PhD Students

Anubhav Agarwal

CIR Supervisor

Kednapa Thavorn

  • Causal inference modeling
  • Use of administrative databases for cancer care research
  • Health economic evaluation
  1. Clinical outcomes and health system costs of leukemia and lymphoma care in Ontario: A population-based observational study
  2. Systematic review of economic evaluations of chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy for patients with hematological and solid malignancies

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.

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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