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| JENNIFER SHULDINER | November 22, 2019 |
| LISA VIEIRA DIAS | November 20, 2019 |
| KATIE ANN HAYES | September 26, 2019 |
| DOLON CHAKRAVARTTY | September 16, 2019 |
| SARAH ELTON | September 13, 2019 |
| RYAN NG | September 6, 2019 |
| JINGXIONG XU | August 27, 2019 |
| ARIJA BIRZE | August 14, 2019 |
| RENÉE MONCHALIN | August 8, 2019 |
| KATHERINE DAIGNAULT | July 24, 2019 |
| ANDREA CARSON | July 22, 2019 |
| FARAZ VAHID SHAHIDI | July 16, 2019 |
| OSVALDO ESPIN-GARCIA | June 13, 2019 |
| KINNON MacKINNON | June 10, 2019 |
| HANNAH KIA | April 17, 2019 |
| FADY SHANOUDA | April 8, 2019 |
| ARIEL PULVER | February 7, 2019 |
| REBECCA HASDELL | January 10, 2019 |
| NANDITA PERUMAL | December 10, 2018 |
| FELICIA LEUNG | October 2, 2018 |
| KEVIN BLACK | September 6, 2018 |
| ALEKSANDRA ZUK | September 5, 2018 |
| JESSICA DUTTON | August 28, 2018 |
| TIM GUIMOND | August 9, 2018 |
| JEREMIAH HWEE | July 30, 2018 |
| WALLIS RUDNICK | July 25, 2018 |
| SARAH GOODDAY | July 11, 2018 |
| KATHERINE RUDZINSKI | July 6, 2018 |
| NADIA AKSEER | July 3, 2018 |
| LESLEY TARASOFF | June 20, 2018 |
| CHRISTOPHER TAIT | June 14, 2018 |
| CANDICE LYS | June 12, 2018 |
| CHANTEL RAMRAJ | May 22,2018 |
| RACHEL SAVAGE | March 26, 2018 |
| FARAH NAAZ MAWANI | February 26, 2018 |
| MIRLINDA KACHURI | February 16, 2018 |
| MANA REZAI | February 8, 2018 |
| MARTYNA JANJUA | December 7, 2017 |
| SARAH BUCHAN | December 7, 2017 |
| RAMYA KUMAR | December 5, 2017 |
| TYLER O’NEILL | November 28, 2017 |
| ORIT SHIEIR | September 19, 2017 |
| DANA HOWSE | August 31, 2017 |
| NANCY CARNIDE | August 14, 2017 |
| CATHERINE (SARAI) RACEY | July 7, 2017 |
| LAENA MAUNULA | June 2, 2017 |
| KONSTANTIN SHESTOPALOFF | May 30, 2017 |
| SARAH ALLISON EDWARDS | May 15, 2017 |
| TRAVIS JAMES SALWAY HOTTES | February 6, 2017 |
| ASHLEIGH MCGIRR | December 16, 2016 |
| PO-PO LAM | December 13, 2016 |
| YAVGENIA POLSKY | December 12, 2016 |
| YULIYA KNYAHNYTSKA | December 5, 2016 |
| MAYA KESLER | November 25, 2016 |
| KELVIN CHAN | November 14, 2016 |
| DAVID SOAVE | September 29, 2016 |
| MAX SMITH | August 12, 2016 |
| SURYANI HAMDANI | June 23, 2016 |
| J. DENISE POWER | May 5, 2016 |
| ASHLEY AIMONE | March 29, 2016 |
| ALLISON GAYAPERSAD | March 10, 2016 |
| DIANA WITHROW | February 25, 2016 |
| JORDAN TUSTIN | January 29, 2016 |
| JESSICA DENNIS | January 26, 2016 |
| JENNIFER REYNOLDS | December 14, 2015 |
| WEILI LI | October 29, 2015 |
| CESAR HINCAPIE | August 27, 2015 |
| CHRISTOPHER G BUSE | August 26, 2015 |
| GAIL SHERAP CHODRON | August 12, 2015 |
| SARAH JANE STEELE | July 28, 2015 |
| KAREN-LEE MILLER | June 11, 2015 |
| ALEX PRICE | June 10, 2015 |
| BRENDAN SMITH | April 27, 2015 |
| GWEN HEALEY | April 27, 2015 |
| ERICA DI RUGGIERO | March 31, 2015 |
| KIMBERLY GRAY | March 19, 2015 |
| EARL NOWGESIC | March 5, 2015 |
| C. TESS SHELDON | February 5, 2015 |
| DAVID STOCK | January 27, 2015 |
| MEGHAN LYNCH | January 12, 2015 |
Jennifer Shuldiner
Friday, November 22, 2019
12:30 pm
155 College Street, room 650
A Mixed-Methods Study of Genetic Information Decisions and Psychological Implications of Cancer Panel Testing in Women at Risk for Ovarian Cancer
Committee:
Exam Chair: Mark Dobrow
Supervisor: Gary Rodin
External Examiner: Christine Rini
Voting Members: Julia Knight, Joanne Kotsopoulos, Jennifer Brooks
Non-voting Members: Kelly Metcalfe, Sarah Ferguson
Lisa Vieira Dias
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
1:00 pm
63 St. George Street, room 109
Faith and Reason: Biopolitical Pastoralism and the making of the Modern Paleolitic Subject
Committee:
Exam Chair: Robert Rottapel
Supervisor: Ann Robertson
External Examiner: Pamela Wakewich
Voting Members: Margaret MacNeill, Jessica Polzer, Caroline Fusco
Katie Ann Hayes
Thursday, September 26, 2019
2:00 pm
155 College Street, room 574
Responding to a Changing Climate: An Investigation of the Psychosocial Consequences of Climate Change and Community-based Mental Health Responses in High River
Committee:
Exam Chair: Raymond Reilly
Supervisor: Blake Poland
External Examiner: Robert Gifford
Voting Members: Donald Cole, Branka Agic, Janet Durbin
Dolon Chakravartty
Monday, September 16, 2019
10:00 am
63 St. George Street, room 109
Attending to Differential Environmental Exposures among Racialized Newcomer Women in Canada: Why so difficult?
