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PhD Final Oral Examination (2006 – 2010)
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[LUCIA MIREA] October 21, 2010
[SANDRA MOLL] September 3, 2010
[LAURA NICOLE ANDERSON] August 25, 2010
[NATALIE PERKINS-CECCATO] August 10, 2010
[BRENDA GLADSTONE] March 30, 2010
[NIKOLAOS MITSAKAKIS] March 18, 2010
[MICHAEL CHAITON] March 10, 2010
[KAREN ANNE URBANOSKI] December 4, 2009
[KATE ROSSITER] September 14, 2009
[JACOB ETCHES] September 11, 2009
[FIONA SCHULTE] September 10, 2009
[CHUN-PO ‘STEVE’ FAN] September 8, 2009
[JENNIFER FERGENBAUM] September 4, 2009
[MARCELO LUIS URQUIA] July 29, 2009
[HELEN M. SCOTT] July 14, 2009
[LAURA ROSELLA] July 9, 2009
[ANTHONY LOMBARDO] June 26, 2009
[WENDY BHANICH SUPAPOL] June 25, 2009
[MINH T. DO] June 1, 2009
[ANTHONY PERRUCCIO] May 8, 2009
[LAUREN GRIFFITH] November 11, 2008
[PAULA J. GARDNER] September 18, 2008
[BRENDA LEE COLEMAN] September 8, 2008
[KATE BASSIL] May 16, 2008
[SOPHIE SOKLARIDIS] April 7, 2008
[KEVIN DONALD WILLISON] March 28, 2008
[ELENA PARKHOMENKO] February 6, 2008
[GORDON FEHRINGER] December 7, 2007
[GREGORY RUSSELL POND] October 9, 2007
[SIEU “SOPHIE” GAEN CHAN] September 27, 2007
[REBECCA HAINES] September 24, 2007
[VICKI L. KRISTMAN] September 7, 2007
[SOPHIA LEE] September 5, 2007
[MARCIA ELAINE FACEY] June 22, 2007
[JASON DONALD POLE] May 25, 2007
[ANNA PALMIRA FARMER] April 20, 2007
[ROBIN Z. HAYEEMS] April 18, 2007
[SANDRA GARDNER] April 17, 2007
[SOHEE KANG] March 30, 2007
[ANDREW MENTE] March 19, 2007
[BABAK SHAHBABA] February 28, 2007
[LESLEA JANE PEIRSON] February 9, 2007
[MALCOLM ANGUS BINNS] February 8, 2007
[JENNIFER MARY POOLE] January 26, 2007
[JEFFREY P. AGUINALDO] January 15, 2007
[ANJELA TZONTCHEVA] December 19, 2006
[PETER TODD CAMPBELL] December 1, 2006
[JANE CATHERINE FIGUEIREDO] September 5, 2006
[WEI XU] August 23, 2006
[CORINNE HART] July 27, 2006
[AGNIESZKA “IGGY” KOSNY] July 25, 2006
[MARGIE PARTHIMOS] April 13, 2006
[JESSICA POLZER] March 13, 2006
[YAOHUA “HELEN” HE] March 8, 2006
[KEITH DENNY] March 6, 2006
[DANIEL BENJAMIN HOLLENBERG] February 22, 2006
[DIANA ELAINE CLARKE] February 14, 2006
[TOMISLAV SVOBODA] January 5, 2006

LUCIA MIREA

Thursday, October 21, 2010
1:00 – 3:00 pm
Room 301, 63 St. George St.

Approaches Incorporating Evidence for Population Stratification Bias in Genetic Association Analyses Combining Individual and Family Data

Committee:
Exam Chair: Romin Tafarodi
Supervisors: Shelley Bull
James Stafford
External Examiner: Jinko Graham
Voting Members: Lei Sun
Laurent Briollais
Non-voting Member: Patrick Brown

SANDRA MOLL

Friday, September 3, 2010
10:00 am – 12:00 noon
Room 301, 63 St. George St.

Mental Ill-Health at Work: Institutional Practices of Silence in a Mental Healthcare Organization

Committee:
Exam Chair: Yaacov Ben-David
Supervisor: Joan Eakin
External Examiner: Louise St-Arnaud
Voting Members: Carol Strike
Renee-Louise Franche
Bonnie Kirsh

LAURA NICOLE ANDERSON

Wednesday, August 25, 2010
1:00 – 3:00 pm
Room 301, 63 St. George St.

