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PAI-SHAN CHENG – December 18, 2024
Wednesday, December 18 2024
11:00 AM ET
Network meta-analysis using Gaussian random walks with drift: Bayesian models for the synthesis of randomized evidence from continuous outcomes measured at multiple time points
Committee:
Exam Chair: Sindhi Johnson
Supervisors: George Tomlinson and Bruno da Costa
External Appraiser: Hwanhee Hong
Voting Members: Peter Jüni, Eleanor Pullenayegum, Michael Escobar
ROSE GARRETT – December 16, 2024
Monday, December 16 2024
1:00 PM ET
Methods for inference under Assessment Not at Random in electronic health records data
Committee:
Exam Chair: Esme Fuller-Thomson
Supervisors: Eleanor Pullenayegum
External Appraiser: Joel Dubin
Voting Members: Olli Saarela, Laurent Briollais, Charlie Keown-Stoneman
MIRANDA LOUTET – December 10, 2024
Tuesday, December 10 2024
10:00 AM ET
Variations in the Measurement of Early-infant Feeding Practices and Effects on Associations in Epidemiological Research
Committee:
Exam Chair: Katharina Braeutigam
Supervisors: Daniel Roth and Diego Bassani
External Appraiser: Emily Smith
Voting Members: Charles Keown-Stoneman, Sonia Grandi
MOHAMMAD KAVIUL ANAM KHAN – November 6, 2024
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
1:00 PM ET
Generalized Variable Importance Metric: An approach to identify important predictors from machine learning models
Committee:
Exam Chair: Rola Saleeb
Supervisor: Rafal Kustra
External Appraiser: Xin Gao
Voting Members: Olli Saarela, Radford Neal, Aya Mitani
LINKE LI – September 13, 2024
Friday, September 13, 2024
1:00 PM ET
Efficient Computation Methods for Expected Value of Sample Information in Bayesian Clinical Trial Designs
Committee:
Exam Chair: Voula Kanelis
Supervisors: Anna Heath and Eleanor Pullenayegum
External Appraiser: Lauren E. Cipriano
Voting Members: Clement Ma, George Tomlinson
ROSE SCHMIDT – September 09, 2024
Monday, September 9, 2024
12:00 PM ET
Opioid agonist therapy during pregnancy: A feminist community-engaged mixed methods study
Committee:
Exam Chair: Tilak Dutta
Supervisor: Carol Strike
External Appraiser: Kelly Ray Knight
Voting Members: Tara Gomes, Amaya Perez-Brumer, Hillary Brown
KIMBERLEE COLLINS – September 05, 2024
Thursday, September 5, 2024
10:30 AM ET
Feeling Climate Change: Experiences of Ecological Emotions on Urban Farms
Committee:
Exam Chair: Evelyn Lambe
Supervisor: Lori E. Ross
Co-Supervisor: Sarah Elton
External Appraiser: Lauren Corman
Voting Members: Carla Rice, Amaya Perez-Brumer
MICHELLE TAM – August 22, 2024
Thursday, August 22, 2024
2:00 PM ET
Advancing Queer Reproductive Justice: Examining Access to Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Family Expansion for 2SLGBTQ+ Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour
Committee:
Exam Chair: Fa-Hsuan Lin
Supervisor: Lori E. Ross
External Appraiser: Bianca Wilson
Voting Members: Amaya Perez-Brumer, Stu Marvel, Notisha Massaquoi
JEN GOLDBERG – August 15, 2024
Thursday, August 15, 2024
10:00 AM ET
A critical narrative inquiry into the experiences of queer, trans, and nonbinary midwifery service-users in Ontario
Committee:
Exam Chair: Mary Cheng
Supervisor: Lori E. Ross
External Appraiser: Christina Sinding
Voting Members: Amaya Perez-Brumer, Janet Parsons, Michael Atkinson
REBECCA BALASA – August 14, 2024
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
9:30 AM ET
Child sex trafficking identification and response in Ontario pediatric emergency departments: An intersectional mixed methods study
Committee:
Exam Chair: Marianne Koritzinsky
Supervisor: Amaya Perez-Brumer
External Appraiser: Ajwang’ Warria
Voting Members: Dionne Gesink, Lisa Forman, Erica Di Ruggiero
MELISSA PERRI – August 8, 2024
Thursday, August 8, 2024
9:30 AM ET
Safer Supply, housing, and social services as Gendered Phenomenon: Implications on the ontological security of women who use drugs
Committee:
Exam Chair: Philippe Monnier
Supervisor: Carol Strike
External Appraiser: Julia Woodhall-Melnik
Voting Members: Patricia O’Campo, Adrian Guta, Cheryl Pritlove
JAD SINNO – July 29, 2024
Monday, July 29, 2024
1:00 PM ET
A Reparative Analysis of Dating App Use and Wellbeing Among Queer Adults in Canada: A Mixed Methods Study
Committee:
Exam Chair: William Hutchison
Supervisor: Daniel Grace
External Appraiser: Patrick Wilson
Voting Members: Amaya Perez-Brumer, Paul Shuper, Michael Atkinson
KIMBERLY DEVOTTA – July 23, 2024
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
9:00 AM ET
Understanding how the lives and experiences of South Asian women living in Ontario shape their decisions around getting screened for cervical cancer: a concept mapping study
Committee:
Exam Chair: Michal Opas
Supervisors: Aisha Lofters and Patricia O’Campo
External Appraiser: Karen Ann McDonnell
Voting Members: Jackie Bender, Sara Guilcher, Ann Burchell
CHRISTOPHER MEANEY – June 24, 2024
Monday, June 24, 2024
10:00 AM ET
Topic Models for Primary Care and Community Health Monitoring
Committee:
Exam Chair: Avril Mansfield
Supervisors: Michael Escobar and Therese Stukel
External Appraiser: Tibor Schuster
Voting Members: Peter Austin, Konstantin Shestopaloff
DANIEL EISENKRAFT KLEIN – June 20, 2024
Thursday, June 20, 2024
10:00 AM ET
Policy Stakeholder Framings of the Canadian Overdose Crisis: Implications for Public Health, the Opioid Industry, and Framing Coalitions
Committee:
Exam Chair: Bradley Buchsbaum
Supervisors: Rob Schwartz
External Appraiser: S. Scott Graham
Voting Members: Quinn Grundy, Ben Hawkins, Erica Di Ruggiero
DAVID KRYSZAJTYS – June 10, 2024
Monday, June 10, 2024
9:30 AM ET
An Investigation of the Decision-Making Process for Psychedelic Self-Treatment of Depression and Anxiety in Online Communities
Committee:
Exam Chair: Eric Nauenberg
Supervisors: Jacqueline Bender
External Appraiser: Andrew D. Hathaway
Voting Members: Carol Strike, Brian Rush, Sergio Rueda
DONGYANG YANG – May 02, 2024
Thursday, May 02, 2024
2:00 PM ET
Latent Structure and Causal Mediation Models for Human Microbiome Sequencing Data
Committee:
Exam Chair: Landon Edgar
Supervisors: Wei Xu
External Appraiser: Depeng Jiang
Voting Members: Olli Saarela, Eleanor Pullenayegum, Zhihui Liu
CALVIN YIP – April 29, 2024
Monday, April 29 2024
2:00 PM ET
Understanding, Predicting, and Preventing Mortality from Deaths of Despair in Canada: A Population-based Approach
Committee:
Exam Chair: Lothar Lilge
Supervisors: Arjumand Siddiqi
External Appraiser: Sam Harper
Voting Members: Laura Rosella, Marzyeh Ghassemi, Michael Chaiton
KATE ST. CYR – April 23, 2024
Tuesday, April 23 2024
9:00 AM ET
Mental health service use among Canadian Veterans and non-Veterans in Ontario: a population-based study exploring differences among males and females and by length of service
Committee:
Exam Chair: Jean-Philippe Julien
Supervisors: Paul Kurdyak and Alyson Mahar
External Appraiser: Murray Enns
Voting Members: Peter Smith, Victoria Arrandale
MADISON GILES – April 22, 2024
Monday, April 22 2024
1:00 PM
The Sexual Subjectivity of Youth with Physical Disabilities: An Arts-Based Study in Toronto, Canada
Committee:
Exam Chair: Cindy-Lee Dennis
Supervisors: Dionne Gesink
External Appraiser: Treena Orchard
Voting Members: Amy McPherson, Clara Juando-Prats, Daniel Grace
CHRISTA ORCHARD – April 10, 2024
Monday, April 10, 2024
10:00 AM ET
Using a Data-Driven Population Segmentation Approach to Improve our Understanding of Mental Health and Associated Mental Healthcare Service Use Patterns in Ontario, Canada.
Committee:
Exam Chair: Arash Zarrine-Afsar
Supervisors: Peter Smith and Laura Rosella
External Appraiser: Kelly Anderson
Voting Members: Elizabeth Lin, Arjumand Siddiqi
BOJANA PETROVIC – April 8, 2024
Monday, April 8, 2024
3:00 PM ET
Continuity and Coordination of Cancer Care: A Mixed Methods Study of a Web-Based Communication System
Committee:
Exam Chair: JC Zuniga-Pflucker
Supervisors: Eva Grunfeld and Jackie Bender
External Appraiser: Lauren P. Wallner
Voting Members: David Wiljer
KRISTIE SEROTA – February 15, 2024
Thursday, February 15, 2024
1:00 PM ET
Complex MAiD Bereavement Stories: A Critical Narrative Analysis of Family Members’ Discordance, Pain, Dignity, and Wisdom
Committee:
Exam Chair: Mohini Sain
Supervisors: Daniel Buchman and Michael Atkinson
External Appraiser: Katherine Kortes-Miller
Voting Members: Ross Upshur, Elizabeth Peter
MEHDI ROSTAMIFOROOSHANI – January 31, 2024
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
1:00 PM ET
Causal inference with neural network predictions
Committee:
Exam Chair: Zindel Segal
Supervisor: Olli Saarela
External Appraiser: Michael Wallace
Voting Members: Michael Escobar, Konstantin Shestopaloff, Laurent Briollais
MONICA GAGNON – January 16, 2024
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
9:00 AM ET
Bordering in Canadian Health Care: How the “Birth Tourism” Discourse Determines Deservingness of Health Coverage and Undermines the Right to Health
Committee:
Exam Chair: David Jenkins
Supervisor: Lisa Forman
External Appraiser: Sarah Willen
Voting Members: Rupaleem Bhuyan, Denise Gastaldo, Kazumi Tsuchiya
JEAN-PAUL SOUCY – January 8, 2024
Monday, January 8, 2024
2:00 PM ET
Infectious Disease Surveillance Using Emerging Data Sources: Applications to Antimicrobial Resistance and COVID-19
Committee:
Exam Chair: David Malkin
Co-Supervisors: Kevin Brown and David Fisman
External Appraiser: Philip M. Polgreen
Voting Members: Derek MacFadden, Jeff Kwong
BERNICE YANFUL – December 12, 2023
Wednesday, December 12, 2023
9:30AM ET
Ghana’s School Feeding Programme as a Site of Discursive Struggle
Committee:
Exam Chair: James Rini
Supervisor: Anne-Emanuelle Birn
External Appraiser: Irena Knezevic
Voting Members: Rupaleem Bhuyan, Cecilia Rocha, Ryan Isakson
IOANA NICOLAU – December 6, 2023
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
2:00pm ET
Quantifying the Burden of Cancer in People Living with HIV in Ontario and Examining Associations between CD4 Measures and Cancer Risk
Committee:
Exam Chair: Susanne Ferber
Supervisor: Ann Burchell
External Appraiser: Meredith S. Shiels
Voting Members: Jennifer Brooks, Rahim Moineddin, Meghan Walker
Non-voting Member:
PAM KOLOPACK – November 28, 2023
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
2:00pm ET
Do Research Ethics Guidelines Promote Equitable Power Relationships Between Low-and-Middle Income Country Communities and High-Income Country Researchers?
