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2011.11.29

Dr. Shoo Lee Around the world in 80 days - EPIQ lessons for Canada

2011.11.22

Dr. Guillaume Pare A novel method to identify gene-gene and gene-environment interactions: Variance Prioritization

2011.11.15

Dr. Paul Oh Cardiac Rehabilitation and Prevention

2011.11.08

Dr. Iliana Lega The Impact of Metformin on Breast Cancer Survival: MSc Stage II Proposal defense

2011.11.01

Dr. Mathew Reeves Get with the Guidelines-Stroke (a national hospital-based stroke registry): Are improvements in quality related to better care or better documentation?

2011.10.25

Dr. Moira Kapral Stroke care in Ontario

2011.10.18

Dr. Merrick Zwarenstein Who killed Vioxx? (video not available)

2011.10.11

Dr. David Juurlink Using Administrative Data to Study the Interactions between Drugs

2011.10.04

Dr. James Downar Why is 'DNR' a 4-letter word?

2011.09.20

Dr. Jack Tu Ethnicity and cardiovascular disease (CVD) in Ontario.  (Video not available)

2011.09.27

Dr. Michael Ordon Time Trends in the Surgical Management of Kidney Stones in the Province of Ontario (Thesis Proposal) Video not available.

2011.09.13

Dr. Anne Rhodes (Introduction to Speaker Only) Child Welfare wards and suicide-related behaviours: A population-based cohort study.

2011.09.06

Dr. Gillian Hawker The Contribution of Osteoarthritis to Diabetes and Heart Disease

2011.06.28

JoAnn Heale Using Administrative Data to Examine Preventable Injury in Ontario.

2011.06.21

Dr. Angela Mailis-Gagnon The Changing Landscape of Chronic Pain in Canada.

2011.06.14

Dr. David Margel Metformin use and prostate cancer incidence and mortality: A novel approach to prostate cancer prevention. (Thesis proposal defence)

2011.06.07

Dr. Paul Dorian Who Needs an ICD?

2011.05.31

Dr. Andrea Furlan The First Anniversary of the Canadian Opioid Guideline - "Maintaining Momentum"

2011.05.24

Dr. Rick Swartz Stroke Prevention in 2011: Why 2001 is ancient history.

2011.05.17

Dr. Morton Beiser Comparing the Mental Health of Immigrant Children in Canadian Cities: Why does Toronto Look Bad?

2011.05.10

Drs. Flora Matheson & Rahim Moineddin Overview of the Ontario Marginalization Index (OnMarg)

2011.05.03

Dr. Mark Sinyor Can We Prevent Suicide? The Bloor Street Viaduct Suicide Barrier.  ~Introduction to Speaker Only~

2011.04.26

Dr. Richard Jenkinson Immediate vs. Delayed Wound Closure in Open extremity fractures:  A propensity matched cohort study (MSC Step II thesis defense proposal) 

2011.04.19

Dr. Arlene Bierman Excellent Care for All?  Health Equity in Ontario (video not available)

2011.04.12

Dr. Miriam Shuchman and Sally Bean When and How Research Ethics Boards Get it Wrong. 

2011.04.05

Dr. Paul Arnold Spit for Science: Finding Genes for childhood behavioural traits in community setting. 

2011.03.29

Dr. Joanne Ho Adverse Cardiac Events in Older Patients on Venlafaxine in Ontario:  A Population Based Study (Step 2 Thesis Proposal Defence)

2011.03.25

Dr. Donald W. Light How did prescribed drugs become a leading cause of Death?  Physicians and the Risk Proliferation Syndrome.

2011.03.22

Dr. David Sackett What you thought you knew (but didn't) about the landmark MRC TB trials.

2011.03.08

Dr. Donald Redelmeier Voting carefully and the next US presidential election

2011.03.01

Dr. Paul Kurdyak Psychiatrist supply across Ontario: impact on practice patterns

2011.02.22

Dr. Gustavo Saposnik Predicting outcomes after stroke

2011.02.15

Dr. Irfan Dhalla The opioid public health crisis in Ontario
- Introduction to speaker only

2011.02.08

Dr. Clare Atzema Emergency department triage of acute myocardial infarction patients in Ontario

2011.02.01

Dr. Jack Williams The big picture of demographics in Ontario

2011.01.25

Dr. Lynne Parkinson Arthritis and older Australian women: findings from the Australian longitudinal study on women's health 

2011.01.18

Dr. Therese Stukel Multispecialty Physician Networks: improved quality and accountability - the "Medical Neighborhood"

2011.01.12

Dr. Astrid Guttmann From hospital quality measures to health system scorecards in Ontario: will performance measurement drive change? 
- Introduction to speaker only

2011.01.04

Dr. Gennady Miroshnichenko Follow-up of pelvic ultrasound among women aged 45 and over in the province of Ontario
(Stage II Thesis Proposal)

2010.12.07

Dr. Sarah Garner Health technology assessment at NICE: perspectives and challenges

2010.12.01

Dr. Virginia Barbour Open Access: going beyond the traditional medical journal

2010.11.23

Dr. Lyle Palmer The Ontario Health Study: creating platforms for revolutionary science and transformational biology

2010.11.16

Dr. Jeff Kwong A cornucopia of influenza using ICES data

2010.11.09

Dr. David Henry Cardiovascular risk and non-prescription use of NSAIDs

2010.11.02

Dr. Sacha Bhatia From bedside to boardroom: two views of healthcare policy in Ontario
- Presentation not available

