Upcoming Research Knowledge and Skill Builder Sessions
Our next session: May 20, 2025, 1:00pm-2:00pm
Title: Wampum Relationships
Presenter: Kahontiyoha, Indigenous Health Manager
Overview: In this session, Kahontiyoha will discuss the Hiawatha Belt, the Two Row Wampum Belt, and the Covenant Belt agreements.
Register in advance for this meeting: click here
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Our last Research Knowledge and Skill Builder Session:
Title: Knowledge Translation Planning
Presenters: Advina Kamaric, Knowledge Translation Specialist and Casey Irvin, Knowledge Translation & Strategic Communications Manager
Below are video recordings and slides from the Department of Family Medicine Research in-services. We offer these in-services to continue to build the research capacity of faculty and staff across the department.
If you have any questions about Research Knowledge and Skill Builders, please contact Neha Arora, our Clinic Research Coordinator (narora@mcmaster.ca).
Expandable List
Working with Undergraduate Students Aspiring to Medical School
Presenter: Dr. Lawrence Grierson, Associate Professor, Dept. Fam Med & Assistant Dean, Health Science Education Graduate Program
FUNdamentals of Ethics Reviews
Laura Cleghorn, Managing Director, Research
Neha Arora, Clinic Research Coordinator
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HiREB Applications and Resubmissions
Janice Sancan
Research Ethics Officer at the Hamilton Integrated Research Ethics Board
Creating and Managing a Research Budget
Laura Cleghorn
Research Operations Coordinator, Department of Family Medicine
Julie Datta
Project Manager, Department of Family Medicine
Dawn Elston
Research Coordinator, Department of Family Medicine
Francine Marzanek
Research Coordinator, Department of Family Medicine
Intro to Business Case
Presenter: Francine Marzanek and Ricardo Angeles
Research Agreements
Presenter: Ms. Caroline Woods
Senior Agreements Officer, Health Research Services
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The Grant Process
Catherine Gill Pottruff
Senior Grants Advisor, Health Research Services
Working with Health Research Services: Administrative Processes and General Overview of Services
Julie Crosskill
Research Grants Manager, Health Research Services
Using generative AI in Systematic Reviews
Presenters: Istvan David, Assistant Professor of Computing and Software
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Implementation Science and Applications in Primary Care Research
Presenters: Dr. Jennifer Salerno, Ms. Rebecca Clark, Ms. Jessica Gaber and the VIP Research Lab
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Retrospective Chart Reviews
Presenters: Dr. Michelle Howard (BA(Hons), MSc, PhD), Associate Professor
Jeffrey Templeton, Research Coordinator
Implementation Science in Family Medicine
Presenters: Dr. Henry Siu, Ms. Dawn Elston, Dr. Dee Mangin and Dr. Jennifer Salerno
How many subjects do I need? A crash course in sample size calculations
Presenter: Dr. Zuber Mulla, Professor, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Texas Tech University
Slides | Work sheet | Video
Using Electronic Medical Record Data in Primary Care Research
Presenters: Jennifer Lawson and Shuaib Hafid
Data Visualization in Research
Presenter: Subhanya Sivajothy, Data Analysis and Visualization Librarian, McMaster University
In this session, we discussed the two applications of data visualization – data exploration and communication
Using Health Administrative Data for Primary Care Research
Presenters: Dr. Michelle Howard, PhD, Associate Professor
Shuaib Hafid, MPH, Statistical Analyst
Geographic Information Systems and Health Research (Part 2)
Presenter: Christine Homuth, Spatial Information (GIS) Specialist, Lewis & Ruth Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship, McMaster University Library; Shuaib Hafid, Statistical Analyst, DFM.
Community engagement in DFM prison health research: practices and reflections
Presenters: Fiona Kouyoumdjian, Research Director and Lindsay Jennings, Prison Health Research Council, McMaster University
Slides | Video
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Topic: Exploring Evaluation
Presenter: Rachel Harris, Program Evaluation Coordinator, PHS – Epidemiology & Wellness, City of Hamilton
Slides
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From the ground up: the impact and importance of community-led research
PCRC Speaker Series presenters: Lindsay Jennings, Community investigator for the Prison Health Research Council
James Gillett, Community Research Platform
Video
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Qualitative Case Studies
Presenter: Jessica Gaber
QI in Primary Care — When, how, and how is it different from research?
