About the Research Program

DFCM’s Research Program was established in 1995 to create a critical mass of Family Medicine researchers; provide faculty with protected research time; develop research excellence and productivity; and build an infrastructure to support research. Our program includes:

  • An Research Investigator Awards Program that includes funding for Clinician Scientists, Clinician Investigators, New Investigators, and Graduate Research Studies;
  • Research mentorship opportunities;
  • A range of resources and services including, grant application preparation/submission, grant budget preparation/administration, biostatistical/methodological support, and an internal voluntary grant application review process, and Qualtrics survey software;
  • DFCM’s Practice-Based Research Network, UTOPIAN: a platform on which DFCM faculty and its learners from all sites can become involved in clinically important research that will have direct impact on the care of their patients.

Research Program

Faculty

Name Title Contact Room #

Dr. Peter Selby

Vice-Chair, Research

416-978-7738
peter.selby@utoronto.ca

352

Dr. Rahim Moineddin

Senior Biostatistician

416-946-5860
rahim.moineddin@utoronto.ca

358

Administration

Name Title Contact

Tara Marie Watson

Associate Director, Research Program

Tara.watson@utoronto.ca
Room 354

   

Tara Jeyaram

Administrator, Research

416-946-5352
dfcm.research@utoronto.ca

Bojana Petrovic

CanImpact Research Associate

416-978-7518
dfcm.cancerresearch@utoronto.ca

Chris Meaney

Biostatistician 

416-978-5602
christopher.meaney@utoronto.ca

Jianmin (Jamie) Wang

Research Program Project Coordinator

jamie.wang@utoronto.ca

Giles Pereira

Research Program Administrative Assistant

416-978-701
admin.utopian@utoronto.ca

Aashka Shah (On Leave)

Research Program Officer

416-978-7017
ashka.bhatt@utoronto.ca
dfcm.spor@utoronto.ca

Gurnoor Brar

Research Officer, Asthma Registry

gurnoor.brar@utoronto.ca

TBA

Research Officer

 

Jemisha Apajee

Research Program Data Analyst

jemisha.apajee@utoronto.ca

Chelsea Christie

Research Program Data Analyst

chelsea.christie@utoronto.ca

Sumeet Kalia

Research Program Data Analyst

Sumeet.kalia@nygh.on.ca

Arrani Senthinathan

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

arani.senthinathan@utoronto.ca

Ángela Ortigoza

Research Associate

angela.ortigoza@utoronto.ca

Carla Lapadula

Research Associate

carla.lapadula@utoronto.ca

Tu Nguyen

International Fellow

tungoc.nguyen@utoronto.ca

University of Toronto Practice-Based Research Network (UTOPIAN)

 Faculty

Name Title Contact

Dr. Michelle Greiver

Gordon F. Cheesbrough Chair in Family & Community Medicine (NYGH)

UTOPIAN Director

416-978-5113
michelle.greiver@nygh.on.ca

Dr. Andrew Pinto

UTOPIAN Associate Director - Clinical Research

andrew.pinto@utoronto.ca

Dr. Karen Tu

UTOPIAN Associate Director - Data Safe Haven

k.tu@utoronto.ca

Dr. Jessica Gronsbell

UTOPIAN AI Lead

j.gronsbell@utoronto.ca

Administration

Name Title Contact

 

UTOPIAN Research Project Manager

dfcm.utopian@utoronto.ca

   

Babak Aliarzadeh

UTOPIAN Data Analytics Manager

babaka@cpcssn.org

Greg Clark

POPLAR IT Specialist

gregw.clark@mail.utoronto.ca

Tao Chen

SAVE System Administrator

taoc.chen@utoronto.ca