Andrea Gershon

Senior Core Scientist (Full Status)
Lung Health Lead

ICES Affiliation

ICES Central
Chronic Disease & Pharmacotherapy Research Program

Phone
416-480-4055

Other Affiliations

Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, and Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto

Scientist, Trauma, Emergency & Critical Care Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute

Research Director and Respirologist, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Adjunct Scientist, The Hospital for Sick Children

Recent ICES Grants

Assessing the patient, provider and policy impacts of a positive airway pressure device recall for obstructive sleep apnea: a mixed-methods evaluation

Principal investigators: Ayas N, Kendzerska T, Pendharkar SR
Co-investigators: Fenton ME, Gagliardi AR, Gershon AS, Hawken S, Kaminska M, Mackenzie CA, McBrien K, Povitz M

Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Project Grant
2021-2025; $321,300

Quantifying the burden of and assessing risk factors for non-smoking-related chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in Ontario

Principal investigators: Blazer A, Gershon A
Co-investigator: Stanbrook M

University of Toronto Department of Medicine, New Investigator Grant
2021-2022; $10,000

A virtual transition intervention for children and adults transitioning to home ventilation: a pragmatic randomized controlled trial

Principal investigators: Amin R, Buchanan F, Gershon AS, Paquet M, Pizzuti R, Rose L
Co-investigators: Bhatia RS, Chiang J, Cornejo Palma DF, Dainty KN, Fraser IM, Goldstein RS, Katz SL, Leasa DJ, Lim A, Mckay SM, Mckim D, Moretti M, Nonoyama ML, Sidhu A, Tandon A, Toonders BE, Workentin KM

Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Team Grant
2019-2023; $884,250

Recent Awards & Recognition

2022 PSI Graham Farquharson Knowledge Translation Fellowship

2022: Awarded to Dr. Andrea Gershon by the PSI Foundation to advance her research and knowledge translation program, Canadian Best Respiratory Research Evaluation and Analyst Team of Health Experts (CanBREATHE). Read more.

1/15/2022

American Thoracic Society Early Career Achievement Award

2015: The American Thoracic Society (ATS) Assembly on Behavioral Science and Health Services Early Career Achievement Award recipient Andrea Gershon for her scientific contributions in the area of lung disease.

4/24/2015

2013 PSI Foundation Fellowship

Congratulations to Dr. Andrea Gershon as the 2013 PSI Fellow in Translational Health Research. Read more about Dr. Gershon's fellowship on the PSI website.

7/8/2013

1/17/2023

Survival and health care costs after inpatient elective surgery: comparison of patients with and without chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Sankar A, Thorpe K, McIsaac DI, Luo J, Wijeysundera DN, Gershon AS. CMAJ. 2023; 195(2):E62-71. Epub 2023 Jan 17. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.220733

8/10/2022

Prescription pathways from initial medication use to triple therapy in older COPD patients: a real-world population study

Jiang L, Kendzerska T, Aaron SD, Stukel TA, Stanbrook MB, Tan W, Pequeno P, Gershon AS. COPD. 2022; 19(1):315-23. Epub 2022 Aug 10. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/15412555.2022.2087616

8/5/2022

Trends in all-cause mortality and inpatient and outpatient visits for ambulatory care sensitive conditions during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic: a population-based study

Kendzerska T, Zhu DT, Pugliese M, Manuel D, Sadatsafavi M, Povitz M, Stukel TA, To T, Aaron SD, Mulpuru S, Chin M, Kendall CE, Thavorn K, Robillard R, Gershon AS. J Hosp Med. 2022; 2022; 17(9):726-37. Epub 2022 Aug 5. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/jhm.12920

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