Core Group
Information Box Group
Rohan D’Souza
MD PhD FRCOG
Principal Investigator
Bio
Rohan D’Souza is an associate professor in the Departments of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. He has a cross appointment with the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology and the Institute of Medical Sciences at the University of Toronto, Ontario. Rohan’s clinical and research interests include reducing severe maternal morbidity, optimizing pregnancy outcomes for individuals with medical disorders, incorporating values and preferences of pregnant individuals into clinical decision making and standardizing outcome reporting in obstetric studies.
Rohan D’Souza
MD PhD FRCOG
Principal Investigator
Isabelle Malhamé
MD MSc FRCPC
Principal Investigator
Bio
Dr. Malhamé is an Assistant Professor and Researcher in the Department of Medicine at the McGill University Health Centre. After residency and sub-specialty training in General Internal Medicine and a Master’s degree in Epidemiology at McGill University, she completed a Fellowship in Obstetric Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. She provides a specialized clinical service to women with medical disorders before, during, and after pregnancy. Her research program focuses on prediction and prevention of severe maternal morbidity, with a special interest for cardiovascular and thromboembolic complications.
Isabelle Malhamé
MD MSc FRCPC
Principal Investigator
Rebecca Seymour
RN PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Bio
Rebecca Seymour
RN PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Rashid Ahmed
MSc
Research Coordinator
Rash has a BScH in Ecology from Queen’s University, a MSc in Epidemiology specializing in population and public health and health economics from the Health Research Methodology Program at McMaster University, and a diploma in Applied Community Epidemiology from Community Information and Epidemiological Technologies. He has worked at McMaster since 2001 at the Population Health Research Institute and with the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and is also the Research Manager for the McMaster Midwifery Research Centre. Rash’s interests are in high risk obstetric epidemiology, midwifery research, public health program development, data infrastructures, clinical trials, population health, and health economics.
Rashid Ahmed
MSc
Research Coordinator
Dr. Rizwana Ashraf
MD
Research Coordinator
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Dr. Rizwana Ashraf
MD
Research Coordinator
Paige Gehrke
RN, MSc
Research Coordinator
Paige Gehrke is a research coordinator and registered nurse, with a variety of clinical and research experience. Through her work, Paige endeavors to optimize health system processes to foster safe and positive experiences for clinicians, patients, and families. Paige holds a BScN from Western University, a Critical Care Nursing certificate from Niagara College, and a MSc from McMaster. Her thesis work explored intensive care unit nurses’ experiences of moral distress during the COVID-19 pandemic, which included learning about their recommendations for organization-based mitigative interventions. Paige has collaborated on and led several projects focused on building community hospital research capacity, as well as critical care, moral distress, and qualitative research methods. She has over nine years of clinical experience practicing in a diverse range of settings, mostly situated within intensive care.
Paige Gehrke
RN, MSc
Research Coordinator
Rohan D’Souza
MD PhD FRCOG
Principal Investigator
Bio
Rohan D’Souza is an associate professor in the Departments of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. He has a cross appointment with the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology and the Institute of Medical Sciences at the University of Toronto, Ontario. Rohan’s clinical and research interests include reducing severe maternal morbidity, optimizing pregnancy outcomes for individuals with medical disorders, incorporating values and preferences of pregnant individuals into clinical decision making and standardizing outcome reporting in obstetric studies.
Rohan D’Souza
MD PhD FRCOG
Principal Investigator
Bio
Rohan D’Souza is an associate professor in the Departments of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. He has a cross appointment with the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology and the Institute of Medical Sciences at the University of Toronto, Ontario. Rohan’s clinical and research interests include reducing severe maternal morbidity, optimizing pregnancy outcomes for individuals with medical disorders, incorporating values and preferences of pregnant individuals into clinical decision making and standardizing outcome reporting in obstetric studies.
Isabelle Malhamé
MD MSc FRCPC
Principal Investigator
Bio
Dr. Malhamé is an Assistant Professor and Researcher in the Department of Medicine at the McGill University Health Centre. After residency and sub-specialty training in General Internal Medicine and a Master’s degree in Epidemiology at McGill University, she completed a Fellowship in Obstetric Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. She provides a specialized clinical service to women with medical disorders before, during, and after pregnancy. Her research program focuses on prediction and prevention of severe maternal morbidity, with a special interest for cardiovascular and thromboembolic complications.
Isabelle Malhamé
MD MSc FRCPC
Principal Investigator
Bio
Dr. Malhamé is an Assistant Professor and Researcher in the Department of Medicine at the McGill University Health Centre. After residency and sub-specialty training in General Internal Medicine and a Master’s degree in Epidemiology at McGill University, she completed a Fellowship in Obstetric Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. She provides a specialized clinical service to women with medical disorders before, during, and after pregnancy. Her research program focuses on prediction and prevention of severe maternal morbidity, with a special interest for cardiovascular and thromboembolic complications.
