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Abir Abdulla
Staff
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Program Assistant, Health Research Methodology Graduate Programs
905-525-9140
ext. 26236
hrmasst@mcmaster.ca
Julia Abelson
PhD
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Professor
Director, Health Policy PhD Program
RESEARCH INTERESTS: public engagement methods and evaluation; values in health policy analysis; politics of health policy
905-525-9140
ext. 22879
abelsonj@mcmaster.ca
Elizabeth Alvarez
MD, PhD
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Assistant Professor
Member, McMaster Institute for Research on Aging
RESEARCH INTERESTS: health promotion; chronic disease prevention and management; health systems and programs; family medicine
905-525-9140
ext. 22248
alvare@mcmaster.ca
Laura Anderson
PhD
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Assistant Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Population and public health; chronic disease prevention; child obesity; measurement; developmental origins of health and disease: women’s and children’s health; nutritional and life-course epidemiology
905-525-9140
ext. 21725
ln.anderson@mcmaster.ca
Emma Apatu
DrPH
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Associate Professor
Director, Master of Public Health Program
RESEARCH INTERESTS: public health research; health services; health equity; disaster sociology
905-525-9140
ext. 22180
apatue@mcmaster.ca
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Shrikant Bangdiwala
PhD
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Professor
Statistics Director, Population Health Research Institute
RESEARCH INTERESTS: non-parametric methods; observer agreement; multilevel analysis; global health; methodology for clinical trials; injury statistics; statistical graphics; methodology for clinical epidemiology; meta regression
905-521-2100
ext. 40340
bangdiws@mcmaster.ca
Carol Walker Bassim
MHS, DMD
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Assistant Professor
Scientific Manager, Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA)
RESEARCH INTERESTS: population level oral health across the lifespan; public health interventions to improve population level oral health across the lifespan; sugary drink, tobacco use, and dental insurance programs and policy; prioritization of a minimum functional dentition
905-525-9140
ext. 21580
bassimc@mcmaster.ca
Kathryn Bennett
PhD
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS: epidemiology; child and youth mental health; research synthesis; knowledge translation; school and community-based mental health services; practice guidelines
905-525-9140
ext. 22914
kbennett@mcmaster.ca
Joseph Beyene
PhD
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS: biostatistical modelling; statistical genomics; meta-analysis
905-525-9140
ext. 21333
beyene@mcmaster.ca
Stephen Birch
PhD
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Professor Emeritus
RESEARCH INTERESTS: economic evaluation; resource allocation; population health; oral health economics
Phone number not available
birch@mcmaster.ca
Romina Brignardello-Petersen
PhD, DDS
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Assistant Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS: network meta-analysis; guideline development; health marker state development; the GRADE approach
905-525-9140
ext. 21635
brignarr@mcmaster.ca
Jan Brozek
MD, PhD
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Associate Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Clinical practice guidelines; systematic reviews; allergy and immunology.
