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PhD Final Oral Examinations (2011-2014)
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JEAN SAMUEL December 18, 2014
KATIA De PINHO CAMPOS December 16, 2014
JOHN PRINGLE October 27, 2014
FRANZISKA SATZINGER October 20, 2014
FATIMAH JACKSON October 17, 2014
SUSITHA WANIGARATNE Setpember 4, 2014
MEGHAN WALKER August 27, 2014
KEVIN BROWN July 31, 2014
BILLY CHANG June 18, 2014
EMMA RICHARDSON May 26, 2014
BRANKA AGIC May 23, 2014
SYLVIA ADEBAJO April 14, 2014
GAYANE HOVHANNISYAN January 20, 2014
ANDREA CHAMBERS December 11, 2013
BENJAMIN TAYLOR November, 29, 2013
SARAH BRENNENSTUHL October 10, 2013
VICTOR CELLARIUS September 20, 2013
ARIF JETHA September 11, 2013
BETH RACHLIS August 22, 2013
EDWIN NG August 16, 2013
PAUL ARORA August 14, 2013
PARISA AIRIA July 11, 2013
ERICA J. SUTTON June 27, 2013
LAURA FAYE June 26, 2013
JAIME CAMILO SAPAG MUNOZ de la PENA June 12, 2013
ADRIAN GUTA April 17, 2013
KATHRYN MCISAAC April 5, 2013
BUNDIT SORNPAISARN March 5, 2013
ANGELA MASHFORD-PRINGLE February 14, 2013
BO ZHANG February 13, 2013
MICHAEL ROERECKE December 11, 2012
DIEGO SILVA December 10, 2012
MICHELLE FIRESTONE November 29, 2012
SARAH SANFORD November 9, 2012
SUBHA RAMANATHAN September 27, 2012
FIONA KOUYOUMDJIAN September 17, 2012
MANUELA FERRARI September 14, 2012
DARREN BRENNER September 11, 2012
MAGGIE HONG CHEN July 25, 2012
CHELSEA TAYLOR June 4, 2012
JENNIFER BETHELL April 18, 2012
YE LI January 18, 2012
DIANA URAJNIK December 15, 2011
SANG NAHM November 23, 2011
MATTHEW KOWGIER October 25, 2011
RICHARD ILAN ALLESON September 12, 2011
NICOLE RILEY August 18, 2011
DALIA BALIUNAS August 9, 2011
ESTHER IGNAGNI June 29, 2011
JACQUELINE BENDER May 31, 2011
WENDY McGUIRE May 27, 2011
LAURIE CORNA May 25, 2011
ELIZABETH MANSFIELD May 24, 2011
AMRITA DAFTARY May 6, 2011
GERALD LEBOVIC April 4, 2011
JOSEPHINE WONG March 4, 2011
AHMED HOSSAIN February 23, 2011
KRISTA MAXWELL January 20, 2011

JEAN SAMUEL

Thursday, December 18, 2014
10:00 am
Room 301, 63 St. George St.

Stuggling with the Sate: Rights-based Governance of Reproductive Health Services in Puno, Peru

Committee:
Exam Chair: Mauricio Terebiznik
Supervisor(s): Ted Myers
Anne-Emanuelle Birn
External Examiner: Jasmine Gideon
Voting Members: Lisa Forman
Dan Allman
Suzanne Jackson

KATIA De PINHO CAMPOS

Tuesday, December 16, 2014
1:30 pm
Room 4S401, 190 Elizabeth St.

The Stages of Building Public-Private Partnerships in Public Health: Factors Influencing the Engagement Process in the Context of Healthy Eating in Restaurants in Ontario

Committee:
Exam Chair: Paul Fletcher
Supervisor(s): Alejandro Jadad
External Examiner: Arya Sharma
Voting Members: Joanna Cohen
Denise Gastaldo
Harvey Skinner

JOHN PRINGLE

Monday, October 27, 2014
1:00 pm
Room 303, 63 St. George St.

Charity Medicine for the Global Poor: Humanitarian Ethics and the Nigerian Lead-Poisoning Outbreak

Committee:
Exam Chair: Shana Kelley
Supervisor(s): Donald Cole
External Examiner: Ryoa Chung
Voting Members: Ross Upshur
Anne-Emanuelle Birn
Stephanie Nixon

FRANZISKA SATZINGER

Monday, October 20, 2014
9:00 am
Room 303, 63 St. George St.

