Elizabeth Alvarez

MD, PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Assistant Professor

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Health promotion; behaviour change; chronic disease prevention and management; mental health; aging; health policy; health systems strengthening; public health; primary care; ecological approaches to health

905-525-9140 ext. 22248
alvare@mcmaster.ca

Cynthia Balion

PhD

Faculty

Pathology and Molecular Medicine

Associate Professor

905-522-1155 ext. 33098
balion@hhsc.ca

Carol Walker Bassim

MHS, DMD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact; Medicine, Education & Innovation

Assistant Professor

Scientific Manager, Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA)

Bridging Engineering and Health Sciences

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

Dianne Bryant

Phd

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Associate Professor (Part-time)

Not Available
dianne.bryant@uwo.ca

Andrew Costa

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Associate 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

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

Michel Grignon

PhD

Faculty

Health, Aging & Society and Economics

Professor

Graduate Chair of the Department of Health, Aging & Society

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Equity in health care utilization & financing; population aging; affordability & access to health and long-term care insurance and health care

905-525-9140 ext. 23493
grignon@mcmaster.ca

Maureen Markle-Reid

RN, MScN, PhD

Faculty

Nursing

Professor

Scientific Director, Aging, Community and Health Research Unit

RESEARCH INTERESTS: person-centred Interventions; older adults; multimorbidity (diabetes, depression, stroke rehabilitation, fall prevention); caregivers; intervention research; pragmatic randomized controlled trials

905-525-9140 ext. 22306
mreid@mcmaster.ca

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

Chris Verschoor

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Assistant Professor (part-time)

RESEARCH INTERESTS: aging and immunity

phone number not available
cversch@mcmaster.ca

Noori Akhtar-Danesh

BSc, MSc, PhD

Faculty

Nursing

Associate Professor

905-525-9140 ext. 22297
daneshn@mcmaster.ca

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

905-297-3479 ext. 40340
bangdiws@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

Rahul Chanchlani

Faculty

Department of Pediatrics

Assistant Professor, Clinician Investigator Program Lead

Clinician Investigator Program Lead

905-521-2100 ext. 75635
chanchlr@mcmaster.ca

Andrew Costa

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Associate 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

Russell de Souza

ScD, RD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Associate 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

Forough Farrokhyar

PhD

Faculty

Surgery

Professor

905-522-1155 ext. 34194
farrokh@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

Jemila Hamid

PhD, MSc

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Assistant Professor (Part-time)

Not Available
jhamid@mcmaster.ca

Steven Hanna

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Rehabilitation Sciences

Vice-Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences

Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, Faculty of Health Sciences

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

905-525-9140 ext. 21609
hannas@mcmaster.ca

Diane Heels-Ansdell

MSc

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Assistant Professor (Part-time)

905-525-9140 ext. 22944
ansdell@mcmaster.ca

Shofiqul Islam

MSc, PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Assistant Professor (Part Time)

Scientist (Biostatistics), Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University.

Dr. Islam enjoys teaching, mentoring students and research in biostatistics and global health.

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Multivariate Statistical Methods; Multilevel Modelling; Survival Analysis; Machine Learning

905-521-2100 ext. 40404
islamsm@mcmaster.ca

Milos Jenicek

MD, PhD, LMCC, FRCPC, CSPQ

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Professor (Part-time)

RESEARCH INTERESTS: development of methodologies and applications of logic, critical thinking, decision-making and communication in health sciences; enhancement of evidence-based medicine and evidence-based public health; health policies and program evaluations; decision-oriented (bedside) clinical research

Phone Number Not Available
jenicekm@mcmaster.ca

Yannick Le Manach

PhD, MD

Anesthesia & Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Associate Professor

RESEARCH INTERESTS: perioperative medicine; perioperative predictve models; perioperative hemodynamic cardiac surgery; causal inference in observational studies; statistical determination of thresholds; validation and calibration of predictive model Big data analysis

905-525-9140 ext. 41147
yannick.lemanach@phri.ca

Shun Fu Lee

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact (HEI)

Assistant Professor

Senior Biostatistician, Population Health Research Institute (PHRI)

Specializing in randomized controlled trials and epidemiologic studies.

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cluster randomized trials, pragmatic trials, prognostic modelling, missing data, adaptive designs, survival analysis, cognitive analysis.

905-527-4322 ext. 40348
ShunFu.Lee@phri.ca

Jinhui Ma

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

Lawrence Mbuagbaw

MD, MPH, PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Associate 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

David Meyre

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Associate Professor

Dr Meyre is an internationally recognized expert in genetic epidemiology of metabolic diseases.

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Genetic epidemiology; identification of novel susceptibility genes using high-throughput sequencing / genotyping approaches in populations representative of the worldwide ethnic background; a better understanding of the physiological and molecular mechanisms underlying the development of metabolic diseases; the interactions between genes and specific environmental exposures; and the usefulness of genetic information in clinical applications (prevention and care)

905-525-9140 ext. 26802
meyred@mcmaster.ca

Sameer Parpia

PhD

Departments of Oncology and HEI

Assistant Professor

Biostatistician, Ontario Clinical Oncology Group

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biostatistics; Clinical trials; Diagnostic Studies; Health Research Studies; Meta-analysis

905-527-2299 ext. 42685
parpia@mcmaster.ca

Gregory Pond

PhD, PStat

Faculty

Oncology

Associate Professor, Biostatistician

905-527-2299 ext. 42616
gpond@mcmaster.ca

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

Stefan Schandelmaier

MM, MD, PhD

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Assistant Professor (Part-time)

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Methodological guidelines

Phone number not available
schandes@mcmaster.ca

Lehana Thabane

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact; Medicine, Education & Innovation

Professor

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

Stephen Walter

Ph.D. (University of Edinburgh 1972)

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Professor Emeritus

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biostatistics; screening and diagnosis; clinical trials; risk assessment; etiology.

905-525-9140
walter@mcmaster.ca

Laura Anderson

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Assistant Professor

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Population and public health; life course epidemiology; chronic disease prevention; obesity; nutrition; measurement; women's and children's health

905-525-9140 ext. 21725
ln.anderson@mcmaster.ca

Donald Arnold

MD, MSc, FRCPC

Medicine, Hematology & Thromboembolism

Professor

John G. Kelton Chair in Translational Research

905-525-9140 ext. 28603
arnold@mcmaster.ca

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

905-297-3479 ext. 40340
bangdiws@mcmaster.ca

Carol Walker Bassim

MHS, DMD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact; Medicine, Education & Innovation

Assistant Professor

Scientific Manager, Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA)

Bridging Engineering and Health Sciences

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

Part Time/Adjunct 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

Khrista Boylan

PhD, MD, BSc, FRCPC

Faculty

Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences

Associate Professor

905-521-2100 ext. 77346
boylank@univmail.cis.mcmaster.ca

Matthias Briel

PD, Dr med

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Assistant Professor (Part-time)

Not available
Matthias.Briel@usb.ch

Jan Brozek

MD, PhD

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact; Medicine, Clinical Immunololy & Allergy

Associate Professor

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Clinical practice guidelines; systematic reviews; allergy and immunology.