2010.10.26

Dr. Simon Kitto Mapping optimal and suboptimal variance in clinical pathways of trauma patients: a cross comparative case study research protocol

2010.10.19

Dr. Natalie Coburn A RAND/UCLA appropriateness study of processes of care for gastric cancer in Ontario

2010.10.12

Dr. Vincent Mor Estimating the impact of US states' changing Medicaid policies: analytic and data base challenges

2010.10.05

Dr. Stephen Hwang Health care utilization among homeless people

2010.09.28

Dr. George Tomlinson Composite outcomes in clinical trials

2010.09.21

Dr. Muhammad Mamdani Bridging research and policy: the Ontario drug policy research network

2010.09.14

Dr. Tasnim Sinuff Knowledge synthesis of implementation strategies for critically ill patients (KRITICAL study)
- Presentation not available

2010.09.07

Dr. Michael Schull Do health centers that provide integrated HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and primary care training retain more health care workers and provide better care in Malawi? (Or, what I did on my research sabbatical)

2010.06.22

Dr. Amy Lee Chong Pregnancy Complications and Utilization of Obstetrical Services in Female Survivors of Childhood Cancer 
(Stage 2 Thesis Proposal)
- Presentation not available

2010.06.15

Dr. Eric Holowaty Small area mapping and spatial surveillance of cancer in Ontario

2010.06.08

Dr. David Alter Vascular risk reduction programs - can population behaviours be modified and measured

2010.06.01

Dr. Cameron Mustard Avoidable mortality for causes amenable to medical care by occupation in Canada, 1991-2001

2010.05.25

Dr. Dennis Ko Health technology assessment and diffusion cardiac technology - implication of future research
- Presentation available soon

2010.05.18

Dr. Lorraine Ferris Medical publishing and Libel: What's all the full about?
- Introduction to speaker only

2010.05.11

Dr. Robert Fowler Caring for Patients and Populations during Outbreaks and Pandemics
- Presentation available soon

2010.05.04

Dr. Leslie Levin Comparative effectiveness as a basis for policy decision making -- the growing Ontario experience

2010.04.27

Dr. Anne Matlow Triggering adverse events and filling in the blanks

2010.04.20

Dr. Joel Ray Are New Immigrants Healthier?

2010.04.13

Dr. Paula Rochon &
Dr. Geoffrey Anderson
The antipsychotics story - off-label use

2010.04.06

Dr. Craig Earle Victims of success: models of care for cancer care survivors

2010.03.30

Dr. Catherine Yu Web-compatible diabetes tools for patients and health care providers - a systematic review

2010.03.23

Dr. Baiju Shah Using administrative data to study ethnicity and diabetes

2010.03.16

Dr. Amit Garg Info dialysis for better patient care

2010.03.09

Dr. Sanjay Murthy Impact of Clostridium difficile colitis on health outcomes of hospitalized patients with ulcerative colitis (Stage II Thesis Proposal)

2010.03.02

Dr. Irfan Dhalla A virtual ward to reduce readmissions - an RCT proposal
- Full presentation available soon

2010.02.23

Dr. Natasha Crowcroft & 
Laura Rosella
Pandemic H1N1 in Ontario
- Full presentation available soon

2010.02.16

Dr. Andrea Rigamonti Adherence to Brain Trauma Foundation Guidelines in Trauma Centres across Ontario: An MSc Thesis Proposal
(Stage II Thesis Proposal)

2010.02.09

Dr. Michael Hillmer Coming to grips with uncertainty: Exploring the parallels between the academic and bureaucratic approach to clinical epidemiology

2010.02.02

Dr. Sidney Wolfe Research-based advocacy: changing government policies and informing the public about prescription drugs

2010.01.26

Dr. Therese Stukel Is higher hospital system spending intensity associated with better acute care outcomes?

2010.01.19

Dr. Jack Iwashyna Where they go for help: the informal organization of US interhospital critical care transfers
- Full Presentation Available soon

2010.01.12

Dr. Chris Cavacuiti Dealing with complicated and controversial issues in a sound bite world

2010.01.05

Dr. Noah Ivers Optimizing Audit and Feedback for Primary Care: A Cluster RCT and Mixed Methods Evaluation
(Stage II Thesis Proposal)
- Full presentation available soon

2009.12.08

Dr. Marni Brownell Using linked administrative databases to study children's developmental trajectories

2009.12.01

Dr. Liisa Jaakkimainen Measuring primary care performance. Where we have been and where we are going?

2009.11.24

Dr. Joel Gagnier Reporting and Heterogeneity in Controlled Trials and Systematic Reviews

2009.11.17

Dr. Sharon Straus Lost in knowledge translation: frameworks in kt

2009.11.10

Dr. Andreas Laupacis Health care reform in Alberta - governance, strategic directions and performance measurement
- Introduction to speaker only

2009.11.03

Dr. Andrea Gershon Striving to improve Respirology health using Population Health Administrative Data
- Introduction to speaker only

2009.10.27

Dr. Janet Smylie Aboriginal Health Datasets: policies, priorities, and protocols

2009.10.20

Dr. Noralou Roos Key insights for policy and research from an information-rich environment??? What administrative data from Health, Education and Family Services enables...
- Introduction to speaker only

2009.10.13

Dr. Steven Brooks Variability in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: and exploration of time and money in the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium

2009.10.06

Dr. Lorraine Lipscombe The impact of income on diabetes - is the gap widening?

2009.09.29

Dr. Therese Stukel Association between Hospital Cardiac Management and Outcomes for AMI patients

2009.09.22

Dr. Charmaine Lok Research Challenges in Dialysis Patients: Focus on RCTs

2009.09.15

Dr. Jack Williams The Canada Health Act as Moral Compassion

2009.09.08

Dr. Jack Tu Trends in Cardiovascular Care in Canada

2009.09.01

Dr. Vivek Goel Building the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion

2009.07.30

Dr. John Frank Measuring equitable health improvement: how is Scotland doing? (A snapshot of health disparities in Scotland, and a new approach to tackling them)

2009.06.30

Dr. Doug Lee Understanding the Determinants of Heart Failure Outcome and Risk Factors for Incident Heart Failure in the Population 

2009.06.23

Dr. Catherine Kelly Co-prescription of Tamoxifen and CYP2D6 inhibitors 

2009.06.16

Dr. Kumanan Wilson Web 2.0 and Public Health Communication

2009.06.09

Dr. Susan Bronskill Variation in medication prescribing across Ontario long-term care homes: Is there an association with quality of care?

2009.06.02

Dr. David Henry Experience with mandatory disclosure of pharmaceutical company-sponsored events for health professionals

2009.05.26

Dr. Patricia Li A population-based study on the effect of clinical practice guidelines in the emergency department on childhood asthma admissions and bouncebacks in Ontario, Canada (Stage II)

2009.05.19

Dr. Robert Wachter Consequences, Expected and Otherwise, of the Quality and IT Revolutions

2009.05.12

Dr. Hannah Wunsch International comparisons of critical care

2009.05.05

Dr. Patrick Brown Beyond disease mapping: models for disease incidence data with spatial risk factors
- Introduction to speaker only

2009.04.28

Dr. Gillian Hawker Risks < benefits = appropriate?

2009.04.21

Dr. William Geerts Changing the Culture of Care: Having the Evidence is Just the First Step

2009.04.14

Dr. Jim Lavery Effective community engagement in global health research

2009.04.07

Dr. Rick Glazier Equity and primary care reform in Ontario

2009.03.31

Dr. Peter Austin Estimating absolute risk reductions, numbers needed to treat, and relative risk reductions from logistic regression models and survival regression models

2009.03.24

Dr. Hans Kreder Does it matter who does my operation? The surgeon as a factor determining outcomes

2009.03.17

Dr. Kaveh Shojania Methodological issues in quality improvement research

2009.03.10

Dr. Deborah Cook On the need for pilot trials

2009.03.03

Dr. Michael Schull Is leaving the emergency department without being seen associated with an increased risk of adverse events when compared with comparable patients who are seen in the emergency department and discharged home?
- Full presentation available soon

2009.02.24

Dr. David Urbach "easy outcomes" and the suppression of research into the quality of surgical care

2009.02.17

Dr. Merrick Zwarenstein pragmatic randomised trials of interventions to change clinical practice - common ideas in 2 very different trials

2009.02.10

Dr. Rob Quinn The validation of variables related to dialysis therapy at ICES: you can't handle the truth

2009.02.03

Dr. Avery Nathens Assessing injury using administrative discharge data: challenges and opportunities

2009.01.27

Dr. Heather Manson Integrating Health Services across the Continuum of Care

2009.01.20

Dr. Lawrence Paszat Biomarkers of gastric cancer risk, and potential vaccine targets, among persons infected by H pylori

2009.01.13

Dr. Chaim Bell The discontinuation of medications for chronic diseases in seniors discharged from the ICU

2009.01.06

Dr. Khaled El emam De-identifying data for secondary uses

2008.12.09

John Amrhein A Case Study in Time-to-Event Analysis with Clustered Observations

2008.12.02

Dr. Craig Earle cd-link: the Ontario Cancer Data Linkage Project

2008.11.25

Dr. Kamran Khan Lost Without Translation: The Problem of Patient-Provider Language Discordance

2008.11.18

Dr. David Juurlink Pioglitazone, Rosiglitazone and the Risk of Cardiac Events

2008.11.11

Dr. Jill Tinmouth Utilization of anesthesiologist-assisted colonoscopy in Ontario

2008.11.04

Dr. Adalsteinn Brown &
Guillermo A. Sandoval
Evidence-Based Decision-Making in Ontario's Evolving Healthcare System

2008.10.28

Dr. Simone Vigod Relationship between major depression and compliance with Pap Smear and Mammography screening guidelines in Ontario women 
(Stage II Thesis Proposal)

2008.10.21

Laura Park-Wyllie Evaluating the harm of drugs in the post-marketing environment using observational research methods (Stage II PhD Thesis Proposal)

2008.10.14

Dr. Brian Hodges Cracks and crevices in the globalization discourse of medical education

2008.10.07

Dr. Moira Kapral Use of a clinical registry for research and quality improvement: recent projects using the Registry of the Canadian Stroke Network

2008.09.30

Dr. Judy Glennie Coverage with Evidence Generation: Can we work towards a policy framework that will work for Canada?

2008.09.23

Dr. Greg Wellenius Ambient Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Health

2008.09.16

Dr. Murray Krahn Conditionally funded field evaluations in Ontario

2008.09.09

Dr. Chris Denny Drowning and the influence of hot weather: a case-crossover analysis

2008.09.02

Dr. Jocalyn Clark Open Access Publishing: Why it matters to you and your research

2008.06.24

Dr. Veena Guru Relationship Between Preventability of Death After Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery and All-Cause Risk-Adjusted Mortality Rates

2008.06.17

Dr. Mary Tierney Long-term Physical Activity and Risk of Dementia in Women

2008.06.10

Dr. Deborah Marshall Comparison of physician and patient preferences for colorectal cancer screening tests using a discrete choice experiment. Physician/patient, Canada/US and ex-ante/ex-post perspectives
- Introduction to speaker

2008.06.03

Kevin Thorpe Measuring and analyzing change

2008.05.27

Dr. Lori Ferris 
and Ruth Croxford
Long-term complications following non-emergency induced abortions
- Introduction to speaker only

2008.05.20

Dr. Julia Lowe Diabetes in older women - is the Australian health system meeting the challenge

2008.05.13

Dr. Peter Singer Life Sciences: from lab to village

2008.05.06

K. Robin Yabroff Cost of colorectal cancer care in the elderly

2008.04.29

Laura Rosella Predicting new cases of diabetes in Canada: Historical and future trends using a population based risk tool

2008.04.22

Dr. Marko Simunovic Population-based Knowledge Translation Interventions - Pancreas Cancer Surgery in Ontario and Quebec

2008.04.15

Dr. Peter Austin A Comparison of Regression Trees, Logistic Regression, Generalized Additive Models, and Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS) for Predicting AMI Mortality

2008.04.08

Blair Henry Splitting hairs? Differentiation of quality improvement from traditional research

2008.04.01

Dr. Doug Manuel Identifying people with chronic conditions using health administrative data: the importance of misclassification error and how to reduce it

2008.03.25

Catherine Kelly Co-prescription of Tamoxifen and CYP2D6 inhibitors
(Thesis Proposal) 

2008.03.18

Dr. Donald Redelmeier The lethal effects of running a marathon

2008.03.11

Dr. Rob Fowler Local and Global Access and Equity to Research and Clinical Care

2008.03.04

Dr. Jeff Kwong Evaluating Ontario's Universal Influenza Immunization Program
- Second half of presentation omitted

2008.02.26

Dr. Nancy Baxter How effective is colonoscopy for the prevention of colorectal cancer mortality? A population-based case control study

2008.02.19

Dr. Muhammad Mamdani Contrasting the academic and industry experience: an N of 1 study
- Audio/Video not available

2008.02.12

Dr. Conrad Liles Sepsis - An enduring clinical enigma: current therapeutic approaches and future directions in research

2008.02.05

Dr. David Alter The relationship between patient satisfaction and quality of care following Acute Myocardial Infarction 

2008.01.29

Dr. Denice Feig Diabetes in Pregnancy: Lessons learned from the Ontario Diabetes Database

2008.01.22

Dr. Angela Cheung Vitamin K supplementation for postmenopausal osteopenia -- the ECKO trial  

2008.01.15

Dr. Astrid Guttman Not-so-universal Health Care: Implications of Primary Care Physician Supply and Socioeconomic Status on Care for Children in Ontario 
- Introduction to speaker only

2008.01.08

Dr. Joel Ray The breast, obesity and diabetes  

2007.12.11

Dr. Harvey Anderson Obesity: Is there a Food Solution? Understanding the Etiology of Obesity  

2007.12.04

Dr. Paul Nathan Health care utility by survivors of childhood cancer: Data from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (CCSS) 

2007.11.27

Dr. Eric Benchimol Incidence and outcomes of childhood-onset inflammatory bowel disease in Ontario. 
(Step II Presentation for PhD)

2007.11.20

Dr. Richard Smith Can You Trust Medical Journal?

2007.11.13

Dr. Elizabeth Lin Sex Disparities in the Treatment of Depression (part of the POWER study)
- Introduction to speaker only

2007.11.06

Dr. Susanna Mak Sex differences in left ventricular function in patients with and without heart failure  

2007.10.30

Dr. Gwyn Bevan Tackling a failing health service: taking performance measurement seriously.    

2007.10.23

Dr. Sharon Dell Effects of Chronic Air Pollution on Asthma in Toronto School Children - Research in Progress.   

2007.10.16

Dr. Jacques Lee PERIL: Paramedics and Elders at Risk for Independence Loss.  Linking Paramedic Data to NACRS to Derive a Clinical Prediction Rule.

2007.10.09

Dr. Jack Tu Effectiveness and safety of drug-eluting stents (DES) in Ontario

2007.10.02

Dr. Rajni Singhal Risk factors associated with late referral for pre-dialysis care among individuals with diabetes mellitus in Ontario

2007.09.25

Dr. David Henry Disease Mongering: Widening Disease Boundaries for Profit 

2007.09.18

Dr. Aileen Davis Modern Measurement Theory: Rasch Analysis and Computerized Adaptive Testing 
- Introduction to speaker only

2007.09.11

Dr. Pat O'Campo Research Agenda on Urban Health Inequalities: How Should Community Participate? 

