FNEHIN - First Nations Environmental Health Innovation Network

Expertise:

Infectious diseases control, tuberculosis, Aboriginal health, surveillance data, epidemiologic investigations, molecular epidemiology, cancer.

Focus:

No environmental research at this time

Affiliations:

Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Associate Member, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, McGill University, Clinician Researcher, McGill University Health Centre

Academic Supervisor (if Applicable)

Research Area(s)

Housing

Geographical Preference(s)

Quebec, Nunavut, Northwest Territories

Projects

• Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and cervical disease in the Northwest Territories
• HPV infection and associated diseases
• Is BCG vaccination status associated with a predominant family of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Quebec?
• Prevention programmes for HIV infected men who have sex with men in Mumbai, India
• Tuberculosis among urban aboriginals in Montreal
• Drug utilization in the hospital setting-A pilot project
• Consortium Quebecois sur le Clostridium difficile
• Understanding the keys to tuberculosis: Exposure to infection, and infection to disease
• Opportunities for treatment of latent tuberculosis infection among HIV infected subjects in the HAART era
• Tuberculosis in Montreal, Where is it?
• Characterization of the human papillomavirus infection among a population of Inuit women in Quebec
• Tuberculosis Trials Consortium (Multi centre trials) Montreal Chest Institute
• Confirmatory Real-time PCR assay for HPV-52 infection in anogenital specimens screened for HPV infection with the LINEAR ARRAY HPV Genotyping Test.
• Inhaled corticosteroid use in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and the risk of hospitalization for pneumonia
• Antirheumatic drugs and the risk of tuberculosis
• Dynamic sonography evaluation of shoulder impingement syndrome.
• The impact of smoking on adherence to treatment for latent tuberculosis infection.
• Evaluation of a school-based tuberculosis-screening program and associate investigation targeting recently immigrated children in a low-burden country
• A predominantly clonal multi-institutional outbreak of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea with high morbidity and mortality.
• The benefit of cholesterol-lowering medications after coronary revascularization: a population study.
• Genomic characterization of an endemic Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain: evolutionary and epidemiologic implications
• Treatment completion and costs of a randomized trial of rifampin for 4 months versus isoniazid for 9 months.
• Diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in an immigrant population: evidence against a founder effect
• The use of cholesterol-lowering medications after coronary revascularization.
• Inhaled corticosteroid use in asthma and the prevention of myocardial infarction
• Antibiotics in primary prevention of stroke in the elderly
• Widespread pyrazinamide-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis family in a low-incidence setting.
• Antibiotics in primary prevention of myocardial infarction among elderly patients with hypertension.
• Compliance with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus precautions in a teaching hospital.
• Molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis in Montreal.
• Factors related to non-compliance with active tuberculosis treatment in Montreal 1992-1995