“Dancing to the Tune of the Donor”: Donor Funding and Local Implementation of Initiatives to Assist Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children in Uganda, 1986-2011

Committee:
Exam Chair: Margot Taylor
Supervisor(s): Anne-Emanuelle Birn
External Examiner: Susan Dicklitch
Voting Members: Stephanie Nixon
Thembela Kepe
Bianca Dahl
Donald Cole

FATIMAH JACKSON

Friday, October 17, 2014
9:00 am
Room 303, 63 St. George St.

Maternal Depression in Barbados: Exploring how Black Women Experience, Understand, Manage and Cope with the ‘Baby Blues’ and Postpartum Depression

Committee:
Exam Chair: William Hutchison
Supervisor(s): Carles Muntaner
External Examiner: Dawn Edge
Voting Members: Anne-Emanuelle Birn
Alissa Trotz
Peggy McDonough

SUSITHA WANIGARATNE

Thursday, September 4, 2014
2:00 pm
Room 650, 155 College St.

Maternal and Perinatal Health of Refugees in Ontario: A Population-based Approach

Committee:
Exam Chair: Sunita Mathur
Supervisor(s): Donald Cole
Marcelo Urquia
External Examiner: Shiliang Liu
Voting Members: Kate Bassil
Laura Rosella
Jason Pole
Non-voting Members: Ilene Hyman
Rahim Moineddin

MEGHAN WALKER

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
1:00 pm
Room 650, 155 College St.

Breast Cancer Screening Behaviours and Outcomes in Women with a Family History of Breast and/or Ovarian Cancer in Ontario

Committee:
Exam Chair: Joanne Rovet
Supervisor: Anna Chiarelli
External Examiner: Heather Bryant
Voting Members: Julia Knight
Lucia Mirea
Jason Pole

KEVIN BROWN

Thursday, July 31, 2014
10:00 am
Room 303, 63 St. Gerorge St.

Developing Individual and Population-level Models of Hospital-acquired Clostridium Difficile Infection (CDI) to Enable the Timely Identification of High-risk Patients to Facilitate Inter-institution Comparisons of Incidence and to Promote Quality Improvement

Committee:
Exam Chair: Rhonda Cockerill
Supervisor: David Fisman
External Examiner: Philip Polgreen
Voting Members: Allison McGeer
Nick Daneman
Jeff Kwong
Non-voting Member: Laura Rosella

BILLY CHANG

Wednesday, June 18, 2014
10:00 am
Room 301, 63 St. George St.

Kernel Machines are not Black Boxes – On the Interpretability of Kernel-based Nonparametric Models

Committee:
Exam Chair: Cheryl Grady
Supervisor: Rafal Kustra
External Examiner: Mu Zhu
Voting Members: Michael Escobar
Radford Neal

EMMA RICHARDSON

Monday, May 26, 2104
11:00 am
Room 301, 63 St. George St.

‘Uno tiene que cuidar también de si mismo’: Placing Guatemalan Family Planning Decisions in Context using Social Cognitive Theory and a Political Economy Approach

Committee:
Exam Chair: Jaques Belik
Supervisor: Kenneth Allison
External Examiner: Jonathan Maupin
Voting Members: Dionne Gesink
Albert Berry
Liviana Calzavara

BRANKA AGIC

Friday, May 23, 2104
2:00 pm
Room 301, 63 St. George St.

Alcohol Use and Risk of Drinking in Ontario Ethnic Groups

Committee:
Exam Chair: Joe Minta
Supervisor: Robert Mann
External Examiner: Riley Hinson
Voting Members: Susan Bondy
Laura Simich
Liviana Calzavara
Nigel Turner

SYLVIA ADEBAJO

Monday, April 14, 2104
9:00 am
Room 301, 63 St. George St.

Prevalence and Correlates of HIV, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, Syphilis and Sexual Behaviours of Men who have Sex with Men in Two Cities in Nigeria

Committee:
Exam Chair: Isabella Caniggia
Supervisor: Ted Myers
External Examiner: Stefan Baral
Voting Members: Dan Allman
Donald Cole
Ann Burchell
Non-Voting Members: Liviana Calzavara
Robert Remis

GAYANE HOVHANNISYAN

Monday, January 20, 2014
1:00 pm
Room 111, 63 St. George St.