Vitamin D and Breast Cancer

Committee:
Exam Chair: Robert Kerbel
Supervisor: Michelle Cotterchio
External Examiner: Jo Freudenheim
Voting Members: Julia Knight
Victoria Kirsh
John McLaughlin

NATALIE PERKINS-CECCATO

Tuesday, August 10, 2010
11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Room 301, 63 St. George St.

Making Sense of Medical Education: An Examination of Contraception Counselling, Unplanned Pregnancy Counselling, and Abortion Services Curricula in Ontario Medical Schools

Committee:
Exam Chair: Jennifer Gommerman
Supervisor: Lorraine Ferris
External Examiner: Donna Fedorkow
Voting Members: Katherine Boydell
Bart Harvey
Ross Upshur

BRENDA GLADSTONE

Tuesday, March 30, 2010
10:00 am – 12:00 noon
Room 301, 63 St. George St.

“All in the Same Boat”: An Analysis of a Support Group for Children of Parents with Mental Illness

Committee:
Exam Chair: Sadhna Joshi-Sukhwal
Supervisors: Patricia McKeever
Katherine Boydell
External Examiner: Joanne Nicholson
Voting Members: Mary Seeman
Joan Eakin

NIKOLAOS MITSAKAKIS

Thursday, March 18, 2010
4:00 – 6:00 PM
Room 301, 63 St. George St.

Bayesian Methods for Gaussian Graphical Models

Committee:
Exam Chair: Matthew Bjerknes
Supervisors: Michael Escobar
Helene Massam
External Examiner: Robert Kohn
Voting Members: David Tritchler
Laurent Briollais

MICHAEL CHAITON

Wednesday, March 10, 2010
10:00 am – 12:00 noon
Room 301, 63 St. George St.

A Longitudinal Investigation into the Association of Smoking and Depression among Adolescents: Exposures, Outcomes, and Auxiliary Hypotheses

Committee:
Exam Chair: Robert Harrison
Supervisor: Joanna Cohen
External Examiner: Joel Dubin
Voting Members: Jurgen Rehm
Nancy Kreiger
Non-voting Member: Jennifer O’Loughlin

KAREN ANNE URBANOSKI

Friday, December 4, 2009
1:00 – 3:00 pm
Room 529, 155 College Street

A Theory-based Analysis of Coercion in Addiction Treatment

Committee:
Exam Chair: Joseph Carens
Supervisor: Brian Rush
External Examiner: Constance Weisner
Voting Members: Jurgen Rehm
Susan Bondy
John Cunningham
Lorraine Ferris

KATE ROSSITER

Monday, September 14, 2009
3:00 – 5:00 pm
Room 111, 63 St. George Street

Undoing Wit: A Critical Exploration of Performance and 
Medical Education in the Knowledge Economy

Committee:
Exam Chair: Margaret Hough
Supervisor: Ann Robertson
External Examiner: Arthur Frank
Voting Members: Joan M. Eakin
Ric Knowles
Adrienne Chambon

JACOB ETCHES

Friday, September 11, 2009
10:00 am – 12:00 noon
Room 650, 155 College Street

Economic Inequality in Adult Mortality in Canada:
 Analyses of the Longitudinal Administrative Databank

Committee:
Exam Chair: Elizabeth Johnson
Supervisor: Cameron Mustard
External Examiner: Robert Tate
Voting Members: Doug Manuel
William Gnam
Michael Baker

FIONA SCHULTE

Thursday, September 10, 2009
10:00 am – 12:00 noon
Room 303, 63 St. George Street

Enhancing Social Competence Through a Group Intervention 
Program for Survivors of Childhood Brain Tumours

Committee:
Exam Chair: Anneke Rummens
Supervisor: Maru Barrera
External Examiner: William M. Bukowski, Jr.
Voting Members: Judith Wiener
Judith Hamilton
Michael Goodstadt

CHUN-PO ‘STEVE’ FAN

Tuesday September 8, 2009
10:00 am – 12:00 noon
Room 301, 63 St. George Street

A Local Likelihood Method for Coarsened Point Process Data

Committee:
Exam Chair: Steven Meyn
Supervisor: James Stafford
External Examiner: Richard Cook
Voting Members: Patrick Brown
Wendy Lou
Fang Yao

JENNIFER FERGENBAUM

Friday, September 4, 2009
1:00 – 3:00 pm
Room 301, 63 St. George Street

Vascular and metabolic risk factors, carotid atherosclerosis, 
and vascular cognitive impairment in a First Nations population

Committee:
Exam Chair: Jason Plaks
Supervisor: Kue Young
External Examiner: Noreen Willows
Voting Members: Wendy Lou
Anthony Hanley
Robert Mann

MARCELO LUIS URQUIA

Wednesday, July 29, 2009
2:00 – 4:00 pm
Room 111, 63 St. George Street

Birth outcomes among immigrants to urban Ontario. 
A population based study.

