Data Science Day 2025

Join us for a half-day program designed to familiarize researchers with the wealth of data available at ICES Queen's, and to learn about some of the important research our investigators are working on.

Internal funding opportunities will be available; more information to be announced at the event!

Wednesday, June 11 @ 9AM - 12PM EST
The University Club at Queen's
168 Stuart Street, Kingston, ON

Join us for lunch from 12-1PM

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This event is hosted by ICES Queen's

Keynote Address

How you can build a research program based on ICES data

Dr. Jennifer Flemming, ICES Queen's Site Director

Dr Jennifer Flemming joined the Faculty of Medicine at Queen’s University in 2014 as a member of the Division of Gastroenterology. Dr. Flemming is also the ICES Queen's Site Director since 2022. Dr. Flemming is a Southeastern Ontario Academic Medical Association (SEAMO) Clinician Scientist with 70% of her time protected for research activity. She is a member of the Cancer Care and Epidemiology (CCE) group at the Cancer Research Institute at Queen’s University with a cross appointment to the Department of Public Health Sciences. Her health services research program focuses on the epidemiology and natural history of cirrhosis and primary liver cancers.

Dr. Flemming is the first in Canada studying the links between cirrhosis and biliary tract cancer (a rare subset of liver cancer) from both a clinical and population perspective. One of her studies, conducted in the division of Cancer Care and Epidemiology (CCE) at the Queen’s Cancer Research Institute, involved extracting information from pathology reports in patients with biliary tract cancer and looking at the natural history, treatment outcomes, and mortality trends in this population. She also looked at the burden of chronic liver disease and cirrhosis in Ontario and the association between cirrhosis and biliary tract cancers. This work enabled quantifying the burden of biliary tract cancer across the Ontario population, and then identify disease trends, risk factors, and outcomes. The results of this study have been used to justify the development of a chronic disease management strategy for Canadians with liver disease.

Dr. Jennifer Flemming has interests in Cirrhosis, Biliary and Liver Cancer, Hepatitis C, Liver Transplant, Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, Models of Health Care Delivery, Gastrointestinal Cancer, Primary Liver Cancers, Digestive Disease, Kidney, and Endocrinology, and Health Systems, Public Health, and Quality Improvement research.

Research Methods

Cluster Analysis

Maya Djerboua, ICES Queen's Senior Analyst

5 Tips for Conducting a Retrospective Cohort Study Using ICES Data

Christina Cantin, PhD Candidate (Nursing)

From Pitch to Project: Experiences of 2024 Project Pitch Competition Winners

Predictors and Outcomes of Heart Failure Diagnosed in the Community When Compared to Diagnosis Made in Acute Care Settings

Dr. Aws Almufleh, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

In September 2021, Dr. Almufleh joined the Department of Medicine at Queen’s University as an Assistant Professor of Medicine and the Physician Lead of the Heart Function Clinic in addition to his role in the Echocardiography Laboratory. Dr. Almufleh’s clinical and research interests lie in optimizing outpatient management of patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, particularly in light of the rapid expansion of heart failure pharmacotherapy and the increasing challenges of therapeutic inertia. Besides research pursuit, Dr. Almufleh, under the mentorship of Dr. Parvathy Nair from the University of British Columbia, is leading a medical education project aimed at optimizing echocardiography competency training during cardiology fellowship which earned the Canadian Cardiovascular Ultrasound Research Excellence Award for Technology & Education – $50,000 CREATE Grant.

Morbidity and Mortality of Bacterial Meningitis in Ontario

Dr. Tony Bai, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases

Dr. Tony Bai joined the Department of Medicine as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases in November 2021. His main research interests include antibiotic treatment and outcomes for common bacterial infections such as bloodstream infection and pneumonia. In recognition of his research, he received the 2022 Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Canada New Investigator Award.

Screening for Liver Fibrosis: The Role of System-Level Barriers on Access to Health Services

Dr. Sahar Saeed, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences

Dr. Sahar Saeed is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at Queen's University. Her research interests lie at the intersection of policy evaluation, health outcome disparities, and knowledge translation. As an epidemiologist and health services researcher, Sahar investigates population-level health inequalities of marginalized and racialized populations, including people living with HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C, COVID-19 and chronic liver diseases.

2025 Project Pitch Competition Announcement

Details on this year's competition will be announced at the event.