Integrated Community Program

Research Administrative Assistant: Yvonne Anguelov
Phone: 416-480-6747
Email: yvonne.anguelov@sri.utoronto.ca

Education:

• MD, 1996, University of Toronto, Canada
• M.Sc., 2003, University of Toronto, Canada

Appointments and Affiliations:

• Scientist, Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Integrated Community Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute
• Lung Health Lead and Scientist, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences
• Research Director and Staff Respirologist, Division of Respirology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
• Professor, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
• Professor, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto
• Adjunct Scientist, The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute
• Adjunct Scientist, Toronto East General Hospital

Distinctions:

• Best Paper Award, First International Workshop on Negative Results in Pervasive Computing, PerFail 2022
• Medscape Family Medicine Distinction, Family Medicine’s Top 10 popular continuing medical education articles for 2018
• Emerging Research Leaders Initiative Award, Canadian Institutes of Health Research Canadian Respiratory Research Network, 2016-2019
• Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) New Investigator Award, 2015-2020
• Early Researcher Award, Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation, and Ontario Ministry of Economic Development, 2015-2020
• Emerging Research Leaders Initiative Award, Canadian Respiratory Research Network, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, 2016
• Assembly on Behavioral Science and Health Services Research Early Career Achievement Award, American Thoracic Society, 2015
• Early Researcher Award, Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation and Ontario Ministry of Economic Development, 2015
• Achievement, Commitment and Excellence Award, Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, 2013
• Graham Farquharson Fellowship for Translational Health Research, Physicians’ Services Incorporated Foundation, 2013

Research Foci:

• Long-COVID-19
• Respiratory disease
• Clinical epidemiology
• Health services research
• Population-based studies
• Drug safety and effectiveness
• Quality of care
• Knowledge transfer

Research Summary:

Dr. Gershon is a Canadian Institutes of Health Research-funded investigator. The focus of her research is respiratory disease health outcomes, health services, quality of care, drug safety and effectiveness, and knowledge translation. Her work aims to optimize care and health outcomes for people living with respiratory disease.

Selected Publications:

See current publications list at PubMed.

Related News and Stories:

• Sunnybrook scientists contributing to new national network researching long COVID (Mar. 31, 2023)
• The pandemic shut down their tests of a lung disease app. So they’re developing a mobile app to monitor COVID-19 patients at home (Toronto Star, July 20, 2020)
• Firm foundation: Researchers make it through intense review process to secure stable funding (Aug. 11, 2017)
• Clearing the air: Health services researcher probes treatment of understudied lung disease (Sept. 30, 2016)
• Treating C.O.P.D. in the elderly (The New York Times, Oct. 13, 2014)
• Bronchodilators have similar cardiovascular risks: study (Reuters Health, May 22, 2013)
• Similar cardiovascular risk observed with COPD drugs (Forbes.com, May 20, 2013)
• Asthma free for years, but not really cured (The Wall Street Journal, March 27, 2012)
• Study says there's no permanent relief from asthma (The Globe and Mail, March 8, 2012)
• Asthma likely to be a lifetime condition (CBC News, March 7, 2012)
• Lifetime risk for COPD higher than heart failure, common cancers (ABC News, Sept. 12, 2011)
• Study: 1 in 4 people likely to develop COPD (CBS News, Sept. 9, 2011)
• COPD lung disease 'huge burden' (CBC News, Sept. 9, 2011)
• Lifetime risk for COPD is one in four, study finds (CTV News, Sept. 8, 2011)

Related Links:

• ICES
• U of T profile, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation
• CanBREATHE Long COVID Study