Committee:
Exam Chair: Rob Nolan
Supervisor: Alison Thompson
External Appraiser: Budd Hall
Voting Members: Ross Upshur, James Lavery, Elizabeth Peter
BETH ELLEN ROSSEN – November 22, 2023
Wednesday, November 22, 2023
1:00pm ET
The Quest for Health Information Resources by Young Adults with Disabilities: Building Theory
Committee:
Exam Chair: Joel Sadavoy
Supervisor: Rebecca Renwick
External Appraiser: Argerie Tsimicalis
Voting Members: Melanie Barwick, John Cairney, Rebecca Gewurtz
CATHARINE CHAMBERS – October 17, 2023
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
2:00pm ET
Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Uptake and Effectiveness Among Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men
Committee:
Exam Chair: Donald Weaver
Supervisor: Ann Burchell
External Appraiser: Eric Chow
Voting Members: Daniel Grace, Rinku Sutradhar, Jennifer Brooks, Shelly Bolotin
IFRAH ABDILLAHI – September 19, 2023
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
10:00am ET
An idea whose time has come: Tracing the Emergence and Implementation of the Toronto Action Plan to Confront Anti-Black Racism from 2011-2021
Committee:
Exam Chair: Arthur Morta
Supervisor: Erica Di Ruggiero
External Examiner: Barbara-Ann G. Hamilton-Hinch
Voting Members: Arjumand Siddiqi, Kazumi Tsuchiya, Suzanne Sicchia
SUMEET KALIA – September 13, 2023
Wednesday, September 13, 2023
1:00pm ET
Causal Inference Using Electronic Health Records in Primary Care
Committee:
Exam Chair: Rongmin Zhao
Supervisor: Olli Saarela
External Examiner: Tyler Williamson
Voting Members: Rahim Moineddin, Michael Escobar, Eleanor Pullenayegum
MICHELLE GAFFEY – September 11, 2023
Monday, September 11, 2023
9:00am ET
Determinants of Levels and Trends in Child Mortality in Rural Northern Malawi
Committee:
Exam Chair: Guillaume Filion
Supervisor: Diego G Bassani
External Examiner: Peter Waiswa
Voting Members: Mia Crampin, Daniel Roth, Arjumand Siddiqi
JUYEON LEE – August 24, 2023
Thursday, August 24, 2023
5:00pm ET
The Political Economy of the Development of Occupational Safety and Health Regulation in South Korea
Committee:
Exam Chair: Fiona Miller
Supervisor: Erica Di Ruggiero
External Examiner: Michael Quinlan
Voting Members: Lisa Forman, Yoonkyung Lee, Ellen MacEachen
CHANGCHANG XU – August 24, 2023
Thursday, August 24, 2023
9:00am ET
Improving Mixture Cure Modelling of Multiple Molecular Factors in Cancer Prognosis
Committee:
Exam Chair: Reina Bendayan
Supervisor: Shelley Bull
External Examiner: Yingwei Paul Peng
Voting Members: Laurent Briollais, Irene Andrulis, Eleanor Pullenayegum
SHAMIM AHMED – July 31, 2023
Monday, July 31, 2023
1:00pm ET
The Role of Male Partners’ in the Breastfeeding Practices of Female Readymade Garment Workers in Bangladesh
Committee:
Exam Chair: Stephen Juvet
Supervisor: Daniel Sellen
External Examiner: Nathan Christopher Nickel
Voting Members: Erica Di Ruggiero, Rukhsana Haider, Anushka Ataullahjan
Non-voting Member: Shafi Bhuiyan
KARIMA JOY – July 31, 2023
Monday, July 31, 2023
10:00am ET
Grief Experiences in Life, Death, and the Workplace: A Critical Analysis of Bereavement Accommodation for Workers in Precarious Employment in Canada
Committee:
Exam Chair: Peter McPherson
Supervisor: Pia Kontos
External Examiner: David Wright
Voting Members: Elizabeth Peter-Hardtke, Susan Cadell, Suzanne Sicchia
ZACHARY BOUCK – July 25, 2023
Tuesday, July 25th, 2023
10:00am ET
Remote
Assessing the Potential of Oral Opioid Agonist Treatment to Prevent Injection Drug Use Initiation Assistance
Committee:
Exam Chair: Elizabeth Page-Gould
Supervisor: Andrea Tricco
External Examiner: Christine Leong
Voting Members: Hailey Banack, Daniel Werb, Michael Chaiton
Non-voting Member: Laura Rosella
JENNIFER JAIRAM – July 13, 2023
Thursday, 13 July, 2023
9:00 AM
Area-Level Constrained Income, Immigrant Status and Adverse Maternal and Neonatal Birth Outcomes in Ontario, Canada
Committee:
Exam Chair: Ayelet Kuper
Supervisors: Joel Ray, Patricia O’Campo
External Examiner: Michael Kramer
Voting Members: Simone Vigod, Susan Bronskill
DAVID KINITZ – July 7, 2023
Friday, July 7th, 2023
1:00pm ET
Hybrid
Economic Insecurity, Work, and Mental Health among Gay, Bisexual, and Queer Men: A Critical Narrative Inquiry into Precarious Work
Committee:
Exam Chair: Tara Gomes
Supervisor: Dionne Gesink
External Examiner: Bianca Wilson
Voting Members: Lori Ross, Ellen MacEachen, Erica Di Ruggiero
BO CHEN – June 21, 2023
Wednesday, June 21st, 2023
10:00am ET
Hybrid