Committee:
Exam Chair: Matthias Niemeier
Supervisor: Donald Cole
External Examiner: Jeffrey Masuda
Voting Members: Clare Wiseman, Yogendra Shakya, Loren Vanderlinden
Sarah Elton
Friday, September 13, 2019
10:00 am
63 St. George Street, room 109
Posthumanist Thinking About Health and the Food System: Vegetal Politics in Toronto Urban Gardens During the Anthropocene
Committee:
Exam Chair: Martin Krkosek
Supervisor: Blake Poland
External Examiner: Elaine Power
Voting Members: Donald Cole, Kathleen Mulligan, Brenda Gladstone
Ryan Ng
Friday, September 6, 2019
9:00 am
155 College Street, room 650
Risk Factor Epidemiology and Predictive Modelling Approaches to Understanding Chronic Disease Incidence
Committee:
Exam Chair: Chen Wang
Supervisor: Laura Rosella
External Examiner: Robert Platt
Voting Members: Walter Wodchis, Jennifer Brooks, Rinku Sutradhar
Jingxiong Xu
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
9:30 am
155 College Street, room 650
Bayes Factor Approaches for Region-based Analysis of Rare Variants from Next Generation Sequencing Studies
Committee:
Exam Chair: William Trimble
Supervisors: Laurent Briollais, Wei Xu
External Examiner: Celia Greenwood
Voting Members: Shelley Bull, Lisa Strug
Arija Birze
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
2:30 pm
155 College Street, room 650
From Behind the Scenes to Under the Skin: The Social and Bodily Experiences of Stressful, Gendered Work in Police Communications
Committee:
Exam Chair: Harvey Anderson
Supervisor: Gillian Einstein
External Examiner: Shannon Wagner
Voting Members: Cheryl Regher, Vicki LeBlanc, Judith Andersen
Renée Monchalin
Thursday, August 8, 2019
10:00 am
63 St. George Street, room 109
Digging up the Medicines: Urban Métis Women’s Identity and Experiences with Health and Social Services in Toronto, Ontario
Committee:
Exam Chair: Ren-Ke Li
Supervisor: Janet Smylie
External Examiner: Kim Anderson
Voting Members: Earl Nowgesic, Michelle Firestone, Stephanie Nixon
Katherine Daignault
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
12:00 noon
155 College Street, room 650
Causal Inference Methodology for Comparisons of Hospital Quality of Care
Committee:
Exam Chair: Kelly Metcalfe
Supervisors: Wendy Lou and Olli Saarela
External Examiner: Cecilia Cotton
Voting Members: Eleanor Pullenayegum, Michael Escobar
Andrea Carson
Monday, July 22, 2019
10:00 am
63 St. George Street, room 109
Ambiguous Endings: A Feminist Sociological Approach to Women’s Stories of Discontinuing Medical Fertility Treatment in Canada
Committee:
Exam Chair: Lucy Osborne
Supervisors: Fiona Webster
External Examiner: Meredith Vanstone
Voting Members: Sandra Bamford, Jessica Polzer, Lori Ross
Faraz Vahid Shahidi
Tuesday, July 16, 2019
10:00 am
63 St. George Street, room 109
Unemployment, Unemployment Protection, and Health in the Era of Neoliberal Welfare State Retrenchment
Committee:
Exam Chair: Naoto Hirano
Supervisors: Arjumand Siddiqi and Carles Muntaner
External Examiner: Amelie Quesnel-Vallée
Voting Members: Ketan Shankardass, Erica Di Ruggiero
Non-voting Member: Carlos R. Quinonez
Osvaldo Espin-Garcia
Thursday, June 13, 2019
10:00 am
155 College Street, room 574
Advances in Incomplete Data Methods for Statistical Genetics
Committee:
Exam Chair: Jerry Warsh
Supervisor: Shelley Bull
External Examiner: Richard Cook
Voting Members: Wei Xu, Virgil Radu Craiu, Olli Saarela, Laurent Briollais
Non-voting Member: Andrew Paterson
Kinnon MacKinnon
Monday, June 10, 2019
1:00 pm
63 St. George St.m room 109
Standardizing Injustice in Transition-related Medicine?: An Institutional Ethnography of How Assessment Protocols Coordinate Inequitable Access to Hormones and Surgeries in Canada
Committee:
Exam Chair: Peter McPherson
Supervisor: Lori Ross
External Examiner: Robb Travers
Voting Members: Suzanne Sicchia, Daniel Grace, Fiona Webster
Non-voting Member: Stella Ng
Hannah Kia
Wednesday, April 17, 2019
11:30 am