Presenters: Dr. Dale Guenter, Professor, DFM and Dr. Kathryn Cottrell, PGY3 Research and Scholarship
Working with the experts: involving people with lived and living experience in research
Presenters: Dr. Claire Bodkin, Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct) and Jammy Pierre, peer investigator, Nowhere To Go project
From Researcher to Storyteller- For the Community, By the Community
Presenter: Nirosha Balakumar, MPhil, EDI & Anti-Racism Partner
Socio-demographic data collection: current evidence and practices in primary care research
Presenter: Jennifer Lawson, Dawn Elston and Neha Arora
Honouring our social obligations: Incorporating social accountability & responsibility throughout the research process
Presenters: Dr. Tejal Patel, and Neha Arora, Clinic Research Coordinator
Principled Community Engaged Research
Presenter: C.A. Klassen, Community Engaged Research Facilitator in the Office of Community Engagement
Qualitative Research: Overview of Methods
Meredith Vanstone
Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine
Grounded Theory, Phenomenology & Narrative Methodologies: Designing methodologically rigorous qualitative studies
Meredith Vanstone
Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine
Data Coding and Analysis
Meredith Vanstone
Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine
Interviews and Focus Groups
Jessica Jurgurtis
Postdoctoral Fellow, Health, Aging & Society
Responding to Sensitive Health & Social Issues
Laura Cleghorn
Research Operations Coordinator, Department of Family Medicine
Jessica Gaber
Research Coordinator, Department of Family Medicine
Topic: Race in Research
Dr. Anjali Menezes
Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct), Department of Family Medicine
Neha Arora
Clinic Research Coordinator, EDI Lead-Research, Department of Family Medicine
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Patient, Caregiver and Community Engagement Series
Presenter: Dr. Jennifer Salerno
The Art of Manuscript Writing
Jessica Gaber
Research Coordinator, Department of Family Medicine
Manuscript Preparation and Authorship
Lawrence Grierson
Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine
Collective Skill Building and Collegial Support
Cathy Risdon
Professor and Vice-chair, Department of Family Medicine
Editing
Casey Irvin
Knowledge Translation Specialist, Department of Family Medicine
Research and the media
Presenters: Jennifer Stranges, Manager, Media Relations, Faculty of Health Sciences Erin Beaulieu, Manager, Knowledge Translation and Strategic Communications, DFM
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Inclusive Language
Abithiny Selvarajah
Research Assistant, Department of Family Medicine
Presenting Data in Visually Engaging Ways
Casey Irvin MA
Knowledge Translation Specialist, Department of Family Medicine
Community Engagement
Casey Irvin
Knowledge Translation Specialist, Department of Family Medicine
Jessica Gaber
Research Coordinator, Department of Family Medicine
Pam Forsyth
Managing Director, Research Operations, Department of Family Medicine
Dawn Elston
Research Coordinator, Department of Family Medicine
Neha Arora
Research Coordinator, Department of Family Medicine
Data Justice and Cyber(in)security in Family Medicine Research
Dr. Andrea Zeffiro, Krzysztof Adamczyk, and Danica Evering
Managing your research data: an introduction to DMP Assistant
Jay Brodeur
Associate Director of Digital Scholarship Services in the McMaster University Library
Isaac Pratt
Research Data Management Specialist with the University Library and Research & High-Performance Computing Services
SPSS
Larkin Lamarche
Research Associate, Department of Family Medicine
Melissa Pirrie
Research Coordinator, Department of Family Medicine
REDCap
Ricardo Angeles
Research Associate, Department of Family Medicine
Steve Dragos
Data Manager and Research Assistant, Department of Family Medicine
Just the basics: Learning about the essential steps to do some simple things in SPSS
Larkin Lamarche
Research Associate, Department of Family Medicine
How To Build a Survey using the McMaster LimeSurvey Service
Michael Wilson
Research Ethics Officer, McMaster University Research Ethics Board
EndNote for Research
Steve Dragos
Research Assistant, Department of Family Medicine
What to Know About NVivo A Qualitative Primer
Laura Cleghorn
Research Operations Coordinator, Department of Family Medicine
Jessica Gaber
Research Coordinator, Department of Family Medicine
Knowledge Translation- Part I
Casey Irvin
Knowledge Translation Specialist, Department of Family Medicine
Erin Beaulieu
Knowledge Translation Specialist, Department of Family Medicine
Knowledge Translation- Part II
Casey Irvin
Knowledge Translation Specialist, Department of Family Medicine
Erin Beaulieu
Knowledge Translation Specialist, Department of Family Medicine
Effective Infographic Use in Health Communication
Meerab Majeed & Shania Bhopa
Department of Family Medicine
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Integrated Knowledge Translation with a Health System Partner
Dr. Melissa Pirrie
Department of Family Medicine
Juddah’s Place- An Indigenous Evaluation
Presenter: Dr. Karen Hill
Research Involving Indigenous Communities
Presenter: Renee Corbiere
Indigenous Ways of Knowing: How should we conduct research together?
Dr. Amy Montour BSCN, MSC, MD, CCFP (CP)
Haudenosaunee, Six Nations of the Grand River Territory