905-525-9140 ext. 22936
brozekj@mcmaster.ca

Dianne Bryant

Phd

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Associate Professor (Part-time)

Not Available
dianne.bryant@uwo.ca

Jason Busse

DC, PhD

Anesthesia & Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Associate Professor

Associate Director, Michael G. DeGroote Centre for Medicinal Cannabis Research

RESEARCH INTERESTS: chronic pain; evidence-based clinical practice

905-525-9140 ext. 21731
bussejw@mcmaster.ca

Rahul Chanchlani

Faculty

Department of Pediatrics

Assistant Professor, Clinician Investigator Program Lead

Clinician Investigator Program Lead

905-521-2100 ext. 75635
chanchlr@mcmaster.ca

Catherine Clase

MB BChir, BA, MSc, FRCPC

Medicine, Nephrology; Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Associate Professor

Medical Lead, Transitional Kidney Clinic; Editor-in-Chief, Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Advanced chronic kidney disease; potassium; diet; bleeding, thrombosis and anticoagulation; cloth masks.

905-521-6094
clase@mcmaster.ca

Deborah Cook

MD, FRCPC, MSc, DABIM

Critical Care; General Internal Medicine; Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Professor

Academic Chair, Critical Care Medicine

905-525-9140 ext. 22160
debcook@mcmaster.ca

Andrew Costa

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Associate 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

Carlos Cuello

MD, PhD

faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Assistant Professor (Part-time)

Clinical Research Officer, Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technology in Health (CADTH)--CDR & Optimal Use of Drugs

Paediatrician, Clinical Epidemiologist, GRADE, Systematic Review and HTA enthusiast

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Clinical Guideline development; Systematic reviews; Non-randomised studies; Health technology assessment

613-226-2553 ext. 1282
cuelloca@mcmaster.ca

Liz Darling

PhD

Faculty

Midwifery Education Program

Director/Assistant Dean, Midwifery

Associate Professor

RESEARCH INTERESTS: midwifery services; health disparities; access to care; midwifery scope of practice; health care service implementation; health policy; perinatal health surveillance/epidemiology

905-525-9140 ext. 21597
darlinek@mcmaster.ca

Russell de Souza

ScD, RD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Associate 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

Philip J Devereaux

MD, PhD

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact; Medicine, Cardiology

Professor

Salim Yusuf Chair in Cardiology; Director, Division of Cardiology and Scientific Leader of the Anesthesiology, Perioperative Medicine and Surgical Research Group at PHRI

905-527-4322 ext. 40654
philipj@mcmaster.ca

Pendar Farahani

MD, MSc, FRCPC, DABIM, FACP

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Assistant Professor (Part-time)

Not Available
farahanp@mcmaster.ca

Forough Farrokhyar

PhD

Faculty

Surgery

Professor

905-522-1155 ext. 34194
farrokh@mcmaster.ca

Amit Garg

MD, MA, FRCPC, FACP, PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Associate Professor (Part-time)

Not Available
Amit.Garg@lhsc.on.ca

Stelios Georgiades

BA, MA, PhD

Faculty

Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences

Associate Professor

Co-Director, McMaster Autism Research Team (MacART)

RESEARCH INTERESTS: autism spectrum disorders; neurodevelopmental disorders; epidemiology; longitudinal modelling; developmental trajectories

905-525-9140
georgis@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

Gordon Guyatt

MD

Department of Medicine

Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Distinguished Professor

Dr. Guyatt is one of the founders of evidence-based medicine and has extensive expertise in study methodology.

905-525-9140 ext. 22900
guyatt@mcmaster.ca

Anne Marie Holbrook

MD, PharmD, MSc, FRCP(C)

Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology; General Internal Medicine

Professor

Division Director, Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology

905-525-9140 ext. 35269
holbrook@mcmaster.ca

Alfonso Iorio

MD, PhD, FRCPC

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact; Medicine, Hematology & Thromboembolism

Chair and Professor

Michael Gent Chair in Healthcare Research; Director, Health Information Research Unit; Hemophilia Fellowship Director

RESEARCH INTERESTS: knowledge translation research; medical informatics

905-525-9140 ext. 20152
iorioa@mcmaster.ca

Shofiqul Islam

MSc, PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Assistant Professor (Part Time)

Scientist (Biostatistics), Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University.

Dr. Islam enjoys teaching, mentoring students and research in biostatistics and global health.

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Multivariate Statistical Methods; Multilevel Modelling; Survival Analysis; Machine Learning

905-521-2100 ext. 40404
islamsm@mcmaster.ca

Roman Jaeschke

Dr Med, MSc

Medicine, General Internal Medicine, Critical Care & Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Professor

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Practice guidelines development; quality of life measurement; evidence-based medicine

905-521-6077
jaeschke@mcmaster.ca

Milos Jenicek

MD, PhD, LMCC, FRCPC, CSPQ

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Professor (Part-time)

RESEARCH INTERESTS: development of methodologies and applications of logic, critical thinking, decision-making and communication in health sciences; enhancement of evidence-based medicine and evidence-based public health; health policies and program evaluations; decision-oriented (bedside) clinical research

Phone Number Not Available
jenicekm@mcmaster.ca

Bradley Johnston

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Associate Professor (Part-time)

Director, NutriRECS research program; Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Dalhousie University

RESEARCH INTERESTS: clinical epidemiology; evidence-based nutrition

Phone number not available
BJohnston@dal.ca

Yannick Le Manach

PhD, MD

Anesthesia & Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Associate Professor

RESEARCH INTERESTS: perioperative medicine; perioperative predictve models; perioperative hemodynamic cardiac surgery; causal inference in observational studies; statistical determination of thresholds; validation and calibration of predictive model Big data analysis

905-525-9140 ext. 41147
yannick.lemanach@phri.ca

Shun Fu Lee

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact (HEI)

Assistant Professor

Senior Biostatistician, Population Health Research Institute (PHRI)

Specializing in randomized controlled trials and epidemiologic studies.

