Members

Dr. Idrissa Beogo 

Idrissa Beogo is an assistant professor at the School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa. Educated in Asia, Africa, and Canada, Idrissa Beogo draws on his background in nursing, public health, and health administration, along with his clinical, teaching, and health service management experience, to enrich his courses and research on various vulnerable groups. He has also worked in community nursing and, in Canada, in long-term care. Idrissa Beogo’s research interests include aging in minority settings and telehealth, perinatal care, nursing education, health services organization and management, and international health. An early-career researcher, he is the principal investigator and co-investigator for several studies funded by local, provincial, and federal agencies in Canada.

Publications

Beogo I; Bationo NJ-C; Collin S; Tapp D; Ramdé J; Gagnon MP; Tchouaket NE; Sia D (2022). Promising Best Practices Implemented in Long-Term Care Facilities During the COVID-19 Pandemic to Address Social Isolation and Loneliness: A Scoping Review. Journal of Long-Term Care, pp. 298–311. https://doi.org/10.31389/jltc.138 

Beogo I., Sia D., Bourrier P., Vigier D., Bationo NJ-C., Côté A., Nguemeleu, E.T. (2022) Factors associated with health-seeking behavior amongst children in the context of free market: House hold study in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 2011. PLoSONE 17(10). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271493 

Dr. Ivy Bourgeault

Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, PhD, is a Professor in the School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies at the University of Ottawa and the University Research Chair in Gender, Diversity and the Professions. She leads the Canadian Health Workforce Network and the Empowering Women Leaders in Health initiative. Recent projects focus on care relationships in home and long term care, and on psychological health and safety of professional workers. She has been a consultant to various provincial Ministries of Health in Canada, to Health Canada, the pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the OECD and to the World Health Organization. Board experience includes the Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaborative, the Institute of Health Services and Policy Research at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the international journals, Human Resources for Health and Frontiers in Sociology. She was inducted into the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences in September 2016 and received the 2016/17 University of Ottawa Award for Excellence in Research. 

Publications

Mathews, M. ., Bourgeault, I., & Ryan, D. (2022). Perceptions of bias in the selection of international medical graduate residency applicants in Canada. Canadian Medical Education Journal. https://doi.org/10.36834/cmej.73320 

James, Y., Bourgeault, I., Gaudet, S., & Bujaki, M. . (2021). Care Work and Academic Motherhood: Challenges for Research and Tenure in the Canadian University. Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 51(4), 85–99. https://doi.org/10.47678/cjhe.v51i4.189061

Dr. Lisa Caulley  

Dr. Lisa Caulley is an Associate Scientist in the Clinical Epidemiology Program and Center for Journalology of the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery of the University of Ottawa. She has a master’s in public health from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She completed an editorial fellowship with the New England Journal of Medicine and a fellowship in advanced sinus and skull base surgery at the Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. She is pursuing a doctoral degree in clinical epidemiology and decision sciences from Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam. Her research focuses on the use of high-quality evidence to guide decision-making in health practice and policy. 

Publications

Caulley, L., Whelan, J., Khoury, M., Mavedatnia, D., Sahlollbey, N., Amrani, L., Eid, A., Doyle, MA., Malcolm, J.,Alkherayf, F., Ramsay, T., Moher, D., Johnson-Obaseki, S., Schramm, D., Hunink, MGM., Kilty, SJ. (2022). Post-operative surveillance for somatotroph, lactotroph and non-functional pituitary adenomas after curative resection: a systematic review. Pituitary, DOI: 10.1007/s11102-022-01289-x 

Caulley, L., Krijkamp, E., Doyle, Ma., Thavorn, K., Alkherayf, F., Sahlollbey, N., Dong, SX., Quinn, JQ., Johnson-Obaseki, S., Schramm, D., Kilty, SJ., Hunink, MGM. (2022). Cost-effectiveness of direct surgery versus preoperative octreotide therapy for growth-hormone secreting pituitary adenomas. Pituitary 25(9937), DOI: 10.1007/s11102-022-01270-8  

