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Keywords: Health and Aging, Geroscience, Methodology, Knowledge Transfer, Population Health
Dr. Parminder Raina is a Professor in the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact at McMaster University. He specializes in the epidemiology of aging with emphasis on developing the interdisciplinary field of geroscience to understand the processes of aging from cell to society. He has expertise in epidemiologic modeling, systematic review methodology, injury, and knowledge transfer. He holds a Canada Research Chair in Geroscience and the Raymond and Margaret Labarge Chair in Research and Knowledge Application for Optimal Aging. He has been appointed to the National Seniors Council in 2018 and is the Scientific Director of the McMaster Research Institute for Research on Aging and Labarge Centre for Mobility in Aging. He is the lead investigator of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. Dr. Raina is one of the founding members of the Ontario Research Coalition of Aging Institutes/Centers. He has served on several national and international advisory committees such as National Panel for Transportation needs of Aging Population, Big Data Initiative in Ontario, Ontario Minister's Advisory Group on Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementia Research. He was also a member of the External Scientific Advisory Board of European Union funded projects Consortium on Health and Ageing Network of Cohorts in Europe and the United States (CHANCES) and the Social Innovation for Active and Healthy Ageing (SIforAGE) consortium. Dr Raina has published extensively in high impact peer reviewed journals and reports, and has supported the development of multiple practice guidelines for dementia, heart failure, and for primary care physicians
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A process evaluation accompanying an attempted randomized controlled trial of an evidence service for health-system policy makers McMaster Health Forum, McMaster University Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge 2015-11-01 Interventions for preventing, delaying the onset, or decreasing the burden of frailty: An overview of systematic reviews McMaster Health Forum, McMaster University Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge 2015-09-01 Michael Wilson , Béland F, Julien D, Lee Gauvin, Guindon GE, Roy D, Campbell K, Comeau DG, Davidson H,
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Brenda Vrkljan Health system decision-makers' feedback on summaries and tools supporting the use of systematic reviews: A qualitative study McMaster Health Forum, McMaster University Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge 2014-08-01 Effects of an evidence service on health-system policy makers' use of research evidence: a protocol for a randomised controlled trial. McMaster Health Forum, McMaster University Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge 2011-01-01 Supporting the use of health technology assessments in policy making about health systems. McMaster Health Forum, McMaster University Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge 2010-10-01 Protocol for a Delphi Consensus exercise to identify a core set of criteria for selecting health related outcome measures (HROM) to be used in primary health care. McMaster University Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge 2018-01-01 Creating an intergenerational university hub: Engaging older and younger users in the shaping of space and place McMaster University Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge 2019-01-01