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MSc – Clinical Epidemiology & Health Care Research
Thesis Topics - 2011 to date
| Clinical Epidemiology & HCR- MSc | Student Name | Supervisor | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sex Differences in Health Care Utilization Preceding an Initial Heart Failure Hospitalization | Kim Anderson | Douglas Lee | 2019 |
| Association of Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction with Mortality and Hospitalization in an Unselected Echocardiographic Cohort of both Ambulatory and Hospitalized Patients | Paul Angaran | Douglas Lee | 2019 |
| Is Hospital Type Associated with Application of Best-evidence Treatment Recommendations for Children’s Low-risk Distal Radius Fractures Treated in Ontario Emergency Departments? | Tara Baxter | Andrew Howard | 2019 |
| Risk Factors for Oral Antibiotic Therapy Failure in Cystic Fibrosis-related Pulmonary Exacerbations | Ana Maria Chelene Blanchard | Nick Daneman | 2019 |
| Improving the Hearing Status Discrimination of the Health Utilities Index, Mark 3 | Peter Robert Dixon | Murray Krahn | 2019 |
| Management of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: A Survey of Canadian Respirologists | Less Marshall Fidler | Matthew Stanbrook | 2019 |
| Can the QuickDASH Score at the Time of Initial Assessment Predict Recommendation for Surgery in Patients with Shoulder Pain | Christopher Hawke | Gillian Hawker | 2019 |
| Opioid Prescribing after Surgery among Chronic Opioid users in Ontario: A Population-based Cohort Study | Naheed Jivraj | Hannah Wunsch | 2019 |
| Acute Kidney Injury in Patients Receiving Systemic Treatment for Cancer: A Population-based Cohort Study | Abhijat Kitchlu | Joseph Kim | 2019 |
| Psychiatric Utilization Prior to Cancer Diagnosis: Implications for Survival Outcomes and Suicidal Death Among Incident Solid Organ Cancer Patients | Zachary William Abraham Klaassen | Kirish Kulkarni | 2019 |
| Textbook Outcomes in Gastric Cancer Surgery | Jordan Levy | Natalie Coburn | 2019 |
| Receipt of Overactive Bladder Drugs and Incident Dementia: a Population-based Case-control Study | Rano Matta | Robert Nam | 2019 |
| Identifying Causes of Delay in Interfacility Transports of Injured Patients Transported by Air Ambulance in Ontario | Brodie Nolan | Avery Nathens | 2019 |
| The Experiences of Fathers in a Family Integrated (FICare) Program | Amy Shafey | Vibhuti Shah | 2019 |
| Pain-Relief Alternative for Shoulder Surgery (Pass Trial): The Novel Anterior Suprascapular Nerve Block vs Conventional Interscalene Brachial Plexus Block for Pain-Relief Following Arthroscopic Shoulder Surgery: A Multi-centre Randomized, Patient and A | Faraj Abdallah | Andreas Laupacis | 2018 |
| Implementation of Critical Care Response Teams in Ontario. Impact on the Outcomes of Surgical Patients | Gonzalo Sapisochin | David Urbach | 2019 |
| Mental Illness Diagnoses After Intensive Care | Lavarnan Sivanathan | Damon Scales | 2019 |
| Investigating Associations Between Preoperative Patient-Reported Symptom Burden and Postoperative Outcomes Following Major Cancer Surgery: A Retrospective Cohort Study | Lev Bubis | Paul Karanicolas | 2018 |
| Long-Term Perceived Engagement and Research Priorities Among Chronic Kidney Disease Stakeholders: A Qualitative Study | Meghan Elliott | Sharon Elizabeth Straus | 2018 |
| Continuity of Care and Oncological Expertise for Patients with Active Cancer who Require Emergency Department Care: A Population-Based Assessment | Keerat K. Grewal | Clare Atzema | 2018 |
| Surgical Critical Care Utilization in Adult Patients Undergoing Major Non-Cardiac Surgery in Ontario: A Population Based Study | Angela Jerath | Andreas Laupacis | 2018 |
| Prognostic Associations of Plasma Hepcidin in Women With Early Breast Cancer | Katarzyna Joanna Jerzak | Pamela Goodwin | 2018 |
| Priority Setting in Pediatric Preventive Care Research | Mikael Jacob Katz Lavigne | Andreas Laupacis | 2018 |
| Cost-Effectiveness of Pulse Oximetry Screening for Critical Congenital Heart Defects in Ontario | Amit Mukerji | Vibhuti Shah | 2018 |
| Universal Measures of Support Are Needed: A Cross- Sectional Study of Health Literacy in Patients with Dupuytrens Disease | Melissa Roy | David Urbach | 2018 |
| Association of Preoperative Spirometry with Cardiopulmonary Exercise Capacity and Postoperative Outcomes in Surgical Patients | Ashwin Sankar | Duminda Wijeysundera | 2018 |
| Comparison of Graft Survival after Liver Transplantation Between São Paulo, Brazil, and the United States | Ajith Kumar Sankarankutty | David Urbach | 2018 |
| Differentiating Autoimmune Hepatitis from Lupus- associated Hepatitis — What is the Ontology of Non-Infectious, Non-Toxic, Non-Genetic Causes of Hepatitis: A Paradigm Shift in Making Clinical Diagnoses | Andreanne Zizzo | Brian Feldman | 2018 |
| The Association of Anemia with Cardiopulmonary Exercise Capacity and Adverse Patient Outcomes in Noncardiac Surgery | Justyna Bartoszko | Duminda Wijeysundera | 2017 |
| Predictors of Hospital Readmission after Trans-Catheter Aortic Valve Implantation in Ontario | Andrew Czarnecki | Dennis Ko | 2017 |
| Relationship Between Procedure Volume and Mortality After Surgical Lung Biopsy in Interstitial Lung Disease | Jolene Fisher | Sharon Dell | 2017 |
| A Comparative Study of Quality of Life in Patients with Low-and Intermediate-risk Prostate Cancer Treated at a Single Institution: Stereotactic Radiotherapy vs High dose-rate Brachytherapy Monotherapy vs High dose-rate Brachytherapy Boost | Joelle Helou | Andrea Bezjak | 2017 |
| Risk Factors for Death or Heart Transplant for Patients with Right Ventricular Dysfunction after the Norwood Procedure: A Secondary Analysis of the Single Ventricle Reconstruction Trial | Emilie Melissa Jean-St-Michel | Brian McCrindle | 2017 |
| The Role of Sex and Gender in Anterior Cruciate Ligament Resconstructive Surgery Outcome | Sabrina M. Kolker | Aileen Davis | 2017 |
| Examining Agreement and Variability among National and International Guideline Treatment Recommendations for Asthma and Bronchiolitis | Leigh Anne Bakel-Kern | Patricia Parkin | 2016 |
| The Impact of Adult Health Care Model on Emergent Health Resource Utilization in Patients with Pediatric-onset Inflammatory Bowel Disease | Natasha P. Bollegala | Geoffrey Nguyen | 2016 |
| Health System Performance Measurement in a Circumpolar Context: Selecting Performance Indicators for Maternity Care | Rebecca Rich | Kellie Murphy | 2016 |
| Non-invasive Cardiac Diagnostic Tests in Ontario: Temporal Trends in Utilization and Association with Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease | Idan Roifman | Jack Tu | 2016 |
| Practice Patterns in the Treatment of Acute Achilles Tendon Ruptures in Ontario, Canada | Ujash Sheth | Susan Jaglal | 2016 |
| The Influence of Socioeconomic Status on Selection of Anticoagulation for Atrial Fibrilation: A Population Based Study | Michelle Sholzberg | Andreas Laupacis | 2016 |
| Clinical Prediction Models of Patient and Graft Survival in Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Systematic Review and Validation Study | Sunita Kaur Shah Singh | David Naimark | 2016 |