Causal Variance Decompositions for Evaluating Healthcare Provider Performance
Committee:
Exam Chair: Mike Tymianski
Supervisor: Olli Saarela
External Examiner: Geneviève Lefebvre
Voting Members: Zhihui (Amy) Liu, Linbo Wang, Aya Mitani
SANGOOM KIM – June 8, 2023
Thursday, June 8th, 2023
9:00am ET
Hybrid
Phenotyping and Latent Genetic Interaction Analysis Using Quantile Regression
Committee:
Exam Chair: York Pei
Supervisor: Lisa Strug
External Examiner: Kate Tilling
Voting Members: Shelley Bull, Laurent Briollais, Wei Xu
ANDRÉ McDONALD – March 27, 2023
Monday, March 27th, 2023
10:00am ET
Remotely
The Association Between Youth Cannabis Use and Subsequent Health Service Use for Mood, Anxiety, and Psychotic Disorders
Committee:
Exam Chair: Alan Cochrane
Supervisor: Susan Bondy
External Examiner: Mary Cannon
Voting Members: Jürgen Rehm, Paul Kurdyak, Jennifer Bell
SOPHIE ROHER – February 16, 2023
Thursday, February 16th, 2023
11:00am ET
Remotely
Nats’eji: Exploring Understandings of and Experiences with Indigenous Wellness Services and Healing Practices at Stanton Territorial Hospital, Northwest Territories
Committee:
Exam Chair: Marc Johnson
Supervisor: Jennifer Gibson
External Examiner: Sarah de Leeuw
Voting Members: Angela Mashford-Pringle, Tracey Galloway, Kathi Wilson
Non-voting Member: Susan Chatwood
SARAH SUTHERLAND – February 1, 2023
Wednesday, February 1, 2023
10:00am ET
Remotely
Resilience and the Relationship between Care Environment and HIV Risk Factors in Orphaned and Separated Children and Adolescents in Western Kenya
Committee:
Exam Chair: Ted Erclik
Supervisor: Harry Shannon
External Examiner: Michael Goodman
Voting Members: David Streiner, Olli Saarela, Hilary Brown
LEIF ERIK LOVBLOM – December 12, 2022
Monday, December 12, 2022
1:00pm ET
Room 111, 63 St. George Street
Joint Multistate Models for Correlated Disease Processes: Extending Approaches for Interval-Censoring, Mixed Observation Schemes, and Multiple Longitudinal Outcomes
Committee:
Exam Chair: JC Zúñiga-Pflücker
Supervisors: George Tomlinson, Bruce Perkins
External Examiner: Yun-Hee Choi
Voting Members: Laurent Briollais, Shelley Bull
REBECCA CHRISTENSEN – December 1, 2022
Thursday, December 1st, 2022
2:00pm ET
Remotely
The Independent and Combined Associations of Estimated Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Body Mass Index, Percent Body Fat or Physical Activity with Invasive Postmenopausal Breast Cancer
Committee:
Exam Chair: Lothar Lilge
Supervisor: Jennifer Brooks
External Examiner: Christine Friedenreich
Voting Members: Julia Knight, Rinku Sutradhar, Hailey Banack
NICOLA GAILITS – November 10, 2022
Thursday, November 10th, 2022
2:30pm ET
Room 650, 155 College Street
Making the Invisible, Visible: Reimagining Immigrant Mental Health Through the Stories of Latinx Women
Committee:
Exam Chair: Katherine Berg
Supervisor: Lori Ross
External Examiner: Marina Morrow
Voting Members: Denise Gastaldo, Izumi Sakamoto, Rupaleem Bhuyan
JESSICA WONG – October 11, 2022
Tuesday, October 11, 2022
2:00pm ET
Effects of Back Pain and Mental Health Conditions on Health Care Utilization and Costs: A Population-based Perspective using a Novel Data Platform in Back Pain Research
Committee:
Exam Chair: Raisa Deber
Supervisor: Laura Rosella
External Examiner: Clermont Dionne
Voting Members: Pierre Côté, Andrea Tricco, Susan Jaglal
TODD NORWOOD – September 28, 2022
Wednesday, September 28, 2022
2:00pm ET
Advanced Diagnostic Imaging and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer in Ontario: Detection, Incidence, Access, and Patient Outcomes
Committee:
Exam Chair: Pamela Goodwin
Supervisor: Laura Rosella
External Examiner: Lawrence McCandless
Voting Members: Lorraine Lipscombe, Therese Stukel, John McLaughlin
CELINA CARTER – September 16, 2022
Friday, September 16, 2022
9:00am ET
An Examination of the Socio-Political Forces Shaping End-of-Life Conversations in Interprofessional Primary Care with Medically Frail Older Adults
Committee:
Exam Chair: Rob Fowler
Supervisor: Pia Kontos
External Examiner: Erica Borgstrom
Voting Members: Ross Upshur, Shan Mohammed, Craig Dale
DANIEL HARRIS – September 7, 2022
Wednesday, September 7, 2022
3:00pm ET
Assessing the Potential Unintended Consequences of Antipsychotic Reduction in Nursing Homes: Medication Substitution and Changes to Diagnosis Coding
Committee:
Exam Chair: Pamela Goodwin
Supervisor: Susan Bronskill
External Examiner: Donovan Maust
Voting Members: Andrea Iaboni, Laura Rosella, Jennifer Brooks
