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Faculty Member

Sareh Keshavarzi Ph.D

Email Address(es)
sareh.keshavarzi(at)uhnresearch.ca, sareh.keshavarzi(at)utoronto.ca
Office Phone
416-946-4501 x 4992
Office Address
610 University Ave, 10th Floor, Rm 505, Toronto, ON, M5G 2M9
Division(s)/Institute(s)
Biostatistics Division
Position
Assistant Professor
SGS Status
Associate Member
Appointment Status
Status Only

Research Interests

  • Statistical Model Developments
  • Statistical Genetics
  • Genetic Epidemiology of Mendelian & Complex Diseases
  • Causal Inference
  • Cancer Studies Design and Analysis (Clinical & Translational)

Education & Training History

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Statistical Genetics, The Hospital for Sick Children
  • CIHR STAGE Fellowship, University of Toronto
  • Ph.D. in Biostatistics, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences
  • MSc in Biostatistics, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences

Other Affiliations

Statistical Scientist, IQVIA Canada

Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications (Last 5 Years)

Full List of Publications (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4HTY1ogAAAAJ&hl=en)

Sareh Keshavarzi, Barbara H. Braffett, Rose Gubitosi-Klug, Elsayed Soliman, Annette Barnie, Gayle Lorenzi, Rodica Pop-Busui, Amy Saenger, Trevor Orchard, Samuel Dagogo-Jack, Andrew Paterson. Risk Factors for Longitudinal Resting Heart Rate and its Associations with Cardiovascular Outcomes in the Diabetes Control and Complications / Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications Study. Diabetes Care. 2021, 44 (5): 1125-1132.

Bebu I, Keshavarzi S, Gao X, Braffett BH, Canty A, Herman W, Orchard T, Dagogo-Jack S, Lachin JM, Nathan D, Paterson A. Genetic Risk Factors for CVD in Type 1 Diabetes: The DCCT/EDIC Study. Diabetes Care. Accepted (April 21 2021), “In Press”.

Jeanna M McCuaig, Emily Thain, Janet Malcolmson, Sareh Keshavarzi, Susan Randall Armel, Raymond H Kim Counseling matters: A Comparison of Patient-Reported Outcomes Following Consent for Genetic Testing Using an Oncologist-or Genetic Counselor-Mediated Model of Care, Current Oncology, 2021, 28 (2): 1459-1471.

Ahmed M. Elamir, Shawn Hutchinson, Hamzeh Albaba, Sareh Keshavarzi, Wei Xu, Carol-Anne Moulton, Ian McGilvary, Jennifer Knox, Grainne O’Kane, Rebecca M. Prince, Sangeetha Kalimuthu, John Kim, Jolie Ringash, Laura A. Dawson, Rebecca Wong, Aisling. A risk score model for locoregional recurrence following upfront surgery for pancreatic adenocarcinoma: implications for adjuvant therapy. Clinical Oncology, Accepted (March 2 2021), “In Press”.

Justin M. Burgener, Jinfeng Zou, Zhen Zhao, Yangqiao Zheng, Roxana Y. Shen, Shao Hui Huang, Sareh Keshavarzi, Aaron M. Newman, Ash A. Alizadeh, Maximilian Diehn, Michael Hoffman, Wei Xu, Fei-Fei Liu, Geoffrey Liu, John N. Waldron, Ilan Weinreb, Anna Spreafico, Lillian L. Siu, John de Almeida, David Goldstein, Daniel D. De Carvalho, and Scott. V. Bratman. Tumor-naïve multimodal profiling of circulating tumor DNA in localized head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, Clinical Cancer Research, Accepted (February 28 2021), “In Press”.

Lachlan McDowell, Nathaniel So, Sareh Keshavarzi, Wei Xu, Kathy Rock, Biu Chan, John Waldron, Lori JBernstein, Shao Hui Huang, Meredith Giuliani, Andrew Hope, Brian O’Sullivan, Scott V.Bratman, John Cho, John Kim, Raymond Jang, Andrew Bayley, Jolie Ringash. Sexual satisfaction in nasopharyngeal carcinoma survivors: rates and determinants. Oral Oncology 2020, 1 (109): 1-6.

SA Ali, R Gandhi, P Potla, S Keshavarzi, O Espin-Garcia, K Shestopaloff, C Pastrello, D Bethune-Waddell, S Lively, A Perruccio, R Rampersaud, J Rockel, I Jurisica, T Appleton, M Kapoor Unique circulating microrna profile identified in early radiographic knee osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage 2020, 28 (11): 1471-1481.

Huang SH, de Almeida J, Watson E, Glogauer M, Xu W, Keshavarzi S, O’Sullivan B, Ringash J, Hope A, Bayley A, Bratman S, Cho J, Giuliani M, Kim J, Waldron J, Spreafico A, Goldstein D, Chepeha D, Hosni A., Short-term and Long-term Unstimulated Saliva Flow Following Unilateral versus Bilateral Radiotherapy for Oropharyngeal Carcinoma. Head Neck, 2020, 43 (2): 456-466.

Romain Charmet, Seamus Duffy, Sareh Keshavarzi, Beata Gyorgy, Michel Marre, Peter Rossing, Amy Jayne McKnight, Alexander P. Maxwell, Tarun veer Singh Ahluwalia, Andrew D. Paterson, David Alexandre Trégouët and Samy Hadjadj. Novel risk genes identified in a genome-wide association study for coronary artery disease in patients with type 1 diabetes Cardiovascular Diabetology, 2018, 17 (61): 1-10.