OTC - Ontario Training Centre in Health Services and Policy Research

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Faculty - York University

Lead Faculty
Name	Department	Brief Synopsis of Recent Research Activities	Administrative Role in OTC
Pat Armstrong	Sociology, Women's Studies	Political economy of health and illness; changes in the health care system feminist theory; women and work; pay equity; nursing work.
Marcia Rioux	School of Health Policy and Management & Social Work	Human rights, social policy, critical disability studies, poverty, discrimination and equality theory, biomedical ethics, and women's studies.
Joan Gilmour	Pan University Health Committee	Assisted suicide, euthanasia, and foregoing life-sustaining treatment, privatization and health care reform, issues in professional regulation of health care practitioners, health systems safety, children and health care, and the legal regulation of alternative health care.
Joel Lexchin	School of Health Policy and Management	Physician prescribing behaviour, pharmaceutical promotion and the drug approval process.
Suzanne MacDonald	Pan University Health Committee
Ronald Pearlman	Pan University Health Committee
Dennis Raphael	School of Health Policy and Management	Health effects of income inequality, the quality of life of communities and individuals, and the impact of government decisions on Canadians' health and well-being.
Paul Ritvo	Department of Kinesiology and Health Science	Cancer care and patient recovery; use of IT and communication tools in patient education and treatment.
Other Faculty Members
Name	Department	Brief Synopsis of Recent Research Activities
Naomi Adelson	Anthropology	Anthropology of the body and the cultural critique of biomedical knowledge. She has worked with the Whapmagoostui (Great Whale) Cree of northern Quebec for 15 years on a series of research projects that examine the relationship between political identity, social suffering, healing and health. Current research includes a study of the social construction and meanings of stress for young adult First Nations women, and a study of the social, political and cultural constructions of healing in the First Nations context. In addition, Adelson examines the ways in which biotechnology and the body intersect through various virtual media and their uses in the medical and lay communities.
Harris Ali	Environmental Studies	Environmental disaster research, environmental sociology, political sociology, sociology of environmental health risks.
Paul Antze	Social and Political Thought	Psychoanalysis; symbolic and medical anthropology; social theory; addictions.
Uzo Anucha	School of Social Work, Atkinson	Social Work, Homelessness and Housing, Social Work Practice with Immigrants and Refugees, International Social Work, Program Evaluation, Community-University Research Partnerships.
Barbara Beardwood	Health and Society, Division of Social Science	The creation of environmental law and regulations, the regulation of nursing in Ontario, and the perspective of injured workers regarding workers' compensation legislation.
Luiz Cysneiros	Mathematics and Statistics	Health Informatics and Biostatistics.
Tamara Daly	School of Health Policy & Management, Faculty of Health	Gender and health; health care work; comparative health policy and the role of health care non-profits. Current research projects investigate changes to the organization and delivery of women’s health services in Toronto; health restructuring in the long-term care sector; and the emotional and social support needs and formal and informal care resources available to women with HIV.
Carolyn Ewoldt	Education	Literacy, psycholinguistics and curriculum development, Braille literacy.
Stephen Gaetz	Education	Health issues of homeless populations, community based health promotions, how organizations design and carry out research in order to inform program development and service delivery.
Lucy Gagliese	School of Kinesiology and Health Sciences	Primary research area focuses on pain and aging. Specifically how cancer and postoperative pain change through the adult life. Other interests include pain and gender and pain in dementia.
Brenda Gainer	Business Administration	Marketing, Nonprofit Management and Leadership .
Jennifer Gilbert	Education	Theories of sex education, AIDS education and adolescent development. To expand notions of health and well being to include an attention to the everyday contexts of sexual decision making in adolescence.
Sherry Grace	School of Kinesiology and Health Sciences	Research interests lie in the areas of cardiac psychology and health services utilization, specifically referral and participation in secondary preventive services for women and men with heart disease.
Sarah Flicker	Environmental Studies	Urban Health; Community Based Participatory Research; Adolescent health; HIV; Community Development; Gender; Social Determinants of Health.
Michaela Hynie	Psychology	Determinants of Health (DOH). Health issues related to women, social norms, culture, mental health, immigration and health behaviour.
Neita Israelite	Education	Identity construction of hard of hearing adolescents; attitudes toward disability amongst students and other members of the university community: qualitative research; education and social adjustment of hard of hearing students; attitudes toward disability.
Lesley Jacobs	Philosophy	Modern political and social philosophy (especially ideas of social justice, rights, equality, and democracy) American and Canadian social policy through the lens of race, class, and gender, socio-legal studies, health care ethics.
Joel D. Katz	Kinesiology and Health Science & Psychology	Psychological, emotional, and biomedical factors involved in acute and chronic pain with a particular emphasis on (1) understanding the psychological and physiological processes and mechanisms involved in the transition of acute, time-limited pain to chronic, pathological pain; (2) identifying factors involved in the establishment and re-activation of "pain memories" after amputation (phantom limb pain) and other traumatic events; (3) pre-emptive analgesia and other preventive pharmacological interventions designed to minimize acute postoperative pain and to elucidate the mechanisms involved in postoperative sensitization; (4) developing pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions to minimize pain and stress in hospitalized infants; and (5) gender differences in acute postoperative pain and analgesic consumption.
Patricia Kazan	Philosophy	Political Theory: identity, community, ethno-cultural diversity, nationalism, and cosmopolitanism. Bioethics: genetic screening, gene therapy, reproductive technologies. Constitutional Law: nationalism and minority rights. Business Ethics: diversity in the workplace, multinational corporations and international politics. Criminal Law: self-defense, sexual assault/harassment, consent.
Andre Kushniruk	Mathematics and Statistics	Health Informatics and Biostatistics.
Jaime Llambias-Wolff	Science and Society	Political Economy of Health. Health and Society in the Third World. Comparative Health Systems. Health and Development.
Alison Macpherson	Kinesiology & Health Sciences	Health Behavior and Health Education (HBHE) over the Lifespan. Primary research interest relates to the epidemiology and prevention of childhood injuries. A secondary research interest is related to children’s emergency department and hospital use for injuries and other health problems, including the reasons why children seek care (e.g., the incidence of different types of injury), and researching the best way to provide care (e.g., reducing medication errors).
Peggy Ng	School of Administrative Studies	Health Informatics and Biostatistics.
Duff Waring	AK-School of Arts & Letters, Atkinson	Ethics, bioethics; Philosophy of medicine, especially psychiatry.
Mary Wiktorowicz	School of Health Policy and Management	Health policy and administration, including the regulation of pharmaceuticals from a comparative perspective, the role of interest groups in shaping health policy, and mental health policy with an emphasis on models of integration and coordination.
Brenda Zimmerman	Business	Management of health care organizations and voluntary sector organizations related to health and health care. Application of complexity science to innovation, adaptability and sustainability of health care systems and organizations. Implications for policy making of complexity science approaches for health care. Leadership development for leaders of hospitals, voluntary sector organizations and other health related organizations.