Rebecca Seymour
RN PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Bio
Rebecca Seymour
RN PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Bio
Rashid Ahmed
MSc
Research Coordinator
Rash has a BScH in Ecology from Queen’s University, a MSc in Epidemiology specializing in population and public health and health economics from the Health Research Methodology Program at McMaster University, and a diploma in Applied Community Epidemiology from Community Information and Epidemiological Technologies. He has worked at McMaster since 2001 at the Population Health Research Institute and with the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and is also the Research Manager for the McMaster Midwifery Research Centre. Rash’s interests are in high risk obstetric epidemiology, midwifery research, public health program development, data infrastructures, clinical trials, population health, and health economics.
Rashid Ahmed
MSc
Research Coordinator
Rash has a BScH in Ecology from Queen’s University, a MSc in Epidemiology specializing in population and public health and health economics from the Health Research Methodology Program at McMaster University, and a diploma in Applied Community Epidemiology from Community Information and Epidemiological Technologies. He has worked at McMaster since 2001 at the Population Health Research Institute and with the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and is also the Research Manager for the McMaster Midwifery Research Centre. Rash’s interests are in high risk obstetric epidemiology, midwifery research, public health program development, data infrastructures, clinical trials, population health, and health economics.
Dr. Rizwana Ashraf
MD
Research Coordinator
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Dr. Rizwana Ashraf
MD
Research Coordinator
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Paige Gehrke
RN, MSc
Research Coordinator
Paige Gehrke is a research coordinator and registered nurse, with a variety of clinical and research experience. Through her work, Paige endeavors to optimize health system processes to foster safe and positive experiences for clinicians, patients, and families. Paige holds a BScN from Western University, a Critical Care Nursing certificate from Niagara College, and a MSc from McMaster. Her thesis work explored intensive care unit nurses’ experiences of moral distress during the COVID-19 pandemic, which included learning about their recommendations for organization-based mitigative interventions. Paige has collaborated on and led several projects focused on building community hospital research capacity, as well as critical care, moral distress, and qualitative research methods. She has over nine years of clinical experience practicing in a diverse range of settings, mostly situated within intensive care.
Paige Gehrke
RN, MSc
Research Coordinator
Paige Gehrke is a research coordinator and registered nurse, with a variety of clinical and research experience. Through her work, Paige endeavors to optimize health system processes to foster safe and positive experiences for clinicians, patients, and families. Paige holds a BScN from Western University, a Critical Care Nursing certificate from Niagara College, and a MSc from McMaster. Her thesis work explored intensive care unit nurses’ experiences of moral distress during the COVID-19 pandemic, which included learning about their recommendations for organization-based mitigative interventions. Paige has collaborated on and led several projects focused on building community hospital research capacity, as well as critical care, moral distress, and qualitative research methods. She has over nine years of clinical experience practicing in a diverse range of settings, mostly situated within intensive care.
Co-Investigators & Collaborators
Information Box Group
Jon Barrett
MD PhD FRCSC
People Card Modal Dialog
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Jon Barrett
MD PhD FRCSC
Kenneth K Chen
MD
People Card Modal Dialog
Department of Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology, Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
Kenneth K Chen
MD
Josie Chundamala**
MSc
People Card Modal Dialog
Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Centre, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Josie Chundamala**
MSc
Jocelynn Cook*
PhD
People Card Modal Dialog
The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Jocelynn Cook*
PhD
Susie Dzakpasu*
PhD
People Card Modal Dialog
Maternal and Infant Health Section, Centre for Surveillance and Applied Research, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Susie Dzakpasu*
PhD
Deshayne Fell
PhD
People Card Modal Dialog
School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Deshayne Fell
PhD
Milena Forte*
MD CCFP FCFP
People Card Modal Dialog
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Milena Forte*
MD CCFP FCFP
Sarah Hutchinson**
PhD
People Card Modal Dialog
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Sarah Hutchinson**
PhD
KS Joseph
MD PhD
People Card Modal Dialog
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of British Columbia and the Children’s and Women’s Hospital of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
KS Joseph
MD PhD
Marian Knight
MA MBChB MPH DPhil FFPH FRCPE
People Card Modal Dialog
National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Marian Knight
MA MBChB MPH DPhil FFPH FRCPE
Stephen Lapinsky
MD MB.BCh MSc FRCPC
People Card Modal Dialog
Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Stephen Lapinsky
MD MB.BCh MSc FRCPC
Amy Metcalfe
PhD
People Card Modal Dialog
Department of Community Health Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Amy Metcalfe
PhD
Beth Murray-Davis*
RM PhD
People Card Modal Dialog
Beth Murray-Davis*
RM PhD
Maria Ospina*
PhD
People Card Modal Dialog
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Maria Ospina*
PhD
Heather Scott*
MD FRCSC
People Card Modal Dialog