Non-voting Member: Peter Austin
VASILY GIANNAKEAS – August 23, 2022
Tuesday, August 23, 2022
1:30 pm EDT
The Association of Platelet Count on Cancer Incidence and Survival
Committee:
Exam Chair: Helene Wagner
Supervisor: Steven Narod
External Examiner: Marc Carrier
Voting Members: Laura Rosella, Joanne Kotsopoulos, Geoffrey Liu
MIRANDA LESPERANCE – August 15, 2022
Monday, August 15, 2022
11 am EDT
63 St. George Street, Rm 111 (Hybrid)
“We are stories, not labels” – Anishinaabekweg Childrearing Experiences
Committee:
Exam Chair: Susan Jaglal
Supervisor: Janet Smylie
External Examiner: Jennifer Leason
Voting Members: Earl Nowgesic, Renee Monchalin, Billie-Jo Hardy
MATTHEW WARKENTIN – July 27, 2022
Wednesday, July 27, 2022
11 am EDT
Remotely
Risk Stratification for Lung Cancer Screening using an Epidemiologic, Molecular, and Quantitative Imaging Approach
Committee:
Exam Chair: Sagi Abelson
Supervisors: Rayjean Hung, Kieran Campbell
External Examiner: John Witte
Voting Members: Laurent Briollais, Laura Rosella
Non-voting Member: Geoffrey Liu
MEGAN NGUYEN – July 25, 2022
Monday, July 25, 2022
9 am EDT
Remotely
Rethinking Emotions: A Phenomenological, Photo-elicitation Study of Individuals Living with Cancer
Committee:
Exam Chair: Jason Weir
Supervisor: Pia Kontos
External Examiner: Helen Fielding
Voting Members: Brenda Gladstone, Kym Maclaren, Clara Juando-Prats
ANDI CAMDEN – July 18, 2022
Monday, July 18, 2022
10 am EDT
Remotely
Opioid Use in Pregnancy in Ontario, Canada – Using Population-Based Administrative Data to Evaluate the Health of Pregnant People and Children
Committee:
Exam Chair: Andrew Spence
Supervisors: Teresa To, Astrid Guttmann
External Examiner: Scott Lorch
Voting Members: Tara Gomes, Marcelo Urquia
Non-voting Member: Joel Ray
JANNA MacLACHAN – July 12, 2022
Tuesday, July 12, 2022
1 pm EDT
Remotely
Naalagiursaniq Tunnganarnirlu (Learning to Listen and be Welcoming): Engaging Inuit Perspectives on Timimut Ikajuqsivik (Rehabilitation) for Children in the Qikiqtani Region of Nunavut
Committee:
Exam Chair: Cara Krmpotich
Supervisor: Stephanie Nixon
External Examiner: Wayne Clark
Voting Members: Anita Benoit, Earl Nowgesic, Andrea Andersen, Allison Crawford
Non-voting Member: Stephanie Nixon
Qualified Observer: Leetia Janes
WOOK YANG – July 11, 2022
Monday, July 11, 2022
10 am EDT
Remotely
Cognitive and Mental Health in Aging Sexual Minority Populations: Diversifying the Minority Stress Model
Committee:
Exam Chair: Jessamyn Schertz
Supervisor: Shelley Craig
External Examiner: Nathan Grant Smith
Voting Members: John Anderson, Lori Ross, Harry Taylor
JOSLYN TROWBRIDGE – June 22, 2022
Wednesday, June 22, 2022
4:45 pm ET
Remotely
Six-Case Comparative Study to Identify Systems Thinking Approaches in Government-designed Public Health Strategies
Committee:
Exam Chair: Daniel Moore
Supervisor: Robert Schwartz
External Examiner: Lucie Rychetnik
Voting Members: Lori Ross, Diane Finegood, Terry Sullivan
SHILO McBURNEY – June 16, 2022
Thursday, June 16, 2022
10:00 am ET
Remotely
The Problem with Pertussis: Finding Undetected Pertussis Cases in Electronic Medical Record Primary Care (EMRPC) to Improve Data Accuracy and Burden Estimates
Committee:
Exam Chair: Caroline Fusco
Supervisor: Jeffrey Kwong
External Examiner: Elizabeth Miller
Voting Members: Frank Rudzicz, Kevin Brown, Karen Tu, Shelly Bolotin
CATHY LONG – April 19, 2022
Tuesday, April 19, 2022
1:00 pm ET
Remotely
An Examination of the Pre-Implementation Stage of a Supervised Consumption Service in an Acute Care Hospital
Committee:
Exam Chair: Belinda Chang
Supervisor: Carol Strike
External Examiner: William Small
Voting Members: Michelle Firestone, Ahmed Bayoumi, Branka Agic
ISHA BERRY – March 24, 2022
Thursday, March 24, 2022
12:00 pm ET
Remotely
Influenza and Avian Influenza in Urban Bangladesh: Live Poultry Exposure, Seasonality, and Pandemic Risk at the Human-Poultry Interface
Committee:
Exam Chair: Elaine Biddiss
Supervisor: David Fisman
External Examiner: Peter Rabinowitz
Voting Members: Amy Greer, Shaun Morris, Nelson Lee
Qualified Observer: Punam Mangtani
RAMANDIP GREWAL – February 3, 2022
Thursday, February 3, 2022
12:00 pm ET
Remotely
Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccination among Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men and Men Living with HIV
Committee:
Exam Chair: Jüri Reimand
Supervisors: Ann Burchell, Shelley Deeks
External Examiner: Alan Nyitray
Voting Members: Trevor Hart, Jennifer Brooks
MICHELLE AMRI – December 14, 2021
