Supervisor Listings for Applicants
The following listings indicate Supervisors who will are potentially seeking students for Fall 2024 admission. This page is to be used as a resource when completing an admission application using Western’s online application portal. A completed online application is required to be considered for admission.
On the application, candidates will select up to three potential supervisors, and indicate 3-5 keywords indicating their research interests. Applicants are welcome to reach out to potential supervisors at the time of applying but are not required to secure a supervisor in order to be admitted to the program.
Important! Applicants are encouraged to review the Student Finances page for detailed information about student funding sources and the minimum funding amounts for MSc and PhD graduate students.
MSc Epidemiology Field of Study
Projects available in the following areas:
- Health services performance evaluation in terms of efficiency and equity of access, utilization and patient outcomes using patient-level administrative data and population surveys;
- Economic evaluation for health technology assessment and evidence-based decision-making;
- Elicitation of value judgments and treatment preferences to inform resource allocation decisions.
Contact: shehzad.ali@uwo.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: Yes
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: No
Projects available on epidemiology and health services utilization for first onset mental disorders, particularly psychotic disorders, with a focus on social determinants. Students will gain experience with systematic reviews, and thesis projects involve the use of health administrative data (via ICES) or other large complex datasets.
Contact: kelly.anderson@schulich.uwo.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: No
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: Yes
Clinical research using evidence-based medicine methodology, critical appraisal, systematic review, and meta-analysis of data on determinants, measurement, and promotion of holistic brain health. The main topics of interest include dementia, stroke, and ischemic heart disease as well as their risks to each other and their common (metabolic, behavioural, and environmental) risk and protective factors. Other areas of interest include mental health and its integral connections with cerebral and social health. A side topic of interest is Wilson’s disease and its management.
Contact: aavan2@uwo.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: Potentially
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: No
Dr. Azarpazhooh’s areas of expertise are cerebrovascular and cardiovascular risk factors, stroke, and dementia. His research interests include neuroepidemiology, population-based studies and public health. In addition, Dr. Azarpazhooh is interested in the control of vascular risk factors and the primary and secondary prevention of cerebrovascular/cardiovascular disorders. Dr. Azarpazhooh is currently working on geographic distribution of stroke, coronary artery disease and their overlap with dementia in Canada.
Contact: mazarpa@uwo.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: No
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: No
My research areas of interest are in diabetes and disorders of calcium and bone metabolism. I am open to new research ideas in these areas. A current project I have REB approval for but has not yet started is utilization of trabecular bone score in fracture prediction in children at risk for Glucocorticoid Induced Osteoporosis.
Contact: funmbi.babalola@lhsc.on.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: Yes
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: Potentially
Projects available on epidemiology and health services research focused on cancer outcomes, treatment effectiveness, safety and equity. Students will gain experience with health administrative databases (via ICES) and the utilization of large complex datasets.
Contact: phillip.blanchette@lhsc.on.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: Potentially
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: No
My research areas are prenatal health, perinatal epidemiology, children's health trajectories. Active current projects include a focus on access to health services. I would be flexible to working with a student to refine a topic that meshes with their interests and mine. An MSc project could include systematic review of the literature and/or analyses of specific secondary databases. I do not have guaranteed funding for the student. I would encourage, therefore, that applicants apply for funding for which they may be eligible.
Contact: karen.campbell@uwo.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: No
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: No
Positions are available to explore the association of mitochondrial DNA variation and nuclear DNA ‘omics in complex disease and related phenotypes. Our goal is to uncover molecular mechanisms and pathways that may modify risk for disease via bioinformatic analysis of large scale genomic, methylomic, metabolomic, and transcriptomic data from human prospective cohorts. Interest in genetic epidemiology and command line coding (R, Unix) is essential.
Contact: christina.castellani@schulich.uwo.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: Yes
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: No
I am interested in working with students on health economics projects, performing applied cost effectiveness analysis, applied value-of-information analysis, and research projects advancing methods in health economics. I am specifically interested in projects related to HIV, novel cancer therapies, and genetic testing. I am interested in diseases and conditions affecting marginalized populations including studies evaluating interventions to reduce homelessness.
Contact: lcipriano@ivey.uwo.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: Yes
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: No
Research Area: Endocrinology, Health Services Research, Quality of Care
Contact: kristin.clemens@sjhc.london.on.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: Potentially
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: No
I am a neurologist and neuro-oncologist. My research uses ICES data to optimize chemotherapy for brain tumors.