| Patent Ductus Arteriosus Ligation in Extremely Preterm Infants and Death or Neurodevelopmental Impairment | Dany Weisz | Prakeshkumar Shah | 2016 |
| The Health Economic Implications of Perioperative Delirium in Older Orthopaedic Surgery Patients with Fragility Hip Fractures | Michael George Zywiel | Peter Coyte | 2016 |
| Magnetic Resonance Enterography for the Assessment of Pediatric Crohn’s Disease | Peter Christopher Church | Brian Feldman | 2015 |
| Heterogeneity in the Reporting of Mortality in Crtically Ill Patients during the 2009-10 Influenza A (H1N1) Pandemic: A Systematic Review and Neta-regression Exploring the Influence of Patient, Healthcare System and Study-specific Factors | Abhijit Duggal | Robert Fowler | 2015 |
| The Impact of the Ontario Bariatric Network on Health Services Utilization following Bariatric Surgery | Ahmad Ibrahim Elnahas | David Urbach | 2015 |
| Correlates of High-Risk, Oncogenic Human Papilloma virus in HIV-Positive and HIV-hegative Men who Have Sex With Men | Jonathan Troy Grennan | Mona Loutfy | 2015 |
| Adverse Cardiac Events among Older Patients on Venlafaxine: A Population-based Study | Joanne Ho | David Juurlink | 2015 |
| A Population-based Analysis of the Clinical Course of Colonic Diverticulitis and its Evolving Management | Debbie Li | Avery Nathens | 2015 |
| The Uptake of Active Surveillance for the Treatmen Treatment of Prostate Cancer in Ontario: Results of Population-based Study | Patrick Richard | David Urbach | 2015 |
| Outcomes and Processes of Care Among Trauma Centre s Caring for Injured Children | Chethan Sathya | Avery Nathens | 2015 |
| Pediatric Emergency Department Revisits in Urban Ontario: Does Being an Immigrant Matter? | Natasha Ruth Saunders | Astrid Guttmann | 2015 |
| Pertussis Vaccine Effectiveness and Waning Immunity | Kevin Lester Schwartz | Therese Stukel | 2015 |
| Prostate Cancer as a Metabolic Disease – Is Prostate Cancer Diagnosis Associated with Worse Cardiovascular Outcomes? | Bimal Bhindi | Shabbir Alibhai | 2014 |
| Cardiac Output is Not Associated with Plasma NGAL Concentrations Following Cardiopulmonary Bypass for Pediatric Cardiac Surgery | Alejandro Floh | Brian McCrindle | 2014 |
| Beta-blocker Use and Morbidity from Chronic Lung Disease in Patients Undertaking Pulmonary Rehabilitation | Robert Gabriel Varadi | Matthew Stanbrook/ Donald Redelmeier |
2014 |
| The Spectrum of Hepatic Involvment in Pediatric In Inflammatory Bowel Disease: An Analysis of the Development of Abnormal Liver Analysis of the Cl inical Variables | Pamela Valentino | Brian Feldman | 2014 |
| The Multi-Ligament Quality of Life Questionnaire (ML-QOL): Development and Preliminary Testing of Measurement Properties in Patients with Multi-ligament Knee Injuries | Jaskarndip Chahal | Aileen Davis | 2013 |
| Developing and Validating Prognostic Scores for Patients with Acute Intracerebral Hemorrhage | Thien Huynh | Andreas Laupacis | 2013 |
| The Association between Metformin Therapy and Mortality Following Breast Cancer: A Population- based Study | Iliana Lega | Paula Rochon | 2013 |
| Reliability and Responsiveness of the Standardized Universal Pain Evaluations for Rheumatoid Providers for Children and Youth (SUPER-KIDZ) | Nadia J. Luca | Ahmed Bayoumi | 2013 |
| Developing the Bladder Utility Symptoms Scale: A Multiattribute Health State Classification System for Bladder Cancer | Nathan Perlis | Murray Krahn | 2013 |
| Geographic Access to Breast Reconstruction and the Influence of Physician Availablility | Jennica Platt | Nancy Baxter | 2013 |
| Examining Trends in the Incidence of Asthma in Children in Ontario | Dhenuka Kannan Radhakrishnan | Teresa To | 2013 |
| The Impact of Reaching Low Disease Activity in the First Year of the Disease on Future Disability and Damage in Patients with Early Rheumatoid Arthritis | Pooneh Seyed-Akhavan | Claire Bombardier | 2013 |
| Management Patterns and Outcomes of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer in Ontario: A Population-based Study | Robert Tasevski | David Urbach | 2013 |
| Diagnostic Accuracy of MRI for Assessment of T-category Lymph Node Metastases, and Circumferential Resection Margin Involvement in Patients with Rectal Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis | Eisar Al-Sukhni | Erin Kennedy | 2012 |
| Methods for Data Analysis in Split-mouth Randomized Clinical Trials, a Simulation Study | Romina Brignardell | George Tomlinson | 2012 |
| Childhood Fracture Begets Childhood Fracture: A Population-based Study of Longitudinal Fracture Patterns in Ontario Children | Benjamin Escott | Andrew Howard | 2012 |
| Association Between Early Follow-up with a Nephrologist and Death in Survivors of Acute Kidney Injury | Ziv Harel | Edward Etchells | 2012 |
| Utilization of Prenatal Services by Survivors of Childhood and Adolescent/Young Adult Cancer | Amy Lee Chong | Astrid Guttmann | 2012 |
| Therapeutic Hypothermia: Exploring the Impact of Processes of Care on Outcomes after Cardiac Arrest | Steve Lin | Laurie Morrison | 2012 |
| Patients Preferences and Trade Offs for the Treatment of Small Hepatocellular Carcinomas | Michele Molinari | David Urbach | 2012 |
| Impact of Clostriduim difficile colitis on Five Year Health Outcomes of Ulcerative Colitis Patients | Sanjay Murthy | A. Hillary Steinhart | 2012 |
| Risk of Traumatic Lumbar Punctures in Children wit h Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Retrospective Cohort Study using Repeated-measures Analyses | Furqan Shaikh | Lillian Sung | 2012 |
| Characterization of Active Joint Count Trajectories in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis | Roberta Audrey Berard | Claire Bombardier | 2011 |
| Antihypertensives and Hip Fracture Risk in Community-Dwelling Elderly: A Self-controlled Case Series Analysis | Debra Ann Butt | Richard Glazier | 2011 |
| Prevalence, Predictors, and Outcomes Associated with Late Start of Chronic Kidney Disease Care Amongst Adults with End-stage Renal Disease | Rajni Singhal | Janet Hux | 2011 |
| The Relationship Between Depression and Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening: A Population-based Study in Ontario Women | Simone Natalie Vigod | Paula Goering | 2011 |
MSc – Health Services Research
Thesis Topics - 2011 to date
| Health Services Research – MSc | Student Name | Supervisor | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Impact of an Intra-institutional Teledermatology Service: A Mixed Methods Case Study | Trevor Champagne | Emily Seto | 2019 |
| The Relationship between Life Satisfaction and Hospitalizations for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions: A Population Cohort Study | Eric Stephen De Prophetis | Laura Christina Antonia Rosella | 2019 |
| Establishing a Level Playing Field: Development of a Prioritization Framework for Oncology Drugs | Doreen Ezeife | Natasha Leighl | 2019 |
| Investigating Iron Status and Infant Feeding Practices Across a Multi-ethnic Cohort | Vinusha Gunaseelan | Cornelia Borkhoff | 2019 |
| Clinical and Economic Outcomes for Gastric Cancer Patients Treated with Gastrectomy at Centers with and without Cancer Surgery Centre Designation in Ontario | Yunni Hye Yoon Jeong | Natalie Coburn | 2019 |