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cluster randomized trials, pragmatic trials, prognostic modelling, missing data, adaptive designs, survival analysis, cognitive analysis.

905-527-4322 ext. 40348
ShunFu.Lee@phri.ca

Mitchell Levine

MD, MSc, FRCPC, FACP, FISPE

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact; Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology

Professor

Assistant Dean, Health Research Methodology graduate program

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Clinical Epidemiology; Pharmaco-Economics

905-525-9140 ext. 20210
levinem@mcmaster.ca

Ellen Lipman

MD, MSc, FRCPC

Faculty

Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences

Professor

Director, Offord Centre for Child Studies; Head, Academic Division of Child Psychiatry, Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences; Chief, Dept. of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, McMaster Children's Hospital

RESEARCH INTERESTS: single-parent families; disadvantaged children; group therapies; effectiveness studies; child & adolescent psychiatry

905-522-1155 ext. 21484
lipmane@mcmaster.ca

Mark Loeb

MD, MSc

Medicine, Pathology and Molecular Medicine; Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Professor

Michael G. DeGroote Chair in Infectious Diseases

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Influenza; vaccine efficacy; randomized trials; respiratory infections; COVID-19

905-525-9140
loebm@mcmaster.ca

Lawrence Mbuagbaw

MD, MPH, PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Associate 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

Maureen Meade

MD, FRCPC, MSc

Medicine, Critical Care; Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Professor

Director, Canada-DONATE Research Program

RESEARCH INTERESTS: deceased organ donation; randomized clinical trials

905-525-9140 ext. 23162
meadema@hhsc.ca

Andrew Mente

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Associate Professor

Principal Investigator, Population Health Program, Population Health Research Institute

Dr. Mente is currently working in the Population Urban and Rural Epidemiological (PURE) study.

RESEARCH INTERESTS: nutrition and cardiovascular disease; nutritional biomarkers; role of essential minerals (sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium) and dietary fatty acids in cardiovascular diseases in populations around the world

905-525-9140 ext. 21304
Andrew.Mente@phri.ca

David Meyre

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Associate Professor

Dr Meyre is an internationally recognized expert in genetic epidemiology of metabolic diseases.

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Genetic epidemiology; identification of novel susceptibility genes using high-throughput sequencing / genotyping approaches in populations representative of the worldwide ethnic background; a better understanding of the physiological and molecular mechanisms underlying the development of metabolic diseases; the interactions between genes and specific environmental exposures; and the usefulness of genetic information in clinical applications (prevention and care)

905-525-9140 ext. 26802
meyred@mcmaster.ca

Paul Moayyedi

BSc, MB ChB, PhD, MPH, FRCP (London), FRCPC, FACG, AGAF

Medicine, Gastroenterology

Professor

Audrey Campbell Chair in Ulcerative Colitis

905-521-2100 ext. 76764
moayyep@mcmaster.ca

Rebecca Morgan

PhD, MPH

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Assistant Professor (Part-time)

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Guideline development; GRADE; Systematic review; Health research methods

Phone number not available
MorganRL@mcmaster.ca

Sohail Mulla

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Assistant Professor (Part-time)

Not Available
sohail.mulla@gmail.com

Reem Mustafa

MD, MPH, PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Assistant Professor (Part-time)

Not Available
ramustafa@gmail.com

Robby Nieuwlaat

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Associate Professor

Director, Graduate Diploma in Clinical Epidemiology

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

905-525-9140 ext. 22780
nieuwlr@mcmaster.ca

Sameer Parpia

PhD

Departments of Oncology and HEI

Assistant Professor

Biostatistician, Ontario Clinical Oncology Group

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biostatistics; Clinical trials; Diagnostic Studies; Health Research Studies; Meta-analysis

905-527-2299 ext. 42685
parpia@mcmaster.ca

Bram Rochwerg

MSc, MD, FRCPC

Faculty

Medicine, Critical Care

Associate Professor

905-525-9140 ext. 42442
rochwerg@mcmaster.ca

Stephanie Ross

HBSc, MPhil, PhD

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Assistant Professor (Part-time)

Phone number not available
rosss2@mcmaster.ca

Zena Samaan

MBCHB, DMMD, MSC, MRCPSYCH, PHD

Faculty

Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences

Associate Professor

Member of the Population Genomics Program and the Peter Boris Centre for Addiction Research

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Interface between psychiatry and medicine specifically, depression comorbidity with obesity and cardiovascular disease

905-522-1155 ext. 36372
samaanz@mcmaster.ca

Nancy Santesso

RD, 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

Stefan Schandelmaier

MM, MD, PhD

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Assistant Professor (Part-time)

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Methodological guidelines

Phone number not available
schandes@mcmaster.ca

Holger Schünemann

MD, MSc, PhD, FRCPC

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact; Medicine, General Internal Medicine

Professor, Clinical Epidemiology and Medicine

Co-Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases, Research Methods and Recommendations; Director, Cochrane Canada and McMaster GRADE Centre

RESEARCH INTERESTS: guideline development; systematic reviews; health related quality of life; knowledge translation.

905-525-9140 ext. 24931
holger.schunemann@mcmaster.ca

Nigar Sekercioglu

MD, PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Assistant Professor (Part-time)

Not Available
sekercn@mcmaster.ca

Sheila Sprague

Faculty

Surgery, Division of Orthopaedic Surgery

Assistant Professor

905-521-2100 ext. 44490
sprags@mcmaster.ca

Lehana Thabane

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact; Medicine, Education & Innovation

Professor

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

Ryan Van Lieshout

MD, PhD, FRCPC

Faculty

Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences

Associate Professor

RESEARCH INTERESTS: mental disorders; psychiatry; developmental origins of health and disease; intergenerational transmission; clinical trials

905-525-9140 ext. 22163
vanlierj@mcmaster.ca

Chris Verschoor

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Assistant Professor (part-time)

RESEARCH INTERESTS: aging and immunity

phone number not available
cversch@mcmaster.ca

Philippe Violette

Faculty

Surgery

Assistant Professor

RESEARCH INTERESTS: perioperative medicine; thromboprophylaxis; clinical guideline development

519-533-6966
violetpd@mcmaster.ca

Michael Walsh

MD

Medicine, Nephrology; Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Associate Professor

Clinical interests: glomerulonephritis, systemic vasculitis, and end-stage kidney disease

RESEARCH INTERESTS: epidemiology of glomerulonephritis and vasculitis, and outcomes of kidney failure; clinical trials in glomerulonephritis, vasculitis, cardiovascular disease, and symptoms of kidney failure; clinical trial methodology

905-525-9140 ext. 34055
mwwalsh@mcmaster.ca

Stephen Walter

Ph.D. (University of Edinburgh 1972)

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Professor Emeritus

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biostatistics; screening and diagnosis; clinical trials; risk assessment; etiology.