Contact: seth.climans@lhsc.on.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: No
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: No
Research Area: Adult infectious diseases
Contact: b.coleman@utoronto.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: No
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: No
One masters student is sought to join a population health research project, co-supervised by Prof. Piotr Wilk and I, to explore the effect of social determinates of health and health behaviours on the development of chronic disease, among ageing Canadians. The student will learn and apply statistical skills to establish these relationships using the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging dataset.
Contact: scuschi@uwo.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: No
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: No
Projects related to antimicrobial resistance, antimicrobial stewardship, infectious diseases epidemiology, healthcare quality, and emerging infectious diseases are available. Research approaches will include systematic reviews with or without meta-analyses, retrospective cohort studies, and case-control studies and may involve use of archived or publicly available health administrative databases.
Contact: selsayed@uwo.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: Potentially
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: No
Research Area: evidence-based medicine, randomized controlled trial methods and reporting, systematic review methods and reporting, biostatistics, health measurement scales, patient safety initiatives and generally in musculoskeletal conditions.
His current research focuses on perioperative pain control, multi-centered clinical research, advancing the properties of outcome measurement scales, bias in patient reported outcomes, clinical cut points of patient reported outcomes in orthopedics, analyses of registry data, the quality and reporting of clinical research, surgical safety, and the efficacy of interventions for orthopaedic conditions.
Contact: jgagnie4@uwo.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: Yes
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: Potentially
My research is centered on medications for children and pregnant women, and involves studying the mechanisms behind drug resistance and drug-averse events in children, as well as how to improve the use of pediatric medications so that they can be more effective and less toxic. I am particularly interested in medications for neglected and for rare diseases. This includes studying new medications but also old ones that may have potential for being used in new diseases. I also study the risks and benefits of using medications during pregnancy and breastfeeding, using epidemiological and translational research
Contact: fgarciab@uwo.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: Potentially
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: Potentially
My research program focuses primarily on promoting psychological resiliency and well-being and reducing the risk for suicide among older adults and other at-risk groups. My current funded studies include delivery and evaluation of a meaning-centered psychological intervention group for older adults struggling with loneliness, social isolation, and/or psychological distress, a meaning-centered group for male veterans and first-responders, and a project to evaluate the prevalence of and train healthcare providers to sensitively assess and respond to suicide risk among older Long-Term Care residents.
Contact: marnin.heisel@lhsc.on.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: Yes
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: Potentially
My research areas include administrative healthcare databases, systematic reviews and clinical studies. My focus is on home dialysis.
Contact: arsh.jain@lhsc.on.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: No
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: No
Research Area: Clinical trial methodology, development of clinical outcomes measures, clinical prediction models. All related to the field of gastrointestinal diseases, specifically crohns disease and ulcerative colitis.
Contact: Vipul.Jairath@lhsc.on.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: Yes
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: No
Current Projects:
- Unmet oral health needs and experiences of stigma and discrimination by people living with HIV in Southwestern Ontario
- Unmet oral health needs and experiences of stigma and discrimination by transgender community in Southwestern Ontario
- Risk factors associated with early childhood caries in government assisted refugees in Southwestern Ontario
- Risk factors associated with unmet oral healthcare needs among new immigrants in Southwestern Ontario
- Incidence and prevalence of oral sex, HIV and OHPV in the priority populations in Uganda
Contact: ajessani@uwo.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: No
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: No
I am accepting qualified graduate students interested in the area of Environmental Health
- Children’s Environmental Health
- Air Pollution
- Climate Change
- Noise Pollution
- Environmental Justice
- Preventing chemical and Biological Exposure
- Transport, health, and environment
Potential candidates are encouraged to contact me to discuss their research ideas and interests.
Contact: ekalisa2@uwo.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: Potentially
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: No
Over 20 years, my main research interests are in capacity building in Biostatistics in Africa and Bayesian spatial statistical methods and their application to epidemiology and population health including maternal and child health both in the developing countries and command economies, using large scale household data.
My research interest is the areas of:
- Biostatistics;
- Chronic Disease;
- Multimorbidity;
- Biostatistical;
- Computational Methods
- Evidence Synthesis;
- Health Technology Assessment
- Health Economics
- Epidemiological Observational Studies
- Randomized Controlled Trials
Contact: nkandala@uwo.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: No
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: No
Research interests in Social Determinants of Health and Health Equity with specific focus on African, African Diaspora and Canadian Indigenous populations.