Committee:
Exam Chair: Joe Minta
Supervisor: John W. Frank
External Examiner: K. S. Joseph
Voting Members: Rick H. Glazier
Rahim Moineddin
Patricia O’Campo

HELEN M. SCOTT

Tuesday, July 14, 2009
1:00 – 3:00 pm
Room 303, 63 St. George Street

Family Matters: An Examination of the Association Between
 Family Structure and Youth Injury

Committee:
Exam Chair: Molly Verrier
Supervisors: Mary Chipman
Pierre Côté
External Examiner: Evelyn Vingilis
Voting Members: Sue Bondy
Cameron Mustard
Non-voting Member: William Pickett

LAURA ROSELLA

Thursday July 9, 2009
2:00 – 4:00 pm
Room 111, 63 St. George Street

A Population Based Approach to Diabetes Mellitus Risk Prediction: Methodological Advances and Practical Applications

Committee:
Exam Chair: Andrew Mason
Supervisors: Doug Manuel
Cameron Mustard
External Examiner: Rollin F. Brant
Voting Members: Paul Corey
Elizabeth Badley

ANTHONY LOMBARDO

Friday, June 26, 2009
10:00 am – 12:00 Noon
Room 303, 63 St. George Street

Sex and Cyberspace: The Internet in the Sexual Lives of
 Men Who Have Sex WIth Men

Committee:
Exam Chair: Joel Sadavoy
Supervisor: Ted Myers
External Examiner: Roy Cain
Voting Members: Liviana Calzavara
Jan Angus
Dionne Gesink Law

WENDY BHANICH SUPAPOL

Thursday, June 25, 2009
10:00 am – 12:00 Noon
Room 301, 63 St. George Street

The Impact of GBV-C Coinfection on 
Mother to Child Transmission of HIV

Committee:
Exam Chair: Heather Carnahan
Co-Supervisors: Robert Remis
Peggy Millson
External Examiner: Sten Vermund
Voting Members: Janet Raboud
Ted Myers

MINH T. DO

Monday, June 1, 2009
10:00 am – 12:00 Noon
Room 301, 63 St. George Street

Ionizing Radiation Exposure and Risk of Gastrointestinal 
Cancer: A Study of the Ontario Uranium Miners

Committee:
Exam Chair: Thomas Wolever
Supervisor: Loraine D.Marrett
External Examiner: Kristan Aronson
Voting Members: James Purdham
Wendy Lou
Cameron Mustard
Non-voting Member: Jennifer Payne

ANTHONY PERRUCCIO

Friday, May 8, 2009
12:00 Noon – 2:00 pm
Room 301, 63 St. George Street

The Contribution of Physical, Mental and Social Dimensions of Health to Predicting Self-Rated Health Over the Course of Recovery Following Total Joint Replacement Surgery

Committee:
Exam Chair: Timothy Hughes
Supervisor: Elizabeth Badley
External Examiner: Leigh Callahan
Voting Members: Aileen Davis
Sheila Hogg-Johnson
Susan Bondy

LAUREN GRIFFITH

Tuesday, November 11, 2008
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Room 650, 155 College Street

The Use of Individual Participant Data (IPD) for Examining Heterogeneity 
in Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies: 
An Application to Mechanical Workplace Risk Factors and Low Back Pain

Committee:
Exam Chair: Matthew Bjerknes
Supervisor: Harry S. Shannon
External Examiner: Laura Punnett
Voting Members: Sheilah Hogg-Johnson
Donald Cole
Mary Chipman
Non-Voting Member: Richard Wells

PAULA J. GARDNER

Thursday, September 18, 2008
10:00 am – 12:00 Noon
Room 111, 63 St. George Street