905-525-9140
walter@mcmaster.ca

Salim Yusuf

MBBS, DPhil

Medicine, Cardiology; Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Distinguished University Professor

Executive Director, Population Health Research Institute; HSF/Marion W. Burke Chair in Cardiovascular Disease; Chief Scientist, Hamilton Health Sciences

Dr. Yusuf has led over 60 major international studies in over 100 countries and several of these have changed medical practice. He was the second most cited researcher in the world for 2011 and has the 17th highest H factor in history.

RESEARCH INTERESTS: societal, behavioral, biologic, and genetic determinants of population health in global populations

905-527-4322 ext. 40332
yusufs@mcmaster.ca

Elizabeth Alvarez

MD, PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Assistant Professor

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Health promotion; behaviour change; chronic disease prevention and management; mental health; aging; health policy; health systems strengthening; public health; primary care; ecological approaches to health

905-525-9140 ext. 22248
alvare@mcmaster.ca

Andrew Costa

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Associate 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

Carlos Cuello

MD, PhD

faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Assistant Professor (Part-time)

Clinical Research Officer, Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technology in Health (CADTH)--CDR & Optimal Use of Drugs

Paediatrician, Clinical Epidemiologist, GRADE, Systematic Review and HTA enthusiast

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Clinical Guideline development; Systematic reviews; Non-randomised studies; Health technology assessment

613-226-2553 ext. 1282
cuelloca@mcmaster.ca

Steven Hoffman

JD, PhD, LLD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Professor (Part-time)

416-736-2100 ext. 33364
steven.hoffman@globalstrategylab.org

Milos Jenicek

MD, PhD, LMCC, FRCPC, CSPQ

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Professor (Part-time)

RESEARCH INTERESTS: development of methodologies and applications of logic, critical thinking, decision-making and communication in health sciences; enhancement of evidence-based medicine and evidence-based public health; health policies and program evaluations; decision-oriented (bedside) clinical research

Phone Number Not Available
jenicekm@mcmaster.ca

Shun Fu Lee

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact (HEI)

Assistant Professor

Senior Biostatistician, Population Health Research Institute (PHRI)

Specializing in randomized controlled trials and epidemiologic studies.

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cluster randomized trials, pragmatic trials, prognostic modelling, missing data, adaptive designs, survival analysis, cognitive analysis.

905-527-4322 ext. 40348
ShunFu.Lee@phri.ca

Mitchell Levine

MD, MSc, FRCPC, FACP, FISPE

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact; Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology

Professor

Assistant Dean, Health Research Methodology graduate program

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Clinical Epidemiology; Pharmaco-Economics

905-525-9140 ext. 20210
levinem@mcmaster.ca

Paul Moayyedi

BSc, MB ChB, PhD, MPH, FRCP (London), FRCPC, FACG, AGAF

Medicine, Gastroenterology

Professor

Audrey Campbell Chair in Ulcerative Colitis

905-521-2100 ext. 76764
moayyep@mcmaster.ca

Rebecca Morgan

PhD, MPH

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Assistant Professor (Part-time)

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Guideline development; GRADE; Systematic review; Health research methods

Phone number not available
MorganRL@mcmaster.ca

Daria O’Reilly

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Associate Professor (Part-time)

Not Available
oreilld@mcmaster.ca

Rachel Roy

MSc, PgDip, BSc, BA

faculty

Health Research, Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Assistant Professor (Part-time)

Health Promotion Specialist, Hamilton Public Health

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Health Promotion; Youth Engagement; Men’s Health

905-546-2424 ext. 7713
Royr1@mcmaster.ca

Stefan Schandelmaier

MM, MD, PhD

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Assistant Professor (Part-time)

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Methodological guidelines

Phone number not available
schandes@mcmaster.ca

Holger Schünemann

MD, MSc, PhD, FRCPC

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact; Medicine, General Internal Medicine

Professor, Clinical Epidemiology and Medicine

Co-Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases, Research Methods and Recommendations; Director, Cochrane Canada and McMaster GRADE Centre

RESEARCH INTERESTS: guideline development; systematic reviews; health related quality of life; knowledge translation.

905-525-9140 ext. 24931
holger.schunemann@mcmaster.ca

Nigar Sekercioglu

MD, PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Assistant Professor (Part-time)

Not Available
sekercn@mcmaster.ca

Achilleas Thoma

BSc Med, MSc, MD

Faculty

Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery

Clinical Professor

RESEARCH INTERESTS: hand; cost-effectiveness analysis; health-related quality of life; evidence-based surgery

905-523-0019
athoma@mcmaster.ca

Philippe Violette

Faculty

Surgery

Assistant Professor

RESEARCH INTERESTS: perioperative medicine; thromboprophylaxis; clinical guideline development

519-533-6966
violetpd@mcmaster.ca

Stephen Birch

PhD

Professor Emeritus

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Professor Emeritus

RESEARCH INTERESTS: economic evaluation; resource allocation; population health; oral health economics

Phone number not available

James Bowen

MSc

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Assistant Professor (Part-time)

Not Available
bowenj@mcmaster.ca

Dianne Bryant

Phd

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Associate Professor (Part-time)

Not Available
dianne.bryant@uwo.ca

Carlos Cuello

MD, PhD

faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Assistant Professor (Part-time)

Clinical Research Officer, Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technology in Health (CADTH)--CDR & Optimal Use of Drugs

Paediatrician, Clinical Epidemiologist, GRADE, Systematic Review and HTA enthusiast

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Clinical Guideline development; Systematic reviews; Non-randomised studies; Health technology assessment

613-226-2553 ext. 1282
cuelloca@mcmaster.ca

Pendar Farahani

MD, MSc, FRCPC, DABIM, FACP

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Assistant Professor (Part-time)

Not Available
farahanp@mcmaster.ca

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

Michel Grignon

PhD

Faculty

Health, Aging & Society and Economics

Professor

Graduate Chair of the Department of Health, Aging & Society

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Equity in health care utilization & financing; population aging; affordability & access to health and long-term care insurance and health care

905-525-9140 ext. 23493
grignon@mcmaster.ca

Emmanuel Guindon

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Associate Professor

Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis/Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Chair in Health Equity

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Health equity; economics of health behaviours; health services research; empirical health economics and policy.