Contact: mkatsivo@uwo.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: No
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: Potentially
Research areas: Inflammatory bowel disease, randomized controlled trial, trial methodologies, systemic reviews, therapeutics, validation, outcome measurements
Contact: rkhanna3@uwo.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: No
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: No
Professor Anita Kothari is a leading scholar in the area of knowledge translation at Western University. Her work focuses on developing a greater understanding of how to support the use of research in decision-making by health policymakers, administrators and practitioners. She involves multiple community members, researchers, and government agencies at all stages of the research process. Her niche area of interest is the public health system and other community-based settings. Professor Kothari has authored several essential papers for the field and created important frameworks and tools that are used worldwide. Her contributions include supporting the generation and use of research more effectively, in different policy and health contexts, to address societal challenges and improve health, especially for some sub-populations. Professor Kothari’s work is unique because it is interdisciplinary, focuses on systems level improvements and embraces the importance of justice and equity. Professor Kothari also has an excellent track record of supporting undergraduate and graduate students, most of whom have gone to successful careers in academia or as health system leaders.
Contact: akothari@uwo.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: Potentially
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: Potentially
Main research area is hematology, specifically determinants of thromboembolic diseases, population-based studies, systematic reviews and meta-analysis, clinical trials, and risk-benefit analysis.
Contact: Alejandro.LazoLangner@lhsc.on.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: No
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: No
My Research focuses on investigating the role of obesity associated factors, liquid biopsy and body composition with respect to cancer outcomes. Her research interests include the issue of prognostic biomarkers, such as host factors and liquid biopsy, for predicting cancer recurrence. She has been involved in multiple studies in liquid biopsy and obesity related markers. Students will be involved in the field of translational research in cancer.
Contact: ana.lohmann@lhsc.on.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: Yes
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: No
Research Area: MINDS of London-Middlesex
Contact: amacd82@uwo.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: Yes
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: No
Students are invited to contribute to research focusing on the following areas of activity in partnership with the MEDICI Centre: Global Surgery, Anesthesia and Critical Care (MEDICI/WHO collaboration):
- Global studies to inform epidemiologic trends in access to safe, timely, affordable surgery, anesthesia and perioperative care.
- Health technology and policy analyses to explore innovations to improve surgery, anesthesia and critical care outcomes in global settings.
- COVID-19 global surgical backlog recovery and system resilience monitoring.
Epidemiology of Evidence, Evidence Reversals, Misinformation & Disinformation:
- Methodologic innovations to inform 'sufficiency' of evidence, and likelihood of reversal.
- Methodologic innovations to inform misinformation and disinformation in the era of 'fake' news, 'alternative' facts, and distrust in science.
- Exploration of researchers' contributions to infodemics during epidemics (ie, producing and publishing wasteful research, leading to information overload)
Contact: jmarti83@uwo.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: Potentially
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: Potentially
I conduct research examining the health care system and health system policies. My research interests are in primary care, health workforce, and rural health care. My research “lab” is currently carrying out projects on family physicians’ roles during the pandemic, the integration of registered nurses into primary care practices, the shared care and coordination of medically complex patients between family physicians and specialists, and evaluating access and care for unattached patients. We do mixed methods research (quantitative and qualitative methods), so while the student’s thesis will be quantitative in nature, students will learn qualitative methods as part of (optional) RA work.
Contact: maria.mathews@schulich.uwo.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: No
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: Potentially
A feasibility study will be conducted using a mixed-method design to assess the feasibility of the online delivery of an intervention titled Breathing Exercises followed by Meditation for potentially enhancing the mental health of glaucoma patients. Upon recruitment, participants will undergo blocked randomization to either the intervention arm or usual care arm, stratified by sex. Participants in each arm will complete online questionnaires at baseline and weeks 1, 3, 6, and after 12 weeks to collect data on health-related quality of life (HRQOL), depression symptoms, anxiety, and sleep quality.
Contact: monali.malvankar@schulich.uwo.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: Potentially
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: No
My work encompasses the epidemiology of Falls, Cognitive Impairment, Dementia, in Older adults. And the interaction between these factors.
Contact: Manuel.MonteroOdasso@sjhc.london.on.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: Potentially
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: Potentially
An opportunity is available to participate in research that entails use of extensive health administrative data, often sourced from resources such as ICES and other vast and complex datasets. This research project places its focus on investigating the impact of social determinants on pediatric onset epilepsy. Students who engage in these research activities will have the chance to develop and apply advanced statistical skills using large complex datasets. This project would be co-supervised with Dr. Anderson and myself.
Contact: Maryam.nouri@lhsc.on.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: Yes
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: Potentially
Research Area: Cigarette smoking, and quitting, e-cigarettes use. Multiple products particularly among adolescents and young adults. I am particularly interested in reasons for use and possible methods of quitting.
Contact: lpederso@uwo.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: No
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: No
Dr Pottie's research program was recognized with the College of Family Physicians of Canada Researcher of the Year Award (2021) and the Springer Nature Inclusive Health Research Award (2023). His systematic reviews and clinical guidelines are transforming the primary care clinical approach to refugee health care, homeless health care and deprescribing in the elderly. He currently holds the Ian McWhinney Research Chair in Family Medicine at Western University. He is a convener of the Campbell and Cochrane Equity Methods Group and a member of the GRADE Working Group (guideline methods).
Contact: bsmith@uottawa.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: No
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: Potentially
Research Area: Lung Cancer, Lymphoma, Health economics, Clinical trials, Population studies
Contact: Melody.Qu@lhsc.on.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: No
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: No
Research Area: Health service research, real world evidence, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, breast cancer, lung cancer
Contact: jacques.raphael@lhsc.on.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: No
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: No
I am looking to work with enthusiastic graduate students on randomized trials, cohort studies, and systematic reviews that inform medical care. You would be joining a network of physicians, surgeons, epidemiologists, statisticians, and research staff.
We have a unique opportunity to be involved in the design and conduct of a randomized trial program studying ways to prevent perioperative bleeding and transfusion in people with kidney disease. There will also be exposure to grant writing and numerous opportunities to lead related projects in this research theme.
Contact: pavel.roshanov@lhsc.on.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: Yes
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: No
My research projects are in the areas of:
- primary care physician payments and practice settings on physician behaviour and various patient health outcomes;
- socio-economic inequalities in the utilization of healthcare services;
- health equity;
- cost-effectiveness analysis of health interventions.
Thesis projects will have the opportunity to use large scale longitudinal health administrative data, representative survey data, and linked survey and health administrative data, and employ innovative methods to answer substantive research questions.
Contact: sisira.sarma@schulich.uwo.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: No
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: Potentially
Research areas include: Clinical Outcomes, Orthopeadic Surgery
Contact: Emil.Schemitsch@lhsc.on.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: Yes
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: No
My research interests include social and environmental determinants of health, adolescent substance use and mental health, and perinatal epidemiology. An MSc student project may include a systematic review, meta-analysis, and/or analysis of a secondary database.
Contact: jseabro2@uwo.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: No
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: No
Projects available on youth mental health and polysubstance use (cannabis, alcohol use, and opioids use) using survey data from Ontario Student Drug Use and Health Survey (OSDUHS). Students will gain experience with rapid review, data organization and regression analysis methods.
Contact: nibene.some@lhsc.on.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: No
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: No
Contact: saverio.stranges@uwo.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: Yes
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: No
My area of research is looking at issues in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) using the Demographic and Health Surveys. These are nationally representative surveys conducted periodically in LMICs that examine a number of health-related issues. Students have worked on topics such as access to health care, determinants of childhood vaccinations, issues pertaining to multimorbidity, pregnancy outcomes, intimate partner violence, HIV care, etc. in a number of countries in Africa and Asia.
Contact: athind2@uwo.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: No
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: No
I am a urologist with experience conducting pharmacoepidemiology studies using ICES/administrative data. Several relevant past studies include risk of falls or self-harm with different prostate medications, risk of dementia with overactive bladder medications, and the risk of pregnancy complications with anticholinergic bladder medications.
Contact: blayne.welk@sjhc.london.on.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: No
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: No
Currently leading a CIHR-funded project on men's normative attitudes and beliefs about alcohol-related sexual violence in drinking venues, perpetration and bystander action in sexual violence, as well as status in the peer group and other peer dynamics that may explain perpetration and bystander action.
Contact: swells@uwo.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: Potentially
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: No
Our international team conducts population health research on determinants of chronic conditions, emergency department visits, and mortality and how they are affected by social determinants of health, health behaviours, and neighbourhood risk factors. We also conduct studies on the link between climate change and various health outcomes among Canadians residing in urban areas. MSc or PhD students working with our team will apply their substantive knowledge and statistical skills to conduct analyses of high-quality health administrative databases, population surveys, and environmental data.
Contact: pwilk3@uwo.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: No
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: Yes
I can supervise MSc students in the following two areas:
- Health economics and cost-effectiveness. Research in this area would involve constructing disease models and using them to determine whether new drugs, devices, or other medical technologies are cost-effective and worth consideration for public funding.
