Researchers

His clinical interests include all aspects of vascular surgery, including endovascular therapy of the thoracoabdominal aorta, carotid artery surgery, peripheral vascular surgery, dialysis access. His research focuses on stent graft design, biomechanics, simulation and development of endovascular technology, clinical outcomes and learning curve analysis, spinal cord complications of thoracoabdominal aortic surgery.

She is a researcher with the McMaster Institute for Research on Aging focusing on integrated health and social service delivery innovations to promote physical and mental health, and mobility among community-dwelling older adults. Her research program aims to address health inequities among community-dwelling older adults through integrated health and social service delivery innovations. She achieves this through co-designing, evaluating, and translating these innovative models to promote health and well-being.

Dr. Hannah Geddie is a Pediatric Endocrinologist at McMaster Children’s Hospital. She completed her medical degree, residency training, and fellowship training in Pediatric Endocrinology at McMaster University. She has a Masters degree in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She has a strong interest in the intersection between public health and health promotion and Type 1 Diabetes. Her current research pertains to health policy related to Type 1 Diabetes in school, and the use of interactive tools to support patients and families in managing Type 1 Diabetes.

As a community-based, practice-oriented researcher, she has concentrated on meaningful use of electronic data to support the development of primary health care, through increasing research capacity and translating the use of data into better care. She was a founding member of the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network (CPCSSN), Canada’s multi-EMR chronic disease surveillance system.

Professor Huaxiong Huang has an impressive research record with publications that involve a surprisingly broad cross-section of applied mathematics including partial differential equations, asymptotics, fluid mechanics, probability, stochastic processes, and scientific computing. His work impacts a broad sphere of influence to the study of applications ranging from industrial sectors such as banking, insurance, biomedicine, energy, and material science.

Dr. Liisa Jaakkimainen’s research interests include examining primary health care access, continuity of care, primary health care indicators and benchmarks, measuring wait times from primary to specialist care, improving the coordination of care in primary care, caring for marginalized and frail seniors in the community, and performance feedback to primary care providers. In 2006, Dr. Jaakkimainen co-lead the “Primary Care in Ontario: An ICES Atlas”. I

By collaborating with patients, researchers, clinicians, and policy makers from the Atlantic provinces, her research seeks to integrate the lived experience of patients into research to facilitate the knowledge transfer into care. She leads a patient-oriented research program on adults with neurodevelopmental disabilities in Atlantic Canada. She is also the Stream Lead of the Patient and Community Education Stream of the Canadian Clinical Trial Training Platform CANTRAIN.

Dr. Monika Kastner is the Research Chair in Knowledge Translation (KT) and Implementation at North York General Hospital, an Affiliate Scientist at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital, and Associate Professor in the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME) as well as through the Department of Family and Community Medicine (DFCM) at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Ahmed Kayssi is a clinical trialist with an interest in vascular surgery and wound care interventions that promote limb preservation and prevent amputation. His other interests are developing capacity and improving health care services among First Nations.

Dr. Ke’s research focuses on young-onset type 2 diabetes (individuals diagnosed with type 2 diabetes before the age of 40 years), and on type 2 diabetes in Chinese and South Asian populations. He applies clinical epidemiological methods to characterize the burden, management, and outcomes of type 2 diabetes in both local and global populations across China and India. He is a member of the International Diabetes Federation Atlas Committee and the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration.