PhD Students
Anubhav Agarwal
CIR Supervisor
Kednapa Thavorn
- Causal inference modeling
- Use of administrative databases for cancer care research
- Health economic evaluation
- Clinical outcomes and health system costs of leukemia and lymphoma care in Ontario: A population-based observational study
- Systematic review of economic evaluations of chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy for patients with hematological and solid malignancies
Bettina Molri Knudsen
CIR Supervisor
Dawn Stacey
- Patient preferences
- Shared decision making
- Patient decision aids
- Linguistics
IMPACTT – Impact of a patient decision aid intervention for cancer patients. Does timing and format matter?
Sameh Mortazhejri
CIR Supervisor
Jeremy Grimshaw
- Implementation research
- Systematic reviews
- Health behaviour change
- Toward eradication of Hepatitis C in newcomers and immigrants from HCV endemic countries
Jessica Reszel
CIR Supervisor
Ian Graham
- Maternal-newborn care
- Integrated knowledge translation
- Audit and feedback
- Implementation science
- Quality care
- Facilitating the use of evidence-informed maternal-newborn care: Development and field-testing of an implementation guide to support action planning
Qian Zhang
CIR Supervisor
Dawn Stacey
- Supporting patients’ decision making with decision support tools and coaching
- Systematic reviews and meta-analysis
- Patient values and preferences
Alumni PhD Students
Sayna Bahreini
CIR Supervisor
Ian Graham
- Knowledge translation
- Palliative care
- Spiritual care
Implementing an approach for screening spiritual suffering and evaluating outcomes of the implementation
Valerie Fiset
CIR Supervisor
Ian Graham
- Nursing education
- Integrated knowledge translation
- Evidence-based practice
- Palliative care
- Symptom management
Nursing students’ use of guidelines for symptom management: Context and influencing factors
Chantelle Garritty
CIR Supervisor
David Moher
- Rapid reviews methodology
- Information-packaging mechanisms used to convey health research information to decision-makers
- Innovative knowledge synthesis methods
Facilitating the use and uptake of rapid reviews
Nicole Graham
CIR Supervisors
Janet Squires, Ian Graham
- Barriers assessments
- Provider reminders
- Monitoring knowledge use
Understanding the determinants of adult intensive care unit nurses’ use of daily sedation interruptions for mechanically ventilated patients.
Lucas Helal
CIR Supervisor
David Moher
- Solutions designed to improve the quality of reporting
- Impact of reporting in methodological processes for evidence synthesis
- Appraisal, knowledge uptake and clinical translation of research among diverse study designs
- Transparency in reporting
- Conduction and adherence to reproducibility practices in research
- Identification and evaluation of low quality (and deceptive) journals and their global burden on science
Faizan Khan
CIR Supervisor
Kednapa Thavorn
- Health technology assessment
- Pharmacoepidemiology
- Venous thrombosis
Cost-effectiveness of indefinite versus short-term anticoagulation for the prevention of recurrent venous thromboembolism in unprovoked venous thromboembolism patients
Claire Ludwig
CIR Supervisor
Dawn Stacey
- Patient engagement
- Nursing leadership
- Managerial evidence-informed decision-making
- Home care research,
- Implementation of innovations into practice/organizations
- Cancer symptom management
Engagement of frail and seriously ill patients as partners on research teams
Kelly J Mrklas
CIR Supervisor
Ian Graham
- Integrated knowledge translation
- Implementation science/practice
- Knowledge synthesis
Understanding integrated knowledge translation research in partnership funded teams: researcher, knowledge user and funder perspectives
Letitia Nadalin Penno
CIR Supervisor
Janet Squires
- Sustainability of evidence-based practice (EBP) in tertiary care
- Individual determinants of sustained EBP
- Contextual determinants of sustained EBP
- Compassion fatigue
Analysis of sustainability models/frameworks/ theories; empirical study related to sustained use of an EBP
Lissa Pacheco-Brousseau
CIR Supervisor
Dawn Stacey
- Knowledge translation/implementation research
- Shared decision-making
- Joint replacement for knee osteoarthritis
- Role of physiotherapist in screening appropriate adults with osteoarthritis considering knee joint replacement
- Patient involvement in joint replacement decision-making process
Susan Rogers Van Katwyk
Previous CIR Supervisor
Jeremy Grimshaw
- Global health
- Antimicrobial resistance
Larissa Shamseer
Previous CIR Supervisors
David Moher, Jeremy Grimshaw
- Reporting guideline development
- Implementation strategies for improving reporting and transparency of research
- Characterizing the features, content, and impact of predatory journals, systematic review methods
Improving the reporting and development of systematic review protocols
Adrienne Stevens
Previous CIR Supervisor
David Moher
- Systematic reviews and other knowledge synthesis types diagnostic test accuracy
- Clinical practice guidelines
- Reporting of healthcare research
Empirical evidence in relation to the completeness of reporting of rapid reviews
Zack van Allen
Previous CIR Supervisor
Justin Presseau
- Multiple health behaviour (change)
- Machine learning
- Complex dynamic systems
- Clustering of (un)healthy behaviours in Canadians: A multiple behaviour analysis of data from the CLSA
- Towards a complex dynamic systems perspective of health behaviour change
Brianne Wood
Previous CIR Supervisor
Ian Graham
- Patient preferences
- Decision aids
- Cancer screening
- Statistical modelling
Woman-centered cervical screening: identifying women’s preferences and factors related to their preferences in cervical cancer screening