- Applied machine learning. The objective of this stream of research is to use machine learning models, as well as common statistical tools, to predict various patient or hospital outcomes, using large data sets from hospitals and other sources.
Contact: gzaric@ivey.uwo.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: Potentially
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: Potentially
I am a methodologist with a focus on the design, interpretation and systematic review of randomized controlled trials (RCTs). I am particularly interested in design of randomized trials that directly inform clinical and healthcare delivery and policy decisions. These RCTs are conducted under real world conditions, often test complex interventions, and accommodate the kinds of limitations of care under usual conditions. Only a small proportion of RCTs to date use this approach. I work with students on analyses of existing RCTs to understand their real-world usefulness and to develop tools for designing new RCTs.
Contact mzwarens@uwo.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: Potentially
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: Potentially
MSc Biostatistics Field of Study
Clinical research using evidence-based medicine methodology, critical appraisal, systematic review, and meta-analysis of data on determinants, measurement, and promotion of holistic brain health. The main topics of interest include dementia, stroke, and ischemic heart disease as well as their risks to each other and their common (metabolic, behavioural, and environmental) risk and protective factors. Other areas of interest include mental health and its integral connections with cerebral and social health. A side topic of interest is Wilson’s disease and its management.
Contact: aavan2@uwo.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: Potentially
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: No
My research areas of interest are in diabetes and disorders of calcium and bone metabolism. I am open to new research ideas in these areas. A current project I have REB approval for but has not yet started is utilization of trabecular bone score in fracture prediction in children at risk for Glucocorticoid Induced Osteoporosis.
Contact: funmbi.babalola@lhsc.on.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: Yes
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: Potentially
Projects available on epidemiology and health services research focused on cancer outcomes, treatment effectiveness, safety and equity. Students will gain experience with health administrative databases (via ICES) and the utilization of large complex datasets.
Contact: phillip.blanchette@lhsc.on.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: Potentially
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: No
My research interest lies in developing joint models for various types of events—including survival longitudinal outcomes and evaluating their dynamic predictions based on genetic/genomic data arising from families at high genetic risk. I am looking to work with students with strong statistics background and computational skills. Potential student projects would include development and evaluation of statistical methodology for modeling time-to-event data arising from family-based studies in the following areas:
- Joint models and dynamic predictions for various types of events—including survival longitudinal outcomes arising from families at high genetic risk
- Competing risks models with time-dependent covariates/effects
- Model performance and prediction accuracy measures for clustered time-to-event data in the presence of competing events
- Family-based high-throughput sequencing data to be integrated into joint models.
Contact: yun-hee.choi@schulich.uwo.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: Yes
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: Potentially
My research focuses on developing statistical, machine learning, and computational methods in statistical genomics, genetic epidemiology and deep phenotyping This work is highly multi- and inter-disciplinary where methods are motivated by and applied on complex diseases particularly osteoarthritis, Crohn's disease, and cancer. Projects are available on the following broad areas:
- Design and analysis of multi-phase multi-omics studies
- Polygenic scores
- Latent class/variable models for longitudinal multivariate trajectories
- Joint modelling of multivariate longitudinal trajectories and time-to-event outcomes
Contact: oespinga@uwo.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: Potentially
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available:Potentially
My research program focuses on developing and applying computational and statistical techniques for integrative analysis of big multimodal health data (omics data, imaging data, administrative and electronic medical records) for precision medicine.
My research areas include:
- Algorithms and applications of artificial intelligence (deep learning) for health and medical sciences
- Algorithms for bioinformatics
- Algorithms for statistical genetics
- Integration frameworks of deep learning and statistics
Contact: phu49@uwo.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: Yes
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: No
Research Area: Clinical trial methodology, development of clinical outcomes measures, clinical prediction models. All related to the field of gastrointestinal diseases, specifically crohns disease and ulcerative colitis.
Contact: vjairath@uwo.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: Yes
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: No
Over 20 years, my main research interests are in capacity building in Biostatistics in Africa and Bayesian spatial; statistical methods and their application to epidemiology and population health including maternal and child health both in the developing countries and command economies, using large scale household data. My research interest is the areas of:
- Biostatistics
- Chronic Disease & Multimorbidity
- Biostatistical & Computational Methods
- Evidence Synthesis & Health Technology Assessment
- Health Economics
- Epidemiological Observational Studies
- Randomized Controlled Trials
Contact: nkandala@uwo.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: No
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: No
My Research focuses on investigating the role of obesity associated factors, liquid biopsy and body composition with respect to cancer outcomes. Her research interests include the issue of prognostic biomarkers, such as host factors and liquid biopsy, for predicting cancer recurrence. She has been involved in multiple studies in liquid biopsy and obesity related markers. Students will be involved in the field of translational research in cancer.
