Emily McDonald
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine
Dr. McDonald is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in General Internal Medicine and the Director of the Department of Medicine Clinical Practice Assessment Unit. She has completed medical school, fellowship and a Masters in Epidemiology at 平特五不中 and post-graduate training in patient safety and quality improvement at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre as well as the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public program in clinical effectiveness. Her research focuses on drug safety and effectiveness with a particular emphasis on polypharmacy and deprescribing in older adults. She has received funding from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research and the Centre for Aging and Brain Health Innovation for ongoing pragmatic randomized controlled trials investigating drug dosing and safer prescribing. She is the co-inventor of MedSafer, a software that guides clinicians and patients through the process of deprescribing.
Boulware DR, Pullen MF, Bangdiwala AS, Pastick KA, Lofgren SM, Okafor EC, Skipper CP, Nascene AA, Nicol MR, Abassi M, Engen NW, Cheng MP, LaBar D, Lother SA, MacKenzie LJ, Drobot G, Marten N, Zarychanski R, Kelly LE, Schwartz IS,聽McDonald EG, Rajasingham R, Lee TC, Hullsiek KH. A randomized clinical trial of hydroxychloroquine as post-exposure prophylaxis for Covid-19. NEJM. 2020, May [online ahead of print].
Ross SB, Goodwin-Wilson M, Papillon-Ferland L, Elsayed S, Wu P, Battu K, Porter S, Rashidi B, Tamblyn R, Pilote L, Downar J, Bonnici A, Huang A, Lee TC,聽McDonald EG.聽COVID-SAFER: Deprescribing Guidance for Common Drug Interactions with Hydroxychloroquine for Older Adults. Journal of American Geriatrics Society. 2020 May 7 [E-pub ahead of print]
Ross S, Wu P, Antique A, Papillon-Ferland L, Tamblyn R, Lee TC,聽McDonald EG. Adverse Drug Events in Older Adults: A Review of Adjudication Methods in Deprescribing Clinical Trials. JAGS. 2020 Mar 6. [Epub ahead of print]
McDonald EG, Dendukuri N, Frenette C et al., The Impact of Private Rooms on Common Healthcare Associated Infections: A Time Series Analysis of a Complete Hospital move. JAMA Internal Medicine.聽聽Online First Aug 19, 2019.
McDonald EG, Wu P, Rashidi B, Forster AJ, Huang A, Pilote L, Papillon-Ferland, Bonnici A, Tamblyn R, Whitty R, Porter S, Bhattu K, Downar K, Lee TC. The MedSafer study: a controlled trial of an electronic decision support tool for deprescribing in acute care. Journal of American Geriatrics Society. Sep聽2019; 67(9) 1843-1850.