Postdoctoral Fellows

Cory Goldstein

CIR Mentor

Monica Taljaard

  • Research ethics
  • Informed consent
  • Cluster randomized trials
  • Pragmatic trials
  • Ethical issues in cluster randomized trials: using stakeholder and patient engagement to generate guidance for the ethical design and conduct of trials evaluating clinical, health policy, health systems, and public health interventions (link)
  • Ethical issues in pragmatic randomized controlled trials: conducting ethical and empirical analyses to propose solutions (link)
Google Scholar
LinkedIn
ORCID
PubMed
ResearchGate

Jennifer Leese

CIR Mentor

Ian Graham

  • Integrated knowledge translation
  • Ethics
  • Patient engagement in research
  • Qualitative research

Patient Engagement in Research at the Canadian Cancer Society: Incorporating a Relational Ethics Lens

ResearchGate

Manavi T. Maharshi

CIR Mentor

Justin Presseau

  • Health psychology
  • Behavioural science
  • Health services research
  • Equality, diversity and inclusion in research

Expanding source plasma donation in Canada: Enhancing the capability, opportunity, and motivation of under-represented Canadians to donate plasma

Tami Morgan

CIR Mentor

Jamie Brehaut

  • Equity, diversity, inclusion (EDI)
  • Implementation science
  • Clinical trial participation
  • Health promotion
  • Mixed methods
  • The use of implementation science, patient engagement, and shared decision-making concepts reported in literature on clinical trial participation among equity-deserving populations: A review of reviews
  • Describing and comparing patient engagement, shared decision-making, and equity, diversity, and inclusion considerations among research ethics board forms and templates for clinical trial ethics
Google Scholar
ORCID

Jeremy Y. Ng

CIR Mentor

David Moher

  • Complementary and alternative medicine
  • Natural health products
  • Academic/scholarly publishing

Improving the quality of academic publishing: identifying recommendations for the development of journal creation guidelines and publisher preferences for a journal authenticator tool

Google Scholar
PubMed
ORCiD
ResearchGate
Scopus

Marco Zaccagnini

CIR Mentor

Ian Graham

  • Integrated knowledge translation
  • health professions education
  • Respiratory therapy
  • Evidence-informed practice
  • Knowledge synthesis
  • Mixed methods

Empowering respiratory therapists in evidence-informed practice: field-testing micro-credentials for enhanced outcomes and healthcare efficiency

Google Scholar
ORCiD

Alumni Postdoctoral Fellows

Laura Boland

Previous CIR Mentor

Ian Graham

  • Integrated knowledge translation
  • Shared decision making
  • Pediatrics

Using integrated knowledge translation to advance pediatric shared decision making.

ResearchGate

Jacob Crawshaw

Previous CIR Mentor

Justin Presseau

  • Health psychology
  • Behavioral science
  • Implementation science
  • Healthcare-provider behavior change
  • Treatment adherence
  • Intervention development

Understanding decision-making in organ donation: a national study

ResearchGate

Olivia Daub

Previous CIR Mentor

Ian Graham

  • Integrated knowledge translation
  • Outcome measurement
  • Test development
  • Co-production evaluation

Integrated knowledge translation in test design and validation to support evidence-informed decision making

Sanam Ebrahimzadeh

Previous CIR Mentor

David Moher

  • Open science
  • Data sharing
  • Systematic reviews

Survey on Biomedical Researchers Perceptions of Reproducibility

ResearchGate
Google Scholar

Guillaume Fontaine

Previous CIR Mentors

Jeremy Grimshaw, Justin Presseau

  • Health services research
  • Implementation science
  • Behavioural science
  • Nursing
  • Development and evaluation of interventions to change healthcare professional and patient behaviour
  • Use of information and communication technology to support healthcare professional practice
  • Systematic reviews

Contributing to Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Eradication in Canada: An Implementation Science-based Approach to Promoting Equitable Access to HCV Care for People Who Inject Drugs

ResearchGate
Google Scholar
ORCID

Yulia Gendler

Previous CIR Mentor

Dawn Stacey

  • Pediatric and neonatal nursing
  • Knowledge translation to patients
  • Medical decision making
  • Shared decision making 

Patient decision aid development, evaluation and appraisal in pediatric and intensive care settings

ResearchGate
Google Scholar
ORCID
Website

Janet Jull

Now located at:

Queens University

Previous CIR Mentor

Ian Graham

  • Community partnered research
  • Shared decision making
  • Integrated knowledge translation
  • Ethics
  • Equity

Tailoring and field-testing the implementation of a knowledge translation peer support shared decision making strategy to facilitate participation of First Nations, Inuit and Métis people in decisions about their cancer care

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Sathya Karunananthan

Now located at:

McGill University

Previous CIR Mentor

Jeremy Grimshaw

  • Epidemiology
  • Systematic reviews
  • Meta-analysis
  • Replication
  • Aging
  • Physical function
  • Frailty
  1. Living review of diabetes quality improvement strategies;
  2. When should systematic reviews be replicated and when is it wasteful?
ResearchGate

Ahmad Firas Khalid

Previous CIR Mentor

Jeremy Grimshaw

  • Health policy
  • Knowledge translation
  • Evidence-informed practice
  • Humanitarian aid

Implementation of efforts to support real-time evidence use in humanitarian practice at The Canadian Red Cross

ORCID
Google Scholar

Alvin Li

Now located at:

Alberta Health Services

Previous CIR Mentor

Jeremy Grimshaw

  • Design and evaluation of complex interventions
  • Behavior change
  • Knowledge translation
  • Organ donation
  • Administrative database research

Developing and testing an intervention to increase registration for deceased organ donation in family physician offices

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Nicola McCleary

Now located at:

The Hospital for Sick Children

Previous CIR Mentor

Jamie Brehaut

  • Health Psychology
  • Behavioural Science
  • Health Services Research
  • Implementation Science
  • Dual process theories
  • Healthcare professional decision-making and behaviour
  • Design and evaluation of interventions to change healthcare professional behaviour
  • Process evaluation
  • Systematic reviews
  1. Leveraging implementation and behavioural science to support laboratory stewardship
  2. Using routinely-collected health data to investigate the impact of automatic cognitive processes on healthcare professional behaviour
Google Scholar
ORCID
ResearchGate

Marit Müller De Bortoli

Now located at:

University of South-Eastern Norway

Previous CIR Mentor

Dawn Stacey

  • Public health nursing
  • Public health
  • Shared decision making
  • Implementation science
ORCID

Yongdong Ouyang

Now located at:

The Hospital for Sick Children

Previous CIR Mentor

Monica Taljaard

  • Design and analysis of clinical trials
  • Quasi-experimental design
  • Bayesian statistics

  1. Methods for multiple baseline interrupted time-series designs

  2. Various projects on the design and analysis of (stepped-wedge) cluster randomized trials.

ResearchGate

Elisabeth Vesnaver

Now located at:

CHEO Research Institute

Previous CIR Mentor

Justin Presseau

  • Behavioural Science
  • Implementation research
  • Integrated knowledge translation

Feasibility of implementing source plasma donation with alternative eligibility criteria for gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men

ResearchGate