905-525-9140
ext. 22936
brozekj@mcmaster.ca
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Lorraine Carroll
Staff
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Admissions Coordinator, Health Research Methodology Programs
905-525-9140
ext. 27718
carrl@mcmaster.ca
Andrew Costa
PhD
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Assistant Professor
Schlegel Research Chair in Clinical Epidemiology & Aging
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Big Data & geriatric models of care; avoidable emergency department and acute care use among frail older adults
905-525-9140
ext. 22067
acosta@mcmaster.ca
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Russell de Souza
ScD, RD
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Assistant Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS: nutrition and cardiovascular disease; methodological approaches to randomized controlled trials and meta-analyses; nutrition and early-life risk factors for chronic disease
905-525-9140
ext. 22109
desouzrj@mcmaster.ca
PJ Devereaux
MD, PhD
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine
Professor
Director, Division of Cardiology and Scientific Leader of the Anesthesiology, Perioperative Medicine and Surgical Research Group at PHRI
RESEARCH INTERESTS: perioperative care
905-527-4322
ext. 40654
philipj@mcmaster.ca
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Julie Emili
MD, MSc
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Assistant Professor (Part-time)
Phone number not available
julie.emili@medportal.ca
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Amiram Gafni
DSc
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS: economic evaluation (development and empirical applications); modeling of consumers’ and providers’ behaviours (eg. The physician-patient encounter); health policy analysis
Phone number not available
gafni@mcmaster.ca
Lauren Griffith
PhD
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Associate Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS: physical functioning and aging; multi-morbidity; population studies; epidemiological methods; biostatistics; meta-analysis; health systems and society
905-525-9140
ext. 21416
griffith@mcmaster.ca
Emmanuel Guindon
PhD
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Assistant Professor
Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis/Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Chair in Health Equity
RESEARCH INTERESTS: economics of health behaviours; applied econometrics; health services research; empirical health economics and policy
905-525-9140
ext. 24658
emmanuel.guindon@mcmaster.ca
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Steven Hanna
PhD
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Rehabilitation Sciences
Professor
Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, Faculty of Health Sciences
RESEARCH INTERESTS: statistical methods for longitudinal data; multi-variable causal models; latent variable models; multilevel modelling; child development; childhood disability and psycho-social development; knowledge translation; clinical practice guidelines; measurement in rehabilitation
905-525-9140
ext. 21609
hannas@mcmaster.ca
M. Mustafa Hirji
MD, MPH, FRCPC
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Assistant Professor (Part-time)
Medical Officer of Health & Commissioner (Acting), Niagara Region Public Health & Emergency Services
RESEARCH INTERESTS: population and public health; applied public health practice; applied epidemiology; public health policy
1-888-505-6074
ext. 7338
mustafa.hirji@mcmaster.ca
Matthew Hodge
MDCM, PhD, CCFP(EM), FRCPC
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Associate Professor (Part-time)
Phone number not available
hodgem1@mcmaster.ca
Jessica Hopkins
MD, MHSc, CCFP, FRCPC
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Assistant Professor (Part-time)
Phone number not available
hopkinjp@mcmaster.ca
Hilary Nolan Haupt
Staff
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Program Manager, Health Research Methodology Graduate Programs
Program Coordinator, Public Health and Preventive Medicine Residency Program
905-525-9140
ext. 22356
nolanh@mcmaster.ca
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Alfonso Iorio
MD, PhD
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Professor
Director, Health Information Research Unit
RESEARCH INTERESTS: knowledge translation research; medical informatics
905-525-9140
ext. 20152
iorioa@mcmaster.ca
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Daniela Kempkens
MD, DHSA, MPH, FRCPC
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Assistant Professor (Part-time)
Not Available
kempkend@mcmaster.ca
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John Lavis
PhD, MD
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Professor
Director, McMaster Health Forum
RESEARCH INTERESTS: use of research evidence, citizen values and stakeholder insights in policy making; politics of health and social systems
905-525-9140
ext. 22121
lavisj@mcmaster.ca
Mitch Levine
MSc, MD
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Professor
Assistant Dean, Health Research Methodology graduate program
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Clinical Epidemiology; Pharmaco-Economics
905-525-9140
ext. 20210
levinem@mcmaster.ca
Cynthia Lokker
PhD
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Assistant Professor
FHS Faculty Lead, eHealth MSc Program
RESEARCH INTERESTS: health informatics
905-525-9140
