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Faculty Member

Linda Hiraki

Email Address(es)
linda.hiraki(at)sickkids.ca
Website(s)
Hiraki Lab at The Hospital for Sick Children,
Division(s)/Institute(s)
Epidemiology Division
Position
Associate Professor
SGS Status
Full Member
Appointment Status
Status Only
Currently Accepting Doctoral Students?
Yes

Research Interests

Genetic Epidemiology; Rare Systemic Inflammatory Diseases; Longitudinal analysis; Outcomes; Risk Prediction

Education & Training History

2013 – 2015: Postdoctoral Fellow, Genetics & Genome Biology, SickKids

2009 – 2013: ScD Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA

2008 – 2009: ScM Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA

2003 – 2006: Postdoctoral Fellow, Genetics & Genome Biology, SickKids

2006 – 2008: Pediatric Rheumatology Fellow, UofT, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON

2003 – 2006: General Pediatrics Resident, UofT, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON

1999 – 2003: MD Queen’s University, Kingston, ON

1995 – 1999: BSc University of Toronto, Toronto, ON

Other Affiliations

Staff Physician, Division of Rheumatology, The Hospital for Sick Children

Scientist, Genetics & Genome Biology, Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children

Canada Research Chair in Genetics of Rare Systemic Inflammatory Diseases

Dr. Hiraki’s current research interests include examining the genetic contribution to complex, rheumatic diseases and their associated long-term outcomes. She is applying methods that take advantage of rich, longitudinally collected clinical data along with both common and low-frequency genetic variants to discover new genetic associations with manifestations and complications of the complex disease. Hiraki is also employing novel methods to transethnic studies of admixed populations with complex diseases.