63 St. George St., Room 111
Subjugation and Resistance in Older Gay Men’s Health Care Experiences
Committee:
Exam Chair: Jack Uetrecht
Supervisor: Lori Ross
External Examiner: Shari Brotman
Voting Members: Carol Strike, Daniel Grace, Andrea Cortinois
Fady Shanouda
Monday, April 8, 2019
9:30 am
63 St. George St., Room 111
The Politics of Passing: Disabled and Mad Students Experiences of Disclosure in Higher Education
Committee:
Exam Chair: Stephen Girardin
Supervisor: Karen Yoshida
External Examiner: Jay Dolmage
Voting Members: Nancy Halifax, Pia Kontos, Lori Ross
Ariel Pulver
Thursday, February 7, 2019
9:30 am
63 St. George Street, Rm 109
Exploring Maternal Birthplace and Child Gender Disparities in Markers of Neglect and Maltreatment Among Young Children of Immigrants
Committee:
Exam Chair: Alberto Martin
Supervisor: Marcelo Urquia
External Examiner: Beth Potter
Voting Members: Joel Ray, Patricia O’Campo, Jerff Kwong
Non-voting Member: Astrid Guttmann
Rebecca Hasdell
Thursday, January 10, 2019
9:00 am
63 St. George Street, Rm 111
The Space in Between: Healthy Public Policy Development in Canada’s Provincial North
Committee:
Exam Chair: Catriona Steele
Supervisors: Blake Poland, Catherine Mah
External Examiner: Mary McKenna
Voting Members: Donald Cole, Pamela Kaufman
Nandita Perumal
Monday, December 10, 2018
10:00 am
63 St. George Street, Rm 109
Application of Child Growth Standards to Children Born Preterm in Epidemiologic Research: A Comparison of Methods and Implications for Inferences
Committee:
Exam Chair: Frank Sicheri
Supervisors: Donald Cole, Stanley Zlotkin
External Examiner: Jay Kaufman
Voting Members: Daniel Roth, Diego Bassani, Hilary Brown
Non-voting Member: Stanley Zlotkin
Felicia Leung
Tuesday, October 2, 2018
10:00 am
63 St. George Street, Rm 109
Dietary Factors Associated with Abdominal Adiposity in Postmenopausal Women
Committee:
Exam Chair: Craig Dale
Supervisor: Julia Knight
External Examiner: Jennifer Kuk
Voting Members: Anthony Hanley, Victoria Kirsh, Joanne Kotsopoulos
Kevin Black
Thursday, September 6, 2018
10:00 am
100 Devonshire Place, Rm 405
The Deep Metaphors of Dads’ Discourse: Exploring Conceptual Frameworks of Fatherhood
Committee:
Exam Chair: Doug Vanderlaan
Supervisors: Margaret MacNeill, Cameron Norman
External Examiner: Janine Talley
Voting Members: Arjumand Siddiqi, Lori Ross
Aleksandra Zuk
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
1:00 pm
155 College Street, Rm 650
Exploring the Contribution of Vitamin D and Periodontitis on Glycemic Outcomes
Committee:
Exam Chair: Simon Graham
Supervisor: Laura Rosella
External Examiner: Jennifer Kuk
Voting Members: Olli Saarela, Carlos Quinonez, Peter Smith
Jessica Dutton
Tuesday, August 28, 2018
10:00 am
63 St. George Street, Rm 109
Lessons from Stories of Diabetes Self-Management: Enunciating Culture in Health Decision-Making in the Third Space
Committee:
Exam Chair: Belinda Chang
Supervisors: Ted Myers, Ann Fox
External Examiner: Debbie H. Martin
Voting Members: Suzanne Jackson, Dionne Gesink
Tim Guimond
Thursday, August 9, 2018
1:00 pm
155 College Street, Rm 650
A Nonparametric Bayesian Approach to Causal Modelling
Committee:
Exam Chair: Claude Alain
Supervisor: Michael Escobar
External Examiner: Daniel Allen Stephens
Voting Members: Wendy Lou, Olli Saarela, George Tomlinson
Jeremiah Hwee
Monday, July 30, 2018
2:00 pm
63 St. George Street, Rm 111
The Role of Infections in the Etiology of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Committee:
Exam Chair: John Calarco
Supervisors: Jason Pole and Lillian Sung
External Examiner: Marie Claude Rousseau
Voting Members: Rinku Sutradhar, Shelley Harris
Wallis Rudnick
Wednesday, July 25, 2018
1:00 pm
Mt. Sinai Hospital, 600 University Ave., Rm 212
Nosocomial Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus: Acquisition, Infection and Decolonization
Committee:
Exam Chair: Kaori Takehara-Nishiuchi