Contact: ana.lohmann@lhsc.on.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: Yes
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: No
My work encompasses the epidemiology of Falls, Cognitive Impairment, Dementia, in Older adults. And the interaction between these factors.
Contact: Manuel.MonteroOdasso@sjhc.london.on.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: Potentially
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: Potentially
Research Area: Health service research, real world evidence, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, breast cancer, lung cancer.
Contact: jacques.raphael@lhsc.on.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: No
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: No
My research projects are in the areas of:
- primary care physician payments and practice settings on physician behaviour and various patient health outcomes;
- socio-economic inequalities in the utilization of healthcare services;
- health equity;
- cost-effectiveness analysis of health interventions.
Thesis projects will have the opportunity to use large scale longitudinal health administrative data, representative survey data, and linked survey and health administrative data, and employ innovative methods to answer substantive research questions.
Contact: sisira.sarma@schulich.uwo.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: No
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: Potentially
Use of machine learning algorithms to estimate the prevalence of rare events. Applying Bayesian methods in the estimation of piecewise regression
Contact: shoukri.mohamed@gmail.com
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: No
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: No
Dr. Sposato's research focuses on the Brain & Heart connection. He leads a multidisciplinary and translational research program involving epidemiological, clinical, and experimental studies. Among his most impactful contributions, he described the clinical and pathophysiological concept of AFDAS (atrial fibrillation detected after stroke) and the pathophysiological process leading to cardiovascular complications in stroke patients, called SIHI (stroke-induced heart injury), conditions that affect over 5 million people per year globally. Dr. Sposato also focuses on the association between stroke and dementia.
Contact: luciano.sposato@lhsc.on.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: Potentially
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: No
Research Area: Assessment of distribution-free methods for design and analysis of randomized controlled trials.
Contact: gzou2@uwo.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: Potentially
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: No
I am a methodologist with a focus on the design, interpretation and systematic review of randomized controlled trials (RCTs). I am particularly interested in design of randomized trials that directly inform clinical and healthcare delivery and policy decisions. These RCTs are conducted under real world conditions, often test complex interventions, and accommodate the kinds of limitations of care under usual conditions. Only a small proportion of RCTs to date use this approach. I work with students on analyses of existing RCTs to understand their real-world usefulness and to develop tools for designing new RCTs.
Contact mzwarens@uwo.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: Potentially
Graduate Studentship (GSA) Funding available: Potentially
PhD Epidemiology Field of Study
Projects available in the following areas:
- Health services performance evaluation in terms of efficiency and equity of access, utilization and patient outcomes using patient-level administrative data and population surveys;
- Economic evaluation for health technology assessment and evidence-based decision-making;
- Elicitation of value judgments and treatment preferences to inform resource allocation decisions.
Contact: shehzad.ali@uwo.ca
Student Funding is guaranteed for PhD students.
Projects available on epidemiology and health services utilization for first onset mental disorders, particularly psychotic disorders, with a focus on social determinants. Students will gain experience with systematic reviews, and thesis projects involve the use of health administrative data (via ICES) or other large complex datasets.
Contact: kelly.anderson@schulich.uwo.ca
Student Funding is guaranteed for PhD students.
I am interested in working with students on health economics projects, performing applied cost effectiveness analysis, applied value-of-information analysis, and research projects advancing methods in health economics. I am specifically interested in projects related to HIV, novel cancer therapies, and genetic testing. I am interested in diseases and conditions affecting marginalized populations including studies evaluating interventions to reduce homelessness.
Contact: lcipriano@ivey.uwo.ca
Student Funding is guaranteed for PhD students.
My research interest lies in developing joint models for various types of events—including survival longitudinal outcomes and evaluating their dynamic predictions based on genetic/genomic data arising from families at high genetic risk. I am looking to work with students with strong statistics background and computational skills. Potential student projects would include development and evaluation of statistical methodology for modeling time-to-event data arising from family-based studies in the following areas:
- Joint models and dynamic predictions for various types of events—including survival longitudinal outcomes arising from families at high genetic risk
- Competing risks models with time-dependent covariates/effects
- Model performance and prediction accuracy measures for clustered time-to-event data in the presence of competing events
- Family-based high-throughput sequencing data to be integrated into joint models.