Tuesday, December 14th, 2021
11:00 am ET
Remotely
An Investigation into the World Health Organization’s Discussion of Health Equity and Resulting Operationalization to Policy and Practice
Committee:
Exam Chair: Kenneth Chapman
Supervisors: Patricia O’Campo, Theresa Enright
External Examiner: Ronald Labonté
Voting Members: Erica Di Ruggiero, Lisa Forman
Non-voting Member: Arjumand Siddiqi
JUDITH APONDI ODHIAMBO – October 15, 2021
Friday, October 15th, 2021
2:00 pm ET
Remotely
Legislation of Structural Violence, Inequities, and Social Injustices? An Institutional Ethnography of the Social Organization of HIV Healthcare and Treatment for African, Caribbean, and Black (ACB) People Living with HIV in Canada
Committee:
Exam Chair: Lothar Lilge
Supervisor: Daniel Grace
External Examiner: Henry Parada
Voting Members: Patricia O’Campo, LaRon Nelson, Charmaine Williams
Non-voting Member: Lisa Forman
SUDIPTA SAHA – September 30, 2021
Thursday, September 30, 2021
9:00 am ET
Remotely
Causal Inference Methods for Secondary Analysis of Randomized Screening Trials
Committee:
Exam Chair: Paul Grootendorst
Supervisor: Olli Saarela
External Examiner: Russell Steele
Voting Members: Wendy Lou, Zhihui (Amy) Liu, Eleanor Pullenayegum, Laurent Briollais
MARIANA FERRAZ DUARTE – September 22, 2021
Wednesday, September 22, 2021
2:00 pm ET
Remotely
The struggle for urban resources in Sao Paulo, Brazil: How can the housing movement tackle urban health inequities?
Committee:
Exam Chair: Jean Chen
Supervisor: Arjumand Siddiqi
External Examiner: Patricia Perkins
Voting Members: Denise Gastaldo, Josephine Wong, Erica Di Ruggiero
LAURA ALISON WARREN – September 3, 2021
Friday, September 3, 2021
1:00 pm ET
Remotely
Ageing Among Off-Reserve Indigenous Populations in Canada
Committee:
Exam Chair: Sandy Smith
Supervisors: Laura Rosella, Jennifer Walker
External Examiner: Sylvia Abonyi
Voting Members: Jennifer Brooks
Qualified Observer: Elder John Sawyer
REBECCA BARRY – September 1, 2021
Wednesday, September 1, 2021
1:00pm ET
Remotely
Help-Seeking Behaviours, Access to Care and Suicide among Rural and Urban Populations in Ontario, Canada
Committee:
Exam Chair: Peter McPherson
Supervisors: Jurgen Rehm, Paul Kurdyak
External Examiner: James Bolton
Voting Members: John McLaughlin
SHAHRIAR SHAMS – August 25, 2021
Wednesday, August 25, 2021
10:00am ET
Remotely
Quantifying and Reducing Uncertainty in the Measurement of Health Utilities
Committee:
Exam Chair: Cari Whyne
Supervisor: Eleanor Pullenayegum
External Examiner: Samer Kharroubi
Voting Members: Michael Escobar, Petros Pechlivanoglou, Anna Heath, George Tomlinson
VICTORIA BLACKWELL-HARDIE – August 24, 2021
Tuesday, August 24, 2021
11:00am
Remotely
Community Conceptualizations of Women’s Everyday Mental Distress: The Importance of Social Contexts, Power and Agency in Shaping Women’s Distress Experiences in Eldoret, Kenya
Committee:
Exam Chair: Helene Wagner
Supervisor: Lisa Forman
External Examiner: Rochelle Burgess
Voting Members: Donald Cole, Brenda Gladstone, Haley Hamilton
Non-voting Member: Ted Myers
LAILA RAHMAN – July 29, 2021
Thursday, July 29, 2021
10am ET
Remotely
Troubling Intersections: Physical Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in Bangladesh
Committee:
Exam Chair: Haley Wyatt
Supervisor: Gillian Einstein
External Examiner: Michelle Hindin
Voting Members: Patricia O’Campo, Janice Du Mont, Suzanne Sicchia
JANNAH MARGARET WIGLE – July 28, 2021
Wednesday, July 28, 2021
10am ET
Remotely
“No one can decide for us…the solutions are within us”: Rhetoric and Reality of Youth Participation and Power in Sexual and Reproductive Health Decision-Making in Malawi
Committee:
Exam Chair: Marie-Josee Fortin
Supervisor: Anne-Emanuelle Birn
External Examiner: Claudia Mitchell
Voting Members: Brenda Gladstone, Paula Braitstein, Erica Di Ruggiero
DANIELLE JACOBSON – July 23, 2021
Friday, July 23, 2021
12:00 pm ET
Remotely
An Institutional Ethnography of the Social Relations that Shape Reproductive Health Care Experiences for Women with Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting/Circumcision (FGC) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Committee:
Exam Chair: Scott Gray-Owen
Supervisors: Gillian Einstein, Daniel Grace
External Examiner: Crista Johnson-Agbakwu
Voting Members: Janice Boddy, Suzanne Sicchia
KALEEN HAYES – June 22, 2021
Tuesday, June 22, 2021
8:00 am ET
Remotely
Understanding Patterns and Estimating Relative Effects of Long-term Bisphosphonate Therapy and Drug Holidays
