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Health policy analysis; public participation in health care decision making; governance, organization and funding of community care.

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Biostatistics; methods of analyzing pain measurements; structure of fabricated data sets; longitudinal data and repeated measures; modeling risk factors of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases

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Clinical epidemiology; population health; women's health; aboriginal health; cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes, nutrition.

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Dr. Arnold’s research interests are in platelet disorders with a focus on clinical trials. He is spearheading a new Canadian multi-centered pilot trial of rituximab in ITP with plans for the larger phase III trial already underway.

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Child mental health, school-based prevention interventions, influence of early conduct problems on future health and social outcomes, school influences on behavioural adjustment.

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Systematic reviews/meta-analyses, predictive modeling; health technology assessment, and clinical research; multi-level modeling in linkage and association analysis, pediatric early warning system, pain management in infants at risk for neurological impairment, and development of statistical methods for genomic data.

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Clinical epidemiology and surgery; musculoskeletal trauma; large multi-centre trials of tibial fracture management; evidence-based orthopaedics

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Health economics; methods for economic evaluation of health interventions; equity in health care resource allocation; and the relationship between health and environments.

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Program for Assessment of Technology in Health (PATH): economic evaluation; health technology assessment; decision analytic modelling; biostatistics

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Dundas ON (retired): medical education research; database management

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Child health and development: measurement of childhood psychiatric disorder; design and analysis of prevention studies; survey research methods; determinants of health; multilevel models.

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Health services research; health care of the older adult; end of life care; best practises in long term care; organizational change.

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Development, dissemination, implementation and evaluation of evidence-based decisions products such as clinical practice guidelines, standards, quality indicators. etc. and decision-making, knowledge translation and/or brokering, and behaviour change particularly as it relates to health communication..

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Clinical practice guideline development and implementation, evidence-based decision making, health information sciences, evaluation of clinical interventions in cancer.

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Clientele shared by health and social sectors, the combination of problems that guides simultaneous use of services, factors which explain the variability of client outcomes and the cost of a "life without purpose" to society.

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Dr. Brożek’s research interests include: the dissemination of concepts of evidence-based medicine, methodology of clinical practice guidelines.

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Development and evaluation of innovative study designs to overcome barriers to conducting research in clinical settings; promotion and facilitation of multi-centre studies; evaluation of surgical and rehabilitation interventions through randomized clinical trials, observational studies, systematic reviews; evaluation of diagnostic tests; development and evaluation of measurement instruments.

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Expertise-based randomization and the use of composite endpoints in clinical trials

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Computational statistics; Monte Carlo Markov chain methods; bootstrap and other re-sampling methods; graphical methods; Monte Carlo inference; efficient computer implementation of statistical algorithms.

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Health research, continuing professional development of health practitioners, promotion of health in older adults, linkages between research, public health planning and programming, clinical medicine and health service.

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Soo completed her PhD in McMaster's Health Research Methodology program in 2006.  Her research has included studies for improving the care of elderly nursing home residents.  She combines quantitative and qualitative methods to provide a more in-depth evaluation of interventions.

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Shared treatment decision-making; physician-patient relationship; public participation in health care decision-making; research transfer; the health professions and public policy.

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Chronic renal failure, urolithiasis, peritoneal dialysis, hemodialysis, the effect of a membrane biocompatibility and hydraulic flux on clinical outcome, quality of life research and polycystic kidney disease.

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Clinical epidemiology and surgery; thoraco-abdominal aortic surgery; extracranial cerebral circulation; fibrinolytic agents and anticoagulants for prevention and treatment of atherosclerotic disease; Prevention of peri-operative complications in vascular surgery; non-invasive diagnostic techniques in vascular surgery.

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Clinical epidemiology; low glomerular filtration rate; chronic renal insufficiency; dialysis; vascular disease; thrombosis; bleeding; anticoagulation; population epidemiology; cohort studies; randomized trials.

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Clinical epidemiology; knowledge translation of new discoveries into effective clinical practice; GIM/ICU clinical effectiveness and outcomes research; life-support technology assessment; design of multi-centre randomized clinical trials

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Health services research; health care of the older adult; end of life care; best practises in long term care; organizational change.

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Innovative clinical trial design and conduct, in particular adaptive trial design, randomization, from a theoretical and applied research perspective.

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Clinical epidemiology; peri-operative care; patient decision making and risk management; health policy / health services research.

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Health services research;, introduction and evaluation of acute care and primary care nurse practitioner (NP) roles

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Shared treatment decision-making; physician-patient relationship; public participation in health care decision-making; research transfer; the health professions and public policy.

