Unless specified, all Epidemiology seminars will be held on Thursdays, 12:00noon – 1:00pm, in room HS106, 1st floor, Health Sciences Building, 155 College Street.

For more information please contact: matilda.kong@utoronto.ca
 

Upcoming Seminars

• April 9, 2015
  Sarah Sutherland – "Anemia in Northern Ontario Aboriginal Communities: Iron Fish Intervention"

  Sarah Goodday – “Childhood predictors of Canadian youth and young adult suicide”
   

Past Seminars

• March 26, 2015
  Abdool Yassen – "An evaluation of GBS screening practices in Ontario"

  Eva Wong – "Stockpiling and the evidence on oseltamivir"

• February 26, 2015
  Todd Norwood – "Neighbourhood-level incidence of primary liver cancer and risk factors in the Ottawa and Toronto areas: towards joint disease modeling"

  Jennifer Shuldiner – “Health Care Utilization in individuals with depression and advanced cancer”

• March 12, 2015
  Jeremiah Hwee – “The Role of Infections in the Etiology of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia”

  Christopher Tait – "The Role of Dietary Patterns in Explaining the Relationship Between Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes"

• February 12, 2015
  Laura Bogaert – “Quantifying the burden of noise-induced hearing loss among occupational subgroups of active Canadian Armed Forces personnel”

  Brendan Smith – "Social Inequalitites in Coronary Heart Disease in Canada"
   

• January 29, 2015
  Chantel Ramraj – “Intergenerational Transmission of the Healthy Immigrant Effect (IHE) through birth weight: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis”

  Nandita Perumal – "Multidimensional household deprivation and micronutrient deficiencies among children <5 years of age: preliminary analyses from a cross-sectional survey in Madhya Pradesh, India"

• January 15, 2015
  Prof David Henry – "Accessing and using routinely collected health data in Ontario: current state and future plans"
   
• December 11, 2014

• Travis Hottes – “Prevalence of suicidal behavior among sexual minorities: A systematic review”

  Ariel Pulver – “Gender disparities in early child health: what role does ethnicity play?”

• November 27, 2014
  Linda Kachuri – “Fine-mapping of chromosome 5p15.33 based on a targeted deep sequencing identifies novel lung cancer susceptibility loci”

  Sarah Buchan – “The proportion of lab confirmed influenza in children presenting with influenza-like illnesses”

• November 13, 2014
  Aleksandra Zuk – “Oral Health and Cardiometabolic Disorders (ORAD) Study: Results form 2009 to 2011 Canadian Health Measures Survey (CHMS)"

  Samantha White – “Use of Heroin and Prescription Opioids among Users of Injection Drugs in Ontario”

• October 30, 2014
  Diana Withrow – “Cancer Incidence and Survival among First Nations and Métis adults in Canada: Preliminary results from the 1991 Census Mortality Cohort”

  Felicia Leung – “Carbohydrate intake and abdominal adiposity among postmenopausal women”

• October 16, 2014
  Laura Warren – “The prevalence of dementia in Indigenous populations”

  Nora Zwingerman – “Investigation of genetic variants and DNA methylation levels associated with PAI-1 levels on
  the X-chromosome”
   

• October 2, 2014
  Prof Jennifer Brooks – “MRI parenchymal enhancement: A new marker of breast cancer risk”
   
• September 18, 2014
  Prof Andrea Tricco – “Rapid reviews versus systematic reviews: What’s the difference?”