Dr. Jennifer Flemming is a Southeastern Ontario Academic Medical Association Clinician Scientist, and a member of the Cancer Care and Epidemiology group with the Cancer Research Institute at Queen’s University. She is cross-appointed to the Department of Public Health Sciences. Her health services research program focuses on the epidemiology and natural history of cirrhosis, hepatitis C and primary liver cancers.
Research Interests
Natural history and epidemiology of cirrhosis and hepatitis C; and the association between cirrhosis and primary liver cancers (hepatocellular carcinoma and intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma)
Research in Progress
Prevalence and Incidence of liver disease and access to liver transplant and living liver donation in ethno-racial communities; Derivation and validation of a risk prediction tool for mortality after non-hepatic abdominal surgery in patients with cirrhosis; Pregnancy in women with hepatitis C: A population-based cohort study; Epidemiology, Natural History, and Healthcare Utilization of Young Adults with Cirrhosis (ENHAnCe): A Population-based Study; Epidemiology of Cirrhosis and Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma in Ontario
Research Network/Group Involvement
ICES