Other Affiliations

Surgeon-in-chief and Medical Director, Perioperative Services, Women’s College Hospital

Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto

Senior Scientist, Toronto General Research Institute

Staff Surgeon, University Health Network

Senior Innovation Fellow, Women's College Hospital Institute for Health System Solutions and Virtual Care

Recent ICES Grants

Risk of Parkinson's disease after appendectomy

Principal investigators: Lang A, Marras C
Co-investigator: Urbach D

Physicians' Service Incorporated Foundation - PSI, Operating Grant
2015-2016; $31,500

Population-based assessment of sleep deprivation in staff physicians and its impact on patient care and outcomes

Principal investigators: Govindarajan A, Baxter N
Co-investigators: Gagliardi A, Juurlink D, Kennedy E, Murray B, Sutradhar R, Urbach D

Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Operating Grant
2013-2016; $223,882

A population-based study of cancer incidence and mortality in patients with solid organ transplants

Principal investigator: Baxter N
Co-investigators: Brezden-Masley C, Hicks L, Kim S, Paterson M, Sutradhar R, Urbach D

Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Operating Grant
2011-2016; $682,732

Recent Awards & Recognition

2014-2015 CIHR-IHSPR Article of the Year Award

2014-2015: Awarded to David Urbach and Nancy Baxter for their article “Introduction of Surgical Safety Checklists in Ontario, Canada" for its relevance to health services and policy research, as well as for the extent to which they contribute to the advancement of this field of research in Canada and have an impact on policy.

5/6/2015

Recent ICES Publications

7/6/2017

Regionalization and outcomes of lung cancer surgery in Ontario, Canada

Bendzsak AM, Baxter NN, Darling GE, Austin PC, Urbach DR. J Clin Oncol. 2017; 35(24):2772-80. Epub 2017 Jul 6.

6/7/2017

Overview of surgery for laryngeal and hypopharyngeal cancer in Ontario, 2003-2010

Eskander A, Mifsud M, Irish J, Gullane P, Gilbert R, Brown D, de Almeida JR, Urbach DR, Goldstein DP. Head Neck. 2017; 39(8):1559-67. Epub 2017 Jun 7.

5/30/2017

Evolving trends in head and neck cancer epidemiology: Ontario, Canada 1993-2010

Mifsud M, Eskander A, Irish J, Gullane P, Gilbert R, Brown D, de Almeida JR, Urbach DR, Goldstein DP. Head Neck. 2017; 39(9):1770-8. Epub 2017 May 30.

David Urbach

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