Special Events

HSPRI Rounds Series

Focusing on sharing completed or near-complete research led by HSPRI Faculty and Students. The format features one hour virtual seminars with ample opportunity for conversation. This series is typically held on the second Tuesday of each month.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

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PREVIOUS EVENTS

The Ecology of Ontario's Health Care System

Featuring: Dr. Liisa Jaakkimainen
Senior Core Scientist and Program Lead, Primary Care and Health Systems, ICES
Wednesday, March 12 @ 12 PM EST (Virtual Seminar)
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Dr. Liisa Jaakkimainen is a family physician at the Sunnybrook Academic Family Health Team. She a senior core scientist and program lead of the Primary Care and Health Systems program at ICES and an Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and the Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation. Dr. Jaakkimainen is also the Enhanced Skills Clinician Scholar (Research) Program Director with the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Jaakkimainen’s research interests include examining primary health care access, continuity of care, primary health care indicators and benchmarks, measuring wait times from primary to specialist care, improving the coordination of care in primary care, caring for marginalized and frail seniors in the community, and performance feedback to primary care providers.

Integrating health and social care into naturally occurring retirement communities: Oasis Program

Featuring: Drs. Vincent DePaul and Catherine Donnelly
Co-Principal Investigators, Oasis Program
Wednesday, February 12 @ 11AM EST (Virtual Seminar)
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Dr. Vincent DePaul is an Assistant Professor in the School of Rehabilitation Therapy. His research focuses on the development, testing, and translation of interventions for the recovery of walking in individuals with stroke, other neurological conditions, and in older adult populations. This work specifically explores how individuals optimally learn and re-learn gait and balance-related skills; and how therapeutic strategies such as such as instruction, feedback, guidance, and supervised and unsupervised practice impact motor learning. This research also explores the use of wearable technology as a tool for the measurement and promotion of gait and walking activity in rehabilitation populations.

Dr. Catherine Donnelly is an Associate Professor in the School of Rehabilitation Therapy and the Director of HSPRI. Her research is focused on team-based primary care with an emphasis on understanding how interprofessional primary care teams can support older adults and individuals with chronic conditions to live in their neighbourhoods and communities. A key focus is working with Oasis Supportive Living (Oasis) - a program designed by older adults to support aging in community. Other focuses include integrated health systems, program evaluation and interdisciplinary education and practice. She employs mixed-methods in my research and works closely with communities and health systems.

Minor Ailments and Pharmacist Management in Ontario: Attachment and Primary Care

Featuring: Dr. Lisa Dolovich
Professor and Dean, Leslie Dean Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto
Friday, November 15 @ 12 PM (Virtual Seminar)
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Dr. Lisa Dolovich is a Professor and Dean at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto. Her research interests focus on keeping people healthy at home including the evaluation of interventions that can improve health care delivery and medication management, pharmacy practice including pharmacists’ integration into primary care, and how the collection of and discussion about a patient’s health goals, risks and needs affect medication management and patient health.

Opening the Black Box: Unpacking the Use of Nursing Agencies in Canada

Featuring: Dr. Joan Almost, PhD, RN
Tuesday, October 1 @ 12 PM (Virtual Seminar)
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Dr. Joan Almost is a Professor in the School of Nursing, a Registered Nurse, and an Associate Member of HSPRI. Her program of research is centered on engaging with policy makers and knowledge users to advance the nursing profession and the science of quality practice environments. Areas of research expertise include quantitative research methods, policy, work relationships within teams, and the nursing workforce.

We hope you are able to join us live for this virtual seminar; discussion will be recorded and posted to our YouTube channel for later viewing.

Synergies between Connected Minds and HSPRI

Featuring: Dr. Gunnar Blohm, PhD
Friday, March 22 @ 12 PM (Virtual Seminar)
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Dr. Blohm’s research interests lie in the 3D properties of sensorimotor control and their role in the interaction of different motor systems. His research focuses on the human experience related to 3D space and what computations does the brain perform to purposefully act upon our environment?

Dr. Blohm’s focus is on three subtopics: eye-hand coordination; saccade/ smooth pursuit eye movements; and the construction of 3D models of space for perception and action. Dr. Blohm uses computational modeling techniques, behavioral experiments, as well as brain imaging, brain stimulation and studies of patients.