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Peri-operative anticoagulation and bridging anticoagulation, clinical course and prognostic factors related to venous Thromboembolism, anticoagulant-related bleeding, hormonal therapy and thromboembolic disease, and the use of thromboprophylactic strategies in medical patients.

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Theoretical, statistical and computational approaches to understanding the evolution and spread of infectious diseases...

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Mathematical modeling of biological systems, primarily for applications in epidemiology, ecology and animal behaviour.

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Health Services Research in Gynecologic Oncology, specifically ovarian cancer, Randomized trials specifically in CIN 1 and ovarian cancer, Treatment decision making in ovarian cancer, and she has published extensively on these topics.

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Clinical epidemiology; clinical trials in breast and lung cancer; doctor-patient communication and decision making; strategies for diffusion and dissemination of clinical research

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Public Health Services Department, City of Hamilton: public health

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Psychological factors relevant to the acquisition and maintenance of expertise as well as student assessment, clinical decision-making, and admissions tools; cognitive psychology; health-sciences education

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Environmental health and EH policy; evaluation of health care systems and programs; utilization of evidence-based decision-making frameworks in health and environmental settings; population health at the local level.

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Short and long-term outcomes of chronic conditions; comparative studies in surgical procedures; relationships between risk factors and outcomes.

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Economic evaluation of health care programmes; modelling of consumers' health-care behaviour; models of patient-physician shared decision-making; policy analysis and risk and decision analysis in health

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Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, UWO, and London Kidney Clinical Research Unit: clinical epidemiology; kidney health and renal care; health informatics and information synthesis.

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Short and long-term outcomes of chronic conditions; comparative studies in surgical procedures; relationships between risk factors and outcomes.

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Clinical epidemiology; clinical trials in diabetes prevention and therapy; population health approaches to reducing the burden of diabetes and preventing new diabetes; diabetes, cardiovascular disease and kidney disease.

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Health Policy Analysis; social dimensions of health technology innovation, assessment, and rationing; values in health policy and decision making; resource allocation and priority setting for health services; methods of interdisciplinary policy analysis

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Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, University of Oxford: knowledge translation and evidence-based health-care decision making.

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Methods of economic appraisal and health technology assessment; economic evaluation; decision analytic modelling; uncertainty; cost-effectiveness analysis; cost-utility analysis; cost-benefit analysis

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Statistical Methodology related to the evaluation of therapies involved in musculo-skeletal conditions

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Program in Occupational Health and Environmental Medicine, McMaster: biostatistics; occupational health.

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Clinical epidemiology; HIV quality of care; HIV prevention; doctor-patient relationship; determinants of health and health services for under-served people

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Clinical epidemiology; evidence-based medicine; quality of life; technology assessment; overview methodology and clinical decision-making

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Dept. of Medicine, UWO, and Critical Care Research Network, London Health Sciences: knowledge translation; medication compliance, lifestyle, diet and cardiovascular disease.

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Clinical epidemiology; occupational health (effects of occupational exposures on health and the benefit of occupational health and educational interventions); and evidence-based health care

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Biostatistics; multilevel models; structural equation models; childhood disability; social psychology

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Clinical epidemiology; health informatics; information retrieval; knowledge translation research; computerized clinical decision support; clinical trials; patient adherence; diabetes care

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Clinical epidemiology; mixed-methods research in transfusion medicine; patho-physiology of acute reactions associated with platelet transfusions; blood product utilization

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Clinical epidemiology; clinical pharmacology; methodological issues in complex clinical trials - clustering, missing data, composite scores; electronic integration of patient, provider, decision support for improved vascular outcomes

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Halton Region Health Department: epidemiology, cancer screening, public health; healthy aging and injury prevention

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Health services research in primary care, medication use, and women's health, in particular, sexually transmitted diseases and diagnostic accuracy of cervical cancer screening methods.

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Health policy and health services research; public and private roles in health care financing; funding models for home care and community-based services; normative economic analysis in the health sector; design of pharmacare programs and the utilization of pharmaceuticals

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Dr. Hutton contributes to the HRM program and is interested in randomised controlled trial methodology. Eileen studies aspects of clinical obstetrical/ midwifery practice such as mode of delivery, breech presentation, multiple births, and impacts of practice on newborns.

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Community approaches and nursing interventions to identify and address family violence and processes related to knowledge transfer and exchage

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Academic interests include transfer of knowledge between research data and clinical application. He works in the area of practice guidelines development and implementation, and computerized clinical decision support systems.

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Logic and epidemiology, critical thinking in medicine in uses of evidence in medical practice and research.