The Public Life of Older People: Neighbourhoods and Networks

Committee:
Exam Chair: Judy Watt-Watson
Supervisor: Denise Gastaldo
External Examiner: Allison M. Williams
Voting Members: Peri Ballantyne
Stephen Katz
Gavin Edwards
Ted Myers

BRENDA LEE COLEMAN

Monday, September 8, 2008
3:00-5:00 pm
Room 574, 155 College Street

The Role of Drinking Water as a Source of Transmission of Antimircrobial Resistant Escherichia coli

Committee:
Exam Chair: Mohini Sain
Supervisor: Allison McGeer
External Examiner: David Patrick
Voting Members: Susan Bondy
Ian Johnson
Donald Cole
Non-Voting Member: Iris Gutmanis

KATE BASSIL

Friday, May 16, 2008; 1:00 – 3:00 pm
Room 303, 63 St. George Street

The Relationship Between Temperature and 911 Medical Dispatch Data 
for Heat-Related Illness in Toronto, 2002-2005: 
An Application of Syndromic Surveillance

Committee:
Exam Chair: Sandra Donnelly
Supervisor: Donald C. Cole
External Examiner: Scott Sheridan
Voting Members: Wendy Lou
Elizabeth Rea
Andrea Sass-Korstak
Non-Voting Member: Rahim Moineddin

SOPHIE SOKLARIDIS

Monday, April 7, 2008; 10:00 am – 12:00 noon
Room 303, 63 St. George Street

A QUALITATIVE RESEARCH PROJECT EXPLORING INTEGRATIVE HEALTH CARE IN 
AN OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH CLINIC WITHIN A HOSPITAL SETTING: 
THE ARTISTS HEALTH CENTRE FINDS A HOME AT THE TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL

Committee:
Exam Chair: Zhongping Feng
Supervisor: Rhonda Love
External Examiner: Ivy Lynn Bourgeault
Voting Members: Merrijoy Kelner
David Cassidy
Heather Boon

KEVIN DONALD WILLISON

Friday, March 28, 2008; 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Room 301, 63 St. George Street

Socio-economic Factors that Relate to Massage Therapy Use Status Amongst 
a Sample of Urban Older Adults with Self-reported Chronic Disease

Committee:
Exam Chair: Elizabeth Cowper
Supervisor: Ted Myers
External Examiner: Mary Ann McColl
Voting Members: Michael Escobar
Michael Goodstadt
Robert Mann

ELENA PARKHOMENKO

Wednesday, February 6, 2008; 10:00 am – 12:00 noon
Room 301, School of Graduate Studies
63 St. George Street

SPARSE CANONICAL CORRELATION ANALYSIS

Committee:
Exam Chair: Jane Aubin
Co-Supervisor: David Tritchler
Co-Supervisor: Joseph Beyene
External Examiner: Angelo J. Canty
Voting Members: Shelley Bull
Michael Escobar

GORDON FEHRINGER

Friday, December 7, 2007; 9:00 – 11:00 am
Room 301, 63 St. George Street

Genetic variation at the insulin-like growth factor 1 gene and 
association with breast cancer, breast density and
 anthropometric measures

Committee:
Exam Chair: Theodore Brown
Supervisor: Norman Boyd
External Examiner: Susan L. Neuhausen
Voting Members: Andrew Paterson
Julia Knight
John McLaughlin
Non-voting Member: Hilmi Ozcelik

GREGORY RUSSELL POND

Tuesday, October 9, 2007; 9:00 – 11:00 am
Room 105 at 65 St. George

Design and Analysis of Sequential Clinical Trials Using a
 Markov Chain Transition Rate Model with Conditional Power

Committee:
Exam Chair: Michael Inzlicht
Supervisor: Wendy Lou
External Examiner: K.K. Gordon Lan
Voting Members: Paul Corey
Kevin Thorpe
Joseph Beyene

SIEU “SOPHIE” GAEN CHAN

Thursday, September 27, 2007; 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
HS 650, Health Sciences Building, 155 College Street

Development of Food Frequency Questionnaire and Database for 
Assessing Soy Isoflavone Intake in the Chinese Population

Committee:
Exam Chair: Haibo Zhang
Supervisor: Nancy Kreiger
External Examiner: Susan I. Barr
Voting Members: Edward Adlaf
Gerarda Darlington
Andrea Sass-Kortsak
Non-voting Member: Suzanne C. Ho

REBECCA HAINES

Monday, September 24, 2007; 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Room 301, 63 St. George Street

Smoke, in My Eyes – A Qualitative Research 
Project with Young Women that Smoke

Committee:
Exam Chair: TBA
Supervisor: Blake Poland
External Examiner: Louise Potvin
Voting Members: Patricia McKeever
Robert Sparks
Peggy McDonough

VICKI L. KRISTMAN

Friday, September 7, 2007; 10:00 am – 12:00 n
Room 303, 63 St. George Street

APOE genotype and concussion in varsity athletes: 
can genetics predict brain injury?

