Education

Medical School: School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Queen's University
Residency: David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Interests

Nutrition, the microbiome, influence of industry on evidence, patient-centered EBM, medical decision making

Expertise

Evidence-based medicine, information mastery

Active Projects

Preparing grand rounds on statin guidelines and presentations on evidence and industry and patient-centered EBM for STFM

Course

Information Mastery for Social Medicine, half-day seminars on:

• Introduction to EBM & Course Overview; Medical Information Strategies
• Observational Studies: Case series, Ecological, Cross-sectional, Case-Control, Cohort
• Clinical Questions
• Introduction to Biostatistics
• Clinical Trials Part 1
• Systematic & other Reviews
• Guidelines
• Presentation of SMP Literature Searches
• Evidence and Industry: deciding what to believe
• Patient-Centered EBM
• Hunting and Foraging

Grand Rounds:

1. Vitamin D: Just another supplement fad, or a key to reducing health disparities
2. Tuesday morning teaching seminars:
   • Constipation
   • Anemia
   • Drug treatment of Type 2diabetes
   • Vitamin D update

Other teaching presentations:

• Neonatal hyperbilirubinemia
• Pharmacotherapy of depression