905-525-9140 ext. 24658
emmanuel.guindon@mcmaster.ca

Mitchell Levine

MD, MSc, FRCPC, FACP, FISPE

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact; Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology

Professor

Assistant Dean, Health Research Methodology graduate program

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Clinical Epidemiology; Pharmaco-Economics

905-525-9140 ext. 20210
levinem@mcmaster.ca

Sohail Mulla

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Assistant Professor (Part-time)

Not Available
sohail.mulla@gmail.com

Reem Mustafa

MD, MPH, PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Assistant Professor (Part-time)

Not Available
ramustafa@gmail.com

Daria O’Reilly

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Associate Professor (Part-time)

Not Available
oreilld@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

Nigar Sekercioglu

MD, PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Assistant Professor (Part-time)

Not Available
sekercn@mcmaster.ca

Jean-Éric Tarride

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Professor

Director, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis; McMaster Chair in Health Technology Management; Director, Programs for Assessment of Technology in Health (PATH)

RESEARCH INTERESTS: health technology assessment and management; methods for the economic evaluation of health technologies and programs

905-525-9140 ext. 37024
tarride@mcmaster.ca

Lehana Thabane

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact; Medicine, Education & Innovation

Professor

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

Feng Xie

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Professor

Director, Program for Health Economics and Outcome Measures (PHENOM) & HEI Department Education Coordinator

RESEARCH INTERESTS: HTA, economic evaluation; pharmacoeconomics; outcome measures

905-525-9140 ext. 41274
fengxie@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

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Health promotion; behaviour change; chronic disease prevention and management; mental health; aging; health policy; health systems strengthening; public health; primary care; ecological approaches to health

905-525-9140 ext. 22248
alvare@mcmaster.ca

Ellen Amster

PhD

Faculty

Department of Family Medicine and History

Associate Professor

Jason A. Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine; Scholar, McMaster Education Research, Innovation & Theory (MERIT) Program

Area of Expertise: Middle East Studies & Islam; Global History of Biomedicine; Maternal & Infant Health in Morocco; Gender Violence

905-525-9140 ext. 20006
amstere@mcmaster.ca

Jason Busse

DC, PhD

Anesthesia & Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Associate Professor

Associate Director, Michael G. DeGroote Centre for Medicinal Cannabis Research

RESEARCH INTERESTS: chronic pain; evidence-based clinical practice

905-525-9140 ext. 21731
bussejw@mcmaster.ca

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

Michel Grignon

PhD

Faculty

Health, Aging & Society and Economics

Professor

Graduate Chair of the Department of Health, Aging & Society

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Equity in health care utilization & financing; population aging; affordability & access to health and long-term care insurance and health care

905-525-9140 ext. 23493
grignon@mcmaster.ca

Emmanuel Guindon

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Associate Professor

Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis/Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Chair in Health Equity

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Health equity; economics of health behaviours; health services research; empirical health economics and policy.

905-525-9140 ext. 24658
emmanuel.guindon@mcmaster.ca

Steven Hoffman

JD, PhD, LLD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Professor (Part-time)

416-736-2100 ext. 33364
steven.hoffman@globalstrategylab.org

Anne Marie Holbrook

MD, PharmD, MSc, FRCP(C)

Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology; General Internal Medicine

Professor

Division Director, Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology

905-525-9140 ext. 35269
holbrook@mcmaster.ca

John Lavis

MD, PhD

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

Rebecca Morgan

PhD, MPH

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Assistant Professor (Part-time)

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Guideline development; GRADE; Systematic review; Health research methods

Phone number not available
MorganRL@mcmaster.ca

Elysee Nouvet

MA, PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Assistant Professor (Part-time)

Not Available
nouvete@gmail.com

Bram Rochwerg

MSc, MD, FRCPC

Faculty

Medicine, Critical Care

Associate Professor

905-525-9140 ext. 42442
rochwerg@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

Nigar Sekercioglu

MD, PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Assistant Professor (Part-time)

Not Available
sekercn@mcmaster.ca

Jean-Éric Tarride

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Professor

Director, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis; McMaster Chair in Health Technology Management; Director, Programs for Assessment of Technology in Health (PATH)

RESEARCH INTERESTS: health technology assessment and management; methods for the economic evaluation of health technologies and programs

905-525-9140 ext. 37024
tarride@mcmaster.ca

Michael Wilson

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Associate Professor

Assistant Director, McMaster Health Forum

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Knowledge translation; citizen engagement methods & evaluation; politics of health systems

905-525-9140 ext. 22121
wilsom2@mcmaster.ca

Feng Xie

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Professor

Director, Program for Health Economics and Outcome Measures (PHENOM) & HEI Department Education Coordinator

RESEARCH INTERESTS: HTA, economic evaluation; pharmacoeconomics; outcome measures

905-525-9140 ext. 41274
fengxie@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

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Health promotion; behaviour change; chronic disease prevention and management; mental health; aging; health policy; health systems strengthening; public health; primary care; ecological approaches to health

905-525-9140 ext. 22248
alvare@mcmaster.ca

Ellen Amster

PhD

Faculty

Department of Family Medicine and History

Associate Professor

Jason A. Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine; Scholar, McMaster Education Research, Innovation & Theory (MERIT) Program

Area of Expertise: Middle East Studies & Islam; Global History of Biomedicine; Maternal & Infant Health in Morocco; Gender Violence

905-525-9140 ext. 20006
amstere@mcmaster.ca

Donald Arnold

MD, MSc, FRCPC

Medicine, Hematology & Thromboembolism

Professor

John G. Kelton Chair in Translational Research

905-525-9140 ext. 28603
arnold@mcmaster.ca

James Bowen

MSc

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Assistant Professor (Part-time)

Not Available
bowenj@mcmaster.ca

Khrista Boylan

PhD, MD, BSc, FRCPC

Faculty

Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences

Associate Professor

905-521-2100 ext. 77346
boylank@univmail.cis.mcmaster.ca

Melissa Brouwers

Professor (part-time)

905-525-9140
mbrouwer@mcmaster.ca

Dianne Bryant

Phd

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Associate Professor (Part-time)

Not Available
dianne.bryant@uwo.ca

Rahul Chanchlani

Faculty

Department of Pediatrics

Assistant Professor, Clinician Investigator Program Lead

Clinician Investigator Program Lead

905-521-2100 ext. 75635
chanchlr@mcmaster.ca

Andrew Costa

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Associate 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