Committee:
Exam Chair: Ted Inaba
Supervisor: Nancy Kreiger
External Examiner: Brent Faught
Voting Members: George Tomlinson
Susan Jaglal
Hans Kreder
Non-Voting Member: Lynda Mainwaring

SOPHIA LEE

Wednesday, September 5, 2007; 10:00 am – 12:00 n
Room 303, 63 St. George Street

Random Forests for Multi-Locus Quantitative
 Trait Linkage Analysis

Committee:
Exam Chair: Dorothy Pringle
Supervisor: Shelley Bull
External Examiner: Hugh Chipman
Voting Members: Lei Sun
Rafal Kustra
Joseph Beyene

MARCIA ELAINE FACEY

Friday June 22, 2007; 10:00 am – 12:00 noon
Room 303, 63 St. George Street

Contingent Work, Health, and Citizenship:
 The Discursive Management of Stigmatising Employment Among
 Temporary Help Agency Workers

Committee:
Exam Chair: Helen Rodd
Supervisor: Joan Eakin
External Examiner: Isik Zeytinoglu
Voting Members: Ping-Chun Hsiung
Martin Shain
Ann Robertson

JASON DONALD POLE

Friday, May 25, 2007; 10:00 – 12:00 noon
Room 303, 63 St. George Street

Antenatal Steroid Therapy for
 Fetal Lung Maturation and 
the Subsequent Risk of Childhood Asthma

Committee:
Exam Chair: Charles Boone
Supervisor: Cameron A. Mustard
External Examiner: Malcolm R. Sears
Voting Members: Teresa To
Joseph Beyene
Sharon Dell
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ANNE PALMIRA FARMER

Friday, April 20, 2007
10:00 am – 12:00 noon
Room 303, 63 St. George Street

Adoption of an Innovation:
 The Story Behind Preventive Services in a 
Community Health Centre

Committee:
Exam Chair: Andrew Spence
Supervisor: Harvey Skinner
External Examiner: Steve Manske
Voting Members: David Davis
Jan Barnsley
Ted Myers
Non-Voting Member: Eudice Goldberg

ROBIN Z. HAYEEMS

Wednesday, April 18, 2007;
10:30 am – 12:30 pm
Room 302, 63 St. George Street

Informed Consent and Genetic Databases:
 An Exploration of the Authorization Model

Committee:
Exam Chair: Guy Faulkner
Supervisor: Ross Upshur
External Examiner: Jeff Nisker
Voting Members: Adballah Daar
Trudo Lemmens
Barbara Secker

SANDRA GARDNER

Tuesday, April 17, 2007
10:00 am – 12:00 noon
Room 303, 63 St. George Street

Change Point Models for Discontinuation Rates of 
Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia Prophylaxis in an Ontario
 HIV Patient

Committee:
Exam Chair: Alan Cochrane
Co-Supervisor: Paul Corey
Co-Supervisor: Jamie Stafford
External Examiner: David E. Matthews
Voting Members: Wendy Lou
Ahmed Bayoumi

SOHEE KANG

Friday, March 30, 2007
10:00 am – 12:00 noon
Room 301, 63 St. George Street

Bayesian Semi-Parametric Logistic 
and Poisson Regression

Committee:
Exam Chair: Anne L Martel
Supervisor: Michael Escobar
External Examiner: Alaattin Erkanli
Voting Members: Wendy Lou
George Tomlinson
Joseph Beyene

ANDREW MENTE

Monday, March 19, 2007
10:30 am – 12:30 pm
Room 301, 63 St. George Street

High Urinary Calcium Excretion and Familial Aggregation
of Hypertension, Kidney Stone Disease, Obesity, 
Excessive Weight Gain and Type 2 Diabetes in 
Patients with Calcareous Stones