2007.09.04

Dr. Ross Upshur Overcoming Clinical Despair: The Challenges of Complex Chronic Disease Management in Family Medicine

2007.06.27

Dr. Ben Chan Lessons form the Front Lines in Quality Improvement: interim results from Saskatchewan's Chronic Disease Management Collaborative

2007.06.20

Dr. Ahmed Bayoumi Weighting Clinical Trial Endpoints: A Conjoint Analysis Study

2007.06.13

Dr. Nick Daneman Epidemiology of Surgical Site Infections
(Stage II Master Thesis Defence)

2007.06.06

Dr. Taryn Becker Quality of Diabetes Care among People with Schizophrenia in Ontario
(Stage II Master Thesis Defence)

2007.05.30

Dr. Rahim Moineddin Using Multilevel Modeling for the Analysis of Longitudinal Data: Gabapentin Trial 

2007.05.23

Dr. Andrea Manca Lost in translation: accounting for between country differences in the analysis of multinational cost effectiveness data

2007.05.16

Dr. Andreas Laupacis Utilization of outpatient CT and MRI Ontario: a population-based chart abstraction study

2007.05.09

Dr. Dorcas Beaton Developing a predictive Index
- Introduction to speaker only

2007.05.02

Dr. Matthew Stanbrook Medical journals and thought control

2007.04.25

Dr. Lorraine Lipscombe Diabetes in Ontario: the State of the Epidemic 

2007.04.18

Dr. Brian Schwartz & 
Rob Burgess
Measurement of Quality in Prehospital Care

2007.04.11

Dr. Sue Schultz & The 
Primary Care Atlas Group
Lessons Learned from the Atlas of Primary Care in Ontario 
- Introduction to speaker only

2007.04.04

Dr. Femida Sridhar-Sridhar The Conundrum of Compliance

2007.03.28

Dr. Aliya Khan Hypercalcemia: Common and rare causes

2007.03.21

Dr. Nathan Taback Predicting injury and mortality of journalists' that cover dangerous regions

2007.03.14

Dr. Jensen Tan The Processes of Care Post Colorectal Cancer Resection in Ontario

2007.03.07

Dr. Andrew Howard Children in Car Crashes - Injury Biomechanics, Restrain Effectiveness, and Computer Simulation of Crashes

2007.02.28

Dr. Susan Jaglal Trends in prescribing and compliance with osteoporosis medications in Ontario

2007.02.21

Dr. Eric Benchimol The Incidence and Outcomes of Childhood-onset Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) in Ontario
(Step II Master's Thesis)

2007.02.14

Dr. Therese Stukel Analysis of Observational Studies in the Presence of Treatment Selection Bias: Effects of Invasive Cardiac Management on AMI Survival using Propensity Score and Instrumental Variable Methods 

2007.02.07

Dr. Dennis Ko Process of care and outcomes of heart failure and myocardial infarction patients in the United States and Canada 

2007.01.31

Dr. Arlene Bierman Finding the Missing link: Connecting Performance Measurement, Reporting, and Health System Change 

2007.01.24

Dr. Kevin Sanders Development and validation of a clinical prediction rule for acute exacerbations of COPD
(Step II Master's Thesis) 

2007.01.17

Dr. Linda Rabeneck Colorectal Cancer Screening: How Are We Doing?

2007.01.10

Dr. Jeffrey Rosenthal The curious world of probabilities

2006.12.13

Dr. Allan Detsky Is academic medicine for sale?
- Introduction to speaker only

2006.12.06

Dr. Doug Manuel Can we estimate how many people in Canada will develop diabetes?  Introducing a new population risk algorithm 

2006.11.29

Dr. David Alter What explains socioeconomic status and cardiovascular outcome disparities - cardiac risk - profiles, health service utilization, methodological quirks? highlights from SESAMI 

2006.11.22

Dr. Susan Swiggum Anti-coagulants, thrombolytics and anti-platelets - the CMPA experience
- Introduction to speaker only

2006.11.15

Dr. Joel Ray The relationship between vascular disease of the placenta and premature cardiovascular disease

2006.11.08

Dr. Jack Williams Wait3- What is it that we are waiting for?

2006.11.01

Dr. Joshua Tepper Cancelled

2006.10.25

Dr. Gillian Hawker Applying an Equity-Effectiveness Lens: Total Joint Arthroplasty as an Example

2006.10.18

Dr. Yaping Jin Network-and Registry-based Epidemiologic Studies in Sweden
- Introduction to speaker only

2006.10.11

Dr. Bernard Zinman Preventing the complication of Diabetes: Lessons from the DCCT/EDIC study

2006.10.04

Dr. Karim Keshavjee Pan-Canadian Standards for Electronic Prescribing: Barriers and Facilitators

2006.09.27

Peter Gozdyra & 
Dr. Rick Glazier
Is there a place for place in health services research?

2006.09.20

Michael Paterson & 
Geoffrey Anderson
Cross-provincial research to support evaluation of real-world drug safety and effectiveness: initial lessons from a two-province collaborative
- Introduction to speaker only

2006.09.13

Dr. Andreas Laupacis Reflections about the perspectives of researchers, decision makers, and clinicians (influenced by 6 years as ICES CEO)

2006.09.06

Dr. Rolf Sebaldt A Cyclic Study Design for Care Gap Evaluation and Intervention in Primary Care - The CAGE Study of COPD management in Quebec and Ontario
- Introduction to speaker only

2006.06.28

Dr. Jack Tu The Canadian Cardiovascular Outcomes Research Team (CCORT): Past and future

2006.06.21

Dr. Therese Stukel Randomized Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Trial To Evaluate The Impact Of Vitamin A Supplementation On Maternal Mortality In Rural Ghana, West Africa

2006.06.14

Dr. Lawrence Paszat A population based case-cohort study of the risk of myocardial infarction following radiation therapy for breast cancer  

2006.06.07

Dr. Ahmed Bayoumi Fair Game? Equity and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

2006.05.31

Dr. Michael Schull Harnessing resources in resource-poor settings to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS: the Malawi experience

2006.05.24

Dr. David Juurlink Studying Drug Safety in the Real World

2006.05.17

Dr. Chris Forrest Defining the Contours of the Primary-Specialty Care Interface: A Multi-Level Approach

2006.05.10

Dr. Jeffrey Hoch Using the net benefit regression framework to address uncertainty, equity, and heterogeneity in cost-effectiveness analysis

2006.05.03

Dr. Nancy Reid Biostatistics in the News

2006.04.26

Dr. Andreas Laupacis Initial experience with the common drug review.

2006.04.19

Dr. Joseph Beyene What to do with missing data: Some options for analysis.
Introduction to speaker

2006.04.12

Dr. Laurie Morrison The challenges of applying clinical decision rule methodology to ceasing resuscitation efforts in the prehospital setting

2006.04.05

Dr. Andrew Willan The Expected Value of Information and Optimal Trial Design

2006.03.29

Dr. Susan Bronskill Facility Variations in Antipsychotic Drug Therapy & Mortality

2006.03.22

Dr. Jack Williams So... How can we do it; reduce waiting list that is

2006.03.15

Dr. Brian Haynes Health Knowledge Translation Research: Where the Smart Money is Going

2006.03.08

Dr. Sheldon Tobe DreamTel: a Program for Home Care Diabetes Intensification 
Audio/Video not available 

2006.03.01

Dr. Paul Kurdyak The interaction between depression and cardiovascular illness: Impact of depression on mortality, services utilization, and treatment 
(PhD Stage II Thesis Proposal Defence)

2006.02.22

Dr. Clare Atzema Variation in Emergency Department Triage of Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients and the Effect on Outcomes 
(MSc Stage II Thesis Proposal Defence)

2006.02.15

Dr. John Blakely Controlling Active Control Trials - an Epidemiologic Emergency

2006.02.08

Dr. Rob Quinn The impact of modality choice on mortality in chronic dialysis patients
(Stage II PhD Thesis Defence)

2006.02.01

Dr. Paul Oh Miles and Miles of Heart - Cardiac Rehab Observations and Opportunities

2006.01.25

Dr. Peter Watson External validity of neuropathic pain randomized controlled trials

2006.01.18

Dr. Anand Govindarajan Surgical Management of locally advanced colorectal cancer: A population based study of the SEER database

2006.01.11

Dr. Charlie Goldsmith Principles to Improve Some Published Graph

2006.01.04

Dr. Homer Tien Causes of Death in Active Duty Canadian Forces Personnel
(Stage II MSc Defence)

2005.12.07

Dr. Muhammad Mamdani None-experimental Research at ICES: Perspectives from a Departing Researcher

2005.11.30

Dr. Jeff Singh Adverse Events During Air Ambulance Transport: Determination of Predictors of In-Flight Resuscitation

2005.11.23

Dr. Girish Kulkarni The Quality of Surgical Care for Radical Cystectomy in Ontario from 1992-2001: A Focus on Structures and Processes of Care
(PhD Proposal Defence)

2005.11.16

Dr. Wendy Levinson Disclosing Harmful Medical Errors to Patients: A Call for Professional Action

2005.11.09

Dr. Jill Tinmouth Are Claims of Equivalency in Digestive Diseases Trials Supported by the Evidence?

2005.11.02

Dr. Miriam Shuchman Whistleblowing at Canada's teaching hospitals: confronting the culture of silence

2005.10.26

Dr. Cory Borkhoff Investigating Physician Bias as a Possible Explanation for Gender Disparity in the Utilization of Knee Arthroplasty Surgery

2005.10.19

Dr. Roy Ilan Pump-Alarm Failure: Possible Risk in The ICU

2005.10.12

Dr. Anthony Levitt Epidemiology of seasonal mood Disorders

2005.10.05

Dr. Steven Lopushinsky The Determinants and Outcomes of Antireflux Surgery in Ontario
(Stage II PhD Thesis Defence)

2005.09.28

Dr. Dan Hackam Vascular Medicine in Special Setting: Building a Bridge from Mouse to Man

2005.09.21

Dr. Suma Prakash The Influence of Local Dialysis Availability on Utilization and Case Selection
Audio/Video not available

2005.09.14

Dr. Damon Scales Long-term Outcome after Intensive Care in Ontario
(Stage II PhD Thesis Defence)

2005.09.07

Dr. Tomislav Svoboda Measuring the Reduction in Harm Reduction: Assessing the Impact of an Alcohol Harm Reduction Program for High Risk Homeless Men

2005.06.29

Dr. Upton Allen HSC Health Canada Review: A Researcher's Perspective
Audio/Video not available

2005.06.22

Dr. Ben Chan New Horizons in Quality Improvement in Saskatchewan

2005.06.15

Dr. Rob Fowler Battle of the Sexes: Critical Care Access and Outcomes in Ontario

2005.06.08

Dr. Hongbo Yuan Fetal Death in the United States, 1997 vs 1991

2005.06.01

Dr. Melanie Henderson Exercise consultation: can it increase activity levels & Improve metabolic markers in obese adolescents?