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Dalhousie University and the IWK Health Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Heather Scott*
MD FRCSC
Prakesh Shah
MD MSc
People Card Modal Dialog
Department of Pediatrics, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Prakesh Shah
MD MSc
Leslie Skeith
MD MHPE
People Card Modal Dialog
Division of Hematology and Hematological Malignancies, Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Leslie Skeith
MD MHPE
Sara Thorne
MD FRCP
People Card Modal Dialog
Division of Cardiology, Pregnancy & Heart Disease Program, Mount Sinai Hospital & University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Sara Thorne
MD FRCP
Thomas Van Den Akker
MD PhD
People Card Modal Dialog
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
Athena Institute, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Thomas Van Den Akker
MD PhD
Jon Barrett
MD PhD FRCSC
People Card Modal Dialog
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Jon Barrett
MD PhD FRCSC
People Card Modal Dialog
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Kenneth K Chen
MD
People Card Modal Dialog
Department of Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology, Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
Kenneth K Chen
MD
People Card Modal Dialog
Department of Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology, Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
Josie Chundamala**
MSc
People Card Modal Dialog
Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Centre, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Josie Chundamala**
MSc
People Card Modal Dialog
Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Centre, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jocelynn Cook*
PhD
People Card Modal Dialog
The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Jocelynn Cook*
PhD
People Card Modal Dialog
The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Susie Dzakpasu*
PhD
People Card Modal Dialog
Maternal and Infant Health Section, Centre for Surveillance and Applied Research, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Susie Dzakpasu*
PhD
People Card Modal Dialog
Maternal and Infant Health Section, Centre for Surveillance and Applied Research, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Deshayne Fell
PhD
People Card Modal Dialog
School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Deshayne Fell
PhD
People Card Modal Dialog
School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Milena Forte*
MD CCFP FCFP
People Card Modal Dialog
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Milena Forte*
MD CCFP FCFP
People Card Modal Dialog
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Sarah Hutchinson**
PhD
People Card Modal Dialog
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Sarah Hutchinson**
PhD
People Card Modal Dialog
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
KS Joseph
MD PhD
People Card Modal Dialog
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of British Columbia and the Children’s and Women’s Hospital of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
KS Joseph
MD PhD
People Card Modal Dialog
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of British Columbia and the Children’s and Women’s Hospital of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Marian Knight
MA MBChB MPH DPhil FFPH FRCPE
People Card Modal Dialog
National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Marian Knight
MA MBChB MPH DPhil FFPH FRCPE
People Card Modal Dialog
National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Stephen Lapinsky
MD MB.BCh MSc FRCPC
People Card Modal Dialog
Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Stephen Lapinsky
MD MB.BCh MSc FRCPC
People Card Modal Dialog
Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Amy Metcalfe
PhD
People Card Modal Dialog
Department of Community Health Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Amy Metcalfe
PhD
People Card Modal Dialog
Department of Community Health Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Beth Murray-Davis*
RM PhD
People Card Modal Dialog
Beth Murray-Davis*
RM PhD
People Card Modal Dialog
Maria Ospina*
PhD
People Card Modal Dialog
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Maria Ospina*
PhD
People Card Modal Dialog
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Heather Scott*
MD FRCSC
People Card Modal Dialog
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Dalhousie University and the IWK Health Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Heather Scott*
MD FRCSC
People Card Modal Dialog
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Dalhousie University and the IWK Health Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Prakesh Shah
MD MSc
People Card Modal Dialog
Department of Pediatrics, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Prakesh Shah
MD MSc
People Card Modal Dialog
Department of Pediatrics, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Leslie Skeith
MD MHPE
People Card Modal Dialog
Division of Hematology and Hematological Malignancies, Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Leslie Skeith
MD MHPE
People Card Modal Dialog
Division of Hematology and Hematological Malignancies, Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Sara Thorne
MD FRCP
People Card Modal Dialog
Division of Cardiology, Pregnancy & Heart Disease Program, Mount Sinai Hospital & University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Sara Thorne
MD FRCP
People Card Modal Dialog
Division of Cardiology, Pregnancy & Heart Disease Program, Mount Sinai Hospital & University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Thomas Van Den Akker
MD PhD
People Card Modal Dialog
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
Athena Institute, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Thomas Van Den Akker
MD PhD
People Card Modal Dialog
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
Athena Institute, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands