Associate Members

Primary Areas of Research / Specialization:

• Health professions Education

Current Research Projects:

• Competency-based medical education implementation in geriatric psychiatry
• Development and evaluation of an electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) curriculum in geriatric psychiatry

Primary Areas of Research/Specialization:

• Health Service Delivery- dementia
• Formal and informal caregiving
• Resident-to-resident aggression
• Leadership

Recent Publications:

• Parry, M., Beleno, R., Nissim, R., Baiden, D., Baxter, P., Betini, R., Bjørnnes, A.K., Burnside, H., Gaetano, D., Hemani, S., McCarthy, J., Nickerson, N., Norris, C., Nylén-Eriksen, M., Owadally, T., Pilote, L., Warkentin, K., Coupal, A., Hasan, S., Ho, M., Kulbak, O., Mohammed, S., Mullaly, L., Theriault, J., Wayne, N., Wu, W., Yeboah, E.K., O’Hara, A., Peter, E. (2023). The Mental Health and Well-Being of Unpaid Caregivers: A Cross-Sectional Survey Protocol. BMJ Open, 13(1):e070374. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-070374.
• O’Rourke, H. M., Swindle, J., Ghosh, S., Chacinski, D., Baxter, P., Peacock, S., … & Duggleby, W. (2022). Impact of a web?based psychoeducational intervention on carer mental health quality of life: Results from a pragmatic randomized control trial. Alzheimer’s & Dementia, 18, e069162.
• Duggleby, W., O’Rourke, H., Baxter, P., Nekolaichuk, C., Thompson, G., Peacock,S., Ghosh, S., Holroyd-Leduc, J., McAiney, C., Dube, V., Swindle, J., Panucco-Renaud, M. & Sana, S. (2022). Building a New Life: A Qualitative Study of How Family Carers Deal with Significant Changes. BMC Geriatrics, 22:551. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-022-03236-8.

Current Research Projects:

• 2023-2026
  • Udod, S., Baxter, P. (Co-PIs), Cummings, G, MacPhee, M, Gagnon, S, Halas, G, Geerts, J, Cumpsty, J, & Molina, J. Advancing health system leadership capacity for psychological health and organizational resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Project Grant, Pandemic Preparedness and Health Emergencies Research Priority Announcement, funding for this project is provided by the Centre for Research on Pandemic Preparedness and Health Emergencies, $450,000.00.
• 2023 – 2025
  • Baxter, P. (NPI), Acai, A., Kimber, M., Parry, M. (Co-PIs), Elmi, A., Innes, A., Savundranayagam, M. & Willetts, G (Co-Is). Understanding how to promote post-pandemic recovery in South Asian women caregivers of older adults living in multigenerational households: A mixed methods approach to identifying needs and gaps in social and health services. SSHRC-New Frontiers in Research Fund – Special Call, $403,041.
• 2022 – 2023
  • Waldron, I. (PI), Kapriri, L. (Co-PI), Walker, J., Letts, L., Garcia Diaz, L., Badone, E., Fahnestock, M., Baxter, P., Iroanyah, N. (Co-Is). The experience of Black Canadians living with dementia in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area and their care partners in providing care. Labarge Centre for Mobility in Aging Catalyst Grant, $43,500.
• 2020 – 2025
  • Burnes, D., McDonald, L., Baxter, P., Hirst, S., Shnall, A. Resident-to-Resident Abuse in Long-Term Care: Reporting for Change. Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Project Grant – Fall 2019 and Spring 2020, $1,396,126.
• 2022 – 2025
  • Parry, M., Beleno, R., Nissim, R., Peter, E. (Co-PIs), Baiden, D., Baxter, P., Betini, R., Bjørnnes, A.K., Burnside, H., Gaetano, D., Hemani, S., McCarthy, J., Nickerson, N., Norris, C., Nylén-Eriksen, M., Pilote, L., & Warkentin, K. (Co-As), Brennenstuhl, S., Ontario Caregiver Organization, Council for Agencies Serving South Asians (CASSA), Ye Hong Centre for Geriatric Care, Canadian Cancer Society, Mohammed, S., Canadian Black Policy Network, Mental Health Commission of Canada, Caregivers Nova Scotia, Wu, W. (Collaborators and Partners). The mental health and wellbeing of unpaid caregivers: An intersectionality-informed mixed methods study. Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Patient-Oriented Research Priority Announcement, Gender, Sex and Health, $100,000.
• 2020 – 2024
  • Baxter, P. (PI), Kaasalainen, S., McDonald, L., O’Rourke, H., Papaioannou, A., Udod, S. (Co-Is), Acorn, M., Schulz, M., Muscedere, J. (Co-KUs), Caspi, E., Kristijansson, J., Puchniak, J., Purdon, L. (Co-Collaborators). Resident-to-Resident Aggression (RRA) in Long-term Care Homes: Examining the role of healthcare leadership in the identification, management, and reduction of RRA. Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Planning and Dissemination Grant – Institute Community Support, $16,818.
• 2021 – 2022
  • Baxter, P., Badone, E. (Co-PIs) The impact of COVID-19 on nurses — RNs and RPNs — in long-term care. McMaster University Faculty of Social Sciences, $5,000; Faculty of Health Sciences, $5,000; Provost’s Research Fund $5,000.

Affiliated Groups:

• Family Councils of Ontario
• National Institute for Care of the Elderly
• South Asian Women’s Centre
• Council of Agencies Serving South Asians
• Alzheimer Society of Toronto
• Alzheimer Society of Ontario
• Ontario Caregiving Association.

Primary Areas of Research/Specialization:

• Aging
• Aging process and social and biological determinants of aging
• Disability, geriatrics and gerontology
• Health technology
• Rehabilitation sciences

Recent Publications:

• O’Hoski S, Kuspinar A, Richardson J, Wald J, Goldstein R, Beauchamp MK. Responsiveness of the late life disability instrument to pulmonary rehabilitation in people with COPD. Respir Med. 2023;207:107113.
• Mayhew AJ, So HY, Ma J, Beauchamp MK, Griffith LE, Kuspinar A, Lang JJ, Raina P. Normative values for grip strength, gait speed, timed up and go, single leg balance, and chair rise derived from the Canadian longitudinal study on ageing. Age Ageing. 2023 Apr 1;52(4):afad054
• Shen Y, Qingyang S, Nong K, Li S, Yue J, Huang J, Dong B, Beauchamp M, Hao Q. Exercise for sarcopenia in older people: A systematic review and network meta-analysis. Journal of Cachexia Sarcopenia and Muscle. 2023;14(3):1199-1211.
• Beauchamp M, Hao Q, Kuspinar A, Thiyagarajan J, Mikton C, Diaz T, Raina P. A unified framework for the measurement of mobility in older persons. Age and Ageing. In press.
• Beauchamp M, Hao Q, Kuspinar A, Alder G, Makino K, Nourdanesh M, Zhao Y, Mikton C, Thiyagarajan J, Diaz T, Raina P. Measures of perceived mobility in community-dwelling older adults: A systematic review of psychometric properties. Age and Ageing. In press.

Current Research Projects:

• The McMaster Monitoring My Mobility (MacM3) study, The INITIATE Study, The McMaster Multi-Regional Hospital Coronavirus Registry (COREG)-Functional Recovery Study, Physical Activity Behaviour in Middle-Aged and Older Canadian Women and Men: An Analysis of the CLSA, A priority setting partnership to identify research priorities in fall prevention among older adults, caregivers, and clinicians.

Affiliated Groups

• The McMaster Institute for Research on Aging (MIRA)
• The Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging
• McMaster University
• University of Waterloo
• Mobolise-D research team
• The World Health Organization.

Recent Publications:

• “Contagious Minorities: Chinese Canadians during the COVID-19 Pandemic” Journal of Canadian Studies. 56.3 (2022), pp. 393-409, https://utpjournals.press/doi/full/10.3138/jcs-2022-0017
• “Apologies and promises are not enough to end TB in the North.” Coauthored with Pushpita Samina, PhD student in Health Policy. Policy Options, May 10, 2022: https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/may-2022/tuberculosis-indigenous-canada/ Remembering Air India: The Art of Public Mourning (co-ed). Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2017. 360 pages.

Current Research Projects:

• COVID-19 in Racialized Communities in the Greater Toronto Area: Experiences and Conceptualizations of Loss
• Understanding the impacts of South Asian advocacy groups on Covid-19 mitigation in Ontario: Case study of the South Asian Covid-19 Task Force (SACTF)
• COVID-19 and Asian Canadians: Why does race matter?
• History, memory, grief: The Air India project

Affiliated Groups:

• Community organizations and advocacy groups in Hamilton and GTA

Primary Areas of Research/Specialization:

• Knowledge mobilization
• Public health

Recent Publications:

• Belita, E., Fisher, K., Yost, J., Squires, J. E., Ganann, R., & Dobbins, M. (2022). Validity, reliability, and acceptability of the Evidence-Informed Decision-Making (EIDM) competence measure. PloS One, 17(8), e0272699. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0272699
• Clark, E., Cranston, E., Polin, T., Ndume-Eyoh, S., MacDonald, D., Betker, C., Dobbins. M. Structural interventions that affect racial inequities and their impact on population health outcomes: a systematic review. BMC Public Health 22, 2162 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-14603-w

Current Research Projects:

• Workforce development
• Core competencies for public health

Affiliated Groups:

• Public Health Organizations

Primary Areas of Research/Specialization:

• Biomedical applications of Imaging and sensing
• Context-aware sensing
• Mobility
• Digital health
• Aging

Recent Publications:

• Brenda Vrkljan, et al., “Re-engaging in Aging and Mobility Research in the COVID-19 Era: Early Lessons from Pivoting a Large-Scale, Interdisciplinary Study amidst a Pandemic,” Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue Canadienne Du Vieillissement, 1-7, 2021, doi:10.1017/S0714980821000374
• Henry Y.-H. Siu, et al., “Demonstrating a Technology-Mediated Intervention to Support Medication Adherence in Community-Dwelling Older Adults in Primary Care: A Feasibility Study.” Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, 5:1-11, 2019, doi.org/10.1177/2333721419845179

Current Research Projects:

• Longitudinal health monitoring (e.g., cough, diet, mobility) Smart technologies for Aging-in-Place
• Smart Pain mapping and during physiotherapy
• Multiplexing confocal microscopy measurement of molecular dynamics in neurodegenerative diseases;

Affiliated Groups:

• AGE-WELL

Alternative Website:

• https://pulselab.humanities.mcmaster.ca/

Primary Areas of Research/Specialization

• Multi-modal collaborative art/technology development
• Critical feminist
• Media
• Aging studies

Recent Publications:

• Vrkljan, B., Beachamp, M., Gardner, P., Fang, Q., Kuspinar, A., McNicholas, P., , K. Newbold, B., Richardson, J., Scott, D., Zargoush, M., and Gruppuso, V. (2021). Re-engaging in aging and mobility research in the COVID-19 era: Early lessons from pivoting a large-scale, interdisciplinary study amidst a pandemic.  Canadian Journal on Aging; CIHR-Institute of Aging sponsored Special issue on Ageing Research in the COVID-19 Era, 40(4) 669-675. doi:10.1017/S0714980821000374

Current Research Projects:

• Practice-based work: Web-based game for older adults (in development): https://ableplatform-qa.herokuapp.com.

Affiliated Groups:

• Alzheimer Society
• Hamilton and Halton
• YWCA Hamilton

Areas of Research/Specialization:

• Physical functioning
• Multimorbidity
• Frailty and aging

Recent Publications:

• Griffith, L.E., Beauchamp, M., McMillan, J., Borhan, S., Wolfson, C., Kirkland, S., Basta, N.E., Thompson, M., Raina, P. Persistence of COVID-19 symptoms in community-living older adults from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA). Communications Medicine 3, 36 (2023).
• Griffith, L.E., McMillan J., Hogan, D., Sina, P., Anderson L., Kirkland, S., Basta, N., Heuvel, E., Raina, P. Frailty and the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on community-living older adults: An analysis of data from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) (AA-22-0895). Age Ageing. 2022 Dec 5;51(12): afac289. doi: 10.1093/ageing/afac289. PMID: 36571783; PMCID: PMC9792085

Current Research Projects:

• Leveraging today’s health technology to co-create a complex community-based frailty intervention for older post-acute care patients (developing full proposal)
• Development and validation of an algorithm to identify participants with major and mild neurocognitive disorder using observational data
• Development of an age- and sex-specific fall risk index for older adults based on a multilevel analysis of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging

Affiliated Groups:

• Rehabilitation Sciences

Primary Areas of Research/Specialization:

• Dr. Head’s research focuses on human-computer interaction and understanding how we use and misuse technology.  In particular, she explores individual differences (such as age, gender and culture) in technology use through multiple methodological lenses.

Recent Publications:

• Ivanov, A., Head, M., Biela, C., (2022). “Mobile shopping decision comfort using Augmented Reality: The effects of perceived augmentation and haptic imagery”, Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, ahead of print.
• Lu, X., Jiang, J., Head, M., Yang, J. (2022), “The Impact of Linguistic Complexity on Leadership in Online Q&A communities: Comparing Knowledge Shaping and Knowledge Adding”, Information & Management, 59(6), 103675.
• Owen, K., Head, M. (2022), “Motivation and Demotivation of Hackers in Selecting a Hacking Task”, Journal of Computer Information Systems, DOI: 10.1080/08874417.2022.2081883.
• Mashayekhi, M., Head, M. (2022), “Developing Social Capital Through Professionally Oriented Social Network Sites”, Information & Management, 59(6), 103664.
• Lu, X., Head, M., Yang, J., Tariq, A. (2022). “An Investigation of Misinformation Susceptibility of Older Adults: A Persuasive Perspective”, Proceedings of the 21st  Pre-ICIS HCI Research in MIS Workshop, December
• Lu, X., Head, M., Jiang, J. (2021).  “Understanding Online Review Helpfulness: A Color Theory Perspective”, Proceedings of the 20th Pre-ICIS HCI Research in MIS Workshop, December (recipient of the People’s Choice Best Talk award).
• Lu, X., Head, M., Jiang, J., Yang, J. (2021).  “An Investigation of the Interplay between Emotional Congruence and Regulatory Fit in Phishing Susceptibility”, Proceedings of the 29th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), June.
• Lu, Xuecong, Head, M., Yang, J. (2020). “The Impacts of Individual Emotional State and Emotional Framing of Phishing Attacks on Susceptibility to Phishing: An Emotional Congruence Perspective”. Proceedings of the 19th Pre-ICIS HCI Research in MIS Workshop, December.
• Yada, N., Head, M. (2019), “Attitudes Toward Health Care Virtual Communities of Practice: Survey Among Health Care Workers”, Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), 21(12): e15176
• Cyr, D., Head, M., Stibe, A., Lim, E. (2018), “Using the Elaboration Likelihood Model to Examine Online Persuasion through Website Design”, Information & Management (I&M), 55(7). 807-821.
• Mojdeh, S., Head, M., El Shamy, N. (2018), “Knowledge Sharing in Social Networking Sites: How Context Impacts Individuals’ Social and Intrinsic Motivation to Contribute in Online Communities”, AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction, 10(2), 82-104.
• Comacho, S., Hassanein, K., Head, M. (2018), “Cyberbullying impacts on victims’ satisfaction with information and communication technologies: the role of Perceived Cyberbullying Severity”, Information & Management (I&M), 55(4), 494-507.
• Sepehr, S., Head, M. (2018), “Understanding the Role of Competition in Video Gameplay Satisfaction”, Information & Management (I&M), 55(4), 407-421.

Current Research Projects:

• Understanding misinformation susceptibility among older adults
• Bridging the digital divide for older adults
• Understanding the influence of online social participation on the well-being of older adults
• Creating engaging online learning environments
• Dark side of information technology use

Affiliated Groups:

• McMaster Digital Transformation Research Centre

Primary Areas of Research / Specialization:

• Digital health
• Health informatics
• Evidence based medicine
• Knowledge translation

Recent Publications:

• Bhuiya AR, Makarski J, Hayden L, Perrier L, Munce S, Lewis I, Graham ID, Holroyd-Leduc J, Straus S, Stelfox HT, Strifler S, Lokker C, Li LC, Leung FH, Dobbins M, Puchalski Ritchie LM, Squires J, Rac V, Fahim C, Kastner M. Identifying candidate quality indicators of tools that support the practice of knowledge translation: A scoping review protocol [published online ahead of print, 2022 Sep 19]. JBI Evid Synth. 2022;10.11124/JBIES-22-00055. doi:10.11124/JBIES-22-00055
• Demanuele C, Lokker C, Jhaveri K, Georgiev P, Sezgin E, Geoghegan C, Zou K, H, Izmailova E, McCarthy M: Considerations for Conducting Bring Your Own “Device” (BYOD) Clinical Studies. Digit Biomark 2022;6:47-60. doi: 10.1159/000525080
• Jezrawi R, Balakumar S, Masud R, Gabizon I, Bhagirath V, Varughese J, Brown M, Trottier D, Schwalm JD, McGillion M, Alvarez E, Lokker C*. Patient and physician perspectives on the use and outcome measures of mHealth apps: Exploratory survey and focus group study. Digital Health. 2022 May 24;8:20552076221102773. doi: 10.1177/20552076221102773. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20552076221102773 PMID: 35646382
• Ng J, Abdelkader W, Lokker C*. How is Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Medicine Mentioned during the COVID-19 Pandemic? A Sentiment Analysis of Twitter Data. BMC Complementary Medicine. 2022 Apr 13;22(1):105. doi: 10.1186/s12906-022-03586-1.
• Lim J, Pavalagantharajah S, Verschoor CP, Lentz E, Loeb M, Levine M, Smieja M, Mbuagbaw L, Kalina D, Tarride J-E, O’Shea T, Cvetkovic A, van Gaalen S, Reid Findlater A, Lennox R, Lokker C, Bassim C, Alvarez A. Infectious diseases, comorbidities and outcomes in hospitalized people who inject drugs (PWID). PLoS One. 2022; 17(4):e0266663. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266663
• Tse, A., Xavier, S., Trollope-Kumar, K., Agarwal, G., Lokker, C.* Challenges in eating disorder diagnosis and management among family physicians and trainees: a qualitative study. J Eat Disord;2022:10, 45. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40337-022-00570-5
• Noronha. N., Balakumar, S., Toy, K., Smith, S., Wekerle, C., Martin-Hill, D., Lookinghorse, M., Avarino, A., Drossos, A., Niec, A., Jacobs, B., Thomasen, K., JD & Lokker, C*. Mental Health Mobile Applications developed for Indigenous Communities in Canada: A Scoping Review. Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health. 2022. https://doi.org/10.7870/cjcmh-2022-004.
• Lokker C*, Jezrawi R. Evaluating reflective writing to guide curricular improvements in health informatics education. Reflective Practice. 2022; 23(1): 44-56. https://doi.org/10.1080/14623943.2021.1976132
• Bansal R, Jezawi R, Greenwald A, Sandhanwalia S, Luo M, Greenwald I, Saeed H, Mondoux S, Chan T, Lokker C*. Frontline Connect: evaluating a virtual technology program to enhance patient and provider communication during COVID-19. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 2022;28:641-9 doi: 10.1111/jep.13650.

Current Research Projects:

• Use of machine learning to improve retrieval of high quality evidence from the literature.\
• A Post-Acute Care Intervention for Frailty using Information and Communication technology (PACIFIC) – community requirements for a digital communication platform.
• Desirability, feasibility, and co-development of an interdisciplinary capstone project for MSc in eHealth course-based students.

Affiliated Groups:

• McMaster Health Information Research Unit
• MIRA; Body Brave (community organization)

Alternative Website

• https://www.phri.ca/research-categories/perioperative-surgery/

Primary Areas of Research/Specialization:

• Perioperative Medicine and Geriatrics
  • Epidemiology, prevention and management of postoperative delirium and neurocognitive disorder after non-cardiac surgery
  • Aging and Surgery, functional outcomes of surgery in older people, perioperative frailty, decision-making in older people
  • Epidemiology, prevention and management of cardiovascular complications in non-cardiac surgery
  • Digital Health/Artificial Intelligence for perioperative medicine and research
• Methodological subjects (quantitative methods)
  • Multi-centre randomized controlled trials
  • Multi-centre prospective cohort studies
  • Systematic and Umbrella Reviews
  • Aggregate and Individual-Patient Data Meta-analyses, Network Meta-Analyses
  • Data analysis of observational studies: traditional (regression models) and alternative methods (propensity score methods, Classification and Regression Trees [CART] techniques) to deal with confounding and explore effect modification
  • Prognosis: Risk Prediction, derivation, validation, and update of risk prediction models; assessment of certainty of evidence for risk prediction model
  • Patient-Centred Research, Individualized Decision Making: prediction and decisional models; N-of-1 trials
  • Bayesian Design and Analysis in Clinical Studies

Recent Publications:

• Marcucci M, et al.; POISE-3 Trial Investigators and Study Groups. Hypotension-Avoidance Versus Hypertension-Avoidance Strategies in Noncardiac Surgery: An International Randomized Controlled Trial. Ann Intern Med. 2023 May;176(5):605-614.
• Khaled M, Kuber J, Ferber M, Sritharan P, Levy Y, Becker S, Fahnestock M, Griffin M, Madden K, Shanthanna H, Marcucci M. Rationale, Methods, and Progress of the ArthroCaP Study: A Prospective Cohort Study Exploring the Associations between Chronic Postsurgical Pain and Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction After Elective Knee or Hip Arthroplasty. Can J Pain. 6:4, DOI: 10.1080/24740527.2022.2162375.
• Khaled M, Sabac D, Marcucci M. Postoperative Pain and Pain Management and Neurocognitive Outcomes After Non-Cardiac Surgery. A protocol for a series of Systematic Reviews. Rev. Dec 24;11(1):280.
• Mah SJ, Anpalagan T, Marcucci M, Eiriksson L, Reade CJ, Jimenez W, Carlson V, Nguyen JMV. The five-factor modified frailty index predicts adverse postoperative and chemotherapy outcomes in gynecologic oncology. Gynecol Oncol. 2022 Jul;166(1):154-161.
• Devereaux PJ, Marcucci M, …, Leslie K; POISE-3 Investigators. Tranexamic Acid in Patients Undergoing Noncardiac Surgery. N Engl J Med. 2022 Apr 2. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2201171.
• Marcucci M, Etxeandia-Ikobaltzeta I, …, Violette Benefits and harms of direct oral anticoagulation and low molecular weight heparin for thromboprophylaxis in patients undergoing noncardiac surgery: systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomised trials. BMJ. 2022;376:e066785
• McGillion MH, Allan K, Ross-Howe S, Jiang W, Graham M, Marcucci M, …, Devereaux PJ. Beyond Wellness Monitoring: Continuous Multiparameter Remote Automated Monitoring of Patients. Can J Cardiol. 2022 Feb;38(2):267-278.
• McGillion MH, Parlow J, Borges FK, Marcucci M, …, Devereaux PJ; PVC-RAM-1 Investigators. Post-discharge after surgery Virtual Care with Remote Automated Monitoring-1 (PVC-RAM-1) technology versus standard care: randomised controlled trial. 2021 Sep 30;374:n2209.

Current Research Projects:

• PeriOperative ISchemic Evaluation (POISE)-3: international randomized controlled trial (factorial) comparing tranexamic acid versus placebo, and two alternative strategies of perioperative blood pressure management, in noncardiac surgery, upon vascular outcomes and neurocognitive outcomes (PI of the neurocognitive substudy, called cogPOISE-3)
• Neurological Impact of CerebroVascular Events In Noncardiac Surgery Patients (NeuroVISION)-2, international prospective cohort study investigating risk factors and mechanisms of perioperative covert stroke and neurocognitive disorders in noncardiac surgery
• FARGO study – Frailty Assessment for Risk prediction in Gynecologic Oncology patients undergoing surgery and chemotherapy
• ArthroCaP study – a mixed methods study on Chronic Post-surgical Pain, Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction and Resilience in older people undergoing elective knee surgery
• A Post-Acute Care Intervention for Frailty using Information and Communication technology (PACIFIC): Leveraging today’s health technology to co-design a complex community-based frailty intervention for older post-acute care patients
• Relationship between frailty versus age and attitude towards medical decision making (ongoing project with HRM MSc student)
• Co-investigator in other large experimental and observational studies in perioperative medicine, including VISION-2 (investigating signs of early hemodynamic compromise), HIP-ATTCK and HIP-ATTACK-2 (evaluating accelerated surgery for patients with hip fracture – leading the substudies on delirium), ASPIRE-AF (evaluating long term oral anticoagulation in patients with perioperative atrial fibrillation), ARTS (evaluating thromboprophylaxis with oral anticoagulation in patients undergoing different types of noncardiac surgery), and PVC-RAM trials (evaluating a post-discharge virtual care intervention, including remote automated monitoring technology, in elective and non-elective surgery)

Affiliated Groups:

• Population Health Research Institute (PHRI; programs: Anesthesiology, Perioperative Medicine, and Surgical Research and Digital Health)
• McMaster Institute for Research on Aging (MIRA)
• CLARITY (https://www.clarityresearch.ca)

Primary Areas of Research/Specialization:

• Electromagnetism
• Microwave and millimeter-wave imaging
• Antennas
• Microwaves
• Radar

Recent Publications:

• V. Shahmirzadi, V. Tyagi, J. Nguyen, R. Kazemivala, N. K. Nikolova, and C. H. Chen, “Planar array of UWB active slot antennas for microwave imaging of the breast,” IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., accepted Dec. 27, 2022.
• Tajik, J. Trac, and N.K. Nikolova, “Quality control of microwave equipment for tissue imaging,” IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF, and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 52–60, Mar. 2020.

Current Research Projects:

• Microwave Imager for Breast Cancer Screening
• Millimeter-wave and Tera-hertz Imaging and Sensing in Health Care

Affiliated Groups:

• Industry (communications, medical instrumentation)
• Government (health sector, defense research and development)
• McMaster University (Computing and Software, Biomedical Engineering)

Primary Areas of Research / Specialization:

• Use of Cannabinoids in the older adult

Current Research Projects:

• Women Growing Older: Older women’s experiences of accessing cannabis information and support through virtual community  
  • PIs: Nicole Dalmer, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Aging & Society, and Saara Greene, Professor | DIrector, School of Social Work, Faculty of Social Sciences, in collaboration with the Faculties of Health Sciences (Amanjot Sidhu) and Humanities (Liss Platt).

Affiliated Groups:

• GERAS

Research Themes that Align with My Work:

• Dementia, Aging and Social Inclusion
• Embodiment, Well-being and Aging
• Connecting Later in Life

Primary Areas of Research/Specialization:

• Joanna is passionate about community-based research that is motivated by community priorities and contributes knowledge that leads to better and more equitable health care policies and practices.
• She conducts research in the area of integrated care, with a particular interest in home care and long-term care.
• Her current work focuses on integrated models of care, assessment systems, as well as evaluation and patient/resident/citizen engagement methods.

Recent Publications:

• Sinn, C., Pasat, Z., Holditch, C., Beltzner, C., Hogeveen, S., Klea, L., & Costa, A. (2022). A maturity model framework for integrated virtual care. Journal of Integrated Care, 30(4), 351-362. doi:1108/JICA-02-2022-0015
• McArthur, C., Faller-Saunders, A., Turcotte, L., Sinn, C., Berg, K., Morris, J. N., & Hirdes, J. P. (2022). Examining the effect of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic on home care recipients’ instrumental activities of daily living capacity. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 23(9), 1609.e1-1609.e5. doi:1016/j.jamda.2022.06.015
• McArthur, C., Turcotte, L., Sinn, C., Berg, K., Morris, J., & Hirdes, J. (2022). Social engagement and distress among home care recipients during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario, Canada: a retrospective cohort study. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 23(7), P1101-1108. doi:1016/j.jamda.2022.04.005
• Finnegan, H., Daari, L., Jaiswal, A., Sinn, C., Ellis, K., Kallan, L., Nguyen, D., et al. (2022). Changing care: applying the transtheoretical model of change to embed equity, diversity, and inclusion in long-term care research in Canada. Societies, 12(3), 87. doi:3390/soc12030087
• Sinn, C., Sultan, H., Turcotte, L., McArthur, C., & Hirdes, J. (2022). Patterns of home care assessment and service provision before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario, Canada. PLoS ONE, 17(3), e0266160. doi:1371/journal.pone.0266160
• Sinn, C., Hirdes, J., Poss, J., Boscart, V, & Heckman, G. (2022). Implementation evaluation of a stepped approach to home care assessment using interRAI systems in Ontario, Canada. Health and Social Care in the Community. doi:1111/hsc.13784
• Sinn, C., Heckman, G., Poss, J., Onder, G., Vetrano, D., & Hirdes, J. (2020). A comparison of three frailty measures and adverse outcomes in the intake home care population: a retrospective cohort study. CMAJ Open, 8(4), E796–E809. doi:9778/cmajo.20200083
• Kinsell, H., Harman, J., Hirdes, J., Hogeveen, S., Sinn, C., Chen, J., Eckel, L., & Poss, J. (2020). Spending wisely: home care reassessment intervals and cost in Ontario. JAMDA, 21(3), 432– doi:10.1016/j.jamda.2019.12.007
• Poss, J., Sinn, C., Grinchenko, G., Salam-White, L., & Hirdes, J. (2019). Comparing changes and transitions of home care patients in retirement homes and private homes. Canadian Journal of Aging, 15, 1– doi:10.1017/S0714980819000473

Current Research Projects:

• Improving Equitable Access to Integrated Primary Care in Residential Care Facilities: The Juravinski Integrated Residential Care Initiative (2023-2026)
• Individualized CARE for Older Persons with Complex Chronic Conditions in Home Care and Nursing Homes (2021-2025)
• Strengthening Pandemic Preparedness in Long-Term Care (2020-2023)

Primary Areas of Research:

• Rehabilitation
• Physical therapy
• Cancer
• Exercise
• Aging
• Social support

Recent Publications:

• Sabiston CM, Fong A, Smith-Turchyn J, Amireault S, Arbour-Nicitopoulos K, Bender J, Jones JM. What do women diagnosed with cancer want in a physical activity partner? Oncology Nursing Forum. 2023;50(1):101-114.
• Smith-Turchyn J, Sabiston CM, Ball E, Mukherjee SD. A decade of progress in cancer rehabilitation: A survey-based study on physical activity promotion for individuals living with a current or past diagnosis of cancer in Canada. Current Oncology. 2022;29:9801-9812.
• Smith-Turchyn J, Macedo L, Wojkowski S, Spadoni GF, Stratford PW. Vertical versus horizontal assessment methods for scoring physiotherapy entrance interviews. Journal of Physical Therapy Education. 2022;36(4):316-321.
• Smith-Turchyn J, McCowan ME, O’Loughlin E, Fong AJ, McDonough MH, Santa Mina D, Arbour K, Trinh L, Jones J, Bender J, Culos-Reed N, Tomasone J, Vani M, Sabiston C. Connecting breast cancer survivors for exercise: protocol for a two-arm randomized controlled trial. BMC Sports Sci Med Rehabil. 2021;13:128. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13102-021-00341
• Smith-Turchyn J, Adams S, Sabiston C. Testing of a self-administered fitness test using technology: A usability study. Journal of Medical Internet Research Rehabil Assist Technol. 2021;8(3):e22818. doi:10.2196/22818. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/22818