Syndromic Management of Chlamydia and Gonorrhea in Women with Vaginal Discharge at the Public Health Sexual Health and STD Clinics in Hamilton, ON

Committee:
Exam Chair: Martha Brown
Supervisor: Margaret Millson
Co-Supervisor: Colin Lee
External Examiner: Gina Ogilvy
Voting Members: Susan Bondy
Thomas Wong
Sheilah Hogg-Johnson

ANDREA CHAMBERS

Wednesday, December 11, 2013
1:00 pm
Room 301, 63 St. George St.

The Integration of Safety Engineered Needles in Acute Care Hospitals: Opportunities and Challenges of Regulated Change

Committee:
Exam Chair: Geoff MacDonald
Supervisor: Cameron Mustard
External Examiner: Ivy Bourgeault
Voting Members: Linn Holness
Kathryn Nichol
Louise Lemieux-Charles
Emile Tompa
Non-voting Member: Curtis Breslin

BENJAMIN TAYLOR

Friday, November 29, 2013
3:00 pm
Room 303, 63 St. George St.

The Mortality and Morbidity of Alcohol-attributable Injury:  How New Dimensions of Exposure and Relative Risk
Lead to Novel Calculations of Total Lifetime Risk, Alcohol Attributable Fractions, and a New Analytical Framework
for the Burden of Disease in Canada

Committee:
Exam Chair: Hans Michael Dosch
Supervisor: Jurgen Rehm
External Examiner: Don Voaklander
Voting Members: Susan Bondy
George Tomlinson

SARAH BRENNENSTUHL

Thursday, October 10, 2013
10:00 am
Room 201, 65 St. George St.

The Welfare State and Socioeconomic Inequalities in Women’s Health Dynamics: A Comparative Study of Four OECD Countries

Committee:
Exam Chair: Peter G. Wells
Supervisor: Peggy McDonough
Co-Supervisor: Diana Worts
External Examiner: Piet Bracke
Voting Members: Arjumand Siddiqi
Flora Matheson
Carles Muntaner

VICTOR CELLARIUS

Friday, September 20, 2013
9:00am
Room 301, 63 St. George St.

A Conceptual Analysis of Canadian Palliative Care Ethics

Committee:
Exam Chair: Frances Skinner
Supervisor: Ross Upshur
External Examiner: Harvey Chochinov
Voting Members: Ann Robertson
Wayne Sumner
Merrijoy Kelner
Elizabeth Peter
Non-voting Members: Mary Vachon

ARIF JETHA

Wednesday, September 11, 2013
1:00pm
Room 111, 63 St. George St.

Early Employment Experiences of Canadian Young Adults Living with Systematic Lupus Erythematosus, Juvenile Arthritis and Spinal Cord Injury

Committee:
Exam Chair: Amy Caudy
Supervisor: Monique Gignac
External Examiner: Edward H. Yelin
Voting Members: Elizabeth Badley
Dorcas Beaton
Ted Myers
 Stephanie Nixon

BETH RACHLIS

Thursday, August 22, 2013
9:00am
Room 303, 63 St. George St.

Losses to Follow-up from an Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) Program in the Zomba District of Malawi

Committee:
Exam Chair: Dorothea Godt
Supervisor: Donald Cole
External Examiner: Nathan Ford
Voting Members: Farah Ahmad
Michael Escobar
Ahmed Bayoumi
Non-voting Member: James Orbinski

EDWIN NG

Friday, August 16, 2013

The Politics of Population Health in Canada: Testing Provincial Welfare Generosity and Leftist Politics as Macro-social Determinants of Population Health

Committee:
Exam Chair: Paul Hamel
Supervisor: Carles Muntaner
External Examiner: Andrea Madarasová Gecková
Voting Members: James Dunn
Arjumand Siddiqi

PAUL ARORA

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Epidemiologic Characterization of the Sexual Transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Other Sexually Trasnmitted Infections in India

Committee:
Exam Chair: Michele Anderson
Supervisor: Prabhat Jha
External Examiner: Stefano Bertozzi
Voting Members: Dionne Gesink
Rahim Moineddin
Liviana Calzavara

PARISA AIRIA

Thursday, July 11, 2013
2:00pm
Room 301, 63 St. George St.