Liz Darling

PhD

Faculty

Midwifery Education Program

Director/Assistant Dean, Midwifery

Associate Professor

RESEARCH INTERESTS: midwifery services; health disparities; access to care; midwifery scope of practice; health care service implementation; health policy; perinatal health surveillance/epidemiology

905-525-9140 ext. 21597
darlinek@mcmaster.ca

Giulio DiDiodato

MD, MPH, PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Assistant Professor (Part-time)

Chief Research Scientist, Centre for Education & Research, Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre

RESEARCH INTERESTS: program evaluation; quasi-experimental study design; causality

705-728-9090 ext. 45641
DidiodatoG@rvh.on.ca

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

Amit Garg

MD, MA, FRCPC, FACP, PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Associate Professor (Part-time)

Not Available
Amit.Garg@lhsc.on.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

Dale Guenter

MPH, MD

Family Medicine & Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Associate Professor

RESEARCH INTERESTS: population health in primary care; health service transformation for people with complex healthcare needs; HIV care; mental health, pain and addiction

905-525-9140 ext. 28951
guentd@mcmaster.ca

Emmanuel Guindon

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Associate Professor

Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis/Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Chair in Health Equity

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Health equity; economics of health behaviours; health services research; empirical health economics and policy.

905-525-9140 ext. 24658
emmanuel.guindon@mcmaster.ca

Anne Marie Holbrook

MD, PharmD, MSc, FRCP(C)

Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology; General Internal Medicine

Professor

Division Director, Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology

905-525-9140 ext. 35269
holbrook@mcmaster.ca

Michelle Howard

PhD

Department of Family Medicine

Associate Professor

Member, McMaster Education Research, Innovation & Theory (MERIT) Program

905-525-9140 ext. 28502
mhoward@mcmaster.ca

Susan Jack

BScN, PhD

Faculty

Nursing

Professor

RESEARCH INTERESTS: prevention of family violence (intimate partner violence, child maltreatment); maternal/child health, public health; qualitative research methods; mixed methods

905-525-9140 ext. 26383
jacksm@mcmaster.ca

Anne Klassen

Faculty

Department of Pediatrics

Associate Professor

905-521-2100 ext. 73775
aklass@mcmaster.ca

Yannick Le Manach

PhD, MD

Anesthesia & Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Associate Professor

RESEARCH INTERESTS: perioperative medicine; perioperative predictve models; perioperative hemodynamic cardiac surgery; causal inference in observational studies; statistical determination of thresholds; validation and calibration of predictive model Big data analysis

905-525-9140 ext. 41147
yannick.lemanach@phri.ca

Shun Fu Lee

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact (HEI)

Assistant Professor

Senior Biostatistician, Population Health Research Institute (PHRI)

Specializing in randomized controlled trials and epidemiologic studies.

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cluster randomized trials, pragmatic trials, prognostic modelling, missing data, adaptive designs, survival analysis, cognitive analysis.

905-527-4322 ext. 40348
ShunFu.Lee@phri.ca

Ellen Lipman

MD, MSc, FRCPC

Faculty

Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences

Professor

Director, Offord Centre for Child Studies; Head, Academic Division of Child Psychiatry, Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences; Chief, Dept. of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, McMaster Children's Hospital

RESEARCH INTERESTS: single-parent families; disadvantaged children; group therapies; effectiveness studies; child & adolescent psychiatry

905-522-1155 ext. 21484
lipmane@mcmaster.ca

Maureen Markle-Reid

RN, MScN, PhD

Faculty

Nursing

Professor

Scientific Director, Aging, Community and Health Research Unit

RESEARCH INTERESTS: person-centred Interventions; older adults; multimorbidity (diabetes, depression, stroke rehabilitation, fall prevention); caregivers; intervention research; pragmatic randomized controlled trials

905-525-9140 ext. 22306
mreid@mcmaster.ca

Rebecca Morgan

PhD, MPH

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Assistant Professor (Part-time)

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Guideline development; GRADE; Systematic review; Health research methods

Phone number not available
MorganRL@mcmaster.ca

Reem Mustafa

MD, MPH, PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Assistant Professor (Part-time)

Not Available
ramustafa@gmail.com

Robby Nieuwlaat

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Associate Professor

Director, Graduate Diploma in Clinical Epidemiology

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

905-525-9140 ext. 22780
nieuwlr@mcmaster.ca

Elysee Nouvet

MA, PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Assistant Professor (Part-time)

Not Available
nouvete@gmail.com

Daria O’Reilly

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Associate Professor (Part-time)

Not Available
oreilld@mcmaster.ca

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

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

Lehana Thabane

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact; Medicine, Education & Innovation

Professor

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

Ryan Van Lieshout

MD, PhD, FRCPC

Faculty

Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences

Associate Professor

RESEARCH INTERESTS: mental disorders; psychiatry; developmental origins of health and disease; intergenerational transmission; clinical trials

905-525-9140 ext. 22163
vanlierj@mcmaster.ca

Harriette Van Spall

MD, MPH

Medicine, Cardiology

Associate Professor

Dr. Van Spall's areas of expertise are knowledge translation, health services research, pragmatic clinical trials, databases, heart failure and echocardiography. She mentors students at all levels within the Department of Medicine.

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Developing, implementing, and testing new models of care for patients with chronic cardiovascular disease.

905-521-2100 ext. 40601
harriette.vanspall@phri.ca

Elizabeth Alvarez

MD, PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Assistant Professor

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Health promotion; behaviour change; chronic disease prevention and management; mental health; aging; health policy; health systems strengthening; public health; primary care; ecological approaches to health

905-525-9140 ext. 22248
alvare@mcmaster.ca

Ellen Amster

PhD

Faculty

Department of Family Medicine and History

Associate Professor

Jason A. Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine; Scholar, McMaster Education Research, Innovation & Theory (MERIT) Program

Area of Expertise: Middle East Studies & Islam; Global History of Biomedicine; Maternal & Infant Health in Morocco; Gender Violence

905-525-9140 ext. 20006
amstere@mcmaster.ca

Kathryn Bennett

PhD

Part Time/Adjunct 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

Dianne Bryant

Phd

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Associate Professor (Part-time)

Not Available
dianne.bryant@uwo.ca

Carlos Cuello

MD, PhD

faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Assistant Professor (Part-time)

Clinical Research Officer, Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technology in Health (CADTH)--CDR & Optimal Use of Drugs

Paediatrician, Clinical Epidemiologist, GRADE, Systematic Review and HTA enthusiast

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Clinical Guideline development; Systematic reviews; Non-randomised studies; Health technology assessment

