Population Health Platform

Platform Leader: Dr. Andrea Gershon

Team members:

Dr. Shawn Aaron
Dr. Jean Bourbeau
Dr. Mark FitzGerald
Dr. Tetyana Kendzerska (PDF)
Dr. Diane Lougheed
Dr. Mohsen Sadatsafavi
Dr. Matthew Stanbrook
Dr. Wan Tan
Dr. Teresa To
Dr. GA Whitmore
Mr. Graham Mecredy
Ms. Sujitha Ratnasingham

Goals

• To conduct innovative, collaborative, quality respiratory disease research that improves the health of populations of people with respiratory disease
• The Population Health Platform will make use of health administrative databases and other population-level data, to assist network researchers in achieving CRRN research goals

Publications

Gershon AS, Campitelli MA, Hawken S, Victor C, Sproule BA, Kurdyak P, Selby P. Risk of cardiovascular and neuropsychiatric events following varenicline use for smoking cessation: A self-controlled cohort study. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Liaqat D, Abed-Esfahani P, Wu R, Gershon AS, Alshaer H, Rudzicz F, de Lara E. Experiences in real-world continuous sensing with Android smartwatches. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies. 2017 Sep(0):1-17.

Gershon AS, Thiruchelvam D, Moineddin R, Zhao SY, Hwee J, To T. Forecasting health services use in individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): A time-series analysis. Annals of the American Thoracic Society. 2017 Jun 1;14(6):867–873.

Kendzerska T, Gershon AS, Hawker G, Tomlinson G, Leung R. Obstructive sleep apnea is not a risk factor for incident hospitalized depression: A historical cohort study. European Respiratory Journal. (accepted) . 2017 Jun 1;49(6):1601361.

Gershon AS, Macdonald EM, Luo J, Austin PC, Gupta S, Sivjee K, Upshur R, Aaron SD. Concomitant pulmonologist and primary care for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD): A population study. Family Practice. 2017 May 30(0). [Epub ahead of print]. doi:10.1093/fampra/cmx058.

Lee T, Tu K, Wing L, Gershon AS. Identifying individuals with physician-diagnosed chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in primary care electronic medical records: A retrospective chart abstraction study. Primary Care Respiratory Medicine. 2017 May 15;27(1):34. Senior Responsible Author

Kendzerska T, Sadatsafavi M, Aaron SD, To T, Lougheed MD, FitzGerald JM, Gershon AS for the Canadian Respiratory Research Network. Concurrent physician-diagnosed asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A population study of prevalence, incidence and mortality. PLoS One. 2017 Mar 16;12(3):e0173830.

To T, Ryckman K, Zhu J, Williams D, Feldman LY, Larsen K, Gershon AS. Mental health services claims and adult onset asthma in Ontario, Canada. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice. 2017 Feb 22(0). In Press.

Kendzerska T, Gershon A, Tomlinson G, Leung R. The effect of patient neighbourhood income level on the purchase of continuous positive airway pressure treatment among sleep apnea patients. Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2016;13:93-100. Appeared with accompanying editorial.

Kendzerska T, Leung RS, Gershon AS, Tomlinson G, Ayas N. The interaction of obesity and nocturnal hypoxemia on cardiovascular consequences in adults with suspected obstructive sleep apnea: A historical observational study. Annals of the American Thoracic Society. 2016 Dec 1;13(12):2234-2241.

Gershon A, Mecredy G, Croxford R, To T, Stanbrook MB, Aaron SD, for the Canadian Respiratory Research Network. Outcomes of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease diagnosed with or without pulmonary function testing. Canadian Medical Association Journal. 2016 Nov 14;189(1):E1-E10. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.151420.

Aaron SD, Gershon AS, Gao Y, Yang J, Whitmore GA. Influence of country-level differences on COPD prevalence. International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. 2016 Sep 19;11:2305-2313.

Tavakoli H, FitzGerald JM, Chen W, Lynd L, Kendzerska T, Aaron SD, Gershon AS, Marra C, Sadatsafavi M, Canadian Respiratory Research Network. Ten-year trends in direct costs of asthma: A population-based study. European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 2016 Aug 24;72(2):291-299.

To T, Zhu J, Williams DP, Feldman L, Simatovic J, Gershon AS, Lougheed MD, Licskai C, Dell S. Frequency of health service use in the year prior to asthma death. Journal of Asthma. 2016 May 6;53(5):505-509.

Gershon AS, Hwee J, Chapman K, Aaron S, O’Donnell D, Stanbrook M, Bourbeau J, Tan W, Su J, Victor JC, To T. Factors associated with undiagnosed and overdiagnosed COPD. European Respiratory Journal. 2016 Apr 10;48(2):561-4.

The impact of a history of asthma on long-term outcomes of people with newly diagnosed chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A population study.
Tetyana Kendzerska, Teresa M. To, Shawn D. Aaron, M. Diane Lougheed, Mohsen Sadatsafavi, J. Mark FitzGerald, Andrea S. Gershon for the Canadian Respiratory Research Network. The impact of a history of asthma on long-term outcomes of people with newly diagnosed chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A population study. 2016-09 (article in press) DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaci.2016.06.026

History of Asthma in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. A Comparative Study of Economic Burden
Sadatsafavi M, Tavakoli H, Kendzerska T, Gershon A, To T, Aaron SD, FitzGerald JM; Canadian Respiratory Research Network. History of Asthma in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. A Comparative Study of Economic Burden. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2016 Feb;13(2):188-96. doi: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.201508-507OC. PMID: 26599154

Progression from Asthma to Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD): Is Air Pollution a Risk Factor?
To T, Zhu J, Larsen K, Simatovic J, Feldman L, Ryckman K, Gershon A, Lougheed MD, Licskai C, Chen H, Villeneuve PJ, Crighton E, Su Y, Sadatsafavi M, Williams D, Carlsten C; Canadian Respiratory Research Network. Progression from Asthma to Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD): Is Air Pollution a Risk Factor?  Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2016 Mar 7. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 26950751

Awards

Canadian Respiratory Research Network (CRRN) Fellowship: Kendzerska T.

Abstract Scholarship: Kendzerska T. Assembly on Behavioral Science and Health Services Research (BSHSR), 2015 ATS International Conference - Denver, United States.