Committee:
Exam Chair: Robert Macgregor
Supervisor: Suzanne Cadarette
External Examiner: Richard Eastell
Voting Members: Kevin Brown, Angela Cheung, Susan Bronskill
Non-voting Member: David Juurlink
KUAN LIU – June 14, 2021
Monday, June 14, 2021
1:00 pm ET
Remotely
Bayesian Causal Inference with Longitudinal Data
Committee:
Exam Chair: Martha Brown
Supervisor: Eleanor Pullenayegum
External Examiner: Lawrence McCandless
Voting Members: Olli Saarela, George Tomlinson, Aya Mitani
JENNIFER GILLIS – June 3, 2021
Thursday, June 3, 2021
6:00 pm ET
Remotely
Secondary Prevention of Anal Cancer in Men Living with HIV: Acceptability and Suitability of Anal Cancer Screening by Anal Pap Cytology and HPV DNA Type Testing
Committee:
Exam Chair: Brian Silverman
Supervisors: Ann Burchell, Janet Raboud
External Examiner: David Templeton
Voting Members: Aisha Lofters, Laura Rosella
Non-voting Member: Olli Saarela
KATHRYN WIENS – May 19, 2021
Wednesday, May 19, 2021
1:00pm ET
Remotely
Healthcare Utilization among Adults with a History of Homelessness: The Distribution and Determinants of High-cost Use of the Healthcare System
Committee:
Exam Chair: Aaron Schimmer
Supervisor: Stephen Hwang
External Examiner: Margot Kushel
Voting Members: Laura Rosella, Paul Kurdyak, Brendan Smith
GARTHIKA NAVARANJAN – March 29, 2021
Monday, March 29, 2021
10:00am EST
Remotely
Association Between Early Life Exposure to Phthalates and Organophosphate Esters and the Development of Childhood Asthma and Wheeze
Committee:
Exam Chair: Meena Andiappan
Supervisors: Miriam Diamond, Jeffrey Brook
External Examiner: Christopher Carlsten
Voting Members: Shelley Harris, Arthur Chan
Non-voting Member: Padmaja Subbarao
NAKIA LEE-FOON – March 23, 2021
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
10:00am EST
Remotely
Exploring the State of Sexual Health Literacy among Young Black Gay and Other Men who Have Sex with Other Men in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Committee:
Exam Chair: Catherine Sabiston
Supervisor: Daniel Grace
External Examiner: Patrick Sullivan
Voting Members: Carmen Logie, Arjumand Siddiqi, Lance McCready
JESSE ISADORA REISMAN JENKINSON – Friday, January 8, 2021
Friday, January 8, 2021
2:00pm EST
Remotely
Contextualizing the Crisis in the Hospital Discharge Process for People Experiencing Homelessness in Toronto, Canada: “Danger and Opportunity”
Committee:
Exam Chair: Cynthia Hawkins
Supervisors: Erica Di Ruggiero, Stephen Hwang
External Examiner: Cheryl Forchuk
Voting Members: Carol Strike, Branka Agic
SAMANTHA WHITE – December 18, 2020
Friday, December 18, 2020
1:00pm EST
Remotely
Opioid Abuse among Injection Drug Users and association with City-Level Prescription Opioid Dispensing Rates in Ontario
Committee:
Exam Chair: Jack Greenblatt
Supervisor: Susan Bondy
External Examiner: Thomas Nochajski
Voting Members: Brian Rush, Michelle Firestone, Robert Mann
ASTRID ESCRIG PINOL – December 15, 2020
Tuesday, December 15, 2020
10:00am EST
Remotely
Salud, Dinero y Amor: Mexican Women and their Extended Families Confronting Precarity in a Canadian Agricultural Labour Migration Program
Committee:
Exam Chair: Spike Lee
Supervisors: Denise Gastaldo, Andrea Cortinois
External Examiner: Tanya Basok
Voting Members: Janet McLaughlin, Erica Di Ruggiero
TIFFANY FITZPATRICK – September 16, 2020
Wednesday, September 16, 2020
2:00 pm EST
Remotely
Severe RSV-related Illness Among Ontario Children: Using Population-based, Administrative Data to Comprehensively Identify High-risk Children and Evaluate Population Interventions
Committee:
Exam Chair: Caroline Fusco
Supervisors: David Fisman, Astrid Guttmann
External Examiner: Michael Jackson
Voting Members: Jeff Kwong, Upton Allen
Non-voting Member: Dayre McNally
JONATHAN KAI-HUN FAN – August 31, 2020
Monday, August 31, 2020
10:00 am EST
Remotely
Age-related Differences in Work Outcomes: Developing a Better Understanding of Variations in Return-to-work, Wage-replacement and Retirement Outcomes using Better Methods and Data
Committee:
Exam Chair: Voula Kanelis
Supervisor: Peter Smith
External Examiner: Lauren Griffith
Voting Members: Monique Gignac, Anne Harris, Harry Shannon
CHI-DAN VICKY CHANG – August 26, 2020
Wednesday, August 26, 2020
10:00 am EST
Remotely
Investigating the Association between Iron and Breast Cancer Risk &
Factors Associated with Iron Status among Canadian Women
Committee:
Exam Chair: Peter M. Kotanen
Supervisor: Michelle Cotterchio
External Examiner: Christine Ambrosone
Voting Members: Susan Bondy, Joanne Kotsopoulos, John McLaughlin
ABDOOL SHAFAAZ YASSEEN – August 24, 2020
Monday, August 24, 2020
10:00 am EST
Remotely
Viral Hepatitis among Immigrants: A Population-based Comparison Using Linked Laboratory and Health Administrative Data
Committee:
Exam Chair: Blair Armstrong
Supervisor: Jeff Kwong
External Examiner: Julie Bruneau
Voting Members: Rafal Kustra, Jordan Feld, Ann Burchell
Non-voting Members: Natasha Crowcroft, Liane MacDonald
NIDA MUSTAFA – August 20, 2020
Thursday, August 20, 2020
2:00 pm EST
Remotely
Lived Experiences of Chronic Pain among Immigrant Indian Women in Canada
Committee:
Exam Chair: Vinod Chandran
Supervisor: Gillian Einstein
External Examiner: Joan L. Bottorff
Voting Members: Judith Watt-Watson, Margaret MacNeill, Craig Dale
CHRISTINA YOUNG – August 4, 2020
Tuesday, August 4, 2020
12:00 pm EST
Remotely
Constrained Care: Doula Practice and Hospital Birth
Committee:
Exam Chair: Craig Chambers
Supervisors: Peggy McDonough, Bonnie Fox
External Examiner: Cecilia Benoit
Voting Members: Agnieszka Kosny, Cynthia Cranford
ARMEND LOKKU – July 17, 2020
Friday, July 17, 2020
12:00 pm EST
Remotely
Summary Measures for Quantifying the Extent of Visit Irregularity in Longitudinal Data
Committee:
Exam Chair: Bruce Pollock
Supervisor: Eleanor Pullenayegum
External Examiner: James Hanley
Voting Members: Olli Saarela, Wendy Lou, Rahim Moineddin, Charlie Keown-Stoneman
GOLDAMEIR ONEKA – June 26,2020
Friday, June 26, 2020
10:00 am EST
Remotely
Health in All Policies (HiAP): A Realist Multiple Explanatory Case Study Examining the Implementation of HiAP
Committee:
Exam Chair: Lawrence Sawchuck
Supervisor: Patricia O’Campo
External Examiner: Theodore F. Schrecker
Voting Members: Arjumand Siddiqi, Carles Muntaner, Erica Di Ruggeiro
NADIA FAZAL – June 15, 2020
Monday, June 15, 2020
10:00 am EST
Remotely
Global Health Promotion and Arts Approaches in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo; Taking a Critical Social Science and Decolonial Perspective to Strengthening Community Action for Health.
Committee:
Exam Chair: Lisa Cranley
Supervisor: Donald Cole
External Examiner: Sarah Flicker
Voting Members: Suzanne Jackson, Paula Gardner, Stephanie Nixon
JOAN ELIZABETH EDWARDS – April 6, 2020
Monday, April 6, 2020
10:30 am EST
Remotely
Life After Colorectal Cancer: A Qualitative Study of Health and Illness Post-treatment
Committee:
Exam Chair: Irene Andrulis
Supervisor: Doris Howell
External Examiner: Parisa Safai
Voting Members: Jennifer Jones, Rinat Nissim, Fred Ashbury
GILLIAN KOLLA – March 23, 2020
Monday, March 23, 2020
4:00 pm EST
Remotely
Criminalization and Care: The Limits of a Public Health Approach to Addressing Drug Use
Committee:
Exam Chair: Jan Barnsley
Supervisor: Carol Strike
External Examiner: Carla Treloar
Voting Members: Jooyoung Lee, Maritt Kirst, Daniel Grace
Non-Voting Member: Patricia Erickson
ZIHANG LU – March 20, 2020
Friday, March 20, 2020
1:00 pm EST
Room 650, 155 College Street
Bayesian Growth Mixture Model for Clustering Longitudinal Data
Committee:
Exam Chair: Marla Sokolowski
Supervisors: Wendy Lou, Padmaja Subbarao
External Examiner: Joel Dubin
Voting Members: Michael Escobar, Olli Saarela, Wei Xu, Malcolm Binns
Non-Voting Member: Padmaja Subbarao
MOHSEN SOLTANIFAR – March 18, 2020
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
2:00 pm EST
Room 650, 155 College Street
Stop Signal Reaction Times: New Estimations with Longitudinal, Bayesian and Time Series based Methods
Committee:
Exam Chair: Warren Lee
Supervisors: Michael Escobar, Annie Dupuis
External Examiner: Abbas Khalili
Voting Members: Wendy Lou, Rahim Moineddin
COREY McAULIFFE – March 11, 2020
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
10:00 am EST
Room 109, 63 St. George Street
A Phenomenological Account of Women Graduate Students: The Lived Experience of Participating in Global Public Health Practice
Committee:
Exam Chair: Aviv Shachak
Supervisors: Daniel Sellen, Erica Di Ruggiero
External Examiner: Clare Barrington
Voting Members: Ross Upshur, Lori Ross
SHIRA TAYLOR – March 10, 2020
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
1:00 pm EST
Room 109, 63, St. George Street
SExT: Sex Education by Theatre – Theatre as a Pedagogical Tool for Sexual Health Education in a Newcomer Priority Neighbourhood
Committee:
Exam Chair: Jacques Belik
Supervisor: Liviana Calzavara
External Examiner: Sarah Flicker
Voting Members: Rob Schwartz, Pia Kontos, Daniel Grace