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

Using real-world data to simulate the effects of efficient referral strategies on wait times for elective surgery in Canada

Principal investigator: Urbach D
Co-investigators: Aleman DM, Baxter NN, Bell CM, Bodur M, Gagliardi AR, Irish JC, Sutradhar R, White JS

Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Project Grant
2019-2023; $673,200

Risk of Parkinson's disease after appendectomy

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

Physicians' Service Incorporated Foundation, 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

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

4/25/2019

Cancer diagnosis and risk of suicide after accounting for prediagnosis psychiatric care: a matched‐cohort study of patients with incident solid‐organ malignancies

Klaassen Z, Wallis CJD, Chandrasekar T, Goldberg H, Sayyid RK, Williams SB, Moses KA, Terris MK, Nam RK, Urbach D, Austin PC, Kurdyak P, Kulkarni GS. Cancer. 2019; 125(16):2886-95. Epub 2019 Apr 25. DOI: 10.1002/cncr.32146.

4/18/2019

Long-term risk of thyroid cancer after initially negative thyroid biopsy results

Bongers PJ, Kluijfhout WP, Devon K, Rotstein LE, Vriens MR, Urbach DR, Pasternak JD. JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 145(6):579-80. Epub 2019 Apr 18. DOI: 10.1001/jamaoto.2019.0386.

3/5/2019

The impact of psychiatric utilisation prior to cancer diagnosis on survival of solid organ malignancies

Klaassen Z, Wallis CJD, Goldberg H, Chandrasekar T, Sayyid RK, Williams SB, Moses KA, Terris MK, Nam RK, Urbach D, Austin PC, Kurdyak P, Kulkarni GS. Br J Cancer. 2019; 120(8):840-7. Epub 2019 Mar 5. DOI: 10.1038/s41416-019-0390-0.

David Urbach

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