Contact: yun-hee.choi@schulich.uwo.ca
Student Funding is guaranteed for PhD students.
Projects related to antimicrobial resistance, antimicrobial stewardship, infectious diseases epidemiology, healthcare quality, and health policy are available. Research approaches will include systematic reviews with meta-analyses, prospective cohort studies, retrospective cohort studies, and case-control studies and may involve use of local, provincial, or national health system databases.
Contact: selsayed@uwo.ca
Student Funding is guaranteed for PhD students.
Research Area: evidence-based medicine, randomized controlled trial methods and reporting, systematic review methods and reporting, biostatistics, health measurement scales, patient safety initiatives and generally in musculoskeletal conditions. His current research focuses on perioperative pain control, multi-centered clinical research, advancing the properties of outcome measurement scales, bias in patient reported outcomes, clinical cut points of patient reported outcomes in orthopedics, analyses of registry data, the quality and reporting of clinical research, surgical safety, and the efficacy of interventions for orthopaedic conditions.
Contact: jgagnie4@uwo.ca
Student Funding is guaranteed for PhD students.
I have several large, active research grants with opportunities for PhD student(s), in areas of:
- drug safety
- living kidney donation
- population-based management of kidney disease
- large scale pragmatic trials
Contact: amit.garg@lhsc.on.ca
Student Funding is guaranteed for PhD students.
Students are invited to contribute to research focusing on the following areas of activity in partnership with the MEDICI Centre: Global Surgery, Anesthesia and Critical Care (MEDICI/WHO collaboration):
- Global studies to inform epidemiologic trends in access to safe, timely, affordable surgery, anesthesia and perioperative care.
- Health technology and policy analyses to explore innovations to improve surgery, anesthesia and critical care outcomes in global settings.
- COVID-19 global surgical backlog recovery and system resilience monitoring.
- Epidemiology of Evidence, Evidence Reversals, Misinformation & Disinformation:
- Methodologic innovations to inform 'sufficiency' of evidence, and likelihood of reversal.
- Methodologic innovations to inform misinformation and disinformation in the era of 'fake' news, 'alternative' facts, and distrust in science.
- Exploration of researchers' contributions to infodemics during epidemics (ie, producing and publishing wasteful research, leading to information overload)
Contact: marnin.heisel@lhsc.on.ca
Student Funding is guaranteed for PhD students.
I conduct research examining the health care system and health system policies. My research interests are in primary care, health workforce, and rural health care. My research “lab” is currently carrying out projects on family physicians’ roles during the pandemic, the integration of registered nurses into primary care practices, the shared care and coordination of medically complex patients between family physicians and specialists, and evaluating access and care for unattached patients. We do mixed methods research (quantitative and qualitative methods), so while the student’s thesis will be quantitative in nature, students will learn qualitative methods as part of (optional) RA work.
Contact: maria.mathews@schulich.uwo.ca
Student Funding is guaranteed for PhD students.
My work encompasses the epidemiology of Falls, Cognitive Impairment, Dementia, in Older adults. And the interaction between these factors.
Contact: Manuel.MonteroOdasso@sjhc.london.on.ca
Student Funding is guaranteed for PhD students.
Dr Pottie's research program was recognized with the College of Family Physicians of Canada Researcher of the Year Award (2021) and the Springer Nature Inclusive Health Research Award (2023). His systematic reviews and clinical guidelines are transforming the primary care clinical approach to refugee health care, homeless health care and deprescribing in the elderly. He currently holds the Ian McWhinney Research Chair in Family Medicine at Western University. He is a convener of the Campbell and Cochrane Equity Methods Group and a member of the GRADE Working Group (guideline methods).
Contact: kpottie@uwo.ca
Student Funding is guaranteed for PhD students.
I am looking to work with enthusiastic graduate students on randomized trials, cohort studies, and systematic reviews that inform medical care. You would be joining a network of physicians, surgeons, epidemiologists, statisticians, and research staff.
We have a unique opportunity to be involved in the design and conduct of a randomized trial program studying ways to prevent perioperative bleeding and transfusion in people with kidney disease. There will also be exposure to grant writing and numerous opportunities to lead related projects in this research theme.
Contact: pavel.roshanov@lhsc.on.ca
Student Funding is guaranteed for PhD students.
My research projects are in the areas of:
- primary care physician payments and practice settings on physician behaviour and various patient health outcomes;
- socio-economic inequalities in the utilization of healthcare services;
- health equity;
- cost-effectiveness analysis of health interventions.
