Postdoctoral Fellows

Olivia Daub

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

CIR Mentor

David Moher

  • Open science
  • Data sharing
  • Systematic reviews

Survey on Biomedical Researchers Perceptions of Reproducibility

Guillaume Fontaine

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

Yulia Gendler

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

Ahmad Firas Khalid

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

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

Nicola McCleary

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

Marit Müller De Bortoli

CIR Mentor

Dawn Stacey

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

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

Yongdong Ouyang

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.

Elisabeth Vesnaver

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

Alumni Postdoctoral Fellows

Laura Boland

CIR Mentor

Ian Graham

  • Integrated knowledge translation
  • Shared decision making
  • Pediatrics

Using integrated knowledge translation to advance pediatric shared decision making.

Jacob Crawshaw

Now located at:

McMaster University

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

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

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?

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