| Vertical Transmission of HIV: Comparison of Policies in North and Sub-Saharan Africa | Nessika Karsenti | Sara Allin | 2019 |
| ifying, Incorporating and Reporting Patient Preferences in Clinical Guidelines | Claire Jun-Yeong Kim | Anna Gagliardi | 2019 |
| Examining the Development of a Community of Practice in Paediatric Project ECHO | Yalinie Kulandaivelu | Jennifer Stinson | 2019 |
| Accumulating Multimorbidity: the Role of Depression, Socioeconomic Status, and Other Factors | Allanah Li | Walter Wodchis | 2019 |
| A Population-based Study of Individuals with Schizophrenia and Correctional Involvement | Mayuri Mahentharan | Paul Kurdyak | 2019 |
| Prepared to Live with the Unknown: Patients’ Experiences with Uncertainty when Making Decisions about Learning Incidental Genomic Sequencing Results | Chloe Elizabeth Mighton | 2019 | |
| Clinician Wellbeing and Resilience: The Impact of Working in Complex Care Rehabilitation | Samantha Quartarone | 2019 | |
| Predictors of Locus of Care in Adolescent and Young Adults with Cancer | Meera Sharini Rayar | Paul Nathan | 2019 |
| An Analysis of the Prevalence and Predictors of Food Insecurity in Canadian Seniors | Natalie Thirakul | Wanrudee Isaranuwatchai | 2019 |
| Experiences of Stigma Among People with Osteoarthritis (OA) who Underwent a Total Joint Replacement (TJR) of the Knee or Hip | Lucy Trojanowski | Fiona Webster | 2019 |
| Measuring the Construct of Clinical Utility in the Context of Genetic Testing: A Scoping Review | Shantel Walcott | Robin Hayeems | 2019 |
| How Can Researchers and Research Users Initiate Integrated Knowledge Translation (IKT) Partnerships? | Maria Maddalena Zych | Anna Gagliardi | 2019 |
| Health Care Providers’ Perspectives of Uncertainty in Newborn Screening | Paul John Azzopardi | Robin Hayeems | 2018 |
| Effect of Continuity of Care on the Risk of Developing Multimorbidity in Ontario, Canada between 2001 – 2015: A Retrospective Cohort Study | Phat Edward Chau | Walter Wodchis | 2018 |
| I’m still here: an Ethnographic Exploration of Public Twitter Use among People Living with Advanced Cancer | Alaina Cyr | David Wiljer | 2018 |
| Primary Care Provider’s Perspectives on Physical Activity Counseling | Laura Kathleen Easty | Michelle Silver | 2018 |
| The Role of the Physician in the Reach and Adoption of Online Health Resources – A Qualitative Study of the Perspectives of Patients and Health Care Providers | Evelyn Elias | Julie Gilbert | 2018 |
| The Impact of Pre-transplant Dialysis Duration on Kidney Transplant Recipient Survival: An Instrumental Variable Approach | Rui Fu | Peter Coyte | 2018 |
| The Influence of Assessor Training on Scoring and Feedback: A Qualitative Study of Assessor Perceptions | Kathryn Rae Hodwitz | Ryan Brydges | 2018 |
| A Cost-Utility Analysis of Biosimilar Infliximab Compared to Reference Infliximab in Adult Switch Patients with Crohn’s Disease: A Canadian Analysis | Avery Hughes | Wendy Ungar | 2018 |
| Perceptions of End-of-Life Communication in Older Adults with Advanced Heart Failure and their Family Caregivers | Ji Yeon Jennifer Im | Kerry Kuluski | 2018 |
| The Effectiveness of Mental Health Courts in Reducing Recidivism | Desmond James Loong | Carolyn Dewa | 2018 |
| Exploring the Role of Resilience in the Experiences of Family Caregivers of a Patient Requiring an Alternate Level of Care | Rebecca Lum | Kerry Kuluski | 2018 |
| Exploring the Impact of the ECHO Model(TM) in Ontario on Primary Healthcare Providers Sharing of Chronic Pain Knowledge: A Qualitative Study | Naima Salemohamed | Jennifer Stinson / Emily Seto |
2018 |
| Striving to Do No Harm and yet Respect Patient Autonomy: Ontario Plastic Surgeons’ Perspectives of the Consultation for Breast Reconstruction with Women Who Have Early Stage Breast Cancer | Selina Schmocker | Frances Wright | 2018 |
| Disparities in access to endometrial cancer surgery and the influence of morbid obesity on wait times | Andrea N. Simpson | Nancy Baxter | 2018 |
| Mental Health Service Utilization in Women with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) during the Postpartum Period: A Population-Based Study | Victoria Mary Sparrow-Downes | Mona Loutfy / Simone Vigod | 2018 |
| Transition to Adult Care for Youth with Severe Mental Illness: Does Continuity with Primary Care Matter? | Alene Ahlam Toulany | Astrid Guttmann | 2018 |
| Systematic Review – the Effectiveness, Efficacy and Safety of Giraffe OmniBeds | Krystina Waler | Peter Coyte | 2018 |
| A Qualitative Investigation of the Mental Health Needs of Syrian Refugees and Immigrants | Rosemary Yachouh | Sean Kidd | 2018 |
| Empirical Estimation of Bias in Randomized and Nonrandomized Study Designs: A Meta- Epidemiological Case Study using TAVI vs. SAVR | Saerom Youn | David Urbach | 2018 |
| Genetic Counsellors’ Preferences for Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis: A Discrete Choice Experiment | Elaine Goh | Wendy Ungar / Fiona Miller |
2017 |
| Improving the Understanding and Care Management of Mental Health High-Cost Patients | Cathy Phan | Claire de Oliveira | 2017 |
| Development and Alpha Testing of a Fertility Decision Aid for Young Canadians Diagnosed with Breast Cancer at Risk of Infertility Following Cancer Treatment | Brittany Speller | Nancy Baxter | 2017 |
| Parents Experiences with Learning to Manage Medications in Pediatric Rehabilitation | Alexandra Maryrose Stanhope | G. Ross Baker | 2017 |
| Inter-facility Transport of Critically Ill Children in Ontario | Janice Anne Tijssen | Christopher Parshuram | 2017 |
| Do Quality Improvement Plans in Primary Care Improve Perceived Quality of Care? A Mixed-methods Study | Kim Tran | Irfan Dhalla | 2017 |
| A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Preimplantation Genetic Screening with In Vitro Fertilization In Ontario | Rhonda Gina Zwingerman | Nan Okun | 2017 |
| What is the Patient’s Experience of Pain after a Fragility Fracture | Albert Razvan Gheorghita | Joanna Sale | 2016 |
| The Design and Content of Personal Support Worker Training Programs | Keira Anne Grant | Raisa Deber | 2016 |
| Survival, Treatment Patterns, and Identifying Predictors of Receipt of Adjuvant Therapy and Survival for Curative-intent Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma: A Population-based Analysis | Daniel Jonathan Kagedan | Natalie Coburn | 2016 |
| Economic Evaluation of Infant Feeding Modalities for Mothers in Canada Living with HIV | Reyhaneh Keshmiri | Mona Loutfy | 2016 |
| Use of Transfusion Risk to Direct Blood Conservation Strategies in Hepatectomy | Madeline F. Lemke | Calvin Law | 2016 |
| Concordance between Need and Receipt of Social Support, Independence and Associations with Well- being in Women with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus | Stacey E Morrison | Dorcas Beaton | 2016 |
| Policy Analysis and Evaluation of National Clinician-reported Practices for the Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder | Melanie Penner | Wendy Ungar | 2016 |
| An Exploration of How Male Adolescents who had Childhood Cancer Make Sense of Infertility as a Long-term Effect of Cancer Treatments | Sophie Isabelle Grace Roher | Jennifer Gibson | 2016 |
