Faculty of Health Sciences

Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Faculty

Dr. Sonia Anand, MD PhD FRCPC is the inaugural Director of the McMaster Population Genomics Program. Her research is aimed at understanding the environmental and genetic causes of cardiovascular risk factors among women, First Nations peoples and ethnic groups throughout the world.

Core Faculty
Associate Faculty
External Faculty Collaborators

Sonia Anand

Department of Medicine, Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Recognized internationally for her groundbreaking research, Dr Anand was appointed to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario/ Michael G. DeGroote Chair in Population Health Research in 2008.

Research Interests

Clinical epidemiology; population health; women's health; aboriginal health; cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes, nutrition.

Joseph Beyene

Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Appointed to the John D. Cameron Endowed Chair in the Genetic Determinants of Chronic Disease in 2010.

Research Interests

Multi-level modeling in linkage and association analysis, and applications of statistical techniques in genetics; development of statistical methods for genomic data

Andrew Mente

Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Research Interests

Nutritional epidemiology, genomics, and nutrigenomics

David Meyre

Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Research Interests

The genetic epidemiology of metabolic diseases; obesity and type 2 diabetes; genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in complex diseases; the identification of novel susceptibility genes in ethnic populations.

Guillaume Paré

Pathology and Molecular Medicine, joint appointment in Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Appointed to the Canada Research Chair in Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology in 2010.

Research Interests

Molecular and genetic determinants of cardiovascular diseases in general and stroke prevention in particular

Changchun Xie

Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Research Interests

Hierarchical models, frailty models, nonparametric, binary data and multivariate statistical analysis, clinical trials, genetics

Angelo Canty

Department of Mathematics & Statistics
Associate Member, Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Research Interests

Computational statistics and the analysis of genetic data

Judah Denburg

Division of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, Department of Medicine

Research Interests

The developmental biology of eosinophils, basophils and mast cells, and their regulation in allergic inflammation

Brian Golding

Department of Biology

Research Interests

Molecular evolution, DNA sequence analysis, phylogenetics, population genetics, bioinformatics

Mark Loeb

Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Research Interests

Clinical epidemiology; emerging infectious diseases; population genetics and infectious diseases; prevention of influenza; antimicrobial use and resistance; acute care hospital epidemiology

Hendrik Poinar

Department of Anthropology

Research Interests

Molecular evolutionary genetics and biological anthropology

Zena Samaan

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences

Research Interests

Psychiatric genetics

Peter Szatmari

Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Research Interests

Psychiatric and genetic epidemiology; preschool children with autism; adolescent psychopathology and high risk behaviours; sampling and measurement issues

Gerry Wright

Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences

Research Interests

Mechanisms of antibiotic resistance; reversing resistance with small molecules; origins, evolution and sources of resistance; yeast chemical genetics to identify new antibiotic-target pairs; genetic manipulation of antibiotic producing bacteria; investigation of unconventional antibiotic targets such as virulence factors; use of chemically modified antibiotics to identify targets and activities; discovery of new natural product antibiotics

Kevin Zbuk

Department of Oncology, Division of Medical Oncology

Research Interests

Cancer genetics, molecular classification of gastrointestinal polyposis syndromes

Heather Cordell

Institute of Human Genetics, Newcastle University, UK.

Research Interests

Development of statistical methodology for detection and characterization of genetic factors in complex disease

James ("Jamie") Engert

Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre

Research Interests

Investigating the genetics of heart disease, conditions that lead to heart disease such as obesity and diabetes. High throughput genotyping of microsatellite markers and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) will allow linkagea and association studies as well as linkage disequilibrium mapping.

Bernard Keavney

Institute of Human Genetics, Newcastle University, UK.

Research Interests

Finding genes that cause heart and circulatory disease