Researchers

Dr. Rabasa-Lhoret is an endocrinologist at the Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM) and holds two research chairs. His research program on type 1 diabetes primarily focuses on reducing the frequency and impact of hypoglycemia. He is also actively involved in advocating for the rights of people living with diabetes, in training healthcare professionals, and in scientific communication for the general public.

Dr. Valeria Rac’s research is focused on program and network evaluations and complex interventions in chronic disease management, working closely with patients and their family members, community partners, innovators, researchers and government/policy-makers. Using a variety of evaluative approaches to assess our healthcare system, she and her team provide rapid, timely feedback to all involved stakeholders that contribute to the establishment of a learning healthcare system.

She is an applied health services researcher with interests in primary healthcare, interprofessional teams, health equity and learning health systems. She works in collaboration with researchers, evaluators and policy makers to improve care for people with barriers. Her community based primary care experience includes leadership roles in research, policy, planning, performance, accountability and quality improvement.

Dr. Paula Rochon is the founding director and lead of Women’s Age Lab, the first research centre to focus on older women in the world, based at Women’s College Hospital in Toronto. Through a focus on sex and age disaggregated data collection, Women’s Age Lab aims to support the healthy aging of women by reimagining a system and society where older women and their distinct well-being and health needs are recognized and addressed

Dr. Ronksley’s research focuses on patients with multiple chronic conditions. Specifically, his research aims to improve our understanding of the subset of chronic disease patients that drive health care utilization and spending. Using novel data-linkage methodologies, his work explores the clinical (co-morbid) profiles of patients with multi-morbidity, how they engage with the health care system, and whether care pathways can be modified to improve health outcomes for patients.

Dr Rosolowsky is a pediatric endocrinologist with a major interest in type 1 diabetes and education at the University of Alberta. During her training she completed a research fellowship at the Joslin Diabetes Centre. She is an active participant in the Canadian Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism and has been a chapter author for the Diabetes Canada Clinical Practice Guideline chapter for management of type 1 diabetes in children.

Dr. Screaton’s research focuses on finding cures for type 1 and type 2 diabetes through understanding how human cells respond to extracellular cues to maintain and ensure their function and survival. A central focus is to better understand how the pancreatic beta cell converts feeding cues into signals leading to insulin synthesis and secretion.

From his earliest research, he has been eager to contribute to the advancement of scientific knowledge through carefully executed experiments and ground-breaking published work. For his strong contributions, Sejdić was named the editor-in-chief of Biomedical Engineering Online; an area editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, the highest rated journal in the field of signal processing; and an associate editor of Digital Signal Processing and IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.

Dr. Selby’s research focus is on innovative methods to understand and treat addictive behaviours and their comorbidities. He also uses technology to combine clinical medicine and public health methods to scale up and test health interventions. His cohort of 240,000 treated smokers in Ontario is an example.

Dr. Sénéchal’s research interests focus on the impact of physical activity and exercise training on cardiometabolic health in individuals living with obesity.