From Education to Tumour Characteristics in Colorectal Cancer: An Analysis of the Pathways

Committee:
Exam Chair: Jean Gariepy
Supervisor: Gail Eyssen
External Examiner: Polly Newcomb
Voting Members: Pierre Cote
Loraine Marrett
Elizabeth Badley
Non-voting Member: Andrew Seary

ERICA J. SUTTON

Thursday, June 27, 2013
9:30am
Room 301, 63 St. George St.

A Public Health Ethics Analysis of Consent as a Least Restrictive Alternative for Newborn Screening in Ontario

Committee:
Exam Chair: Martin McKneally
Supervisor: Ross Upshur
External Examiner: Audrey Tluczek
Voting Members: Fiona Miller
Stephanie Nixon
Catherine Chalin
Randi Zlotnik Shaul

LAURA FAYE

Wednesday, June 26, 2013
1:30pm
Room 650, Health Sciences Building, 155 College Street

Identification of Candidate Causal Variants and Estimation of Genetic Associations in GWAS and Post-GWAS Studies

Committee:
Exam Chair: Jane Danska
Supervisor: Shelley Bull
External Examiner: Fred A Wright
Voting Members: Lei Sun
Andrew Paterson
David Tritchler
Virgil Radu Craiu

JAIME CAMILO SAPAG MUNOZ De La PENA

Wednesday, June 12, 2013
3:00pm
Room 301, 63 St. George St.

Developing a Framework to Evaluate Collaboartive Mental Health Services in Primary Care Systems in Latin America

Committee:
Exam Chair: Micheline Piquette-Miller
Supervisor: Brian Rush
External Examiner: Maria Lucia O. Souza-Formigoni
Voting Members: Lorraine Ferris
Janet Barnsley
Ted Myers
Sanjeev Sridharan
Non-voting Members: Cameron Norman

ADRIAN GUTA

Wednesday, April 17, 2013
3:30pm – 5:30pm
Room 303, 63 St. George St.

Governing Through Community Engagement: Lessons from the Canadian HIV Community-based Research Movement

Committee:
Exam Chair: Julie Claycomb
Supervisor: Carol Strike
External Examiner: Roy Cain
Voting Members: Ross Upshur
Stuart Murray
Ellen MacEachen
Non-voting Members: Ted Myers
Sarah Flicker

KATHRYN MCISAAC

Friday, Aril 5, 2013
10:00am – 12:00 noon
Room 303, 63 St. George St.

Breastfeeding Practices of Inuit Canadians

Committee:
Exam Chair: David J. Kelvin
Supervisor: Kue Young
External Examiner: Noreen D. Willows
Voting Members: Wendy Lou
Daniel Sellen
Cameron Mustard

BUNDIT SORNPAISARN

Tuesday, March 5, 2013
10:00am – 12:00 noon
Room 301, 63 St. George St.

The Effectiveness of an Alternate Alcohol Taxation Method in a Middle-Income Country: A Case Study of Thailand

Committee:
Exam Chair: Ross Baker
Supervisor: Jurgen Rehm
External Examiner: Viroj Tangcharoensathien
Voting Members: Joanna Cohen
Robert Schwartz
Ted Myers

ANGELA MASHFORD-PRINGLE

Thursday, February 14, 2013
10:00am – 12:00 noon
Room 303, 63 St. George St.

Self-Determination in Health Care: A Multiple Case Study of Four First Nations Communities in Canada

Committee:
Exam Chair: Peter Pennefather
Supervisor: Kue Young
External Examiner: Malcolm King
Voting Members: Suzanne Jackson
Onil Bhattacharyya
Ted Myers

BO ZHANG

Wednesday, February 13, 2013
12:00 noon – 2:00pm
Room 303, 63 st. George St.

Does Duration of Nicotine Replacement Therapy Use Matter in Quitting Smoking? A Longitudinal Study of Smokers in the General Population

Committee:
Exam Chair: Andrew Bognar
Supervisor: Joanna Cohen
External Examiner: Edward J. Mills
Voting Members: Susan Bondy
Peter Selby
Kue Young

MICHAEL ROERECKE

Tuesday, December 11, 2012
10:00am – 12:00 noon
Room 301, 63 St. George St.