2005.05.25

Dr. Prabhat Jha  To Live and Die in India: The 1 Million Death Study

2005.05.18

Dr. Joel J. Gagnier Improving the quality of reporting of randomized controlled trials of herbal medicines: An application of the CONSORT statement

2005.05.11

Dr. Kamran Khan Factors Influencing Tuberculosis Patient Mortality in Toronto

2005.05.04

Dr. Rhonda Love Poverty in Canadian Women and Children: Implications for Health

2005.04.27

Dr. Baiju Shah  Specialist care for people with diabetes: What difference does it make? 
(PhD Defence Practice)
Audio not available

2005.04.20

Dr. Melanie Barwick  Knowledge brokering comes to Sick Kids: a demonstration pilot in Pediatric healthcare research

2005.04.13

Dr. Jan Friedrich Meta-Analytic Techniques: Maximizing Search Strategy Results & A New Clinically More Meaningful Method for Pooling Continuous Variables

April 6,  2005

Dr. Lisa Dolovich Mixed methods analysis: Using the IMPACT project as a case study
Video not available

2005.03.30

Dr. Shaun Goodman Acute Coronary Syndrome and Other High Vascular Risk Patients in Canada: Attempts to Close the Evidence-to-Practice Gap

2005.03.23

Dr. Christopher Parshuram Description and evaluation of the origins and consequences of medication error in children 
(PhD Defence Practice)

2005.03.16

Dr. Alice Charach Evaluating the Hyperactivity/Inattention Subscale of the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY)

2005.03.09

Dr. An-Wen Chan Can we trust the medical literature?  The case for public access to protocols and results
Audio not available

2005.03.02

Dr. Nerina Vecchio Predicting Resource Requirements for In-Home Care

2005.02.16

Dr. Jack Williams Waiting for ----- {Godot?}:  What is the wait for health services?

2005.02.09

Dr. Lisa Barbera Quality Indicators in End of Life Care in Cancer Patients

2005.02.02

Dr. Joshua Tepper Health Human Resources Data: How to Get it?  How to Use It?  What's being Said?

2005.01.26

Pierre-Gerlier Forest The Care We Need: Strengthening of the Canadian Health System

2005.01.16

Dr. Dale Needham Mechanical Ventilation in Ontario:  Preparing for the Aging Baby Boomers
Video not available

2005.01.12

Dr. Matthew Muller Evaluation of treatment efficacy in SARS based on the complete Toronto SARS outbreak (a protocol)

2004.12.08

Dr. Andreas Laupacis The Canadian Expert Drug Assessment Committee--Early Experience with a National Formulary Committee
Video not available

2004.12.01

Dr. Boris Sobolev Measuring Mortality on Surgical Wait Lists

2004.11.24

John You Troponin-itis in CHF: Do Elevated Troponins Predict Poorer Outcomes in Acute Congestive Heart Failure?

2004.11.17

Dr. Richard Reznick The Anatomy of a Surgeon

2004.11.10

Dr. Donald Willison Why Merck Needed to Remove Vioxx from the Market
Video not available

2004.11.03

André Picard How to Deal with the Media

2004.10.27

Dr. Jack Williams Trick or Treat -- The Ghoulish Risks of Preventing Death
Video not available

2004.10.20

Dr. Michael Schull Missed Diagnosis of Acute Myocardial Infarction in Ontario Emergency Departments -- A Volume-Outcome Relationship

2004.10.13

Dr. Gordon Guyatt A User's Guide for Composite Endpoints

2004.10.06

Dr. Georges Monette Longitudinal Models for Clinical Data:  Some Case Studies

2004.09.29

Dr. Joan Eakin What can be Learned from Qualitative Analysis?

2004.09.22

Dr. Muhammad Mamdani Conducting Epidemiologic Drug-Related Research Using Administrative Databases:  Clinical and Policy Perspectives

2004.09.15

Dr. Bruce Holub Omega-3 Fatty Acids in Cardiovascular Care
Video not available

2004.09.08

Dr. Dennis Ko Life Expectancy of AMI and CHF Patients in Ontario

2004.06.30

Dr. Brian McCrindle Lost in Transition:  Pediatric to Adult Health Care for Patients with Congenital Heart Disease

2004.06.23

Dr. Lorraine Lipscombe Screening for Type 2 Diabetes:  Should Population Screening be Recommended?

2004.06.16

Dr. Ahmed Bayoumi The Cost Effectiveness of Treating Advanced Human Immunodeficiency Virus Disease

2004.06.09

Dr. Robert Zipursky Can Schizophrenia be Prevented?

2004.06.02

Dr. Waseem Sharieff Predicting Outcomes of Micronutrient Intervention from a Computer Simulation Model for New Clinical Trials
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2004.05.26

Dr. Brian Maki Why Aren't You Falling?  Control of Rapid Limb Movements for Balance Recovery in Young and Older Adults

2004.05.19

Dr. Stephen Hwang Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Homeless Adults

2004.05.12

Dr. Michael Carter Operations Research in Health Care or Who Let the Engineer into the Hospital?

2004.05.05

Dr. Peter Tugwell Application of the Equity Lens to Evidence-Based Health Care

2004.04.28

Dr. Mary Hannah Term Breech and Other MIRU Trials

2004.04.21

Dr. Michael Schull Missed Critical Diagnoses in Ontario Emergency Departments

2004.04.14

Dr. Joel Lexchin What -- Me Conflicted?  Pharmaceutical Industry Funding of Clinical Research

2004.04.07

Dr. Gillian Booth Diabetes in Ontario:  Highlights from the ICES Diabetes Atlas

2004.03.31

Dr. John Hoey Editorial Zeitgeist -- The View from Within

2004.03.10

George Tolomiczenko Life in the penumbra:  Research at a partially- affiliated community hospital

2004.03.03

John McGurran How long ought I wait for a hip or knee replacement, Doctor?  Work-in-Progress Report from the Western Canada Waiting List Project

2004.02.25

Dr. Veena Guru Understanding the link between quality of care and outcomes report cards for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery in Ontario

2004.02.18

Dr. Rahim Moineddin Intervention Analysis of Time Series Data

2004.02.11

Dr. Jack Tu & Susan Brien  The CCORT Canadian Cardiovascular Atlas Project

2004.02.04

Dr. Shereen Ezzat Growth Hormone Treatment in GH-Deficient Adults:  Promise, Facts, and Mechanisms of Action

