Andrea Gershon

Senior Core Scientist (Full Status)
Lung Health Lead

ICES Affiliation

ICES Central
Chronic Disease & Pharmacotherapy Research Program

Phone
416-480-6100 Ext. 3619

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

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

Improving the health of people with obstructive lung disease

Principal investigator: Gershon A

Canadian Lung Association, Operating Grant
2016-2019; $125,000

Using comprehensive multi-linked mortality files to evaluate health system functioning and inform health system planning in Ontario

Principal investigator: Rosella L
Co-investigators: Gershon A, Guttman A, Henry D, Jha P, Manuel D, Tu J

Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Operating Grant
2015-2017; $429,438

Recent Awards & Recognition

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

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Department of Medicine Junior Investigator Award

2012: Awarded to Dr. Andrea Gershon. Presented to a faculty member in their first five years of appointment who has made a contribution to basic science, clinical epidemiology, health services or education research.

11/15/2012

2/1/2021

Effects of removing a fee-for-service incentive on specialist chronic disease services: a time-series analysis

Appleton A, Lam M, Le B, Shariff S, Gershon A. Health Promot Chronic Dis Prev Can. 2021; 41(2):57-64. Epub 2021 Feb 1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.24095/hpcdp.41.2.04

12/21/2020

Trends in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease prevalence, incidence, and health services use in younger adults in Ontario, Canada, 2006 to 2016

Gershon AS, McGihon RE, Luo J, Blazer AJ, Kendzerska T, To T, Aaron SD. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2020; Dec 21 [Epub ahead of print]. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1164/rccm.202006-2495LE

12/2/2020

Obstructive sleep apnea and incident cancer: a large retrospective multicenter clinical cohort study

Kendzerska T, Povitz M, Leung RS, Boulos MI, McIsaac DI, Murray BJ, Bryson GL, Talarico R, Hilton JF, Malhotra A, Gershon AS. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2021; 30(2):295-304. Epub 2020 Dec 2. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-20-0975

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