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Merrick Zwarenstein

Senior Core Scientist (Full Status)

ICES Affiliation
  • ICES Western
  • Primary Care & Health Systems Research Program

Phone
519-661-2111 Ext. 25327

Biography

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Education

  • MSc, Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand
  • MSc, Community Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
  • PhD, Epidemiology and Public Health, Karolinska Institute

Research Focus

  • Health services research
  • Comparative effectiveness research
  • Knowledge translation
  • Decision support tools/systems
  • Statistics and research methods

Other Affiliations

  • Professor and Director, Centre for Studies in Family Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, Western University, Canada
  • Health Systems Researcher, Faculty of Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
  • Researcher, Centre for Global Health, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
  • Researcher, Knowledge Translation Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Recent ICES Grants

  • STRIVE before surgery trial: a vanguard pragmatic multicenter randomized trial of Structured TRaining to Improve fitness in a Virtual Environment before surgery

    Principal investigators: Gillis CA, Hallet J, Kidd GD, McIsaac DI, Mcneely ML, Taljaard M, Tandon P, Wijeysundera DN
    Co-investigators: Auer RAC, Boland LS, Breau RH, Bryson GL, Chesney T, Eskander A, Fergusson DA, Forster AJ, Gagné S, Gill M, Hladkowicz E, Khadaroo R, Lalu MM, Lavallée LT, Martel G, McCartney CJ, Moloo H, Roberts DJ, Scheede-Bergdahl C, Serrano PF, Thavorn K, Van Walraven C, Vogt KN, Zwarenstein MF

    Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Project Grant
    2021-2023; $260,100
  • Innovative pragmatic cluster-randomized registry trials to improve hemodialysis care

    Principal investigators: Blake PG, Bohm C, Cote BB, Garg A, Lacson Jr. E, Levin A, Silver S, Tonelli M, Vorster AH
    Co-investigators: Bennett LL, Field B, Fontaine GJ, Kalatharan S, Kalatharan V, Waldvogel BJ, Acedillo R, Al-Jaishi A, Antonsen J, Basile E, Battistella M, Berry D, Brown PA, Chan CT, Chanda V, Terri; Clemens, Kristin K; Collister, David; Dember, Laura M; Devereaux, Philip J; Dev, Dixon SN, Elliott M, Getchell L, Grimshaw JM, Harel Z, Harris C, Harrison T, Hundemer G, Jardine M, Kiaii M, Kitchlu A, Klar N, MacKay DS, Macrae JM, Molnar A, Muanda F, Nash DM, Oliver MJ, Pandeya S, Perkins DN, Presseau J, Quinn K, Roshanov P, Schorr M, Shah N, Sontrop JM, Sood MM, Taljaard M, Tangri N, Tascona D, Wadehra D, Wald R, Walsh MW, Wodchis WP, Young A, Zacharias JM, Zwarenstein MF

    Canadian Institutes of Health Research, SPOR Innovative Clinical Trial Multi-Year Grant
    2019-2023; $2,817,233
  • A provincial implementation science laboratory

    Principal investigator: Ivers N
    Co-investigators: Anderson G, Bhatia S, Glazier R, Grimshaw J, Halla I, Mamdani M, Rochon P, Taljaar M, Zwarenstein M

    Ontario SPOR Support Unit (OSSU), Operating Grant
    2015-2018; $1,867,000

Recent ICES Publications


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