Postdoctoral Fellows
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
Alumni Postdoctoral Fellows
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Laura Boland
Previous CIR Mentor
Ian Graham
- Integrated knowledge translation
- Shared decision making
- Pediatrics
Using integrated knowledge translation to advance pediatric shared decision making.
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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
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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
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Sanam Ebrahimzadeh
Previous CIR Mentor
David Moher
- Open science
- Data sharing
- Systematic reviews
Survey on Biomedical Researchers Perceptions of Reproducibility
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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
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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
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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
- Living review of diabetes quality improvement strategies;
- When should systematic reviews be replicated and when is it wasteful?
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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
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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
- Leveraging implementation and behavioural science to support laboratory stewardship
- Using routinely-collected health data to investigate the impact of automatic cognitive processes on healthcare professional behaviour
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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
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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
Methods for multiple baseline interrupted time-series designs
Various projects on the design and analysis of (stepped-wedge) cluster randomized trials.
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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