| Responsive Behaviours in Dementia: Developing and Implementing the Behavioural Supports Ontario Initiative | Delia Sinclair Frigault | Raisa Deber | 2016 |
| Patient-level Social Determinants of Unplanned Hospital Readmission among General Internal Medicine Patients | Robert William Smith | Kerry Kuluski / Lianne Jeffs |
2016 |
| Development of a Decision Aid for Evidence- informed Public Health Policy: A Mixed Methods Study | Peggy Pak Wai Tso | Mark Dobrow | 2016 |
| Completing the Feedback Loop: An Assessment of the Implementation of an Early Stage Audit and Feedback Intervention in Primary Care | Daniel Jonathan Wagner | Noah Ivers | 2016 |
| Cost-effective Care Delivery Models in Ambulatory Surgery: Expedited Discharge and Virtual Care | Kathleen Armstrong | Peter Coyte | 2015 |
| Association between Stress and Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence among Women Living with HIV in Toronto, Ontario: Assessment of Correlates, Mediation and Moderation | Anita Charline Benoit | Mona Loutfy | 2015 |
| Organizational Learning in the Morbidity and Mortality Conference | Michelle Batthish | G. Ross Baker | 2015 |
| Use and Effect of Quantitative Clinical Feedback for Learning and Quality Improvement in Anesthesiology | Andrea Lynne Brovender | G. Ross Baker | 2015 |
| A Qualitative Study of Ontario Cancer System Leaders’ Views on the “Promises of Accountability” | Jessica Bytautas | Mark Dobrow | 2015 |
| Social Participation, Self-perception, and Social Support in Boys Living with Hemophilia | Aubrey Serah Chiu | Brian Feldman | 2015 |
| Real-world Cost-effectiveness Analysis of Second- line Pemetrexed versus Docetaxel in the Ontario Non-small-cell Lung Cancer | Dolly Han | Jeff Hoch | 2015 |
| Identifying Effective Instructional Design Features of Simulation in Nursing Education: A Realist Review | Nazlin Hirji | Rhonda Cockerill | 2015 |
| Engagement of Primary Care Providers in Care Coordination for Patients with Complex Medical Conditions | Elizabeth Lockhart | G. Ross Baker | 2015 |
| Association of Primary Care Structures with Patient Utilization of Acute Health Services | Jocelyn Pang | Walter Wodchis | 2015 |
| Validation of a Health-related Quality of Life Measure based on the Minimum Data Set by Mapping and Regression | Tommy Lok Hin Tam | Walter Wodchis | 2015 |
| Systematic Review of the Cost-effectiveness of Influenza Immunization Programs: A Canadian Perspective | Eon Edward Kwokho Ting | Wendy Ungar | 2015 |
| Setting the Balance of Care for Sexually Diverse Diverse Seniors: The Social Exclusion of LGBT Seniors in Home and Community Care | Jillian Ruth Watkins | Paul Williams | 2015 |
| Nurses’ Experiences with Providing Newborn Screening Education to Mothers in the Hospital: An Exploratory, Qualitative Research Study | Diana Ann An | Fiona Miller | 2014 |
| A Population Based Assessment of Primary Care Care Physician Visits and Acute Care Utilization Among Women Receiving Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer | Sarah Jane Bastedo | Eva Grunfeld | 2014 |
| Help-seeking and use of Workplace Services for Emotional Needs among Community Residential Staff who Support Adults with Intellectual Disabilities and Aggressive Behaviour | Jennifer Marie Hensel | Carolyn Dewa | 2014 |
| Exploring Characteristics of Networks that Enable Knowledge Transfer and Exchange (KTE): A Mixed- methods Study | Stephanie Hylmar | Anna Gagliardi | 2014 |
| The PREVENT Study: Psychiatric Reporting to Ease Vehicular Events Near Traffic | Andrew Lustig | Donald Redelmeier | 2014 |
| The Core Features and Perceived Value of Family Support for Ethnoracial Homeless Individuals with Mental Illness: Findings from the At Home/Chez Soi Project | Gayathri Naganathan | Stephen Hwang | 2014 |
| An Exploration of the Role of Influentials in Increasing the Uptake of Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing | Emily Pearsall | Erin Kennedy | 2014 |
| The Sustainability and Long-term Outcomes of Knowledge Translation Projects: A 3-year Follow-up of the GAIN Collaborative Network Project | Andra Ragusila | Joanna Henderson | 2014 |
| Increasing the Uptake of Evidence-based Practice Determining Costs and Caregiver Burden Associated with Palliative Home Care | Ruby Redmond-Misner | Peter Coyte | 2014 |
| Hospital Readmissions among Patients who are Homeless in Toronto | Dima Saab | Stephen Hwang | 2014 |
| The Hawthorne Effect in Hand Hygiene Compliance Monitoring | Jocelyn Andyss Srigley | G. Ross Baker | 2014 |
| Does Location Matter? How Neighbourhoods Influence Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest Outcomes | Jason Eric Buick | Laurie Morrison | 2013 |
| A Patient Opinion Survey to Identify Perceived Barriers to the Introduction of a Screening Program for Depression in a Hemodialysis Population | Farhat Farrokhi | Alexander Logan | 2013 |
| Exploring Ethicists’ Perspectives of Healthcare Ethics Program Effectiveness | Kimberley Ibarra | Jennifer Gibson | 2013 |
| An Economic Evaluation of Conception Strategies for Heterosexual Serodiscordant Couples with HIV- Positive Male Partners | Michelle Letchumanan | Mona Loutfy/ Peter Coyte |
2013 |
| Disclosure of Safety Incidents Involving Pediatric Patients: A Review of Federal, Provincial, and Territorial Legislation and Related Policies of Health Care Organizations Providing Care to Pediatric Patients | Jill Susanne McCartney | Raisa Deber | 2013 |
| Examination of the Association between Voluntary Accreditation and Resident Safety in Ontario Long Care Homes | Shawna McDonald | Laura Wagner | 2013 |
| The Costs and Benefits of Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery for Patients with Parkinson’s Disease at Different Stages of Severity – An Initial Exploration | Vivian Wing Man Ng | Peter Coyte | 2013 |
| The Surgical Management of Kidney Stone Disease in the Province of Ontario: A Population Based Time Series Analysis | Michael H. Ordon | David Urbach | 2013 |
| Innovations in Chronic Disease Management (CDM) from Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs) | Himanshu S. Parikh | Onil Bhattacharyya | 2013 |
| The use of Information and Communication Technologies for Knowledge Translation in a Mentoring Network of Physicians to Optimize Roles in the Management of Chronic Pain | Arun Radhakrishnan | Alex Jadad | 2013 |
| Comparative Analysis of Long-term Care Policies and Placements | Shannon Reynolds | Walter Wodchis | 2013 |
| Partial Nephrectomy for the Treatment of Renal Cell Carcinoma and the Risk of End Stage Renal Disease | Stanley Yap | Shabbir Alibhai | 2013 |
| Economic Implications of Alternative Sites of Deat Death and Sites of Care in Ontario Palliative Care Recipients | Mo Yu | Peter Coyte | 2013 |
| A Systematic Review and Appraisal of International Early Breast Cancer Guidelines for Systemic Therapy, and a Global Physician Survey Examining Practice Patterns by Resource Setting: Potential Implications for International Health Policy | Sonal Gandhi | Shabir Alibhai | 2012 |
| Perceptions of Emergency Department Team Members on the Implementation of Clinical Decision Units | Cheryl Yu Chin Ku | Louise Lemieux-Charles | 2012 |
| Pursuing Enterprise Risk Management: A Local Roadmap for Canadian Health Care Leaders | James Haney | Rhonda Cockerill | 2012 |
| Access to Colorectal Cancer Screening: Does Immigrant Status Matter | Cara Murphy | Patrice Lindsay | 2012 |
| The Effects of Immigrant Status and Ethnicity on on the Propensity and Intensity of Informal Care Received in Canada | Carita Ng | Peter Coyte | 2012 |
| Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Inpatient Rehabilitation for Mild Stroke Patients – A Functional Recovery Analysis of Inpatient Rehabilitation for Mild Stroke Patients | Nicole Pageau | Jan Barnsley | 2012 |
| Family Physicians’ Perspectives on Computer-based Health Risk Assessment Tools for Chronic Diseases | Rishi Teja Voruganti | Eva Grunfeld | 2012 |
| Involvement of Primary Care Providers in the Care of Hospitalized Patients | Stacey Sarah Brener | Chaim Bell | 2011 |
| Parents’ Preferences for Drug Treatments in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: A Discrete Choice Experiment | Heather Burnett | Wendy Ungar | 2011 |
| The Experiences of Immigrants Seeking Healthcare in Toronto | Ruth Campbell-Page | David Fisman | 2011 |
| Utility Aassesment of Health-related Quality of Life (HRQOL) in Colorectal Cancer Patients: A Mixed Methodology Study | Sarah Elizabeth Costa | Jeffrey Hoch | 2011 |
| Needs Assessment, Knowledge Translation and Barriers to Implementing EEG Monitoring Technology in Critical Care | Corrine Davies-Schinkel | Robert Fowler | 2011 |
| A Cost Analysis of Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter in Paediatrics | Zhaoxin Dong | Peter Coyte | 2011 |
| Stroke Services in Ontario-based Long Term Care Homes | Chelsea Robin Hellings | Walter Wodchis | 2011 |
| eHealth Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Systematic Review and Content Analysis of National Policies | Maria Carolina Jimenez | Alex Jadad | 2011 |
| Canadian Nursing Labour Force: Examining the Relationship between Job Dissatisfaction, Nurse Dissatisfaction and Intent to Quit | Anshoo Kamal | Audrey Laporte | 2011 |
| Health Care Service Provision Over the Palliative Care Trajectory | Lisa Masucci | Peter Coyte | 2011 |
| Assessing Primary Care PhysiciansAttitudes Towards Adoption of an Electronic Tool to Support Cancer Diagnosis | Fatemeh Moeinedin | David Wiljer | 2011 |
| Consensus on Access to Mental Health Services by Children and Adolescents in Antioquia, Colombia | Carlos German Ruiz | Whitney Berta | 2011 |
| Exploring Patients’ Perception of Osteoporosis Following a Fragility Fracture: Results of a Literature Review and Analysis of a Provincial Database | Rebeka Sujic | Dorcas Beaton | 2011 |
| Assessing the Determinants of Quality in Ontario’s Long-term Care Homes: Relationships between Staff and Resident Satisfaction | Kevin Ross Walker | Walter Wodchis | 2011 |
MSc – Quality Improvement & Patient Safety
Thesis Topics - 2011 to date
| Quality Improvement & Patient Safety – MSc | Student Name | Supervisor | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standardization of Sonographic Prognostication of Prenatally Diagnosed Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (CDH) Across the North American Fetal Therapy Network (NAFTNet) | Nimrah Abbasi | Patricia Trbovich | 2018 |
| A Quality Improvement Program to Standardize and Improve the Perioperative Management of Total Knee Arthroplasty Patients at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, Canada | Sarah Elizabeth Ward | G. Ross Baker | 2018 |
PhD – Clinical Epidemiology & Health Care Research
Thesis Topics - 2011 to date
| Clinical Epidemiology & HCR – PhD | Student Name | Supervisor | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Outcomes and Effects of Simple Bone Cysts | Amy Behman | James Wright | 2019 |
| The Management of Adhesive Small Bowel Obstruction: A Population-based Analysis of Practices and Outcomes | Ramy Behman | Avery nathens | 2019 |
| Exploring Methodologic Challenges in the Conduct of Patient-preferences in Obstetrics | Rohan D’Souza | Beate Sander | 2019 |
| Association of Obesity with Breast Cancer | Ana Elisa Constant Lohmann Palhares | Pamela Goodwin | 2019 |
| Sodium Glucose co-Transporter 2 (SGLT2) Inhibitors for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Assessing their Safety and Effectiveness using Real-world Data | Michael Paul Figueroa Fralick | Donald Redelmeier | 2019 |
| Relationships between Urban Environments and Cardiovascular Disease Risk | Nicholas Araki Howell | Gillian Booth | 2019 |
| Development and Evaluation of a Novel Instrument to Measure Severity of Intraoperative Events | Jiuk James Jung | Peter Juni | 2019 |
| Patient Readmissions After Hospital Discharg | Lauren E. Lapointe-Shaw | Chaim Bell | 2019 |
| Understanding and Improving Wait Times for Hip Fracture Surgery | Daniel Pincus | Walter Wodchis | 2019 |
| Evaluating the Clinical Impact of Timing of Aneurysmal Treatment following Subarachnoid Hemorrhage | Sapna Rawal | Andreas Laupacis | 2019 |
| Barriers to Access to Breast Reconstruction in Ontario | Helene Retrouvey | Nancy Baxter | 2019 |
| Hepatobiliary Pathology in Paediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease | Amanda Ricciuto | Geoffrey Nguyen | 2019 |
| Comparative Efficacy and Safety of Pharmacological and Non-pharmacological Interventions in Persons Living with Dementia | Jennifer Ann Watt | Sharon Elizabeth Straus | 2019 |
| The Spectrum, Impact, and Management of Cardiovascular Disease in Ontario Women with Early Stage Breast Cancer | Husam-Eldin Mohamed Abdel-Qadir | Geoff Anderson | 2018 |
| Maternal Critical Illness in Canada: Temporal and Geographic Trends, Predictors of Outcome, and an Examination of the Variability in Provision of Critical Care | Kazuyoshi Aoyama | Robert Fowler | 2018 |
| The Influence of Prehospital Times on Trauma Mortality | James Paul Byrne | Avery Nathens | 2018 |
| Surgical, Pharmacological, and Patient Factors Affecting Early and or Late Outcomes Following Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Surgery | Saswata Deb | Stephen Fremes | 2018 |
| A Population-based Evaluation of Long-term Outcomes following Major Burn Injury | Stephanie Mason | Avery Nathens | 2018 |
| Patient-Centered Interventional Outcomes for Children with Severe Neurologic Impairment | Katherine Nelson | Astrid Guttmann | 2018 |
| The Identification and Management of Sepsis in the Prehospital Setting | Daniel Lane | Damon Scales | 2018 |
| Malignancy and Solid Organ Transplantation: Evalua ting Cancer Mortality, Pretransplant Malginancies, and Cancer Screening | Sergio Andres Acuna Mancilla | Nancy Baxter | 2017 |
| Post-thrombotic Syndrome in Pediatrics: Development of a Measurement Index | Maria Laura Avila | Brian Feldman | 2017 |
| Incidence and Prognosis of Post-traumatic Headache in Adults | Carolina Cancelliere | David Cassidy | 2017 |
| Barriers to Early Physical Rehabilitation in Mechanically Ventilated Patient | Shannon Lynn Goddard | Brian Cuthbertson | 2017 |
| Improving the Design and Analysis of Prognosis Studies in Rare Diseases | Siok Hoon Lily Lim | Brian Feldman | 2017 |