Supervisor: Allison McGeer
External Examiner: Vivian Loo
Voting Members: David Fisman, Andrew Simor, Laura Rosella, Nick Daneman
Sarah Goodday
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
10:00 am
65 St. George Street, Rm 201
Youth Suicide-related Thoughts and Attempts in Canada: Explaining the Role of Childhood Exposure to Maternal Depression
Committee:
Exam Chair: Liz Page-Gould
Supervisor: Susan Bondy
External Examiner: Bonnie Klimes-Dougan
Voting Members: Rinku Sutradhar, Hilary Brown, Flora Matheson
Non-voting Members: Anne Rhodes
Katherine Rudzinski
Friday, July 6, 2018
9:00 am
63 St. George Street, Rm 111
A Bourdieusian Analysis of Resilience among Victimized Individuals who Smoke Crack Cocaine
Committee:
Exam Chair: Stephen E. Ryan
Supervisor: Carol Strike
External Examiner: Magdalena Harris
Voting Members: Carol Strike, Peggy McDonough, Rosemary Gartner
Nadia Akseer
Tuesday, July 3, 2018
10:00 am
155 College Street, Rm 650
Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition in Afghanistan
Committee:
Exam Chair: Ira Jacobs
Supervisor: Zulfiqar Bhutta
External Examiner: James M Tielsch
Voting Members: Robert Black, Rahim Moineddin, Erica Di Ruggiero
Lesley Tarasoff
Wednesday, June 20, 2018
10:00 am
155 College Street, Rm 650
A Qualitative Study of Embodiment among Women with Physical Disabilities during the Perinatal Period and Early Motherhood
Committee:
Exam Chair: Paul Fraser
Supervisors: Carol Strike and Lori Ross
External Examiner: Ann Fudge Schormans
Voting Members: Karen Yoshida, Janet Parsons
Christopher Tait
Thursday, June 14, 2018
10:00 am
63 ST. George Street, Rm 111
Dietary Patterns, Food Insecurity, and Type 2 Diabetes Risk: A Novel Platform for
Population-Based Nutrition Research Using Linked Survey and Health Administrative Data in Ontario
Committee:
Exam Chair: Sadhna Joshi
Supervisor: Laura Rosella
External Examiner: Jeffrey Johnson
Voting Members: Peter Smith, Mary L’Abbe, Brendan Smith
Candice Lys
Tuesday, June 12, 2018
1:00 pm
65 St. George Street, Rm 201
Development of Coping Strategies and Sexual Subjectivity among Female Youth in the Northwest Territories, described through Body Mapping
Committee:
Exam Chair: Richard V. Harrison
Supervisor: Dionne Gesink
External Examiner: Sarah Flicker
Voting Members: Carol Strike, June Larkin, Lori Ross
Chantel Ramraj
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
2:00 pm
63 St. George Street, Rm 109
Socioeconomic inequalities in distributions of birth outcomes: A cross-national comparative study of Canada and the United States
Committee:
Exam Chair: Claude Alain
Supervisor: Arjumand Siddiqi
External Examiner: William Pickett
Voting Members: Marcelo Urquia, Vincent Hildebrand, John McLaughlin
Rachel Savage
Monday, March 26, 2018
2:00 pm
155 College St., Room 650
Reducing the Impact of Imported Infections in Ontario
Committee:
Exam Chair: Angie Troyer
Supervisors: Natasha Crowcroft, Laura Rosella
External Examiner: Anne McCarthy
Voting Members: Andrea Boggild
Farah Naaz Mawani
Monday, February 26, 2018
11:30 am
155 College St., Room 412
Conceptualization, Measurement and Association of Underemployment to Mental Health Inequities between Immigrant and Canadian-born Labour Force
Committee:
Exam Chair: Derek van der Kooy
Supervisor: Patricia O’Campo
External Examiner: Bilkis Vissandjée
Voting Members: Peter Smith, Flora Matheson
Mirlinda Kachuri
Friday, February 16, 2018
2:00 pm
63 St. George Street, Room 109
Investigation of Genetic Profiles in Chromosome 5p15.33 and Telomere Length in Lung Cancer Risk and Clinical Outcomes
Committee:
Exam Chair: Shannon Dunn
Supervisor: Rayjean J. Hung
External Examiner: Will Duncan King
Voting Members: Geoffrey Liu, Lei Sun, France Gagnon
Mana Rezai
Thursday, February 8, 2018
1:00 pm
63 St. George Street, Room 111
Work Ability and Return to Work Following a Traffic Injury
Committee:
Exam Chair: Mei Zhen
Supervisor: Pierre Côté
