Alumni

First becoming intrigued by the condition of neuropathic pain while still an undergraduate, Jason has pursued this topic in both his MSc. (Pharmacology) and present PhD research (Anatomy / Neuroscience). While plasticity of the nervous system is vital to recovery following injury, maladaptive plasticity may also occur that facilitates the transmission and perception of pain signals.  His research interest is to better understand the biological changes that underlying this pain permissive state, and the investigation of compounds that may be of therapeutic benefit in reducing the burden of neuropathic pain. 

Margaret Jin received the BSc (Pharm) and PharmD degrees at the University of Toronto.  She is currently enrolled in the Health Research Methodology Master's Program at McMaster University (part-time).  She has been a pharmacist for over 12 years and has worked in many pharmacy settings including community and teaching hospitals, community pharmacies, nursing homes, and primary care.  She is currently working full-time with the Hamilton Family Health Team as a clinical pharmacist and coordinator of the academic detailing program.  Her main research interest is in academic detailing provided by the clinical pharmacists integrated within family physicians' offices.

Dr. Tranum Kaur is faculty member in the Department of Biophysics, Panjab University, India and is presently on leave to work as a Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Wettig and Dr. Slavcev at the School of Pharmacy, University of Waterloo (UW). She has teaching experience in Cell Biology, Cancer Biology, Physiology, Biophysics and Bio-informatics for graduate and under graduate courses. Along with her teaching duties, she has mentored students for successful completion of their master’s thesis in the area of cancer research. Presently, she is also working as Course Co-coordinator cum Instructor for the “Clinical Applications of Pharmaceutical Sciences” third year course (spring term) at the School of Pharmacy, UW.

Jinhui Ma is currently a full-time PhD student in Health Research Methodology program with specialization in Biostatistics at McMaster University. She previously completed a BSc (Statistics) at the University of British Columbia and her MSc (Statistics) at McMaster University. Her research interest lies in the development and application of statistical methods to biomedical research. Specific areas of interest include the design and analysis of cluster randomized trials and longitudinal studies, multiple imputation techniques to handle missing data from clinical research, and survival analysis.

Nafiseh completed her BSc (Cell and Molecular Biology) at the Azad University of Tehran in Iran and her MSc (Biology) at the University of Waterloo. She is currently completing a PhD with the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences under the supervisorship of Dr. Roderick Slavcev. Her interests include stem cell research, as well as gene manipulation and gene delivery (bacteriophages and DNA vectors) research.

Qing Guo is a full-time PhD student in the Health Research Methodology program (with a focus on Biostatistics) in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McMaster University, under the supervision of Dr. Eleanor Pullenayegum. She was a research biostatistician in McMaster University for 8 years. During this time, Qing gained enormous experience on study design and statistical methodologies in therapeutics areas such as oncology, hematology and cardiovascular diseases. Qing received her Master of Mathematics degree in Biostatistics from the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Sciences at the University of Waterloo, Master of Science degree in Mathematical Sciences from Lakehead University, and Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Hunan Normal University in China.

Qing’s research interests concentrate on biostatistics and its applications. In particular, her primary research interest is sample size determination in areas of functional MRI studies and clinical trials. Other areas of research include structural equation modeling, health economics, multilevel modeling, design and analysis of clinical trials, Bayesian methods and the development of clinical practice guideline. Her research work involves collaborating with workers in various disciplines including psychiatry and neurosciences, health technology assessment, oncology, hematology and cardiovascular diseases.

Muhammad Waheed Asghar is currently completing a PhD in Pharmacy Practice at the University of Alberta, under the joint supervision of Dr. Fakhreddin Jamali and Dr. Scot Simpson. Waheed previously completed a BSc (Pharm) and a Masters of Philosophy (Pharmacokinetics) in Pakistan. He has teaching experience in Clinical Pharmacy, Community Pharmacy and Epidemiology, and Pharmaceutical Mathematics and Biostatistics. He has worked as both a hospital and retail pharmacist. His research interests include therapeutic and pharmacy practice based research, cardiovascular medicine, clinical pharmacokinetics, and altered disposition of drugs in disease state.

Pavel Roshanov is a first year Master’s student in McMaster’s Health Research Methodology program. He received his BSc in 2009 from the University of Waterloo, where he was introduced to the field of Health Informatics as a research assistant at the Waterloo Institute for Health Informatics Research. His interests include designing, developing, and evaluating information systems that support clinical care processes of practitioners as well as the self-care processes of patients. A recent introduction to the world of evidence-based medicine has inspired him to search for efficient methods of synthesis and dissemination of evidence. Pavel is also a founding member of the National Student Forum for Health Informatics, a joint initiative of the National Institutes for Health Informatics and COACH, Canada’s Health Informatics Association.

Brett is currently completing his M.Sc. in the Health Research Methodology program at McMaster University, specializing in Health Technology Assessment. In 2007, Brett obtained his B.Sc. in Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences from McMaster University, after which Brett worked in the pharmaceutical industry for two large generic drug manufacturers in the field of Regulatory Affairs.  Brett’s research interests are mainly focused on the use of decision analytic modeling to determine the cost-effectiveness of pharmaceuticals and other emerging health technologies.  He is also interested in the use of indirect comparison methods to generate relative effectiveness measures for pharmaceuticals where there is a lack of, or insufficient evidence from head-to-head comparative trials.

Tingting is currently completing a PhD in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of British Columbia, under the supervision of Dr. Bruce Carleton. She previously completed a BSc in Clinical Medicine at the Capital University of Medical Sciences and a MSc in Epidemiology at Simon Fraser University. Her research interests include applying epidemiological methods to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of medications using linked population-based health service utilization data, studying how optimal/suboptimal regimens are associated with health outcomes and studying health service utilization in BC's population with treated asthma.

Jason is currently enrolled in the Health Research Methodology MSc program at McMaster University, specializing in Clinical Epidemiology.  Jason received his BSc.Phm at the University of Toronto.  He then completed a pharmacy residency program at The Ottawa Hospital (TOH) and obtained an accredited Canadian pharmacy residency (ACPR) designation.  Jason has worked as a clinical pharmacist at TOH and as a relief pharmacist in retail pharmacy.  His main research interests are focused on the use of large administrative databases to evaluate clinical effectiveness, prescribing patterns, and safety of medications.  For his thesis, Jason will examine both the benefits and harms of warfarin in a very large subset of individuals representative of the Ontario population as a whole.

Dr. Ainsley Moore is a family physician at Stonechurch Family Health Centre. She completed a Master of Science program at the University of Guelph in 1993. Her focus of study was children's nutritional status in highland Ecuador. In 1996, Dr. Moore graduated from McMaster University medical school, and subsequently graduated from McMaster's Family Medicine Residency program in 1998.

Dr. Moore has provided primary care to a diverse population in a multidisciplinary family health team at the Rosedale Medical Group in Hamilton since 1999.  In 2007, Dr. Moore accepted an assistant clinical professor position at the Stonechurch Family Health Centre, which happened to be the residency site from where she graduated in 1998.

Dr. Moore's interests lie in developing, promoting and understanding interdisciplinary collaboration and education in the primary care setting, behavioural sciences. For leisure, she likes to travel and provide care to stray animals.