ext. 22208
lokkerc@mcmaster.ca
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Ma Jinhui
PhD
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Assistant Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS: biostatistics; survival analysis; machine learning; missing data and multiple imputation; multivariate modelling; population and public health; epidemiology; design and analysis of clinical trials and observational studies
905-525-9140
ext. 21876
maj26@mcmaster.ca
Maura Marcucci
MD, MSc
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine
Assistant Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS: perioperative medicine; thrombosis; internal and geriatric medicine; hemophilia
905-521-2100
ext. 40334
marcum2@mcmaster.ca
Lawrence Mbuagbaw
MD, MPH, PhD
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Assistant Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS: trial design; mHealth; infectious diseases; HIV; biostatistics; mother and child health; research synthesis; meta-epidemiology
905-525-9140
ext. 35929
mbuagblc@mcmaster.ca
Hamidah Meghani
MD, MPH, MM
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Assistant Professor (Part-time)
Phone number not available
Hamidah.Meghani@halton.ca
Andrew Mente
PhD
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Associate Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS: nutrition and cardiovascular disease; nutritional biomarkers
905-525-9140
ext. 21304
Andrew.Mente@phri.ca
David Meyre
PhD
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Associate Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS: genetic epidemiology
905-525-9140
ext. 26802
meyred@mcmaster.ca
Sandra Monteiro
PhD
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Assistant Professor
Assistant Director of Research - Centre for Simulation Based Learning; Scientist, McMaster Education Research, Innovation & Theory (MERIT) Program
RESEARCH INTERESTS: cognition of learning, psychometrics, clinical reasoning
905-525-9140
ext. 22614
monteisd@mcmaster.ca
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Liana Nolan
MD, MHSc, FRCP(C)
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Assistant Professor (Part-time)
Phone number not available
lnolan@regionofwaterloo.ca
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Parminder Raina
PhD
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Professor
Scientific Director, McMaster Institute for Research on Aging & Principal Investigator, Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Epidemiology; population health / public health; dementia and aging; methodology, meta-analysis, and systematic review; geriatric epidemiology; caregiver health; injury research and prevention.
905-525-9140
ext. 22197
praina@mcmaster.ca
Elizabeth Richardson
MD, MSc
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Assistant Professor (Part-time)
Phone number not available
elizabeth.richardson@hamilton.ca
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Nancy Santesso
PhD
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Assistant Professor
Deputy Director, Cochrane Canada
RESEARCH INTERESTS: systematic review methods; guideline development methods; knowledge translation for the public and patients
22296
santesna@mcmaster.ca
Holger Schünemann
MD, PhD
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Professor
Chair, HEI
RESEARCH INTERESTS: guideline development; systematic reviews; health related quality of life; knowledge translation.
905-525-9140
ext. 24931
holger.schunemann@mcmaster.ca
Lisa Schwartz
PhD
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Professor
Arnold L. Johnson Chair in Health Care Ethics
RESEARCH INTERESTS: humanitarian health care ethics; global health ethics; the teaching of ethics in health care education; patient advocacy; research ethics; bioethics; privacy and confidentiality
905-525-9140
ext. 22987
schwar@mcmaster.ca
Doug Sider
MD, MSc, FRCPC
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Assistant Professor (Part-time)
Phone number not available
doug.sider@oahpp.ca
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Jean-Éric Tarride
PhD
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Associate Professor
Director, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis
RESEARCH INTERESTS: methods for the economic evaluation of health technologies; treatment of uncertainty in health technology assessments
905-525-9140
ext. 37024
tarride@mcmaster.ca
Lehana Thabane
PhD
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Professor and Associate Chair
Associate Chair, HEI
RESEARCH INTERESTS: clinical trial methodology in various health research areas; meta-analysis; Bayesian and non-Bayesian analysis; design and analysis of experiments; prediction and decision analysis
905-525-9140
ext. 34905
thabanl@mcmaster.ca
Ninh Tran
MD, CCFP, MSc, FRCPC
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Assistant Professor (Part-time)
Director, McMaster Public Health and Preventive Medicine Residency Program
905-525-9140
ext. 21143
Ninh.Tran@hamilton.ca
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Chris Verschoor
PhD
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Assistant Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS: aging and immunity
905-525-9140
ext. 21749
cversch@mcmaster.ca
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Hsiu-Li Wang
MD, LMCC, FRCPC
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Assistant Professor (Part-time)
Phone number not available
HWang@regionofwaterloo.ca