External Examiner: William Pickett
Voting Members: David Cassidy, Vicki Kristman, Monique Gignac
Non-voting Members: Selahadin Ibrahim, Linda Carroll
Martyna Janjua
Thursday, December 7, 2017
2:00 pm
155 College Street, Room 400
Governing the Lives of Immigrants: A Foucauldian Perspective on Tuberculosis Immigration Medical Surveillance in Canada
Committee:
Exam Chair: Jason Fish
Supervisor: Denise Gastaldo
External Examiner: Marylyn Morris McEwen
Voting Members: Elizabeth Rea, Amy Bender, Shan Mohammed
Sarah Buchan
Thursday, December 7, 2017
1:00 pm
63 St. George Street, Room 109
Using Laboratory-confirmed Outcomes to Study Pediatric Influenza and Influenza Vaccine Epidemiology in Ontario
Committee:
Exam Chair: Roman Melnyk
Supervisor: Jeff Kwong
External Examiner: Katherine A. Poehling
Voting Members: Laura Rosella, Natasha Crowcroft, David Fisman
Non-voting Member: Dat Tran
Ramya Kumar
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
10:00 am
155 College Street, Room 650
The Privatization Imperative: Women Negotiating Healthcare in Kandy, Sri Lanka
Committee:
Exam Chair: Jennnifer Gommerman
Supervisor: Peggy McDonough
External Examiner: Mandana Wahabi
Voting Members: Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Josephine Wong, Ruplaleem Bhuyan, Erica D. Ruggerio
Non-voting Member: Peggy McDonough
Tyler O’neill
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
9:00 am
63 St. George Street, Room 111
Gastrointestinal Symptoms in HIV Disease: Results from the Ontario HIV Treatment Network Cohort Study, 2007 to 2014
Committee:
Exam Chair: Jennifer Campos
Supervisor: Ann Burchell
External Examiner: Helen Trottier
Voting Members: Nancy Kreiger, Janet Raboud, Darell Tan
Non-voting Member: Jill Tinmouth
Orit Shieir
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
9:30 am
63 St. George Street, Room 111
Excess Heart Disease Risk Associated with Arthritis in the Canadian General Population
Committee:
Exam Chair: Jodie Jenkinson
Supervisor: Elizabeth Badley
External Examiner: Clermont Dionne
Voting Members: Richard Glazier, Sheilah Hogg-Johnson, Michael Chaiton
Dana Howse
Thursday, August 31, 2017
10:00 am
63 St. George Street, Room 109
Injured Workers’ Moral Engagement in the Compensation Process: The Social Production of Problematic Claiming Experience
Committee:
Exam Chair: William Trimble
Supervisor: Joan Eakin
External Examiner: Lilian Magalhaes
Voting Members: Ellen MacEachen, Linn Holness, Peri Ballantyne
Nancy Carnide
Monday, August 14, 2017
1:00 pm
63 St. George Street, Room 111
Early Opioid Prescriptions for Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders of the Low Back: Understanding Dispensing Patterns, their Determinants, and their Impact on Work Disability
Committee:
Exam Chair: Isabelle Boileau
Supervisor: Sheilah Hogg-Johnson
External Examiner: Thomas Wickizer
Voting Members: Pierre Côté, Andrea Furlan, Jeff Kwong
Non-voting Member: Mieke Keohoorn
Catherine (Sarai) Racey
Friday, July 7, 2017
9:30 am
155 College Street, Room 208
The Use of Self-sampling for HPV Testing to Improve Cervical Cancer Screening Participation Among Under-screened Women Living in Rural Ontario
Committee:
Exam Chair: Paul Grootendorst
Supervisor: Dionne Gesink
External Examiner: Katherine Brain
Voting Members: Ann Burchell, Tom Wong, Shelley Deeks
Laena Maunula
Friday, June 2, 2017
10:00 am
63 St. George Street, Room 109
Citizenship in a Post-pandemic World: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis of H1N1 in the Canadian Print News Media
Committee:
Exam Chair: Arun V. Ravindran
Supervisor(s): Ann Robertson and Alison Thompson
External Examiner: Dave Holmes
Voting Members: Margaret MacNeill, Ross Uphur
Konstantin Shestopaloff
Tuesday May 30, 2017
11:30 am
63 St. George Street, Room 109
Analysis of Ecological Communities Using Mixture Models
Committee:
Exam Chair: Brigette Lavoie
Supervisor(s): Michael Escobar and Wei Xu
External Examiner: Mary Louise Lesperance