Current Research Projects:

• Smith-Turchyn J, Beauchamp M, Kho M, Li L, Mian H, Mukherjee S, Rochwerg B. Understanding the intersection of frailty, sepsis, and cancer: Rehabilitation to improve survivors outcomes (the I-CaRe project). Springboard Grants Program – Early Career Researcher Competition. Canadian Frailty Network and Sepsis Canada. Nov 2022-June 2024.
• Smith-Turchyn J, Beauchamp M, Innes A, Phillips S, Richardson J, Thabane L, Sabiston C. A pilot randomized controlled trial of a virtual peer-support exercise intervention for older adults with cancer. McMaster Institute for Research on Aging. Labarge Catalyst Grant in Mobility in Aging. Oct 2022-Sept 2023.
• Smith-Turchyn J, Mukherjee S, Richardson, J., Bordeleau, L., Neil-Sztramko, S., Thabane, L., Xie, F., Levine, O., Sathiyapalan, A. Evaluation of a Novel Strategy to Implement Exercise Evidence into Clinical Practice in Breast Cancer Care: The NEXT-BRCA Trial, Grant, Juravinski Hospital and Cancer Centre Foundation. Sept 2019-Mar 2024.

Affiliated Groups:

• MIRA Members
• CDCR

Primary Areas of Research/Specialization:

• Mobile computing
• Mobile data analytics
• Wearable and ambient sensing

Recent Publications:

• Hao, Yujiao, Boyu Wang, and Rong Zheng. “VALERIAN: Invariant Feature Learning for IMU Sensor-based Human Activity Recognition in the Wild. IEEE/ACM Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI), 2023
• Keivan Nalaie and Rong Zheng, AttTrack: Online Deep Attention Transfer for Multi-object Tracking, IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2023
• Shervin Manzuri Shalmani, Fei Chiang, Rong Zheng, Efficient Action Recognition Using Confidence Distillation, 26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2022
• Navid Zandi, Awny El-Mohandes, Rong Zheng, Individualizing Head Related Transfer Functions for Binaural Acoustic Applications, ACM/IEEE International Conference on on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) 2022
• Keivan Nalaie, Renjie Xu, Rong Zheng, DeepScale: Online Frame Size Adaptation for Multi-object Tracking on Smart Cameras and Edge Servers, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI) 2022
• Hao, R. Zheng and B. Wang, “Invariant Feature Learning for Sensor-Based Human Activity Recognition,” in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 21, no. 11, pp. 4013-4024, 2022
• Niu, X. Wang, F. Zhang, R. Zheng, Z. Yao and D. Zhang, “Rethinking Doppler Effect for Accurate Velocity Estimation With Commodity WiFi Devices,” in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 40, no. 7, pp. 2164-2178, 2022
• Zhao, J. -K. Zhang, X. -P. Zhang and R. Zheng, “Multiple-Target Localization by Millimeter-Wave Radars with Trapezoid Virtual Antenna Arrays,” in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 9, no. 20, pp. 19589-19598, 15 Oct.15, 2022
• Y Wei, Rong Zheng, A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Efficient Informative Sensing, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 21 (7), 2306 – 2317, 2022
• Y Wei, Rong Zheng. “Efficient Wi-Fi Fingerprint Crowdsourcing for Indoor Localization.” IEEE Sensors Journal, 22 (6), 5055-5062, 2022
• Chao Cai, Rong Zheng , Jun Luo, Ubiquitous Acoustic Sensing on Commodity IoT Devices: A Survey, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, 24 (1), 432 – 454, 2022
• Chao Cai, Chen Zhe, Jun Luo, Henglin Pu, Menglan Hu, Rong Zheng, “Boosting Chirp Signal Based Aerial Acoustic Communication under Dynamic Channel Conditions”, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 21, no. 9, pp. 3110-3121, 2022

Current Research Projects:

• CREATE: Smart Mobility for the Aging Populations (PI), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
• Toward Acoustic Virtual and Augmented Reality on Commodity Hardware, New Frontiers in Research Fund (Exploration)
• Robust Non-contact RF Sensing for Human Vital Sign and Activity Monitoring, Mitacs Accelerate
• DRL-based Physics Modeling of Aged Locomotion for Motion Simulation, Stability Analysis and Data Augmentation, MIRA-Labarge Catalyst Grant

Affiliated Groups:

• MIRA