Committee:
Exam Chair: Jim Woodgett
Supervisor: Alexander G Logan
External Examiner: Peter T. Katzmarzyk
Voting Members: Shelley Bull
John R. McLaughlin
Julia Knight

BABAK SHAHBABA

Wednesday, February 28, 2007; 
10:00 am- 12:00 pm
Room 303, 63 St. George Street

Improving Classification When a Class Hierarchy is Available 
Using a Hierarchy-based Prior

Committee:
Exam Chair: James Dennis
Supervisor: Radford M. Neal
External Examiner: Steven N. MacEachern
Voting Members: Celia Greenwood
Paul Corey
Andrew Paterson

LESLEA JANE PEIRSON

Friday February 9, 2007; 12 n – 2 pm
Room 111, 63 St. George Street

POLICY IN PRAXIS:
 A CASE STUDY OF IMPLEMENTING 
MAKING SERVICES WORK FOR PEOPLE

Committee:
Exam Chair: David Guttman
Supervisor: Lorraine Ferris
External Examiner: Terry Krupa
Voting Members: Katherine Boydell
H. Bruce Ferguson
Ted Myers

JEFFREY P. AGUINALDO

Monday, January 15, 2007; 2:00 – 4:00 pm
Room 301, 63 St. George Street

Gay Men’s Health: A Social Constructionist Analysis of 
Academic Literature and Men’s Talk
about the Health of Gay Men

Committee:
Exam Chair: Harvey Anderson
Supervisor: Ted Myers
External Examiner: Heather Worth (via Teleconference)
Voting Members: Carol Strike
Linda Wood
Peggy McDonough

Committee:
Exam Chair: Aleksander Hinek
Supervisor: Ann Robertson
External Examiner: Allan Irving
Voting Members: Adrienne Chambon
Kathryn Church
Jan Angus

MALCOLM ANGUS BINNS

Thursday, February 8, 2007; 10:00 am – 12:00 n
Room 301, 63 St. George Street

Some Aspects of Segmented Regression Analysis Relevant to 
Temporal Localisation in Transient Neuroelectric Signals

Committee:
Exam Chair: Lothar Lilge
Supervisor: Salomon Minkin
External Examiner: James Ramsay
Voting Members: Michael Escobar
Terence Picton
Rafal Kustra

ANJELA TZONTCHEVA

Tuesday, December 19, 2006; 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Room 301, 63 St. George Street

A Computational Method for Analyzing Interval-Censored Time to 
Event Data in the Presence of Informative Examination

Committee:
Exam Chair: Michael Kolios
Supervisor: James Stafford
External Examiner: John Koval
Voting Members: Paul Corey
Michael Escobar
Janet Raboud

PETER TODD CAMPBELL

Friday, December 1, 2006
12:00 – 2:00 pm
Room 111, 63 St. George Street

Excess Body Weight, Exogenous Hormones,
 and Polymorphisms in Steroid Metabolism;
 Links with Hereditary Colorectal Cancer

Committee:
Exam Chair: Elise Stanley
Supervisor: John McLaughlin (via teleconference)
External Examiner: Edward Giovannucci (via teleconference)
Voting Members: Michelle Cotterchio
Steve Gallinger
Loraine Marrett

Jane Catherine Figueiredo

Tuesday, September 5, 2006
11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Room 301, 63 St. George Street

The clinical significance of family history, young age at diagnosis
and polymorphic variation in breast cancer

Committee:
Exam Chair: Dan Dumont
Co-Supervisor: John McLaughlin
Co-Supervisor: Julia Knight
External Examiner: William Foulkes
Voting Members: Laurent Briollais
Steven Narod
Non-voting Member: Lisa Badley

WEI XU

Wednesday, August 23, 2006; 9:30 – 11:30 am
Room 303, 63 St.George Street

Recursive partitioning methods
 for affected relative pair linkage analysis

Committee:
Exam Chair: Martin Wojtowicz
Co-Supervisor: Celia Greenwood
Co-Supervisor: Shelley Bull
External Examiner: Christopher I. Amos
Voting Members: Michael Escobar
David Tritchler
Non-voting Members: Mary Corey
Andrew Paterson

Program of the Final Oral Examination for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy

CORINNE HART

Thursday, July 27, 2006; 10:00 am – 12 noon
Room 301, 63 St. George Street

The construction of emotion work in paid home health care

Committee:
Exam Chair: Linn Holness
Supervisor: Joan Eakin
External Examiner: Roy Cain
Voting Members: Ted Myers
Sheila Neysmith
Ann Robertson