Heavy Drinking Episodes and Heart Disease Risk

Committee:
Exam Chair: Glenn Morris
Supervisor: Jurgen Rehm
External Examiner: Maurizio Trevisan
Voting Members: Susan Bondy
Joanna Cohen
Nancy Kreiger
Robert Mann

DIEGO SILVA

Monday, December 10, 2012
9:00 – 11:00am
Room 301, 63 St. George St.

Healthcare Workers and Decision-makers’ Understanding of Liberty, Harm and the Harm Principle in the Case of Tuberculosis in Persons with Severe and Persistent Mental Illnesses

Committee:
Exam Chair: Scott Thomas
Supervisor: Ross Upshur
External Examiner: Ronald Bayer
Voting Members: Carol Strike
Jennifer Gibson
Alison Thompson

MICHELLE FIRESTONE

Thursday, November 29, 2012
10:00am – 12:00 noon
Room 303, 63 st. George St.

Our Health Counts – Unmasking Health and Social Disparities Among Urban Aboriginal People in Ontario

Committee:
Exam Chair: Shashi Kant
Supervisor: Patricia O’Campo
External Examiner: Karina Walters
Voting Members: Janet Smylie
Robert Mann
Ted Myers
Non-Voting Member: Anna Banerji

SARAH SANFORD

Friday, November 9, 2012
10:00am – 12:00 noon
Room 303, 63 St. George St.

Integrating Pandemic through Preparedness: Global Security and the Utility of Threat

Committee:
Exam Chair: Martha Brown
Supervisor: Peggy McDonough
External Examiner: Dave Holmes
Voting Members: Ann Robertson
Jessica Polzer
Alison Thompson
Lorna Weir

SUBHA RAMANATHAN

Thursday, September 27, 2012
1:00 – 3:00pm
room 301, 63 St. George St.

Psychological and Social Factors Related to Physical Activities and Everyday Activities among South Asian High School Girls

Committee:
Exam Chair: Helene Cyr
Supervisor: Monique Gignac
External Examiner: Heather McKay
Voting Members: Gillian Hawker
Cameron Norman
Jennifer Stinson
Liviana Calzavara

FIONA KOUYOUMDJIAN

Tuesday, September 17, 2012
1:00 – 3:00pm
room 303, 63 St. George St.

Partner Violence as a Risk Factor for Incident HIV Infection in Women in Rakai, Uganda

Committee:
Exam Chair: Boris Steipe
Supervisor: Liviana Calzavara
External Examiner: John Santelli
Voting Members: Susan Bondy
Patricia O’Campo
Peggy Millson
Non-Voting Member: Ron Gray (via teleconference)

MANUELA FERRARI

Friday, September 14, 2012
2:00 – 4:00pm
room 620, 155 College St.

Beyond Obesity and Disordered Eating in Youth (BODY)

Committee:
Exam Chair: Aileen Davis
Co-Supervisors: Gail McVey
Harvey Skinner (non-voting member)
External Examiner: Dianne Neumark-Sztainer
Voting Members: Niva Piran
Carla Rice
Katherine Boydell

DARREN BRENNER
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
3:30 – 5:30pm
room 301, 63 St. George St.

The Role of Chronic Inflammation in the Development of Lung Cancer

Committee:
Exam Chair: David Irwin
Supervisor: Rayjean Hung
External Examiner: Marie-Elise Parent
Voting Members: John McLaughlin
Shelley Bull
Michelle Cotterchio
Non-Voting Member: Geoffrey Liu

MAGGIE HONG CHEN

Wednesday, July 25, 2012
10:00am – 12:00 noon
room 301, 63 St. George St.

Using Value of Information Methods to Determine Optimal Designs for Research in Diagnostic Tests and Multi-stage Randomized Clinical Trials

Committee:
Exam Chair: Fiona Webster
Supervisor: Andrew Willan
External Examiner: Hamid Pezeshk
Voting Members: Wendy Lou
Patrick Brown
Jeffrey Hoch

CHELSEA TAYLOR

Monday, June 4, 2012
1:00pm – 3:00pm
room 301, 63 St. George St.