2004.01.21

Dr. Neil Fleshner Diet and Prostate Cancer

2004.01.14

Dr. Alex Jadad New Frontiers in Patient Education:  Beyond Lip Service in the Information Age
Video not available

2004.01.07

Dr. Paula Goering &
Dr. Nora Jacobson
Organizational Factors that Influence Faculty Involvement in University-Based KT Activities 

2003.12.10

Michael Hillmer Nursing home ownership status and quality of care   

2003.12.03

Dr. Ken Shulman Lithium carbonate:  orphaned by marketing, fostered by pharmaco-epidemiology     

2003.11.26

Dr. Sophie Jamal Nitric Oxide and Bone:  What a Gas!     

2003.11.19

Dr. Bernie O'Brien Budget Risk Assessment and Cost-Effectiveness:  BRACE Yourself for a new Framework    

2003.11.12

Dr. John Hirdes Towards an Integrated Health Information System:  Opportunities and Challenges 

2003.11.05

Dr. Raisa Deber What difference does ownership make to health care delivery:  Public, Not-for-profit, or Private? 

2003.10.29

Dr. Joel Ray Folic Acid and Human Health 

2003.10.22

Dr. Rob van Reekum Apathy:  Who Cares?

2003.10.08

Dr. Andrew Willan Statistical methods in health economics alongside clinical trials

2003.10.01

Dr. Neil Klar Cluster randomization trials in health research:  An introduction to design and analysis                                                       

2003.09.24

Dr. Neill Iscoe Drug development:  a view from another perspective

2003.09.17

Dr. Donald Redelmeier Do traffic tickets prevent traffic fatalities?

2003.06.25

Dr. Therese Stukel The implications of regional variations in US medicare spending: Healthcare utilization and outcomes

2003.06.18

Dr. David Goodman Is the relationship between health care capacity and patient outcomes measurable? Clues from neonatal intensive care

2003.06.11

Dr. Donald Stuss Neuroanatomy of consciousness: evidence from focal brain lesions

2003.06.04

Dr. Karen Tu Studying antihypertensive prescribing in Ontario

2003.05.28

Dr. Ross Upshur & 
Eric Crighton
The Time Series Project

2003.05.21

Dr. Ben Chan Complex system modeling made simple: Using the iTHINK software to model future physician supply in Ontario

2003.05.14

Dr. Andy McCallum Evidenced based approach to closed head injury

2003.03.26

Dr. Sue Ross Randomised clinical trials: science or management

2003.03.19

Dr. John Blakely From NNT to NNBT: Estimating benefit in randomized trials

2003.03.12

Dr. Jack Williams If regionalization of healthcare is the answer, what is the question.

2003.03.05

Dr. Doug Manuel Measuring the population impact of health care: Should we do it? if so, how?

2003.02.26

Dr. Frank Silver Lessons learned in establishing the Registry of the Canadian Stroke Network.

2003.02.19

Dr. Ed Brown NORTH Telemedicine Network - Responding to the needs of northern and rural communities

2003.01.29

Beth Potter The use of administrative data and self-reports to identify acute injuries: application to the study of socioeconomic status and adolescent injuries

2003.01.22

Graham Woodward Was my daughter Jaime ever born and other vital statistics mysteries

2002.11.27

Dr. Linda Rabeneck Colorectal Cancer Screening

2002.11.20

Dr. Gillian Hawker Disparity in access to hip and knee arthroplasty

2002.11.13

Dr. Matthew Stanbrook How to get published in The New England Journal of Medicine

2002.11.06

Dr. Jarold Cosby You can’t push a rope: Understanding the realities of research transfer

2002.10.30

Dr. Mitchell Levine Natural health products: the good, the bad, and the ugly

2002.10.16

Dr. Colin Preyra Administrative data for health services research: DAD meets the uncertainty principle

2002.10.09

Dr. David Fisman Prickly precipitants: transient factors associated with needlesticks, and the cost-effectiveness of prevention

2002.10.02

Dr. Celine Moty Evaluation and quality in France: Example of the Committee for Co-ordinating Clinical Evaluation and Quality Improvement in Aquitaine (CCECQA)

2002.09.25

Dr. Charlie Goldsmith Integrity of randomization schemes in clinical trials

2002.09.18

Dr. Stuart MacLeod The pursuit of better drug therapy for children

2002.09.11

Dr. Greg Curnew Cholesterol - Where are we and should we do better?

2002.06.12

Dr. Joel Lexchin Should doctors be using new drugs?

2002.06.05

Dr. David Urbach Potential reduction in perioperative mortality due to regionalization of complex surgical procedures to high-volume hospitals in Ontario

2002.05.29

Dr. Leonard Evans Fatality risk from similar physical impacts -- Influence of gender and age inferred from traffic data

2002.05.22

Dr.  Andreas Laupacis  Drug policy. Making effective drugs available without bankrupting the  health care system

2002.05.15

Dr.  Frank Markel The volume funding formula of the JPPC and its relation to small area variation

2002.05.08

Dr.  Susan Bronskill Predictors of neuroleptic drug use in long-term care facilities

2002.05.01

Dr.  John Frank CIHR-IPPH: New Research Directions

2002.04.24

Dr.  Astrid Guttmann The quality of primary care received by children under 2 in Ontario

2002.04.10

Dr.  David Sackett The determinants of academic success & the sins of expertness

 

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