In 2015-2016, Women’s College Hospital scientists advanced knowledge through a substantial increase in scientific publications and many national and international presentations.
Research shows that women’s needs, including physiological differences, cultural challenges and life circumstances, are often not taken into consideration. This is the Health Gap.
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Mohammad Akbari is identifying new genes involved with hereditary cancer, so that more women can assess their risk.
Sacha Bhatia is evaluating a national campaign to reduce inappropriate testing and treatments, ensuring patients everywhere will have access to the highest quality care.
Onil Bhattacharyya is adapting methods from user-centred design and technology startups to develop new models of care for patients with complex needs.
An-Wen Chan is studying inequities in access to skin cancer screening.
Catherine Classen is aiming to ensure that trauma survivors are not disadvantaged within the healthcare system so that they receive the care they need.
Cindy-Lee Dennis is advancing knowledge on perinatal depression and anxiety and developing interventions for prevention and treatment.
Janice Du Mont is informing policy and practice with her research on how sexual assault affects the health of women.
Sheila Dunn is uncovering ways to help newcomers and marginalized women learn about and access cancer screening.
Lihi Eder is studying psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis and their links to heart disease, including how women and men are affected differently.
Ophira Ginsburg is building policy and programming for women’s cancers globally, reducing gender inequality in prevention and screening.
Paula Harvey is revealing how cardiovascular regulation differs between women and men and applying that knowledge to new treatments.
Gillian Hawker and her team are working to reduce gender bias in doctors’ recommendations of patients for joint replacement surgery.
Noah Ivers is testing new ways to give doctors feedback on their clinical practice and strengthening links between patients and care providers to improve outcomes in primary care.
Joanne Kotsopoulos is identifying new methods to prevent and manage breast and ovarian cancer, so that all women have options that meet their needs.
Iliana Lega is untangling the relationship between diabetes and cancer, including breast cancer and childhood cancers.
Lorraine Lipscombe is helping women prevent and manage diabetes with care that fits their lives.
Mona Loutfy is reducing the stigma and health disparities that Canadian women with HIV experience.
Robin Mason is creating curricula to help health professionals provide more sensitive, compassionate care for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.
Lisa McCarthy is optimizing medications for older patients, who are often women, to help them stay healthier for longer.
Steven Narod is discovering the genetic risk factors for hereditary cancer and transforming approaches to prevention and treatment.
Paula Rochon is discovering better ways to promote health and wellness for understudied older adults, most of whom are women, by improving how drug therapy is prescribed.
John Semple is developing new techniques for breast reconstruction that hasten recovery and improve quality of life.
Valerie Taylor is pinpointing the overlaps between obesity, diabetes and mental illness, and how they are impacted by sex and gender.
Jacob Udell aims to narrow the gap between women and men, and the rich and the poor, in quality of care and prognosis after a heart attack.
Simone Vigod is breaking down barriers for pregnant and postpartum women to access mental health treatment.