Program of the Final Oral Examination for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy

AGNIESZKA “Iggy” KOSNY

Tuesday, July 25, 2006; 9:00 – 11:00 am
Room 301, 63 St. George Street

The Hazards of Helping: Mission, Work and Risk in Nonprofit Social Service Organizations

Committee:
Exam Chair: Stephen Kish
Supervisor: Joan Eakin
External Examiner: Jane Aronson
Voting Members: Linn Holness
John Shields
Cam Mustard

Program of the Final Oral Examination for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy

Margie Parthimos

Thursday, April 13, 2006; 
2:00 – 4:00 pm
Room 301, 63 St. George Street

Family History of Breast Cancer,
 Hormone Replacement Therapy and
 the Risk for Breast Cancer in Canadian Women

Committee:
Exam Chair: Ning Yan
Co-Supervisor: Anthony Miller
Co-Supervisor: Nancy Kreiger
External Examiner: Polly Newcomb
Voting Members: David Andrews
Mary Chipman

Program of the Final Oral Examination for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy

Jessica Polzer

Monday, March 13, 2006; 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Room 547, 155 College Street

From Active Participant in Health to (Pro)Active 
Manager of Genetic Risk: (Re)Making the 
Ethical Subject of Risk the Age of Genetics

Committee:
Exam Chair: Roger Simon
Supervisor: Ann Robertson
External Examiner: Lorna Weir
Voting Members: Denise Gastaldo
Ross Gray
Margaret MacNeill

Program of the Final Oral Examination for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy

Yaohua “Helen” He

Wednesday, March 8, 2006; 1:00-3:00 pm
Room 301, 63 St. George Street

Nonparametric Methods for 
Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC)
 Curve Analysis in Genomic Studies and
 Diagnostic Medicine

Committee:
Exam Chair: Catherine Bergeron
Supervisor: Michael Escobar
External Examiner: James Hanley
Voting Members: Paul Corey
Keith Knight
Rafal Kustra

Program of the Final Oral Examination for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy

Keith Denny

Monday, March 6, 2006; 10:00 am – 12:00 n
Room 303, 63 St. George Street

Health and/as Social Capital:
 A Critical History of a Concept

Committee:
Exam Chair: Elise Stanely
Supervisor: David Coburn
External Examiner: Paul Higgs
Voting Members: Ann Robertson
Peggy McDonough
Joan Eakin

Program of the Final Oral Examination for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy

Daniel Benjamin Hollenberg

Wednesday, February 22, 2006; 9:00 – 11:00 am
Room 303, 63 St. George Street

Integrative Health Care: A Critical Analysis of the Integration of Complementary/Alternative Medicine and Biomedicine in Clinical Settings

Committee:
Exam Chair: Jeffrey Medin
Supervisor: Linda Muzzin
External Examiner: Leah Gilbert
Voting Members: David Zakus
David Coburn
Catherine Chalin

Program of the Final Oral Examination for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy

Diana Elaine Clarke

Tuesday, February 14, 2006; 11:30 am – 1:30 pm
Room 301, 63 St. George Street

Ethnic and Geographic Differences in Suicidality in Canadian Adults: A Population-Based Study

Committee:
Exam Chair: Lucy R. Osborne
Supervisor: Angela Colantonio
External Examiner: Bill Avison
Voting Members: Anne Rhodes
Michael Escobar
Gail Eyssen

Program of the Final Oral Examination for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy

Tomislav Svoboda

Thursday, January 5, 2006
9:00 – 11:00 am
Room 303, 63 St. George Street

Measuring the ‘Reduction’ in a Harm Reduction Program for Homeless Men with Problems Related to Alcohol and Severe Mental Illness

Committee:
Exam Chair: Douglas Bradley
Supervisor: Vivek Goel
External Examiner: Jeff Turnbull
Voting Members: Richard Glazier
George Tomlinson
Carol Strike

JENNIFER MARY POOLE

Friday, January 26, 2007; 12:00 n – 2:00 pm
Room 301, 63 St. George Street

Behind the Rhetoric of Hope: A Critical Analysis
of Recovery Discourses in Ontario

Committee:

Exam Chair: TBA

Supervisor:

External Examiner:

Voting Members: