Faculty Member
Linda Hiraki
- Email Address(es)
- linda.hiraki(at)sickkids.ca
- Website(s)
- Hiraki Lab at The Hospital for Sick Children,
- Division(s)/Institute(s)
- Epidemiology Division
- Position
- Associate Professor
- SGS Status
- Full Member
- Appointment Status
- Status Only
- Currently Accepting Doctoral Students?
- Yes
Research Interests
Genetic Epidemiology; Rare Systemic Inflammatory Diseases; Longitudinal analysis; Outcomes; Risk Prediction
Education & Training History
2013 – 2015: Postdoctoral Fellow, Genetics & Genome Biology, SickKids
2009 – 2013: ScD Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
2008 – 2009: ScM Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
2003 – 2006: Postdoctoral Fellow, Genetics & Genome Biology, SickKids
2006 – 2008: Pediatric Rheumatology Fellow, UofT, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON
2003 – 2006: General Pediatrics Resident, UofT, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON
1999 – 2003: MD Queen’s University, Kingston, ON
1995 – 1999: BSc University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
Other Affiliations
Staff Physician, Division of Rheumatology, The Hospital for Sick Children
Scientist, Genetics & Genome Biology, Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children
Canada Research Chair in Genetics of Rare Systemic Inflammatory Diseases
Dr. Hiraki’s current research interests include examining the genetic contribution to complex, rheumatic diseases and their associated long-term outcomes. She is applying methods that take advantage of rich, longitudinally collected clinical data along with both common and low-frequency genetic variants to discover new genetic associations with manifestations and complications of the complex disease. Hiraki is also employing novel methods to transethnic studies of admixed populations with complex diseases.