Thesis projects will have the opportunity to use large scale longitudinal health administrative data, representative survey data, and linked survey and health administrative data, and employ innovative methods to answer substantive research questions.
Contact: sisira.sarma@schulich.uwo.ca
Student Funding is guaranteed for PhD students.
Research Areas: Clinical Outcomes, Orthopeadic Surgery
Contact: Emil.Schemitsch@lhsc.on.ca
Student Funding is guaranteed for PhD students.
Research Area: Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Global Health, Sleep Health, Multimorbidity, Social and Environmental Determinants of Health, role of lifestyles in chronic disease risk.
Contact: saverio.stranges@uwo.ca
Student Funding is guaranteed for PhD students.
The objective of this project is to explore the effects of temperature and wildfire smoke on cardiovascular health by assessing how short- and long-term exposure to these environmental factors affects the risk of ED visit and death and whether these effects are different for key vulnerable groups or for individuals residing in different geographic areas. We will address these research questions using high quality clinical and administrative datasets linked to data on social, environmental, and meteorological determinants of health and novel statistical techniques such as time-stratified case-crossover designs.
Contact: pwilk3@uwo.ca
Student Funding is guaranteed for PhD students.
PhD Biostatistics Field of Study
I am interested in working with students on health economics projects, performing applied cost effectiveness analysis, applied value-of-information analysis, and research projects advancing methods in health economics. I am specifically interested in projects related to HIV, novel cancer therapies, and genetic testing. I am interested in diseases and conditions affecting marginalized populations including studies evaluating interventions to reduce homelessness.
Contact: lcipriano@ivey.uwo.ca
Student Funding is guaranteed for PhD students.
My research focuses on developing statistical, machine learning, and computational methods in statistical genomics, genetic epidemiology and deep phenotyping. This work is highly multi- and inter-disciplinary where methods are motivated by and applied on complex diseases particularly osteoarthritis, Crohn's disease, and cancer. Projects are available on the following broad areas:
- Design and analysis of multi-phase multi-omics studies
- Polygenic scores
- Latent class/variable models for longitudinal multivariate trajectories
- Joint modelling of multivariate longitudinal trajectories and time-to-event outcomes
Contact: oespinga@uwo.ca
Student Funding is guaranteed for PhD students.
My research program focuses on developing and applying computational and statistical techniques for integrative analysis of big multimodal health data (omics data, imaging data, administrative and electronic medical records) for precision medicine.
My research areas include:
- Algorithms and applications of artificial intelligence (deep learning) for health and medical sciences
- Algorithms for bioinformatics
- Algorithms for statistical genetics
- Integration frameworks of deep learning and statistics
Contact: phu49@uwo.ca
Student Funding is guaranteed for PhD students.
Over 20 years, my main research interests are in capacity building in Biostatistics in Africa and Bayesian spatial statistical methods and their application to epidemiology and population health including maternal and child health both in the developing countries and command economies, using large scale household data.
My research interest is the areas of:
- Biostatistics;
- Chronic Disease;
- Multimorbidity;
- Biostatistical;
- Computational Methods
- Evidence Synthesis;
- Health Technology Assessment
- Health Economics
- Epidemiological Observational Studies
- Randomized Controlled Trials
Contact: nkandala@uwo.ca
Student Funding is guaranteed for PhD students.
My research investigates the development and application of machine learning methodology with a focus on public health and primary care.
Note: this opportunity is contingent on the availability of Supervisory funding, to be determined in early 2024. Contact Dr. Lizotte for more information.
Contact: dlizotte@uwo.ca
Student Funding is guaranteed for PhD students.
My work encompasses the epidemiology of Falls, Cognitive Impairment, Dementia, in Older adults. And the interaction between these factors.
Contact: Manuel.MonteroOdasso@sjhc.london.on.ca
Student Funding is guaranteed for PhD students.
Research Area: Development of distribution-free methods for the design and analysis of randomized controlled trials
Contact: gzou2@uwo.ca
Student Funding is guaranteed for PhD students.
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Bauer, Greta
Begen, Mehmet
Burneo, Jorge
Campbell, Craig
Daley, Mark
Dixon, Stephanie
Dubois, Luc
Forchuk, Cheryl
Frisbee, Stephanie
Gomaa, Noha
Guaiana, Giuseppe
Guthrie, Jennifer
Gutmanis, Iris A
Klar, Neil
Luginaah, Isaac
McLinden, Taylor
Nicholson, Kathryn
Poonai, Naveen
Prodger, Jessica
Redvers, Nicole
Rodrigues, George
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