Voting Members: Wendy Lou, Nicholas Mitsakakis
Sarah Allison Edwards
Monday, May 15, 2017
1:00 pm
65 St. George Street, Room 109
Push & Pull: Social Determinants of The Use of Smoking Cessation Support in Ontario
Committee:
Exam Chair: Elizabeth Pang
Supervisor: Susan Bondy
External Examiner: Lynn Kozlowski
Voting Members: Robert Mann, Russell Callaghan, Hayley Hamilton
Travis James Salway Hottes
Monday, February 6, 2017
1:00 pm
65 St. George Street, Room 109
Stigma, Stress, and Stories: Refining our Understanding of Suicidal Behavior among Adult Gay, Bisexual, and other Sexual Minority Men
Committee:
Exam Chair: David Kelvin
Supervisor: Dionne Gesink
External Examiner: John Pachankis
Voting Members: Anne Rhodes, David Brennan, Sergio Rueda
Ashleigh Mcgirr
Friday, December 16, 2016
2:00 pm
65 St. George Street, Room 201
Pertussis Persistence in Ontario
Committee:
Exam Chair: Bradley MacIntosh
Supervisor: David Fisman
External Examiner: Nicola Klein
Voting Members: Allison McGeer, Beate Sander, Laura Rosella
Po-po Lam
Tuesday, December 13, 2016
3:00 pm
155 College Street, Room HS 650
Predictors of Influenza Among Individuals 60 and Older
Committee:
Exam Chair: Kimberley Widger
Supervisor: Allison McGeer
External Examiner: Arnold S. Monto
Voting Members: Brenda Coleman, Natasha Crowcroft
Non-voting Member: Susan Bondy, Jeff Kwong
Yavgenia Polsky
Monday, December 12, 2016
1:00 pm
155 College Street, Room HS 650
The Retail Food Environment in Relation to Socio-economic Characteristics, Weight Status and Diabetes
Committee:
Exam Chair: Andrew Howard
Supervisors: Richard Glazier and Gillian Booth
External Examiner: Kim Raine
Voting Members: Rahim Moineddin, Catherine Mah
Non-voting Member: James Dunn
Yuliya Knyahnytska
Monday, December 5, 2016
1:00 pm
63 St. George Street
A Topography of Diabetes Management in People with Severe Mental Illnesses: A Critical Ethnography
Committee:
Exam Chair: Eleanor Fish
Supervisor: Fiona Webster
External Examiner: Janet Rankin
Voting Members: Craig Dale, Charmaine Williams, Janet Parsons
Non-voting Member: Rohan Ganguli
Maya Kesler
Friday, November 25, 2016
2:00 pm
Room 650, 155 College Street
Sexual Behaviours and Risk Perceptions of HIV Transmission in HIV-Negative and HIV-Positive Men Who Have Sex With Men (MSM) in Toronto: Perceived HIV Risk, Actual Sexual HIV Risk, HIV Incidence Risk Index for MSM, Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis and Criminalization of Non-Disclosure of HIV-Positive Status
Committee:
Exam Chair: Brad Buchsbaum
Supervisor: Dionne Gesink
External Examiner: Stefan Baral
Voting Members: Rupert Kaul, Ted Myers, Sharmistha Mishra
Kelvin Chan
Monday, November 14, 2016
10:00 am
Room 574, 155 College Street
Addressing Uncertainties in Health Utilities
Committee:
Exam Chair: Sadhna Joshi
Supervisors: Eleanor Pullenayegum and Andrew Willan
External Examiner: Gianluca Baio
Voting Members: Wendy Lou, Wendy Ungar
David Soave
Thursday, September 29, 2016
10:00 am
Room 230, 704 Spadina Avenue
Statistical Methods for Marker Discovery and Disease Risk Prediction Amid Unobserved Genetic Interactions
Committee:
Exam Chair: Juan Carlos (JC) Zúñiga-Pflücker
Supervisors: Lei Sun and Lisa Strug
External Examiner: Peter Kraft
Voting Members: Shelley Bull
Max Smith
Friday, August 12, 2016
1:00 pm
Room 234, 704 Spadina Avenue
Public Health as Social Justice? A Qualitative Study of Public Health Policy-Makers’ Perspectives
Committee:
Exam Chair: Laurie Ailles
Supervisor: Ross Upshur
External Examiner: Jeremy Snyder
Voting Members: Alison Thompson, Suzanne Jackson
Suryani Hamdani
Thursday, June 23, 2016
10:30 am
Room 234, 704 Spadina Avenue
Problematizing Transition to Adulthood for Young Disabled People
Committee:
Exam Chair: Jerry J. Warsh
Supervisor: Rebecca Renwick
External Examiner: Jan Willem Gorter
Voting Members: Barbara Gibson, Cameron Norman, Janet Parsons
J. Denise Power