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Office of Research Services, McMaster: health policy, planning and services

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Aging, Rehabilitation and Geriatric Care Research Centre, Lawson Health Research Institute, London ON: theoretical framework for understanding the psycho-social impact of assistive technology; systematic studies with populations of assistive device users.

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Diagnosis and treatment of venous thromboembolic disease

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Clinical epidemiology; neonatology and pediatrics; management of neonatal lung disease; parental counselling, pediatric Health Related Quality of Life & Parental Hope; large-scale randomised trials

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Epidemiology and community health; health services research; aging; family caregivers; long-term care; palliative/end of life care

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Clinical epidemiology; health economics; cardiovascular disease; clinical trials testing new drugs and procedures in cardiac surgery

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Research interests span several areas, including: knowledge transfer and exchange in public policymaking environments and the politics of healthcare systems

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Clinical epidemiology; neuro-developmental clinical research; development, validation, and transfer into practice of outcome measures; evaluation of therapy interventions; environmental constraints affecting participation of children with disabilities in daily life activities

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clinical trials in breast cancer and venous thromboembolism.

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Clinical epidemiology; pharmaco-economics; assessing prescription drug use in the community; developing methods for promoting cost-effective use of drug therapy; influence of physician and patient values on use of drug therapies

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Child and adolescent psychiatry; single-parent families; disadvantaged children; group therapies; effectiveness studies; epidemiology

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Clinical epidemiology; emerging infectious diseases; population genetics and infectious diseases; prevention of influenza; antimicrobial use and resistance; acute care hospital epidemiology

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Qualitative research; participatory action research; RAP (rapid assessment procedures); program evaluation; health education

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Clinical epidemiology, cervical cancer screening, HPV, Anatomical pathology

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Clinical epidemiology; physical therapy; upper-extremity clinical research

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Public Health

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Clinical epidemiology; pediatrics and child psychiatry; violence against children and women; women's health and Aboriginal health

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Health services research, home and community care, interprofessional collaboration, chronic disease prevention and management, and economic evaluation of comprehensive clinical interventions for older adults and their caregivers

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Centre for Evaluation of Medicines (SJHH-McMaster): health technology assessment (devices, drugs, diagnostics), health services research (screening and diagnostic tests).

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Centre for Health Services and Policy Research (Queen's) and Southeast Community Care Access Centre (Kingston): community health and epidemiology; home care analysis and evaluation.

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The overall aim of her research program is to decrease cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in women, by targeting at risk groups such as preeclamptics, identified during pregnancy, a point early enough to institute cardiovascular risk factor modification as primary prevention

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Centre for Health Services and Policy Research (Queen's) and Southeast Community Care Access Centre (Kingston): community health and epidemiology; home care analysis and evaluation.

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Clinical epidemiology; acute lung injury; lung protective ventilation strategies; clinical trials in mechanical ventilation; weaning from mechanical ventilation

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Clinical epidemiology; large international clinical trials; risk factors and treatment therapies for acute coronary syndromes

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Dr. Mente is interested in examining novel gene variants and their interaction with dietary components or patterns associated with cardiovascular disease outcomes (e.g., myocardial infarction, sudden cardiac death, heart failure, and stroke) and key intermediate phenotypes.

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Epidemiology and public health; nutrition; childhood obesity; dental disease; peripheral arterial disease

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BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, and Faculty of Health Sciences, SFU, Burnaby BC: global health and human-rights law; evidence-based health care; HIV testing and individual rights; HIV adherence and delivery of care.

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Clinical epidemiology; population-health approaches to common gastro-intestinal disorders; clinical and economic assessment of H. pylori screening and treatment; methodology related to clinical and health services research

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Health care performance evaluation; health services research; e-Health and Clinical Decision Support tools

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Dr. Neufeld is a physician, educator and international consultant based in Hamilton, Canada.

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Region of Waterloo Public Health: public health/epidemiology

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Knowledge translation; development of clinical reasoning; educational strategies to improve clinical reasoning; the psychology of expertise; student learning; student assessment

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Economic evaluation, health technology assessment, health policy, meta-analysis, pharmacoepidemiology and clinical epidemiology.

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McMaster Evidence-based Practice Centre: aging and dementia; epidemiology; health economics/policy

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Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers: observational studies in occupational health in the workplace

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Geriatric Medicine: clinical epidemiology; osteoporosis and fractures; quality of life and pharmacotherapy in seniors

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My main research focus is Genetic and molecular epidemiology. Briefly, I aim to identify genetic determinants of complex disease such as hypertension, coronary artery disease, cerebrovascular disease and other types of chronic disease.

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Research Ethics; Clinical Ethics; Medical Education; Genetics; Theology

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Population Health Research Institute: biostatistics, clinical trials, meta-analysis.