| Processes and Structures of Care for Critically Ill Patients with Acute Brain Injury | Victoria McCredie | Avery Nathens | 2017 |
| Chemoprevention in Kidney Cancer | Madhur Nayan | David Juurlink | 2017 |
| The Development of Outcome Measures and Identification of Effective Behavioural Modification Strategies to Study the Efficacy of Habitual Physical Activity on Health Outcome in Children with Chronic Disease | Samantha Stephens | Brian Feldman | 2017 |
| Team-based Electronic Communication in the Care of Patients with Complex Conditions | Rishi Teja Voruganti | Eva Grunfeld | 2017 |
| Clinically Significant Prostate Cancer: Biological and Epidemiological Observations to Improve Cancer-Free and Survival Metrics | Christopher James Derrick Wallis | Robert Nam | 2017 |
| Non-anemic Iron Deficiency and Health Outcomes in Pre-school Children | Kawsari Abdullah | Patricia Parkin | 2016 |
| Should Network Meta-analysis Become the Standard in Evidence-based Clinical Practice? | Romina Brignardello Petersen | George Tomlinson | 2016 |
| A Novel Approach to Integrating Best Evidence and Patient Preferences into Treatment Recommendations for Rheumatoid Arthritis | Glen Stewart Hazlewood | Claire Bombardier | 2016 |
| Clinical Outcomes of Pediatric Intestinal Failure Management after Implementation of a Multidisciplinary Intestinal Rehabilitation Program | Carol Oliveira | Paul Wales | 2016 |
| School Function in Children Following Traumatic Brain Injury: Developing a New Outcome Measure | Shobhan Haresh Vachhrajani | Dorcas Beaton/ Abhaya Kulkarni |
2016 |
| Development and Validation of a New Measure of Impairment in Myasthenia Gravis: The Myasthenia Gravis Impairment Index | Carolina Barnett Tapia | Aileen Davis | 2015 |
| Choosing Mastectomy: A Qualitative Exploration of the Increasing Mastectomy Rates in Women with Early-stage Breast Cancer | Andrea Marie Covelli | Nancy Baxter/ Frances Wright | 2015 |
| The Timing of Modifiable Environmental Exposures During Childhood Affects the Age of Asthma Development | Frances Elinor Simons | Teresa To | 2015 |
| Process of Care and Outcome of Critically Ill Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury | Abdulaziz Alali | Avery Nathens | 2014 |
| Socioeconomic Status, Diagnostic Interval Length and Outcome in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | Sumit Gupta | Lillian Sung | 2014 |
| Optimizing Audit and Feedback Interventions to Improve Quality in Primary Care | Noah Michael Ivers | Merrick Zwarenstein | 2014 |
| A Risk Stratification Model for Adult Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Development and Evaluation | Tetyana Kendzerska | George Tomlinson | 2014 |
| Antibody-mediated Injury and Kidney Transplantation | Ruth Sapir-Pichhadze | Alexander Logan | 2014 |
| Examining the Effects of Dementia on the Postoperative Outcomes of Older Adults with Hip Fractures | Dallas Peter Seitz | Paula Rochon | 2014 |
| Work Disability Among Injured Workers with Chronic Upper Extremity Disorders: Measurement and Mechanismthe Relationship between Use and Inpatient Mortality and Length of Stay | Kenneth Kin-Lap Tang | Dorcas Beaton | 2014 |
| Quantifying Uncertainty in the Efficacy of Vitamin K on Fractures in Postmenopausal Women: Economic Evaluation, Evidence Synthesis and Bayesian Meta-analysis | Olga Gajic-Veljanoski | Angela Cheung | 2013 |
| A Multi-dimensional Outcomes Study in an Inception Cohort of Patients with Interrupted Aortic Arch | Anusha Jegatheeswaran | Brian McCrindle | 2013 |
| Making More Valid Estimates of Treatment Effect Using Observational Data in Uncommon Disease: The Warfarin in Scleroderma-associated Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Model | Sindhu Rose Johnson | Brian Feldman | 2013 |
| Metformin and Prostate Cancer among Diabetic Men | David Margel | David Urbach | 2013 |
| Complications Following Total Joint Arthroplasty Joint Arthroplasty in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis | Bheeshma Ravi | Gillian Hawker | 2013 |
| Development and Evaluation of a Tailored Knowledge Translation Intervention to Improve Lay Health Workers Ability to Effectively Support TB Treatment | Lisa Marie Puchalski Ritchie | Merrick Zwarenstein | 2013 |
| An Empirical Study of Bias in Randomized Controlled Trials and Non-randomised Studies of Surgical Interventions | Lakhbir Sandhu | David Urbach | 2013 |
| Measurement Properties of the Whiplash Disability Questionnaire in Acute Whiplash-Associated Disorders | Maja Stupar | Pierre Cote | 2013 |
| Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis and Adverse Events: A Canadian Perspective | Henry Ahn | James Wright | 2012 |
| Optimizing the Tailored Treatment of Breast Cancer | Eitan Amir | Ian Tannock | 2012 |
| Health Services Utilization among Persons Living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection in Ontario | Tony Antoniou | Richard Glazier | 2012 |
| An Investigation of the Journey of Care Related to Secondary Health Conditions for Community-dwelling Persons with Spinal Cord Injury | Sara Jane Taylor Guilcher | Susan Jaglal | 2012 |
| Cervical Cancer Screening among Ontario’s Urban Immigrants | Aisha Kamilah O. Lofters | Richard Glazier | 2012 |
| Clinical Implications of HIV-1, HSV-2, Co-infection and Opportunites for Intervention | Darrell Hoi-San Tan | Sharon Walmsley/ Allan Detsky |
2012 |
| Facilitating Clinical Trials of Parenteral Lipid Strategies for the Prevention of Intestinal Failure Associated Liver Disease (IFALD) in Infants | Ivan Russell Diamond | Brian Feldman/ Paul Wales |
2011 |
| Sexual Risk Behaviour, HIV, and Sexually Transmitted Infections in a Cohort of Kenyan Female Sex Workers, 1993-2007 | Susan Marie Graham | Ahmed Bayoumi | 2011 |
| Evaluating the Harm of Drugs in the Post-marketing Environment using Observational Research Methods | Laura Park | Andreas Laupacis | 2011 |
| Labour Force Participation and Health-related Quality of Life in People Living with HIV | Sergio Ismael Rueda | Cameron Mustard | 2011 |
| Phenotypic Characterization of Paediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease | Mary Sherlock | David Urbach | |
| Economic Evaluation of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Stable Coronary Artery Disease: Studies in Utilities and Decision Modeling | Harindra Channa Wijeysundera | Murrah Krahn | 2011 |
PhD – Organization and Management Studies (prev. Health Services Organization and Management)
Thesis Topics - 2011 to date
| Health Services Organization and Management – PhD | Student Name | Supervisor | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Multi-Methods Study of the Role of Middle Managers in Brokering Knowledge in Hospitals | Faith Dawn Boutcher | Anna Gagliardi | 2019 |
| Integration of Services in Child and Youth Mental Health: A Case Study | Renee Sloos | Anna Gagliardi | 2019 |
| Letting Stories Breathe: Using Patient Stories for Organizational Learning and Improvement | Carol Ann Fancott | G. Ross Baker | 2016 |
| Health Literate Discharge Practices in Ontario Hospital | Jennifer Innis | Jan Barnsley/ Whitney Berta |
2016 |
| Insights into Nurses’ Work: Exploring Relationships among Work Attitudes and Work-related Behaviours | Tyrone Anthonio Perreira | Whitney Berta | 2016 |