Thursday, May 5, 2016
1:30 pm
Room 234, 704 Spadina Avenue
The Role of Fatigue in Osteoarthritis and its Potential Overlap with Pain and Depression
Committee:
Exam Chair: Emil Pai
Supervisor: Elizabeth Badley
External Examiner: Patricia Katz
Voting Members: Gillian Hawker, Blair Wheaton, David Cassidy
Ashley Aimone
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
10:00 am
Room 230, 704 Spadina Avenue
Geo-spatial Patterns and Associated Risks of Iron Deficiency and Infection Among Young Ghanaian Children: Implications for the Safety of Iron Supplementation in Malaria Endemic Areas
Committee:
Exam Chair: Arun Ravindran
Supervisors: Donald Cole and Stanley Zlotkin
External Examiner: Parminder S. Suchdev
Voting Members: Patrick Brown, Anthony Hanley
Allison Gayapersad
Thursday, March 10, 2016
1:00 pm
Room 681, 155 College Street
Access to Healthcare by Pregnant and Lactating Women Living with HIV and AIDS in Kenya
Committee:
Exam Chair: Luc De Nil
Supervisor: Daniel Sellen
External Examiner: Heide Castaneda
Voting Members: Donald Cole, Marieme Lo, Stephanie Nixon, Njoki Wane
Diana Withrow
Thursday, February 25, 2016
1:00 pm
Room 234, 704 Spadina Avenue
Cancer Survival in First Nations and Métis Adult in Canada: Follow-up of the 1991 Census Mortality Cohort
Committee:
Exam Chair: David Martell
Supervisors: Loraine Marrett and Jason Pole
External Examiner: Paolo Pinheiro
Voting Members: Wendy Lou, Arjumand Siddiqi
Jordan Tustin
Friday, January 29, 2016
12:00 noon
Room 234, 704 Spadina Avenue
The Internet and Childhood Immunizations in Canada
Committee:
Exam Chair: Lothar Lilge
Supervisor: Natasha Crowcroft
External Examiner: Gina Ogilvie
Voting Members: Dionne Gesink, Ian Johnson, Jeff Kwong
Jessica Dennis
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
1:00 pm
Room 574, 155 College Street
Genetic and Epigenetic Determinants of Tissue Factor Pathway Inhibitor Plasma Levels
Committee:
Exam Chair: Sandy Smith
Supervisor: France Gagnon
External Examiner: Guillaume Pare
Voting Members: Lisa Strug, Nancy Kreiger, Laurent Briollais, Rayjean Hung
Jennifer Reynolds
Monday, December 14, 2015
10:00 am
Room 574, 155 College Street
Youth, Poker & Facebook: Another Case of Candy Cigarettes?
Committee:
Exam Chair: Razq Hakem
Supervisor: Harvey Skinner
External Examiner: Sylvia Kairouz
Voting Members: Cameron Norman, Pamela Kaufman, Brenda Gladstone
Weili Li
Thursday, October 29, 2015
10:00 am
Room 301, 63 St. George St
Pure Likelihood-Based Methods for Genetic Association Studies
Committee:
Exam Chair: Irene Andrulis
Supervisor: Lisa Strug
External Examiner: Subhash Lele
Voting Members: Lei Sun, Jerald Lawless, Michael Evans
Non-voting Member: Paul Corey
Cesar Hincapie
Thursday, August 27, 2015
9:00 am
Toronto General Hospital, R. Fraser Elliott Building
4th floor, 190 Elizabeth St.
Chiropractic Care and Risk for Acute Lumbar Disc Herniation: A Mixed Methods Approach
Committee:
Exam Chair: Don Jackson
Supervisor: J. David Cassidy
External Examiner: Carolyn Emery
Voting Members: Pierre Cote, George Tomlinson, Peter Smith
Non-voting Member: Alejandro Jadad
Christopher G Buse
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
10:00 am
Room 111, 63 St. George St.
Analyzing an Emerging Field of Public Health in Ontario, Canada: The Case of Climate Change Adaptation
Committee:
Exam Chair: Sandy Smith
Supervisor: Blake Poland
External Examiner: Louise Potvin
Voting Members: Josephine Wong, Randolph Haluza-Delay, Sarah Wakefield
Gail Sherap Chodron
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
1:00 pm
Room 301, 63 St. George St.
Inclusion without Potential: Incorporating Disability in the Biopolitics of Neuro-logical Potential
Committee:
Exam Chair: Suzanne Cadarette
Supervisor: Blake Poland
External Examiner: Michael Orsini
Voting Members: Barbara Gibson, Patricia McKeever, Laura Bisaillon
Sarah Jane Steele
Tuesday, July 28, 2015
1:00 pm
Room 111, 63 St. George St.
Chronicling the Relationships, Attitudes, and Sexual Encounters of Men who have Sex with Men MSM)in Shanghai, China: A Web-administered Sexual Events Diary
Committee:
Exam Chair: Tania Watts
Supervisor: Ted Myers
External Examiner: Michel Alary
Voting Members: Donald Cole, Michael Escobar, Janet Raboud
Karen-Lee Miller
Thursday, June 11, 2015
1:00pm
Room 111, 63 St. George St.
“You Can’t Stop the Bell From Ringing.” Protean, Unpredictable, and Persisting: The Victim Impact Statement in the Context of Sexually Assaulted Women
Committee:
Exam Chair: Brian Levine
Supervisor: Janice Du Mont
External Examiner: Holly Johnson
Voting Members: Ted Myers, Dan Allman, Robin Mason, Arjumand Siddiqi
Alex Price
Wednesday, June 10, 2015
10:00am
Room 111, 63 St. George St.
Chasing the Promise of Performance: A Case Study Exploring the Implementation of a Standards-based Accountability Policy Intervention in the Ontario Public Health System
Committee:
Exam Chair: Ian Scott
Supervisor: Robert Schwartz
External Examiner: Robert Shepherd
Voting Members: Joanna Cohen, Fran Scott, Suzanne Jackson
Brendan Smith
Monday, April 27, 2015
3:00pm
Room 303, 63 St. George St.
Socioeconomic Position, Modifiable Risk Factors and Coronary Heart Disease Incidence in Canada
Committee:
Exam Chair: Donna Stewart
Supervisor: Cameron Mustard
External Examiner: Lisa Lix
Voting Members: Peter Smith, Doug Manuel, Jeff Kwong
Gwen Healey
Monday, April 27, 2015
1:00pm
Room 301, 63 St. George St.
Inuit Family Perspectives and Stories on Sexual Health and Relationships in Nunavut
Committee:
Exam Chair: Meir Steiner
Supervisor: Dionne Gesink
External Examiner: Jane McMillan
Voting Members: Ted Myers, Brenda Gladstone, Carol Strike
Erica Di Ruggiero
Thursday, March 31, 2015
4:15pm
Room 111, 63 St. George St.
Agenda Setting in Global Policy Development: the Case of the International Labour Organization Decent Work Agenda
Committee:
Exam Chair: John Glover
Supervisor: Joanna Cohen
External Examiner: Jerry Spiegel
Voting Members: Donald Cole, Lisa Forman, Denise Gastaldo
Kimberly Gray
Thursday, March 19, 2015
10:00am
Room 301, 63 St. George St.
The Politics of Knowledge Production in HIV/AIDS Research about Ontario’s African, Caribbean, and Black Communities
Committee:
Exam Chair: Michael Rauth
Supervisor: Peggy McDonough
External Examiner: Kelly Moore
Voting Members: Mathieu Albert, Erica Lawson, Stephanie Nixon, Josephine Wong
Earl Nowgesic
Thursday, March 5, 2015
10:00am
Room 301, 63 St. George St.
Antiretroviral Therapy Access, Acceptance and Adherence among Urban Indigenous Peoples Living with HIV in Saskatchewan: The Indigenous Red Ribbon Storytelling Study
Committee:
Exam Chair: David Jenkins
Supervisor: Ted Myers
External Examiner: Grace Getty
Voting Members: Cameron Norman, Kue Young, Stephanie Nixon, Carol Strike
Tess Sheldon
Thursday, Februay 5, 2015
3:00 pm
Room 301, 63 St. George St.
Meds on the Menu: The Covert Administration of Psychotropic Medication to Adult Inpatients Determined to be Decisionally-Incapable in Ontario’s Psychiatric Settings
Committee:
Exam Chair: Janice Rovet
Supervisor: Lorraine Ferris
External Examiner: Michael Perlin
Voting Members: Elizabeth Peter, Trudo Lemmons, Brian Rush
David Stock
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
10:00 am
Room 301, 63 St. George St.
Markers of Circadian Disruption and Reproductive Risk Factors for Breast Cancer
Committee:
Exam Chair: Judith Friedland
Supervisor: Julia Knight
External Examiner: Anne Zeleniuch-Jacquotte
Voting Members: Janet Raboud, Michelle Cotterchio, Paul Demers
Meghan Lynch
Monday, January 12, 2015
10:00 am
Room 303, 63 St. George St.
Toying with Healthy Eating: Developing a Play-based Nutrition Education Program
Committee:
Exam Chair: Gideon Koren
Supervisor: Daniel Sellen
External Examiner: Donna Matheson
Voting Members: Catherine Mah, Amy McPherson, Ann Fox, Anthony Hanley