

MSc Graduate Student

Thesis: Understanding the care experiences and needs of hereditary cancer syndrome patients in Canada

Supervisors: Yvonne Bombard

Chloe Mighton

Chloe Mighton

PhD Graduate Student

Thesis: Secondary findings from genomic sequencing

Supervisors: Yvonne Bombard

The Utility of Genomic Sequencing for Hereditary Cancer Syndromes: A Mixed-Methods Cohort Study

Published: 2023