613-226-2553 ext. 1282
cuelloca@mcmaster.ca

Stelios Georgiades

BA, MA, PhD

Faculty

Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences

Associate Professor

Co-Director, McMaster Autism Research Team (MacART)

RESEARCH INTERESTS: autism spectrum disorders; neurodevelopmental disorders; epidemiology; longitudinal modelling; developmental trajectories

905-525-9140
georgis@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

Steven Hoffman

JD, PhD, LLD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Professor (Part-time)

416-736-2100 ext. 33364
steven.hoffman@globalstrategylab.org

Michelle Howard

PhD

Department of Family Medicine

Associate Professor

Member, McMaster Education Research, Innovation & Theory (MERIT) Program

905-525-9140 ext. 28502
mhoward@mcmaster.ca

Alfonso Iorio

MD, PhD, FRCPC

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact; Medicine, Hematology & Thromboembolism

Chair and Professor

Michael Gent Chair in Healthcare Research; Director, Health Information Research Unit; Hemophilia Fellowship Director

RESEARCH INTERESTS: knowledge translation research; medical informatics

905-525-9140 ext. 20152
iorioa@mcmaster.ca

Susan Jack

BScN, PhD

Faculty

Nursing

Professor

RESEARCH INTERESTS: prevention of family violence (intimate partner violence, child maltreatment); maternal/child health, public health; qualitative research methods; mixed methods

905-525-9140 ext. 26383
jacksm@mcmaster.ca

Milos Jenicek

MD, PhD, LMCC, FRCPC, CSPQ

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Professor (Part-time)

RESEARCH INTERESTS: development of methodologies and applications of logic, critical thinking, decision-making and communication in health sciences; enhancement of evidence-based medicine and evidence-based public health; health policies and program evaluations; decision-oriented (bedside) clinical research

Phone Number Not Available
jenicekm@mcmaster.ca

Bradley Johnston

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Associate Professor (Part-time)

Director, NutriRECS research program; Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Dalhousie University

RESEARCH INTERESTS: clinical epidemiology; evidence-based nutrition

Phone number not available
BJohnston@dal.ca

John Lavis

MD, PhD

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

Cynthia Lokker

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Assistant Professor

FHS Faculty Lead, eHealth MSc Program

RESEARCH INTERESTS: eHealth; mobile health; systematic reviews; knowledge translation; machine learning

905-525-9140 ext. 22208
lokkerc@mcmaster.ca

Maureen Markle-Reid

RN, MScN, PhD

Faculty

Nursing

Professor

Scientific Director, Aging, Community and Health Research Unit

RESEARCH INTERESTS: person-centred Interventions; older adults; multimorbidity (diabetes, depression, stroke rehabilitation, fall prevention); caregivers; intervention research; pragmatic randomized controlled trials

905-525-9140 ext. 22306
mreid@mcmaster.ca

Sandra Monteiro

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Associate Professor

Assistant Director of Research - Centre for Simulation Based Learning; Scientist, McMaster Education Research, Innovation & Theory (MERIT) Program

Area of Expertise: Cognition of Learning, Psychometrics, Clinical Reasoning

905-525-9140 ext. 22614
monteisd@mcmaster.ca

Reem Mustafa

MD, MPH, PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Assistant Professor (Part-time)

Not Available
ramustafa@gmail.com

Robby Nieuwlaat

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Associate Professor

Director, Graduate Diploma in Clinical Epidemiology

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

905-525-9140 ext. 22780
nieuwlr@mcmaster.ca

Elysee Nouvet

MA, PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Assistant Professor (Part-time)

Not Available
nouvete@gmail.com

Bram Rochwerg

MSc, MD, FRCPC

Faculty

Medicine, Critical Care

Associate Professor

905-525-9140 ext. 42442
rochwerg@mcmaster.ca

Rachel Roy

MSc, PgDip, BSc, BA

faculty

Health Research, Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Assistant Professor (Part-time)

Health Promotion Specialist, Hamilton Public Health

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Health Promotion; Youth Engagement; Men’s Health

905-546-2424 ext. 7713
Royr1@mcmaster.ca

Nancy Santesso

RD, 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

Jean-Éric Tarride

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Professor

Director, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis; McMaster Chair in Health Technology Management; Director, Programs for Assessment of Technology in Health (PATH)

RESEARCH INTERESTS: health technology assessment and management; methods for the economic evaluation of health technologies and programs

905-525-9140 ext. 37024
tarride@mcmaster.ca

Achilleas Thoma

BSc Med, MSc, MD

Faculty

Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery

Clinical Professor

RESEARCH INTERESTS: hand; cost-effectiveness analysis; health-related quality of life; evidence-based surgery

905-523-0019
athoma@mcmaster.ca

Harriette Van Spall

MD, MPH

Medicine, Cardiology

Associate Professor

Dr. Van Spall's areas of expertise are knowledge translation, health services research, pragmatic clinical trials, databases, heart failure and echocardiography. She mentors students at all levels within the Department of Medicine.

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Developing, implementing, and testing new models of care for patients with chronic cardiovascular disease.

905-521-2100 ext. 40601
harriette.vanspall@phri.ca

Michael Wilson

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Associate Professor

Assistant Director, McMaster Health Forum

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Knowledge translation; citizen engagement methods & evaluation; politics of health systems

905-525-9140 ext. 22121
wilsom2@mcmaster.ca

Elizabeth Alvarez

MD, PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Assistant Professor

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Health promotion; behaviour change; chronic disease prevention and management; mental health; aging; health policy; health systems strengthening; public health; primary care; ecological approaches to health

905-525-9140 ext. 22248
alvare@mcmaster.ca

Ellen Amster

PhD

Faculty

Department of Family Medicine and History

Associate Professor

Jason A. Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine; Scholar, McMaster Education Research, Innovation & Theory (MERIT) Program

Area of Expertise: Middle East Studies & Islam; Global History of Biomedicine; Maternal & Infant Health in Morocco; Gender Violence

905-525-9140 ext. 20006
amstere@mcmaster.ca

Sonia Anand

MD, PhD

Medicine, Cardiology; Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Professor

Associate Chair, Equity & Diversity; Tier 1 Canada Research Chair, HSF/Michael G. DeGroote Chair in Population Health Research; Director, Population Genomics Program

Dr. Anand is a professor of medicine and epidemiology as well as the director of the Population Genomics Program.

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Environmental and genetic determinants of vascular disease in populations of varying ancestral origin; women and cardiovascular disease.