| The Organizational Context of Care Transition Interventions: Case Studies from Ontario | Karen Beth Born | G. Ross Baker | 2015 |
| Health Systems Integration: Competing or Shared Mental Models | Jenna Madeleine Evans | G. Ross Baker | 2014 |
| Evidence Based Strategic Decision Making in Ontario Public Hospitals | Melanie Kazman Kohn | Whitney Berta | 2013 |
| Do Boards Matter? The Links Between Governance, Organizational Monitoring and Alignment Capacity and Hospital Performance | Paula Neves | Louise Lemieux-Charles | 2012 |
| Understanding and Changing the Patient Safety Culture in Canadian Hospitals | Madelyn Pearl Law | G. Ross Baker | 2011 |
| Moving Patients Across Organizations: Exploring The Antecedents of Effective and Efficient Patient Referral Processes | Tina Saryeddine | Louise Lemieux-Charles | 2011 |
PhD – Health Policy
Thesis Topics - 2011 to date
| Health Policy – PhD | Student Name | Supervisor | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visions and Shadows: A Socio-history of the Mental-health Policy Reform Agenda in Canada | Stephen Matthew Durant | Fiona Webster | 2019 |
| The Effect of Free Distribution of Essential Medicines on Adherence by Income Sources and Level | Bryan Krol | Navindra Persaud | 2019 |
| Comparing Patient Engagement and Patient Advocacy Activities and Measuring Preferred Roles in Medical Decision Making among Cystic Fibrosis Patients, Caregivers, Family Members and Patient Advocates | Daniel Saliba | Raisa Deber | 2019 |
| Caregiver Support Policies in Ontario: Analyzing the Pace and Direction of Policy Change | Natalie Irene Warrick | Paul Williams | 2019 |
| The Influence of Organizational and Health System Arrangements on Priority-setting for Health Technology Assessment: A Comparative Case Study of Canada and the United Kingdom | Juliana Young Yi | Fiona Miller | 2019 |
| Primary Health Care Performance Measurement and Accountability in Ontario | Shaheena Mukhi | Raisa Deber / Janet M. Barnsley |
2018 |
| One Hundred Twenty Years of Canadian Academic Medicine: How Michael Porter Became the New Abraham Flexner | Robert a. Paul | Zubin Austin | 2018 |
| Primary Care Patients’ Preferred Roles in Treatment Decision-making in an era of Increased Health Information | Vidhi Thakkar | Raisa Deber | 2018 |
| Ontario’s Retirement Homes and Long-term Care Homes: Policy Implications for CAre Services, Funding and Governance Regimes | Blair A. Roblin | Raisa Deber | 2017 |
| Caring for Caregivers: Establishing Resilience through Social Capital | Alexandra Peckham | Paul Williams | 2016 |
| Commercialization, Collaboration and Conflict of Interest: An Institutional Work Analysis of Academic Entrepreneurship in Canada | Renata Emily Axler | Fiona Miller | 2015 |
| Tipping Points for Institutional Care for Persons Living with Dementia: Analyzing the Policy Trajectory in Ontario | Frances Margaret Morton-Chang | Paul Williams | 2015 |
| Paying for Primary Care: The Relationship between Payment Change and Primary Care Physician Behaviour | David Rudoler | Raisa Deber | 2015 |
| An Evaluation of a Universal Funding Program_for Insulin Pumps for Children and Teens with Type 1 Diabetes | Rayzel Malka Shulman | Astrid Guttmann | 2015 |
| Managing Conflict of Interest in Health Care: The Roles of Professionalism and Regulatory Colleges | Debra Lydia Catherine Zelisko | Raisa Deber/ Audrey Laporte |
2015 |
| Accountability in Ontario’s Acute Care Hospital Sector and its Effect on Organizational Strategic Priorities | Seija Kristina Kromm | Raisa Deber | 2014 |
| Different Approaches to Care for the Terminally Ill: Barriers and Facilitators to (Best Practice) Service Provision | Christopher Alexander Klinger | Raisa Deber | 2013 |
| Accountability in the Home and Community Care Sector in Ontario | Carolyn Alice Steele Gray | Raisa Deber | 2013 |
| Who are the High Users of Health Care Services? Determinants and Stability of Heatlh Care Expenditure Trajectories in Manitoba | Kenneth Cheak Kwan Lam | Raisa Deber | 2012 |
PhD – Health Services Outcomes and Evaluation
Thesis Topics - 2011 to date
| Health Services Outcomes and Evaluation – PhD | Student Name | Supervisor | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Self-management Support Needs and Longitudinal Trajectories of Symptom Burden on Survival in Advanced Breast Cancer: A Population-based Study | Suman Budhwani | Doris Howell | 2019 |
| Managing Multimorbidity in Primary Care: Measuring Collaboration Efforts Within and Across Organizational Boundaries | Anum Irfan Khan | Walter Wodchis | 2019 |
| Induced Abortion in Ontario | Ning Liu | Joel Ray | 2019 |
| Evaluating Extra-organizational Communities of Practice | Kaileah Alyssa McKellar | Rhonda Cockerill | 2019 |
| Implementing Dialectical Behavioural Therapy: The Study of Fidelity and the Fidelity-adaptation Relationship | Nadia Nandlall | Sanjeev Sridharan | 2019 |
| Using Electronic Medical Records to Examine Childhood Obesity Outcomes in Community-based Primary Care | Sarah Elizabeth Carsley | Patricia Parkin | 2018 |
| Ethnic Variation in Prediabetes Incidence and Outcomes among Immigrants and Long-Term Residents | Ghazal Sanam Fazli | Gillian Booth | 2018 |
| An Exploration of Support Needs of Family Caregivers of Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury: A Qualitative Study | Gayathiri Jeyathevan | Susan Jaglal | 2018 |
| Scaling Up Health Services Delivery for Bottom of the Pyramid Populations in Lower-and-Middle-Income Countries | Ramanjeet Sohal | Onil Bhattacharyya | 2018 |
| An Examination of Fragility Fractures that Occur in Ontario Workplaces | Chamila Dilanjali Adhihetty | Susan Jaglal | 2017 |
| Examining the Relationship between Exercise and Sedentary Behaviour among Cardiac Rehabilitation Patients to Inform Intervention Strategies | Aviroop Biswas | David Alter | 2017 |
| The Association of Health Literacy and Self-efficacy to Cancer Chemotheray Self-management Behaviours and Health Service Utilization | Janet Kathleen Papadakos | Doris Howell | 2017 |
| The Quality of Care Among Older Adults with Diabetes Comorbid with Other Chronic Conditions | Yelena Petrosyan | Walter Wodchis | 2017 |
| Outcomes and Costs of Post-Acute Care Pathways in Hip Fracture Patients – Implications of Trade-Offs in Resource Allocation | Kristen Blythe Pitzul | Susan Jaglal | 2017 |
| A Realist Evaluation of Family Navigation in Youth Mental Health and Addictions | Nadine Reid | Rhonda Cockerill / Janet Durbin |
2017 |
| Mobile Technology and Health Apps: Patient and Provider Experiences in Cardiac Rehabilitation | Sarah Louise Sharpe | G. Ross Baker | 2017 |
| Insights into the Impact of Med Rec Implementation at Admission in Acute and Long Term Care Settings in Alberta | Aleksandra Stanimirovic | Whitney Berta | 2017 |
| Exploring Patient-centered Primary Care in Family Health Teams | Heidi Janette Pearl Amernic | Heather Boon | 2016 |
| Determinants of Disability and Disablement in Ontario Long-term Care Residents | Natasha Erin Lane | Walter Wodchis | 2016 |
| Corporate Board Health and Safety Governance Committees: Do they Make any Difference? | John Harvey Murphy | Rhonda Cockerill | 2016 |
