Research and Presentations

  • 2020 (accepted for publication) Annals of Family Medicine: A Staff- and Protocol-Driven System to Apply Urine Drug Testing in Primary Care
  • 2020 (accepted for publication) Journal of Opioid Management: Systematic urine drug testing for detecting and managing opioid misuse amongst chronic non-cancer pain patients in primary care - The HARMS Program: a retrospective chart review of 77 patients
  • 2019 Urine Drug Testing and its Application to Opioid Agonist Treatment. Presentation, Family Medicine Forum (FMF), Vancouver, BC (pending for November 2019).
  • 2019 How the START-IT Tool uses EMR-integration and automated urine drug testing interpretation to bring best practices into clinical medicine for patients prescribed opioids. Presentation, OntarioMD Every Step Conference. Toronto, ON
  • 2019 Safer Opioid Prescribing through a Clinic-wide Urine Drug Testing System – the HARMS Program. Presentation, Association of Family Health Teams of Ontario (AFHTO) Annual Conference. Toronto, ON
  • 2019 Ontario Pain Management Provincial Discussion - invited to present the HARMS Program to various provincial healthcare organizations. Toronto, ON
  • 2019 College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) Invitational Opioid Symposium. Invited to present on the HARMS Program. Edmonton, AB
  • 2018 The HARMS Initiative for Safer Opioid Prescribing through Systematic Urine Drug Testing. Presentation, Family Medicine Forum (FMF), Toronto, ON
  • 2018 The HARMS Program. Presentation, ECHO (Extension of Community Healthcare Outcomes), Thunder Bay, ON
  • 2018 Opioid De-implementation Day – The HARMS Program – video presentation, AFHTO Conference. Toronto, ON
  • 2018 The use of urine drug screening for safer opioid prescribing in chronic non-cancer pain patients in rural Northern Ontario. Oral Presentation, Society of Rural Physicians of Canada Rural and Remote Conference
  • 2017 The use of urine drug screening for safer opioid prescribing in chronic non-cancer pain patients in rural Northern Ontario. Poster Presentation, Ottawa Global Health Conference. PDF available (9MB)