Robert Talarico

Robert is a staff scientist in the Life Stage program at ICES Ottawa. He completed a MSc in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Queen’s University at the School of Public Health Sciences and a BSc in Kinesiology and Health Science in the Faculty of Health at York University. Beginning as a research analyst and methodologist at ICES in 2017 and becoming a senior methodologist and team lead with the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. His research experience has spanned fields such as palliative care, sleep medicine, critical care, population health and anesthesiology and surgical care.

He has gained expertise in working with real world health administrative databases to answer pertinent research questions about the healthcare system of Ontario. Furthermore, he is an expert in applying epidemiological and statistical methodologies such as population health surveillance, comparative effectiveness, causal inference and predictive modelling across many fields in medicine and health. He has been a key contributor to research work accepted to a diverse set of publications such as New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), British Medical Journal (BMJ), and the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ). His research interests are applying and developing methodologies to leverage the vast amounts of health administrative data available to researchers and stakeholders such as laboratory testing data to improve patient-level outcome prediction and elucidate important and generalizable population-level associations of exposures with health and healthcare outcomes.