Dr. Junio Dort 

After earning his bachelor’s degree in food sciences (Université d’État d’Haïti), Dr. Dort was awarded several international scholarships to pursue a master’s degree at the Université Catholique de Louvain, in Belgium, and a PhD at Université Laval, in Canada. Following his Ph. D, he worked as a nutrition consultant for several international non-profit organizations, such as HarvestPlus, which implement programs to enhance food security in Haiti. Then, Dr Dort completed a postdoctoral training at the CHU Sainte-Justine Research Center in Dr Nicolas Dumont’s lab, where he investigated therapeutic compounds that target inflammation and muscle stem cell dysfunction with the goal of treating muscular dystrophies. His research was supported by fellowships from the Muscular Dystrophy Association and AFM-Telethon 

Publications :

Soulez M, Tanguay PL, Dô F, Crist C, Dort J, Kotlyarov A, Gaestel M, Dumont NA, Meloche, S. Erk3‐MK5 signaling regulates myogenic differentiation and muscle regeneration by promoting FOXO3 degradation. Journal of Cellular Physiology. 2022;237(4):2271-2287. doi:10.1002/jcp.30695 

Dort J, Orfi Z, Fabre P, et al. Resolvin-D2 targets myogenic cells and improves muscle regeneration in Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Nature Communications. 2021;12(1). doi:10.1038/s41467-021-26516-0 

Deprez A, Orfi Z, Radu A, Ying H, Dartora DR, Dort J, Dumont NA, Nuyt AM. Transient neonatal exposure to hyperoxia, an experimental model of preterm birth, leads to skeletal muscle atrophy and fiber type switching. Clinical Science. 2021. doi:10.1042/cs20210894 

Dr. Audrey Ferron Parayre 

Professor Ferron-Parayre's overall interest is in the fit between health care norms and clinical practices. Her research interests include informed consent to care in different contexts, women's reproductive health and advance medical directives. 

Publications

Ferron Parayre, A. (2021). Le défaut d’information et sa difficile compensation en responsabilité civile médicale : quelle place pour le préjudice d’impréparation en droit québécois ?, Revue générale de droit, Volume 50, Issue 2, (373-395) https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/rgd/2020-v50-n2-rgd05777/1074600ar/ 

Lévesque, S; Ferron Parayre, A. (2021). To Use or Not to Use the Term ‘Obstetric Violence’: Commentary on the Article by Swartz and Lappeman, Violence Against Women, Volume 27, Issue 8, 00 

Dr. Lerona Lewis 

Professor in Black Youth Studies. Lerona Lewis is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Education. Her research interests are focused on Black youth studies and her area of expertise are families, schools, community relations, and the social practices that shape Black children's schooling experiences in K-12 contexts. She has experience in Teacher Education with a focus on science education in English speaking and Francophone Caribbean countries. 

Publications 

Lewis, L.D., Benoit, O., Lewis, L. (2021). The Education System of Grenada. In: Jornitz, S., Parreira do Amaral, M. (eds) The Education Systems of the Americas. Global Education Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41651-5_4

Lewis, L. D., & Steinert, Y. (2020). How culture is understood in faculty development in the health professions: A scoping review.  Academic Medicine, 95(2), 310-319.  

Dr. Mwali-Nachishali Muray 

Mwali Muray, RN, BScN, MBA, PhD, is an assistant professor at the University of Ottawa, School of Nursing. Her doctoral research focused on official language minority communities in Ontario, examining the experiences of Francophone patients and their nursing care providers. She has taught courses including “Cardiac Arrhythmia” and “Complex Nursing Care,” and has guest lectured for several undergraduate and graduate courses in both English and French. Further administration and education experience include her role as Clinical Education Leader at the Laurentian University School of Nursing, and as Clinical Nurse Educator at the Institut du Savoir Montfort. Her clinical experiences include working as an emergency staff nurse in Sudbury as well as in Ottawa. 