About Connected Minds

New technologies are revolutionizing society, creating a 'techno-social collective' where humans and intelligent technologies are deeply interconnected. While such advances present exciting opportunities, they also present significant risks, especially for vulnerable and/or marginalized populations. The Connected Minds Program –supported by the Canada Research Excellence Fund, York and Queens’ Universities, and our many partners from multiple sectors—envisions a world where breakthroughs in technology promote social health and justice for all, with special focus on Indigenous Peoples in Canada.

For further details, see: https://www.yorku.ca/research/connected-minds/.

Harmful Alcohol Use and Associated Liver Outcomes in Young Adults in Ontario: Epidemiology and Policy Implications

Featuring: Dr. Jennifer Flemming, MD, FRCPC, MAS
Friday, February 23 @ 12 PM (Virtual Seminar)
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Dr. Jennifer Flemming is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Public Health Sciences at Queen’s University with clinical training in gastroenterology, hepatology and liver transplantation. She is also an ICES Adjunct Scientist and Site Director of ICES Queen's.

Dr. Flemming is a clinician scientist who leads a research program which leverages Ontario administrative data housed at ICES to evaluate the epidemiology and outcomes of patients with cirrhosis and recently appointed as the ICES-Queen’s Site Director. Her research has been supported by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR), American Association for the Study of Liver Disease (AASLD), the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) and the Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research Program.

Routine Collection of Patient-Reported Data: Supporting the needs of primary care and Ontario Health Teams

Featuring: Dr. Morgan Slater, PhD
Friday, November 24 @ 12 PM (Virtual Seminar)
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Dr. Morgan Slater is a Research Scientist with the Health Services and Policy Research Institute (HSPRI); an Adjunct Associate Professor with the Department of Family Medicine; and an Adjunct Scientist with ICES. Prior to joining HSPRI, she was a postdoctoral fellow with the Department of Family Medicine and part of the inaugural cohort of Health System Impact Fellows, funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. She received her BASc in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo, a MSc in Community Health Sciences (University of Calgary), and PhD from the University of Toronto.

Dr. Slater has over 10 years of experience in clinical research, the majority of which have been in primary care. Her research interests focus on utilizing the rich, complementary information in electronic medical records and administrative health data to answer important questions focused on improving patient care and changing health policy.

Routinely Collected Data for Health and Social Services Research

Feautiring: Dr. Nathan Nickel, Director, Manitoba Centre for Health Policy
May 26, 2023 | Watch Video

Dr. Nickel is an applied population health scientist who uses administrative data to conduct policy-focused health outcomes research. Specifically, Dr. Nickel’s research interests centre on examining how the social and structural determinants impact population health and health inequities. Within this framework he has conducted evaluation research looking at programs aimed at improving child outcomes; mental health and addictions research examining outcomes associated with alcohol use disorders and methamphetamine use; and outcomes associated with interactions with provincial systems such as the justice and child welfare systems.

Much of Dr. Nickel's research is done in partnership with First Nations, Métis and Inuit organizations in Manitoba.

Primary Care Data Reports for Ontario Health Teams

Featuring: Dr. Michael Green, MD, MPH, CCFP, FCFP, FCAHS
Friday, April 21, 2023 @ 1:00 PM EST
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Dr. Michael Green was appointed as the Brian Hennen Chair and Head of the Department of Family Medicine on July 1, 2017. He is Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences at Queen’s University, was the inaugural Clinical Teachers Association of Queen’s University Chair in Applied Health Economics/Health Policy from 2014-2017.

Dr. Green formerly served as Director of the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research as well as Founding Director of the Health Services and Policy Research Institute (HSPRI). He is a Senior Adjunct Scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES). In 2018 he was elected as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and he has served on many professional and government expert committees including the Ontario Expert Panel on Wait Times in Primary Care, the Advisory Committee on Ontario’s Immunization System Review, the College of Family Physicians of Canada Indigenous Health Working Group and Patient’s Medical Home Steering Committee, and Health Quality Ontario’s Primary Care Advisory Committee.

Dr. Green currently leads INSPIRE-PHC, a research/policy partnership addressing the major health system challenges of equitable access to high quality primary health care and better co-ordination and integration of PHC with other parts of the health and social care system.

Translating Policy to Practice: How Community-Based Health and Social Care Professionals Support Unpaid Caregivers

Featuring: Dr. Jodi Webber, Assistant Professor, Algoma University School of Social Work
Friday, March 31, 2023 @ 1:00 PM EST
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The Psychedelic Renaissance: From Research to Regulation

Presented by: Mr. David Clements, MPA & Dr. Ron Shore, PhD
Carruthers Hall, Room 102
November 23, 2022 @ 12:30 - 1:30 PM EST

Collaborative Research Rounds Hosted by HSPRI and the Department of Public Health Sciences

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The Complex Care for Kids Ontario Evaluation: A policy-patient-provider partnered evaluation

June 9, 2020

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Oasis Senior Supportive Living Program

Featuring: Dr. Vincent DePaul, Dr. Catherine Donnelly

May 12, 2020

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Methods Mondays

This seminar series was developed as a semi-regular forum to highlight and discuss novel approaches to health services research. We hope this series will be of interest to both faculty and students; all are welcome! Wherever possible, these seminars will be recorded and posted to our YouTube channel for those unable to join the live discussions.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Adaptation of the Diabetes Self-Management Coaching Program

Featuring: Fikadu Yehualashet, PhD Fellow
Monday, March 31 2025 @ 12 PM (Virtual Seminar)
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Fikadu joined Queens University in 2020 as a Mastercard Foundation Fellow. His research focuses on the feasibility of diabetes self-management coaching in primary care in Ethiopia, under the supervision of Dr. Catherine Donnelly. Before coming to Queen’s, Fikadu earned his Bachelor of Nursing from Haramaya University in Ethiopia in 2004. He began his professional career as a nurse clinician at Metema Primary Hospital in north-western Ethiopia, where he had the opportunity to work with individuals with type 2 diabetes and learn about the primary care context in the country.

In 2009, Fikadu pursued a Master of Public Health at the University of Gondar, completing his studies in 2011. Afterward, he joined Alkan University College as a lecturer in the Faculty of Public Health and taught nursing and midwifery students. In 2015, he moved to the University of Gondar’s School of Nursing, where he worked as a nurse educator, counselor, master trainer, and research advisor, and held various leadership roles. In 2019, he was promoted to the academic rank of Assistant Professor of Public Health at the University.

PREVIOUS EVENTS

Imposter Participants: Current Issues and Strategies to Manage Authentic Participation in Qualitative Research

Featuring: Dr. Nicole Bobbette, School of Rehabilitation Therapy
Monday, February 24, 2025 @ 12 PM (Virtual Seminar)
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Dr. Nicole Bobbette is an Assistant Professor in the School of Rehabilitation Therapy. She holds a PhD in Rehabilitation Science and an MSc in Occupational Therapy. Her research primarily focuses on supporting the health and wellbeing of adults and older adults with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities, as well caregivers.

Interrupted Time Series Analysis: The Impact of Health Policy

Featuring: Jonas Shellenberger, MSc, ICES Queen's Epidemiologist
Monday, January 27, 2025 @ 12 PM (Virtual Seminar)
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Jonas holds a BSc in Respiratory Therapy from the University of Cincinnati, and an MSc in Epidemiology from Queen's University. We are delighted to have him on our team at ICES Queen's.

Case Study Designs in Health Services Research: All this data! How to approach analysis

Featuring: Dr. Catherine Donnelly and PhD Candidate Adhanom Baraki
Monday, November 25, 2024 @ 12 PM (Virtual Seminar)
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Dr. Catherine Donnelly is an Associate Professor in the School of Rehabilitation Therapy with a cross-appointment in the Department of Family Medicine. In 2020, she was appointed to serve as Director of HSPRI. Her research is focused on team-based primary care with an emphasis on understanding how interprofessional primary care teams can support older adults and individuals with chronic conditions to live in their neighbourhoods and communities. Other foci include integrated health systems, program evaluation and interdisciplinary education and practice. She employs mixed-methods in her research and works closely with communities and health systems.

Adhanom Baraki is a PhD Candidate in Rehabilitation Sciences. With a background in Public Health from both undergraduate and master’s programs, Adhanom brings a multifaceted approach to his research. Currently, he is working to understand the integration process of mental health services into primary care within the Ethiopian context. Adhanom seeks to make meaningful contribution to health care system improvements and holistic well-being.

Case Study Designs in Health Services Research: Unpacking Different Approaches

Featuring: Dr. Catherine Donnelly
Monday, October 28, 2024 @ 12 PM (Virtual Seminar)
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Mediation Analysis: A Primer

Featuring: Jonas Shellenberger, MSc Epidemiology, ICES Queen's Analyst
Monday, May 6, 2024 @ 12 PM (Virtual Seminar)
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Jonas holds a BSc in Respiratory Therapy from the University of Cincinnati, and an MSc in Epidemiology from Queen's University. We are delighted to have him as one of our Analysts at ICES Queen's.

Mediation analyses are employed to understand a known relationship by exploring the underlying mechanism or process by which one variable influences another variable through a mediator variable. In particular, mediation analysis can contribute to better understanding the relationship between an independent variable and a dependent variable when these variables do not have an obvious direct connection. (Source: Wikipedia)

Propensity Score Analysis: Matching and Weighting Approaches

Featuring: Drs. Amanda Mofina and Daniel da Cunha Leme, Post-Doctoral Fellows, University of Waterloo
Monday, April 15, 2024 @ 12 PM (Virtual Seminar)
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Amanda Mofina is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo. She completed her PhD in Rehabilitation science and MSc in occupational therapy at Queen’s University. Prior to pursuing her clinical degree, Amanda completed a thesis-based MSc in Kinesiology at Wilfrid Laurier University. Amanda has clinical experience across the care continuum in acute care, inpatient rehabilitation, and complex continuing care settings. Her current research interests combine her clinical experiences as an occupational therapist with her previous areas of research. Areas of research interest include health care and care transitions, mental health, primary care, community care, health care in correctional services, health care for adults with multiple chronic health conditions, and use of population-level health data.

Daniel da Cunha Leme graduated in Physiotherapy from Universidade São Francisco (2011); Master's (2017) and Doctorate (2021) in Gerontology from the State University of Campinas, receiving a scholarship from the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo, School of Public Health Sciences (Ontario, Canada). He is interested in the following research topics: chronic diseases and aging, elderly frailty syndrome, quantitative analysis and development of machine learning models to predict health conditions in elderly people with complex needs. He has experience in the area of Physiotherapy with an emphasis on Physiotherapy in Gerontology.

Natural Language Processing in Healthcare

Featuring: Dorsa Ghahramani and Soheila Nadalian, OHDP-Q Analysts
Monday, March 4, 2024 @ 12 PM (Virtual Seminar)
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Dorsa is a data analyst at HSPRI focusing on OHDP-Q projects. She holds master’s degrees in Healthcare Systems Engineering and Systems Science. Her expertise in data analytics, machine learning, data science, and developing healthcare data-driven tools, combined with an understanding of healthcare systems, enables her to skillfully analyze and interpret complex datasets.

Soheila is a data analyst at HSPRI, working on OHDP-Q projects. With a Master's in AI and System Design, she excels in data analytics, machine learning, and natural language processing. Her work focuses on extracting insights from complex datasets to drive impactful solutions.

What is Natural Language Processing?

“Natural language processing (NLP) is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and linguistics. It is primarily concerned with giving computers the ability to support and manipulate human language. It involves processing natural language datasets, such as text corpora or speech corpora, using either rule-based or probabilistic (i.e. statistical and, most recently, neural network-based) machine learning approaches. The goal is a computer capable of "understanding" the contents of documents, including the contextual nuances of the language within them. The technology can then accurately extract information and insights contained in the documents as well as categorize and organize the documents themselves.” Source: Wikipedia

Economic Analysis with Administrative Data

Featuring: Dr. Tim Hanna MD, MSc, PhD, FRCPC
Monday, January 29, 2024 @ 12 PM (Virtual Seminar)
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Dr. Timothy Hanna is a clinician scientist at the Division of Cancer Care and Epidemiology, Cancer Research Institute at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He is also a radiation oncologist at the Cancer Centre of Southeastern Ontario. His work focuses on health services research in oncology, with three translational streams: quality of care, value of care and access to care. His value of care research touches on health technology assessment in the real-world, particularly for novel therapies (e.g. radiotherapy, ‘omics driven personalized medicine, immunotherapy). Methods include machine learning approaches, and often use large, complex data sets.

Inside Research Series

Focusing on new approaches, methods, data platforms, new policy, etc. These one hour virtual seminars provide a brief introduction to the topic with ample opportunity for conversation. This series does not follow a regular schedule, but rather aims to be responsive to emerging issues.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Methods Mondays
Economic Analysis with Administrative Data

Featuring: Dr. Tim Hanna
Monday, January 29 @ 12 PM EST (Virtual Seminar)
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PREVIOUS EVENTS

June 8, 2021

Title: POPLAR - Primary Care Data and Research in Ontario

Featuring: Drs. David Barber and Michelle Greiver

Time: 12:00 PM EST

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Feb 9, 2021

Title: Using Data to Guide Population Health Management

Featuring: Dr. Laura Rosella

Time: 12:00 PM EST

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Events

Special Events

HSPRI Rounds Series

UPCOMING EVENTS

PREVIOUS EVENTS

The Ecology of Ontario's Health Care System

Integrating health and social care into naturally occurring retirement communities: Oasis Program

Minor Ailments and Pharmacist Management in Ontario: Attachment and Primary Care

Opening the Black Box: Unpacking the Use of Nursing Agencies in Canada

Synergies between Connected Minds and HSPRI

Harmful Alcohol Use and Associated Liver Outcomes in Young Adults in Ontario: Epidemiology and Policy Implications

Routine Collection of Patient-Reported Data: Supporting the needs of primary care and Ontario Health Teams

Routinely Collected Data for Health and Social Services Research

Primary Care Data Reports for Ontario Health Teams

Translating Policy to Practice: How Community-Based Health and Social Care Professionals Support Unpaid Caregivers

The Psychedelic Renaissance: From Research to Regulation

The Complex Care for Kids Ontario Evaluation: A policy-patient-provider partnered evaluation

Alcohol Associated Liver Disease Among Women: How Did We Get Here and How Can We Help?

Nursing Workforce Challenges: Finding Ways to Move Policy Forward for Meaningful Change

Development of Canada's Student Mental Health Network: A Collaborative Approach to Expanding Post-Secondary Mental Health Promotion

The Nature and Nurture of Mental Illness Stigma

Equity-Oriented Health Services and Policy Research:Lessons from Social Epidemiology and Public Health Critical Race Praxis

Ethnocultural identity and psychological distress in university students

Long-term life care at home: the future of aging-focused care in Canada

COVID-19 vaccine research using linked databases

Opioid analgesic exposure and the risk of birth defects

Reproductive health needs of female adolescents and young adults with cancer

Mortality due to cancer treatment delay: systematic review and meta-analysis

Ageing Well

Measuring the Duration of SARS-CoV-2 Shedding Using Ontario Population-Based Data

First Nations Diabetes in Ontario

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Knowledge Translation to Policy Makers

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Oasis Senior Supportive Living Program

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Methods Mondays

UPCOMING EVENTS

Adaptation of the Diabetes Self-Management Coaching Program

PREVIOUS EVENTS

Imposter Participants: Current Issues and Strategies to Manage Authentic Participation in Qualitative Research

Interrupted Time Series Analysis: The Impact of Health Policy

Case Study Designs in Health Services Research: All this data! How to approach analysis

Case Study Designs in Health Services Research: Unpacking Different Approaches

Mediation Analysis: A Primer

Propensity Score Analysis: Matching and Weighting Approaches

Natural Language Processing in Healthcare

Economic Analysis with Administrative Data

Inside Research Series

UPCOMING EVENTS

Methods MondaysEconomic Analysis with Administrative Data

To find out about upcoming events in this series, sign up to the HSPRI mailing list

PREVIOUS EVENTS

June 8, 2021

Title: POPLAR - Primary Care Data and Research in Ontario

Featuring: Drs. David Barber and Michelle Greiver

Time: 12:00 PM EST

Feb 9, 2021

Title: Using Data to Guide Population Health Management

Featuring: Dr. Laura Rosella

Time: 12:00 PM EST

Jan 11, 2021

Title: Ontario Health Teams: What does success mean and how do we know if we are progressing toward that goal?

Featuring: Dr. Walter Wodchis

Time: 12:00 PM EST

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Nov 10, 2020

Title: The Future of Health Data

Featuring: Dr. Jane Philpott, Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences

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Sept 15, 2020

Title: Ontario Health Data Platform at Queen’s University (OHDP-Q)

Featuring: Dr. Amber Simpson

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Methods Mondays
Economic Analysis with Administrative Data