David Urbach

Senior Core Scientist (Full Status)

ICES Affiliation

ICES Central
Primary Care & Health Systems Research Program

Phone
416-323-7309

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

The Surgical EQUITY initiative: establishing equitable access to surgery following the pandemic

Principal investigators: Chan T, Gomez Jaramillo D, Sankar A
Co-investigators: Baxter NN, de Mestral C, Hwang SW, Irish JC, Sarhangian V, Simpson AN, Stukel TA, Urbach DR, Wijeysundera DN

Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Operating Grant
2021-2022; $220,596

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

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

8/27/2022

Bariatric center designation and outcomes following repeat abdominal surgery in bariatric patients

Elnahas AI, Reid JN, Lam M, Doumouras AG, Anvari M, Schlachta CM, Alkhamesi NA, Hawel JD, Urbach DR. J Surg Res. 2022; 280:421-8. Epub 2022 Aug 27. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2022.07.032

7/7/2022

Surgeon thyroidectomy case volume impacts disease-free survival in the management of thyroid cancer

Eskander A, Noel CW, Griffiths R, Pasternak JD, Higgins K, Urbach D, Goldstein DP, Irish JC, Fu R. Laryngoscope. 2022; Jul 7 [Epub ahead of print]. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/lary.30276

3/10/2022

Assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on emergency department use for patients undergoing cancer-directed surgeries

Eskander A, Li Q, Yu J, Hallet J, Coburn N, Dare A, Chan KKW, Singh S, Parmar A, Earle CC, Lapointe-Shaw L, Krzyzanowska MK, Hanna TP, Finelli A, Louie AV, Look-Hong N, Irish JC, Witterick I, Mahar A, Urbach DR, Enepekides D, Sutradhar R; on behalf of the Pandemic—Ontario Collaborative in Cancer Research (POCCR). Curr Oncol. 2022; 29(3):1877-89. Epub 2022 Mar 10. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/curroncol29030153