Publications

Muray, M., Peguero-Rodriguez, G., Scarlett, E., Perron, A. & Chartrand, J. (2022). L’accès aux soins de santé des communautés de langue officielle en situation minoritaire (CLOSM) au Canada : une recension des écrits. Minorités linguistiques et société / Linguistic Minorities and Society, (19), 62–94. https://doi.org/10.7202/1094398ar 

Dabone, C., Mbagwu, I., Muray, M. et al. (2022). Global Food Insecurity and African, Caribbean, and Black (ACB) Populations During the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Rapid Review. J. Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities 9, (420–435). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-021-00973-1 

Dr. Smita Pakhale 

Dr. Pakhale joined The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and The Division of Respirology at the The Ottawa Hospital in 2008. Previous to that Dr. Pakhale completed her medical training at the Government Medical College, Nagpur, India and her Internal Medicine residency at Columbia University, New York, NY, USA, becoming an American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) certified internist. 

She went on to complete a Lung Transplantation and Cystic Fibrosis fellowship at the University of Toronto and Respirology and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship at the University of Manitoba. Upon completion of her fellowships at the University of Toronto and the University of Manitoba, she was awarded Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (FRCPC) in Internal Medicine (2005) and Respirology (2006). Most recently, she joined McGill University as a post-doc research fellow and simultaneously completed training in Epidemiology and Biostatistics for which she received an MSc (2008). Dr. Pakhale has received $22 million dollars in peer reviewed grants as either principle investigator or co-principle investigator. Her focus in research includes community-based participatory action research at the Bridge Engagement Center (the Bridge), as well as research in sickle cell disease, bronchial asthma, cystic fibrosis (CF), COPD and lung transplantation. She has published 89 peer-reviewed articles and two book chapters. She was an active member of the Tobacco Action Committee of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) for over a decade since 2011. Her novelty approach in working in partnership with the urban poor population (i.e. people who are homeless and at-risk for homelessness, low-income racialized, including Indigenous people) has been featured on national and international platforms. 

Publications: 

Charron, C. B., Hudani, A., Kaur, T., Rose, T., Florence, K., Jama, S., & Pakhalé, S. Assessing community (peer) researcher’s experiences with conducting spirometry and being engaged in the ‘Participatory Research in Ottawa: Management and Point-of-care for Tobacco-dependence’ (PROMPT) project. Research Involvement and Engagement. (2018), 4(1).  

Pakhale, S, Tina Kaur, Charron, C, Florence, K, Rose, R, Jama, S, Boyd, B, Haddad, J, Alvarez, G, Tyndall, M. Management and Point-of-Care for Tobacco Dependence (PROMPT): a feasibility mixed methods Community Based Participatory Action Research project in Ottawa, Canada. BMJ open 8.1 (2018): e018416. 

Pakhale, S., , Kaur T, Florence K, Rose T, Boyd R, Haddad J, Pettey D, Muckle W, Tyndall M. The Ottawa Citizen Engagement and Action Model (OCEAM): A Citizen engagement Strategy Operationalized Through The Participatory Research in Ottawa, Management and Point-of-care of Tobacco (PROMPT) Study, A Community Based Participatory Action Research Project in Inner City Ottawa. BioMed Central: Research Involvement and Engagement. 2016, 2:20 

Dr. Joanne Savory 

Dr. Savory’s research examines how transcription factors work during development. Since joining the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, she has investigated the upstream control mechanisms and downstream effects of Cdx genes, a key transcription factor family responsible for growth and patterning of the developing vertebrate embryo.   She also teaches a range of topics in human anatomy and physiology to undergraduate students from several faculties. 

Publications

Savory JGA, Edey C, Hess B, Mears AJ, Lohnes D (2014) Identification of novel retinoic acid target genes Dev Biol 395:199-208 

Savory JGA, Mansfield M, St Louis C, Lohnes D. (2011) Cdx4 is a Cdx2 target gene. Mech Dev. 128(1-2)