About
After defending my PhD in July 2024, I began a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in the Department of Family Medicine at Dalhousie University. Supervised by Dr. Ruth Lavergne, I am leading mixed methods, multi-provincial studies aimed at understanding the impacts of population aging on primary care needs and capacity.
I recently joined the Department of Health, Aging & Society at McMaster University as a Sessional Instructor to design and teach an undergraduate course on Aging and Health Care Systems.
My main research interests are health services, primary care, family medicine, aging, and health human resources. I have experience leading observational and quasi-experimental studies using health administrative data, evidence syntheses, consensus studies, qualitative studies, and mixed methods research. To date, I have published over 40 peer-reviewed journal articles, including in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ), Age and Ageing, Annals of Family Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Directors Association (JAMDA), BMC Geriatrics, and Canadian Family Physician (CFP). I am the first-listed or senior author for two-thirds of my publications. I have also contributed to 10 technical reports, of which I am the first-listed or senior author on nine. My research has been cited more than 270 times.
I completed my post-secondary education at McMaster University (PhD, Health Research Methodology, 2024) and the University of Waterloo (BSc, Honours Health Studies, 2019). I developed interests in health services and aging research while completing cooperative education terms in a variety of health care settings during my undergraduate studies.