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Biostatistics, clinical trial methodology, and statistical design in oncology.

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Biostatistics; cost-effectiveness; longitudinal data; missing data; semi-parametric models

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Occupation Health Clinics for Ontario Workers / Dofasco, Inc.: occupational health and medicine; epidemiologic evaluation of work-related health effects

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Epidemiology; population health / public health; dementia and aging; methodology, meta-analysis, and systematic review; geriatric epidemiology; caregiver health; injury research and prevention

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Public Health Services Department, City of Hamilton; Director of Community Medicine Residency Program; public and population health, epidemiology; control of infectious diseases

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Design, execution, and analysis of randomized controlled trials

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Family-centred service – what it is and how to measure it; the natural history and prognosis of children with cerebral palsy; measurement and classification of functional status of children with disabilities; and knowledge translation.PROFILE >

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Randomized trials

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McMaster Evidence-based Practice Centre: kinesiology, physical therapy; systematic review methodology; aging

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Centre for Public Health and Zoonoses, Ontario Veterinary College: food safety and security at the farm level; policy and outcome evaluation in the prevention of zoonotic disease

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University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: large neonatal randomized trials with long-term outcomes

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Guideline development, systematic reviews, health related quality of life, pulmonary function and respiratory disease epidemiology and knowledge translation.

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Health-care ethics; health-research ethics; measurement and effectiveness of ethics education; Knowledge Translation; cancer

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Clinical epidemiology; observational and interventional studies on drug prescribing in primary care and specialist settings; information technology-based solutions in support of improved clinical data capture

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Biostatistics; occupational health and safety; injuries; healthy workplaces; musculoskeletal disorders; determinants of health

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Public Health Services Department, City of Hamilton: chronic disease epidemiology; obesity and cardiovascular disease prevention

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Niagara Region Public Health Department: program evaluation at the health unit level; public health policy;

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Clinical epidemiology; health economics / health services research; colorectal cancer surgery; outcome measures related to surgical oncology

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The role of evidence in making treatment recommendations, and in the ways in which beneficial and adverse effects of treatment can be best communicated.

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Clinical epidemiology; infectious diseases; interaction between infections, inflammation, and chronic cardiovascular and respiratory diseases; prevention and treatment strategies

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Health economics: inter-sectoral economic evaluation methods; social and economic determinants of health/production of health; and policy making

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Clinical epidemiology; rehabilitation sciences; development and evaluation of clinical measurement methods

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Psychiatric and genetic epidemiology; preschool children with autism; adolescent psychopathology and high risk behaviours; sampling and measurement issues

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Health technology assessment; economic evaluation; decision analytic modelling; cost-effectiveness analysis; cost-utility analysis; cost-benefit analysis; value of information; longitudinal analysis of healthcare utilization data

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Clinical epidemiology; trials, epidemiology, patterns of practice analysis, outcomes research, meta-analysis, cardiovascular disease

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Biostatistics and research methodology; Bayesian and non-Bayesian statistics; design and analysis of RCT's; data-mining techniques; patient preferences; health services and outcomes research

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Clinical epidemiology; surgery outcomes research; utility measurement in surgery; evidence-based surgery guides ; Clinical-effectiveness analysis in postmastectomy breast reconstruction and breast reduction; Utility measurment in Dupuytren's Contracture

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Economic evaluation in health

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Emergency medicine, Evidence based medicine

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Biostatistics; design and analysis of research studies; evaluation of diagnostic and screening data; risk assessment and communication; spatial and temporal variation in health data

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Community Medicine

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Clinical epidemiology; clinical trials in oncology for the management of breast cancer; use of treatment decision aids for women with breast cancer

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Current research interests are primarily in knowledge translation research, medical informatics, information retrieval and quality of reporting.

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Health policy analysis; pharmaceutical policy and data privacy issues in health services research

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Health policy analysis; pharmaceutical policy and data privacy issues in health services research

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Clinical epidemiology; emergency medicine; methodology of retrospective studies; screening and diagnostic tests in emergency medicine; quality assessment in emergency medical services

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Population Health Research Institute: biostatistics, clinical trials, genetics

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Health policy analysis; pharmaceutical policy and data privacy issues in health services research

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Evaluation of the utilization, harms, benefits, and appropriateness of diagnostic imaging technology using a range of research methodologies, including clinical trials, observational studies using administrative data, cost-effectiveness studies, and qualitative studies.

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Clinical epidemiology; multi-centred international clinical trials; cardiovascular disease and prevention; ethnicity; diabetes; obesity; population health in developed and developing countries

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