The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research

Dr. Eva Grunfeld

Clinical Scientist

Research Description

The focus of Dr. Grunfeld’s research is the evaluation of access to and quality of cancer care across the cancer control continuum – from screening to end-of-life care.

The objective of her research is to understand the complex factors that may limit the application of research within the health care system and to find and test ways to overcome them. Her research goal is to accelerate the translation of research into practice so that it is implemented throughout the cancer control system to benefit the population.

Contact Information

Telephone
416-978-7738

Mailing Address
Dept. of Family and Community Medicine
University of Toronto
263 McCaul Street, 3rd Floor
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5T 1W7

Current

2008 -  Director, Knowledge Translation Research Network,
Health Services Research Program, OICR.
2008 - Giblon Professor and Director, Family Medicine Research,
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto.


Background        

2004 – 2008 Director, Cancer Outcomes Research, Cancer Care Nova Scotia.
2004 – 2008 Professor and Senior Clinical Scholar, Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
2004 – 2008 Active Staff, Division of Medical Oncology, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
1994 – 2003 Associate Professor and Clinician Scientist, Division of Medical Oncology, University of Ottawa.
1994 - 2003 Active Staff, Division of Medical Oncology, The Ottawa Hospital.
1997 D.Phil., Epidemiology, University of Oxford.
1991 – 1994 Fellow, National Cancer Institute of Canada, University of Oxford.
1986 MD, McMaster University.

                                     

Selected Publications

  1. Grunfeld E, Watters JM, Urquhart R, O’Rourke K, Jaffey J, Maziak DE, Morash C, Patel D, Evans WK.  A prospective study of peri-diagnostic and surgical wait times for patients with presumptive colorectal, lung, or prostate cancer.  Brit J Cancer. 2009;100(1):56-62.

  2. Grunfeld E, Urquhart R, Mykhalovskiy E, Folkes A, Johnston G, Burge FI, Earle CC, Dent S. Towards population based indicators of quality end-of-life care: testing stakeholder agreement. Cancer. 2008;112(1):2301-8.

  3. Grunfeld E, Lethbridge L, Dewar R, Lawson B, Paszat L, Johnston G, Frederick B, McIntyre P, Earle CC.  Towards using administrative databases to measure population based indicators of quality end-of-life care: testing the methodology. Palliative Med. 2006 Dec;20(8):769-77.

  4. Grunfeld, E, Levine M, Julian J, Coyle D, Szechtman B, Mirsky D, Verma S, Dent S, Sawka C, Pritchard K, Ginsburg D, Wood M, Whelan T.  Randomized trial of long-term follow-up for early-stage breast cancer: a comparison of family physician versus specialist care. J Clin Oncol. 2006 Feb 20;24(6):848-55.

  5. Grunfeld E, Coyle D, Whelan T, Clinch J, Reyno L, Earle C, Willan A, Viola R, Coristine M, Janz T, Glossop R.  Family caregiver burden: results of a longitudinal study of breast cancer patients. CMAJ. 2004 Jun 8;170(12):1795-801.

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