| Assessing the Prevalence, Penetration and Performance of Hospital Physicians in Ontario: Implications for the Quality and Efficiency of Inpatient Care | Heather Lynn White | Richard Glazier | 2016 |
| Predicting Individual-level Probabilities of Diabetes and Dementia Using Health Services Administrative Data | Munaza Rubee Chaudhry | Geoff Anderson | 2015 |
| Mental Health Service Use Patterns for Immigrant Groups in Ontario: Population Based Studies | Anna Durbin | Richard Glazier | 2015 |
| Frontline Measures: Evaluating HIV Prevention at AIDS Service Organizations | Nicole Rachel Greenspan | Rhonda Cockerill | 2015 |
| Printed Educational Materials for Primary Care Physicians | Agnieszka Grudniewicz | Sharon Straus | 2015 |
| How does Ontario Primary Care Perform? Effectiveness, Costs and Efficiency | Maude Pascale Laberge | Walter Wodchis | 2015 |
| Introducing the “Third Phase” of Priority Setting: Advancing Methods for Priority Setting Practice through the Contribution of Systems Theory. Lessons from a Case Study of District Health Planning and Priority Setting in Ethiopia | Kadia Petricca | Whitney Berta/ Jennifer Gibson |
2015 |
| Cost-effectiveness of Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Calibration Analysis of Decision-analytic Models | Ba Dinh Pham | Murray Krahm | 2015 |
| Practical Virtues: An Evidence-based Ethical Framework for Approaching End-of-life Care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit | Constance Willilams | Jennifer Gibson/ Andreas Laupacis | 2015 |
| Entrepreneurship in Publicly-funded Hospitals: A Multi-case Study of Privately Funded Rehabilitation in Ontario Hospitals | Anna Ballon-Kaushansky | Whitney Berta | 2014 |
| A Cost-effectiveness Analysis of Maternal Genotying to Guide Treatment for Postpartum Pain and Avert Infant Adverse Events | Myla Emily Moretti | Wendy Ungar | 2014 |
| Considerations for a Targeted Self-management Program for Individuals with Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury | Sarah Elizabeth Patricia Munce | Susan Jaglal | 2014 |
| Adoption and Use of High Technology Medical Imaging in Ontario Hospitals: The Determinants of Adoption and the Relationship between Use and Inpatient Mortality and Length of Stay | Guillermo Arturo Sandoval Garces | Geoff Anderson | 2014 |
| Access to Trauma Centre Care in Canada: A National Comparison | Andrea Dionne Hill | Robert Fowler | 2013 |
| Benefits of an E-learning Intervention for Implementing Stroke Rehabilitation Best Practices | Anita Menon | Sharon Straus | 2013 |
| Public, Private and Informal Homecare in Canada: What are the Determinants of Utilization and the Interrelationships among Different Types of Services? | Gustavo Mery | Audrey Laporte/ Walter Wodchis |
2013 |
| Accuracy of Ontario Health Administrative Databases Identifying Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis | Jessica Widdifield | Claire Bombardier | 2013 |
| The Relationship between Nurse Staffing and Patient Satisfaction in Emergency Departments | Imtiaz Daniel | Jan Barnsley | 2012 |
| The Effect of Colon Cancer Check Program on Colorectal Cancer Screening in Ontario | Gladys Honein | Arlene Bierman | 2012 |
| Working Together Across Primary Care, Mental Health & Addictions: Exploring the Association Between The Formalization of Organizational Partnerships & Collaboration Among Staff Members | Enette Pauze | Jan Barnsley | 2012 |
| Demand for Health among Canadians: Roles of Immigration Status, Country of Origin and Year since Immigration | Kednapa Thavorn | Peter Coyte | 2012 |
| The Influence of Nurse Employment Status on Market Level Nurse Retention | Frieda Hyla Daniels | Audrey Laporte | 2011 |
| The Application of Cost-effectiveness Analysis in Developing Countries | Cindy Low Gauvreau | Wendy Ungar | 2011 |
| Implementation of Electronic Medical Records and Preventive Services: A Mixed Methods Study | Michelle Greiver | Jan Barnsley | 2011 |
| Patterns, Determinants and Spatial Analysis of Health Service Utilization Following the 2004 Tsunami in Thailand | Wanrudee Isaranuwatchai | Peter Coyte | 2011 |
| How Organizational Experiments Influence Organizational Learning | San Wen Ng | Whitney Berta | 2011 |
| Supporting Public Health Policy Decision-making through Economic Evaluation: Applications and Methods | Beate Sander | Murray Krahn | 2011 |
PhD – Health Informatics Research
Thesis Topics - 2011 to date
| Health Informatics Research – PhD | Student Name | Supervisor | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Publication and Registration Bias in Randomized Clinical Trials | Mustafa Al-Durra | Joseph Cafazzo | 2019 |
| Innovative Research Methods to Evaluate Effective Engagement with Consumer Mobile Health Applications for Chronic Conditions | Quynh Pham | Joseph Cafazzo/ Emily Seto |
2019 |
| The eHealth Trust Model: Understanding the Patient Privacy Perspective in a Digital Health Environment | Nelson Shen | David Wiljer | 2019 |
| Implementation, Scale, and Spread of Telemonitoring for the Management of Heart Failure | Patrick Ware | Emily Seto | 2019 |
| Engaging Patients in Health and Health Care Processes: The Role of Patient Platforms | Claudia S.W. Lai | Aviv Shachak | 2018 |
| The Development and Pilot Test of a Shortened Systematic Review Format for Use by Physicians | Laure Anne Perrier | Sharon Straus | 2015 |
| Design and Evaluation of a Mobile Phone-based Remote Patient Monitoring System for Heart Failure Management: A Focus on Self-care | Emily Seto | Kevin Leonard | 2011 |
PhD – Health Economics
Thesis Topics - 2011 to date
| Health Economics – PhD | Student Name | Supervisor | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| An Investigation into Relationships between Organizational Structure, Regulation and Quality in Ontario Nursing Homes | Meghan McMahon | Audrey Laporte | 2019 |
| Temporal Trends in Home-based Palliative Care: Evidence from Ontario, Canada | Zhuolu Sun | Peter Coyte | 2018 |
| Economics of Maternal and Child Nutrition: Food Fortification with Vitamin A in Tanzania | Dylan David Walters | Audrey Laporte | 2018 |
| An Investigation of Approaches to Performance Measurement: Applications to Long-Term Care in Ontario | Amy The-Mei Hsu | Audrey Laporte | 2015 |
| Does Predictive Genetic Information Change Individual Health Behaviours? An Evaluation of Personalized Medicine in Cancer Prevention | Soo-Min Joanne Kim | Audrey Laporte | 2015 |
| Essays on the Economics of Longevity | Mayvis Anthony Rebeira | Peter Coyte | 2015 |
PhD – Health Technology Assessment
Thesis Topics - 2011 to date
| Health Technology Assessment – PhD | Student Name | Supervisor | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Economic Evaluation of Early Intervention with Anti-TNF-alpha Treatments in Paediatric Crohn’s Disease | Naazish Sultana Bashir | Wendy Ungar | 2019 |
| Generating Evidence to Streamline the Clinical Pathway in Autism Spectrum Disorder Using Simulation Models: Cost-effectiveness Comparisons of Screening and Genetic Testing Strategies | Tracy Yuen | Wendy Ungar | 2017 |
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