The Development of a Phenotype for Lung Disease Severity in Cystic Fibrosis and its Application in the CF Gene Modifier Study

Committee:
Exam Chair: Nades Palaniyar
Supervisor: Mary Corey
External Examiner: David Meyre
Voting Members: Andrew Paterson
Lisa Strug
France Gagnon

JENNIFER BETHELL

Wednesday, April 18, 2012
11:00 am – 1:00 pm
room 301, 63 St. George St.

Child and Adolescent Emergency Department Presentations for Self-harm: Population-based Data from Ontario, Canada

Committee:
Exam Chair: Joanne R. Rovet
Supervisor: Susan Bondy
Anne Rhodes
External Examiner: William Avison
Voting Members: Wendy Lou
Robert Mann
Non-Voting Member: Astrid Guttmann

YE LI

Wednesday, January 18, 2012
2:00 – 4:00 pm
room 303, 63 St. George St.

Disease Mapping with Log Gaussian Cox Processes

Committee:
Exam Chair: Mart Gross
Supervisor: James Stafford
Patrick Brown
External Examiner: Charmaine Dean
Voting Members: Michael Escobar
George Tomlinson
Non-Voting Member: Dionne Gesink

DIANA URAJNIK

Thursday, December 15, 2011
2:00 – 4:00 pm
room 650, 155 College St.

Attrition from Child/Youth Mental Health Treatment:
The Role of Child Symptoms

Committee:
Exam Chair: Razq Hakem
Supervisor: Bruce Ferguson
External Examiner: Jane E. Ledingham
Voting Members: Melanie Barwick
Susan Bondy
Carol Strike
Non-Voting Member: Gail McVey

SANG NAHM

Wednesday, November 23, 2011
2:00 – 4:00 pm
room 303, 63 St. George St.

Paternal Exposure to Ionizing Radiation in Ontario Uranium Miners
and Risk of Congenital Anomaly in Offspring: A Record Linkage
Case-Control Study

Committee:
Exam Chair: Grant Brown
Supervisor: Loraine Marrett
External Examiner: Julian Little
Voting Members: John R. McLaughlin
Paul Corey
Cameron Mustard
Non-Voting Member: Douglas B. Chambers

MATTHEW KOWGIER

Tuesday, October 25, 2011
10:00 am -12:00 noon
Room 303, 63 St. George St.

Bayesian Hidden Markov Models for Finding DNA Copy Number
Changes from SNP Genotyping Arrays

Committee:
Exam Chair: Vuk Stambolic
Supervisor: Rafal Kustra
External Examiner: Adrian Dobra
Voting Members: Michael Escobar
Radford Neal
Laurent Briollais

RICHARD ILAN ALLESON

Monday, September 12, 2011
9:00 -11:00 am
Room 303, 63 St. George St.

Contested Environmental Illness in the Negev/Al-Naqib: A Narrative
Analysis of Local Knowledge and Organizational Struggle

Committee:
Exam Chair: TBA
Supervisor: Anne-Emauelle Birn
External Examiner: Nadav Davidovitch
Voting Members: Donald Cole
Agnes Meinhard
Izzeldin Abuelaish

NICOLE RILEY

Thursday, August 18, 2011
2:00 – 4:00 pm
Room 301, 63 St. George St.

Injuries Among Elderly Canadians: Psychotropic Medications
and the Impact of Alcohol

Committee:
Exam Chair: Peter Cheung
Supervisor: Mary Chipman
External Examiner: Michel Bedard
Voting Members: Susan Bondy
Mary Tierney
David Fisman

DALIA BALIUNAS

Tuesday, August 9, 2011
1:00 – 3:00 pm
Room 301, 63 St. George St.

A Comparison of Two Methods of Adjusted Attributable Fraction
Estimation as Applied to the Four Major Smoking Related
Causes of Death, in Canada, in 2005

Committee:
Exam Chair: Rama Khokha
Supervisor: Jurgen Rehm
External Examiner: Chrisopher Sempos
Voting Members: Susan Bondy
Douglas Manuel
Robert Mann

ESTHER IGNAGNI

Wednesday, June 29, 2011
9:00 – 11:00 am
Room 303, 63 St. George St.

Disabled Young People, Support and the Dialogical
Work of Accomplishing Citizenship

Committee:
Exam Chair: Derek van der Kooy
Supervisor: Joan Eakin
External Examiner: Vera Chouinard
Voting Members: Patricia McKeever
Katherine Church
Blake Poland

JACQUELINE BENDER

Tuesday, May 31, 2011
1:00 – 3:00 pm
Room 303, 63 St. George St.

The Web of Care: A Multi-Method Study Examining the Role of Online Communities as a Source of Supportive Care for Breast Cancer Survivors

Committee:
Exam Chair: Sean Rourke
Supervisor: Alejandro Jadad
External Examiner: Victor Strecher
Voting Members: Lorraine Ferris
Joel Katz
Gillian Einstein

WENDY McGUIRE

Friday, May 27, 2011
10:00 am – 12:00 noon
Room 301, 63 St. George St.

Constructing Quality in Academic Science: How Basic 
Health Scientists Respond to Canadian Market-oriented 
Science Policy: A Bourdieusian Approach

Committee:
Exam Chair: Rhonda Cockerill
Supervisor: Peggy McDonough
External Examiner: Daniel Kleinman
Voting Members: Mathieu Albert
Louise Lemieux-Charles
Fiona Miller

LAURIE CORNA

Wednesday, May 25, 2011
10:00 am – 12:00 noon
Room 303, 63 St. George St.

Gender, the State and a Lifetime of Experience:
Understanding Health Inequality among Older Adults in Britain

Committee:
Exam Chair: Heather Boon
Supervisor: Peggy McDonough
External Examiner: Julie McMullin
Voting Members: Amanda Sacker
Diana Worts
Arjumand Siddiqi

ELIZABETH MANSFIELD

Tuesday, May 24, 2011
2:00 – 4:00pm
Room 111, 63 St. George St.

The Politics of Collaborative Prevention: A Sociological 
Account of Commemoratives and a Young Worker Safety Campaign

Committee:
Exam Chair: Jordan Peterson
Supervisor: Joan Eakin
External Examiner: Nancy Theberge
Voting Members: Peggy McDonough
Margaret McNeill
Linn Holness

AMRITA DAFTARY

Friday, May 6, 2011
1:00 – 3:00 pm
Room 301, 63 St. George St.

Integrating Patients into Integrated TB/HIV Healthcare:
Perspectives from Individuals Coinfected with Tuberculosis and HIV

Committee:
Exam Chair: Peter Pennefather
Supervisor: Liviana Calzavara
External Examiner: Catherine Worthington
Voting Members: Ping-Chun Hsiung
I.D. Rusen
Carol Strike

GERALD LEBOVIC

Monday, April 4, 2011
11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Room 301, 63 St. George St.

Estimating Non-Homogeneous Intensity Matrices in
Continuous Time Multi-State Markov Models

Committee:
Exam Chair: Leah Cowen
Supervisor: George Tomlinson
External Examiner: Thierry Duchesne
Voting Members: Jamie Stafford
Patrick Brown
Michael Escobar

JOSEPHINE WONG

Friday, March 4, 2011
10:00 am – 12:00 noon
Room 301, 63 St. George St.

Being-Doing-Becoming Manly Men: A Bourdieusian Exploration 
of the Construction of Masculine Identities and Sexual Practices of Young Men

Committee:
Exam Chair: David Hedley
Supervisor: Blake Poland
External Examiner: Joy Johnson
Voting Members: Peggy Mcdonough
Caroline Fusco
Jessica Polzer

AHMED HOSSAIN

Wednesday, February 23, 2011
1:00 – 3:00 pm
Room 303, 63 St. George St.

Contribution to Statistical Techniques for Identifying
Differentially Expressed Genes in Microarray Data

Committee:
Exam Chair: Heather Boon
Supervisor: Joseph Beyene
Andrew Willan
External Examiner: Angelo J. Canty
Voting Members: Laurent Briollais
David Tritchler

KRISTA MAXWELL

Thursday, January 20, 2011
9:00 – 12:00 noon
Room 301, 63 St. George St.

Making History Heal: Settler-colonialism and Urban Indigenous
Healing in Ontario, 1970’s-2010

Committee:
Exam Chair: Eleanor Fish
Supervisor: Anne-Emanuelle Birn
Bonnie McElhinny
External Examiner: James Waldram
Voting Members: Kathi Wilson
Kari Delhi
Holly Wardlow