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Lecturer
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- School/Department
- School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition
Biography
I am an evidence synthesis and implementation science methodologist with an interest in the design and synthesis of complex interventions to address barriers to evidence uptake.
I have contributed methodological research to advance the conduct of reviews across the evidence synthesis spectrum, including rapid reviews, meta-regression models for complex interventions, methods for contacting primary study authors, and methods for imputing missing instracluster correlation coefficients for cluster-randomized trials.
I have led evidence syntheses across diverse fields using both quantitative and qualitative synthesis frameworks. I am particularly interested in efforts to carefully define and code the content of complex interventions as I believe understanding what the ‘what’ is, is foundational to asking more complex questions of what works and under what conditions.
Recently, I was the lead author of a Cochrane review on the effectiveness of quality improvement for diabetes care that including a Bayesian multivariable meta-regression of 553 diabetes trials and the lead author of the Agency for Healthcare Quality review on rehabilitation and prehabilitation for major joint replacement.
In addition to reviews of the effectiveness of interventions, I have conducted qualitative syntheses on factors that may influence the uptake of interventions (e.g, in low risk prenatal care, COVID-19 vaccines) to help guide implementation work.
I joined the Health Services Research Unit (HSRU) in July 2023, coming from Brown University where I was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Services, Policy and Practice in the School of Public Health. I completed my PhD on methods for optimizing evidence syntheses of complex interventions in 2018. I also hold a BEd in Primary Education (2013), a MSc in Rehabilitation Sciences (2008), and a BSc in Anatomy and Cell Biology (2005).
External Memberships
- Member and Author, Cochrane Collaboration (2008-Present)
- Editor, Campbell Collaboration (2023-Present)
- Society for Research Synthesis Methodology (2022-Present)
- Honorary Research Fellow, University College of London Centre for Behaviour Change (2022-2023)
Prizes and Awards
- Robert L. Kane Memorial Award for report with strong clarity and conciseness, Annual AHRQ Evidence-based Practice Center Meeting reports published between 2021-2022. (2022)
- Joseph De Koninick Prize for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis, University of Ottawa (2019)
- Worton Researcher in Training Award, The Ottawa Hospital (2018)
- Award of Excellence, Faculty of Medicine Awards in Education, University of Ottawa (2017)
- Publications
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Systematic reviews can guide clinical practice and new research on primary headaches in pregnancy: An editorial on the 2022 American Headache Society Members' Choice Award paper
Headache, vol. 62, no. 7, pp. 774-776Contributions to Journals: Editorials- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/head.14332
Pharmacotherapy interventions for adolescent co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders: a systematic review
Family Practice, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 301-310Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/cmab096
- [ONLINE] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9126201/
Diagnostic Imaging and Medical Management of Acute Left-Sided Colonic Diverticulitis: A Systematic Review
Annals of Internal Medicine, vol. 175, no. 3, pp. 379-387Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.7326/M21-1645
Infrastructures of trust: The case for investing in vaccine demand
The Rockefeller Foundation. 87 pagesBooks and Reports: Other Reports- [ONLINE] https://buildingvaccinedemand.org/
Imputing intracluster correlation coefficients from a posterior predictive distribution is a feasible method of dealing with unit of analysis errors in a meta-analysis of cluster RCTs
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, vol. 139, pp. 307-318Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2021.06.011
Factors affecting healthcare worker COVID-19 vaccination acceptance and uptake: a living behavioural science evidence synthesis
57 pagesBooks and Reports: Commissioned ReportsManagement of primary headaches during pregnancy, postpartum, and breastfeeding: A systematic review
Headache, vol. 61, no. 1, pp. 11-43Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/head.14041
Behavior Change Techniques in Continuing Professional Development
The Journal of continuing education in the health professions, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 268-273Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/CEH.0000000000000319
Audit and feedback: effects on professional practice [protocol for a Cochrane review update]
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, vol. 13, no. 6, CD000259Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD000259.pub3
Evidence summaries: the evolution of a rapid review approach
Systematic reviews , vol. 1, pp. 10Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/2046-4053-1-10