Primary care unattachment: impact on mortality, hospitalizations and costs
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ICES McMaster
ICES McMaster is a joint collaboration of ICES and McMaster University with its academic hospitals, Hamilton Health Sciences and St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton. ICES McMaster officially launched on June 20, 2016 in a new 2,300 square-foot facility in the Health Sciences Centre on the main McMaster campus in Hamilton.
Key Contacts at McMaster
ICES McMaster comprises a community of local scientists, staff and students, and its central location on the main campus facilitates collaborative research opportunities across many disciplines and with its partner hospitals.
Site Director: Aaron Jones
Local Privacy & Security Officer: TBA
Facility Administrator: TBA
Local Lead Analyst: Richard Perez
Finance and Administration Manager: Tim Miuccio
Office Address
- McMaster University Medical Centre:
- 1200 Main Street West, Room 4N43 Hamilton, Ontario L8N 3Z5
Mailing Address
- McMaster University:
- Faculty of Health Sciences, 1280 Main Street West, HSC 4N43 Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1
Phone
Grants
Grant
2025 – 2030
Stress and polarization: The effects of political competition on personal and democratic health
- Granting Agency
- Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
- Principal Investigators
- Mansell J
- Co-Investigators
- Friesen A, Baker M, Lenage A, Grant AM
- Grant Type
- Operating
- Grant Amount
- $397,054
Grant
2025 – 2028
Improving risk identification and triage in psychosocial oncology: Development of a clinical decision-making tool using artificial intelligence
- Granting Agency
- Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation
- Principal Investigators
- Zhang K
- Co-Investigators
- Saha A, Mukherjee S, Bryant-Lukosius D, Levine O, Pink J
- Grant Type
- Project Grant
- Grant Amount
- $96,743
Grant
2024 – 2027
Identifying opportunities for increasing access to palliative care across the health care system
- Granting Agency
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- Principal Investigators
- Howard M
- Co-Investigators
- Seow H, Pereira J, Baker A, Jaakkimainen L, Gallagher E
- Grant Type
- Project Grant
- Grant Amount
- $416,924
Grant
2024 – 2027
SERENE: Supportive, Evidence-informed, Responsive, and Equity-oriented prevention-and-care model to reduce the incidence and NEgative impacts of severe maternal morbidity
- Granting Agency
- Juravinski Research Institute
- Principal Investigators
- Muraca G
- Co-Investigators
- D’Souza R, Jack S, Frey B, Green S
- Grant Type
- Other
- Grant Amount
- $1,902,682
Grant
2024 – 2027
Geriatric emergency care among people living with dementia in Ontario
- Granting Agency
- Alzheimer Society Research Program
- Principal Investigators
- Jones A
- Co-Investigators
- Bronskill SE, Watt J
- Grant Type
- New Investigator
- Grant Amount
- $196,923
Grant
2024 – 2026
Primary care for older adults with functional impairment: The role of home visits after the shift to virtual care
- Granting Agency
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- Principal Investigators
- Jones A, Lapointe-Shaw L, Watt W
- Co-Investigators
- Correia R, Dash D, Ivers N, Jaakkimainen L, Rahman B, Sinn C-L
- Grant Type
- Project Grant
- Grant Amount
- $300,000
Grant
2024 – 2025
Prevalence and outcomes of water birth versus ‘land’ birth in Ontario mothers and neonates at low risk of complications: A secondary analysis of routinely collected BORN data
- Granting Agency
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- Principal Investigators
- Brunton G
- Co-Investigators
- Morris S, Rotondi N
- Grant Type
- Operating Grant
- Grant Amount
- $74,408
Grant
2023 – 2025
Association between healthcare utilization and cost among children in the last year of life and the presence and constitution of regional specialist pediatric palliative care resources
- Granting Agency
- McMaster Department of Pediatrics
- Principal Investigators
- Lysecki D
- Co-Investigators
- Gupta S, Tanuseputro P, Thabane L, Ewusie J, Zucchet D
- Grant Type
- Project Grant
- Grant Amount
- $99,994
Grant
2022 – 2024
The development of a tailored melanoma survivorship program in Ontario
- Granting Agency
- Juravinski Hospital and Cancer Centre Foundation (JHCCF)
- Principal Investigators
- Francescutti V, Look Hong N
- Co-Investigators
- Goldberg M, Lee L, Lounsbury J, McWhirter E, Pond G, Seow H, Shaw E, Wright F
- Grant Type
- Project Grant
- Grant Amount
- $70,000
Awards & Recognitions
Awards & Recognition
05/12/2025
Ontario Health System Quality and Innovation Award
2025: Dr. Gina Agarwal developed and leads the CP@clinic program designed to keep low-income older adults healthy at home and reduce avoidable 911 calls that was recognized with a health system innovation award. Community Paramedicine at Clinic (CP@clinic) won the Ontario Health System Quality and Innovation Award (OHSQI) in the Population Health Impact Category for 2025. This award is presented by Ontario Health, the Ontario Medical Association, the Ontario Hospitals Association, and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health.
Awards & Recognition
05/09/2025
Ontario HIV Treatment Network Cohort Study Chair, 2025-29
2025: Awarded to Dr. Lawrence Mbuagbaw. The OCS Chair Award recognizes and supports a leading researcher to provide strategic scientific leadership, strengthen collaboration, and advance community-engaged HIV research within the Ontario HIV Treatment Network Cohort Study.
Awards & Recognition
31/03/2025
CAHR-CANFAR Excellence in Research Award, 2025
2025: Awarded to Dr. Lawrence Mbuagbaw. The CAHR–CANFAR Excellence in Research Award recognizes outstanding contributions to HIV research in Canada, honouring individuals whose innovative, high-impact work has advanced scientific knowledge, improved care and outcomes for people living with HIV, and strengthened the national HIV research community.
Awards & Recognition
30/11/2024
The Anne and Neil McArthur Research Award, 2024
2024: Awarded to Dr. Lawrence Mbuagbaw. The Anne and Neil McArthur Research Award recognizes exceptional contributions to health research that advance knowledge, improve patient care, and demonstrate leadership and innovation in addressing critical health challenges.
Awards & Recognition
24/08/2023
Alvarenga Prize
2023: Awarded by the Swedish Medical Association to Dr. Giulia Muraca in recognition of a paper of important clinical value for the article: “Risk of postpartum hemorrhage with increasing first stage of labor duration”.
Awards & Recognition
03/05/2023
Canadian National Perinatal Research Meeting Early Career Researcher Award
2023: Awarded to Dr. Giulia Muraca.
Awards & Recognition
17/11/2022
Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Vulnerable Individuals in Primary Care
2022: Many Canadians face challenges getting primary health care. Even when care is available, vulnerable people can have difficulties accessing it-for example, older adults or those with disabilities may find it difficult to travel to a doctor. As Canada Research Chair in Vulnerable Individuals in Primary Care, Dr. Gina Agarwal is trying to ensure that vulnerable individuals can get the health care they need, where and when they need it.
Awards & Recognition
30/12/2021
Order of Canada
2021: Dr. Mehran Anvari was named an Officer of the Order of Canada for his exemplary leadership in the innovative field of telerobotic surgery.
Awards & Recognition
06/05/2020
Alzheimer Society Research Program Postdoctoral Award
2020: Awarded to Dr. Aaron Jones for "Moderating effects of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias on the influence of risk factors and health services on transitions in care: A longitudinal cohort study of care trajectories of home care patients using multistate transition models".
Scientists at
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