905-525-9140 ext. 21523
anands@mcmaster.ca

Laura Anderson

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Assistant Professor

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Population and public health; life course epidemiology; chronic disease prevention; obesity; nutrition; measurement; women's and children's health

905-525-9140 ext. 21725
ln.anderson@mcmaster.ca

Carol Walker Bassim

MHS, DMD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact; Medicine, Education & Innovation

Assistant Professor

Scientific Manager, Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA)

Bridging Engineering and Health Sciences

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

Part Time/Adjunct 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

Rahul Chanchlani

Faculty

Department of Pediatrics

Assistant Professor, Clinician Investigator Program Lead

Clinician Investigator Program Lead

905-521-2100 ext. 75635
chanchlr@mcmaster.ca

Andrew Costa

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Associate 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

Liz Darling

PhD

Faculty

Midwifery Education Program

Director/Assistant Dean, Midwifery

Associate Professor

RESEARCH INTERESTS: midwifery services; health disparities; access to care; midwifery scope of practice; health care service implementation; health policy; perinatal health surveillance/epidemiology

905-525-9140 ext. 21597
darlinek@mcmaster.ca

Russell de Souza

ScD, RD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Associate 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

Philip J Devereaux

MD, PhD

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact; Medicine, Cardiology

Professor

Salim Yusuf Chair in Cardiology; Director, Division of Cardiology and Scientific Leader of the Anesthesiology, Perioperative Medicine and Surgical Research Group at PHRI

905-527-4322 ext. 40654
philipj@mcmaster.ca

Pendar Farahani

MD, MSc, FRCPC, DABIM, FACP

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Assistant Professor (Part-time)

Not Available
farahanp@mcmaster.ca

Amit Garg

MD, MA, FRCPC, FACP, PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Associate Professor (Part-time)

Not Available
Amit.Garg@lhsc.on.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

Dale Guenter

MPH, MD

Family Medicine & Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Associate Professor

RESEARCH INTERESTS: population health in primary care; health service transformation for people with complex healthcare needs; HIV care; mental health, pain and addiction

905-525-9140 ext. 28951
guentd@mcmaster.ca

Emmanuel Guindon

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Associate Professor

Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis/Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Chair in Health Equity

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Health equity; economics of health behaviours; health services research; empirical health economics and policy.

905-525-9140 ext. 24658
emmanuel.guindon@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

Steven Hoffman

JD, PhD, LLD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Professor (Part-time)

416-736-2100 ext. 33364
steven.hoffman@globalstrategylab.org

Jessica Hopkins

MD, MHSc, CCFP, FRCPC

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Assistant Professor (Part-time)

Phone number not available
hopkij1@mcmaster.ca

Shofiqul Islam

MSc, PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Assistant Professor (Part Time)

Scientist (Biostatistics), Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University.

Dr. Islam enjoys teaching, mentoring students and research in biostatistics and global health.

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Multivariate Statistical Methods; Multilevel Modelling; Survival Analysis; Machine Learning

905-521-2100 ext. 40404
islamsm@mcmaster.ca

Susan Jack

BScN, PhD

Faculty

Nursing

Professor

RESEARCH INTERESTS: prevention of family violence (intimate partner violence, child maltreatment); maternal/child health, public health; qualitative research methods; mixed methods

905-525-9140 ext. 26383
jacksm@mcmaster.ca

Milos Jenicek

MD, PhD, LMCC, FRCPC, CSPQ

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Professor (Part-time)

RESEARCH INTERESTS: development of methodologies and applications of logic, critical thinking, decision-making and communication in health sciences; enhancement of evidence-based medicine and evidence-based public health; health policies and program evaluations; decision-oriented (bedside) clinical research

Phone Number Not Available
jenicekm@mcmaster.ca

Shun Fu Lee

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact (HEI)

Assistant Professor

Senior Biostatistician, Population Health Research Institute (PHRI)

Specializing in randomized controlled trials and epidemiologic studies.

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cluster randomized trials, pragmatic trials, prognostic modelling, missing data, adaptive designs, survival analysis, cognitive analysis.

905-527-4322 ext. 40348
ShunFu.Lee@phri.ca

Mark Loeb

MD, MSc

Medicine, Pathology and Molecular Medicine; Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Professor

Michael G. DeGroote Chair in Infectious Diseases

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Influenza; vaccine efficacy; randomized trials; respiratory infections; COVID-19

905-525-9140
loebm@mcmaster.ca

Cynthia Lokker

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Assistant Professor

FHS Faculty Lead, eHealth MSc Program

RESEARCH INTERESTS: eHealth; mobile health; systematic reviews; knowledge translation; machine learning

905-525-9140 ext. 22208
lokkerc@mcmaster.ca

Lawrence Mbuagbaw

MD, MPH, PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Associate 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

Rebecca Morgan

PhD, MPH

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Assistant Professor (Part-time)

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Guideline development; GRADE; Systematic review; Health research methods

Phone number not available
MorganRL@mcmaster.ca

Reem Mustafa

MD, MPH, PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Assistant Professor (Part-time)

Not Available
ramustafa@gmail.com

Robby Nieuwlaat

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Associate Professor

Director, Graduate Diploma in Clinical Epidemiology

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

905-525-9140 ext. 22780
nieuwlr@mcmaster.ca

Elysee Nouvet

MA, PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Assistant Professor (Part-time)

Not Available
nouvete@gmail.com

Daria O’Reilly

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Associate Professor (Part-time)

Not Available
oreilld@mcmaster.ca

John Oudyk

MSc

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Assistant Professor (Part-time)

Occupational Hygienist

RESEARCH INTERESTS: population and public health

905-549-2552 ext. 2230
oudykj@mcmaster.ca

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

Rachel Roy

MSc, PgDip, BSc, BA

faculty

Health Research, Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Assistant Professor (Part-time)

Health Promotion Specialist, Hamilton Public Health

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Health Promotion; Youth Engagement; Men’s Health

905-546-2424 ext. 7713
Royr1@mcmaster.ca

Nigar Sekercioglu

MD, PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Assistant Professor (Part-time)

Not Available
sekercn@mcmaster.ca

Lehana Thabane

PhD

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact; Medicine, Education & Innovation

Professor

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

Achilleas Thoma

BSc Med, MSc, MD

Faculty

Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery

Clinical Professor

RESEARCH INTERESTS: hand; cost-effectiveness analysis; health-related quality of life; evidence-based surgery

905-523-0019
athoma@mcmaster.ca

Stephen Walter

Ph.D. (University of Edinburgh 1972)

Faculty

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine

Professor Emeritus

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biostatistics; screening and diagnosis; clinical trials; risk assessment; etiology.

905-525-9140
walter@mcmaster.ca