Who We Are
Our team of healthcare professionals, researchers, trainees, students, current and former patients, and members of the general public are a committed group of individuals dedicated to advancing women's health. You can read a little more about the people who make up our team by clicking on the sections below.
Do you have questions about the OROS Project? Contact us at dsouza.research.msh@sinaihealthsystem.ca.
Lead Investigator
Dr. Rohan D'Souza
Dr. D'Souza is a specialist in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, Clinician-Scientist at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute and Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Toronto. His clinical focus is on medical disorders in pregnancy, particularly heart disease, and his research interests include the conduct of experimental and observational studies aimed at reducing postpartum hemorrhage, increasing the success of labour induction and improving pregnancy outcomes in women with heart disease. More recently, he has been focussing on the elicitation and incorporation of patient preferences into obstetric decision-making and the development of core outcome sets for studies on high-risk pregnancies. His recent achievements include a Canadian Operating Grant to address knowledge gaps for the use of tranexamic acid in obstetrics, the International Lee-Lusted Award for his work on patient-preferences and an elevation to the fellowship of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists UK, for his contribution to women’s health.
Project Involvement: All COS projects
Publications: Click here for publications
Co-Investigators
Dr. Jon Barrett
Affiliation: Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Project Involvement: Core Outcome set for studies on Vasa Previa (COVasP)
Dr. Natasha Donnolley
Affiliation: Perinatal Researcher, National Perinatal Epidemiology & Statistics Unit, University of NSW, Sydney Australia; Vice President, International Vasa Previa Foundation
Project Involvement: Core Outcome set for studies on Vasa Previa (COVasP)
Nasrin Javid
Affiliation: Doctoral candidate and Midwifery Researcher at the Faculty of Health, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Project Involvement: Core Outcome set for studies on Vasa Previa (COVasP)
Dr. Clara Juando-Prats
Affiliation: Clinical Research Specialist at Applied Health Research Centre St. Michael's Hospital
Project Involvement: Composite Adverse Obstetric Outcome Study (CAOOS)
Dr. John Kingdom
Affiliation: Chair of the University of Toronto's Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Maternal-Fetal Medicine Physician at Mount Sinai Hospital
Project Involvement: Core Outcome Set for Studies on Obesity in Pregnant Patients (COSSOPP), Core Outcome Set for Perinatal Venous ThromboEmbolism (COSPVenTE), Core Outcome set for studies on Vasa Previa (COVasP)
Mike Krznaric
Affiliation: President, International Vasa Previa Foundation
Project Involvement: Core Outcome set for studies on Vasa Previa (COVasP)
Dr. Stephen Lapinsky
Affiliation: Director of the Intensive Care Unit at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto; Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto; co-editor-in-chief for the journal of Obstetric Medicine
Project Involvement: Core Outcome Set for studies on Critically ill Obstetric patients (COSCO)
Dr. Ann Kinga Malinowski
Affiliation: Maternal-Fetal Medicine Physician at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto; Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Toronto; Clinician-Investigator at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute; Co-Director of the Hematology in Pregnancy Program
Project Involvement: Core outcome set for studies on Iron Deficiency Anemia in pregnancy (IDeA), Core Outcome Set for Perinatal Venous ThromboEmbolism (COSPVenTE), Core Outcome set for Perinatal Sickle cell disease (COPSickle), Core Outcome Set for Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura (COSIThroP)
Dr. Cynthia Maxwell
Affiliation: Maternal-Fetal Medicine Physician and Division Head at Mount Sinai Hospital
Project Involvement: Core Outcome Set for Studies on Obesity in Pregnant Patients (COSSOPP)
Dr. Janet Parsons
Affiliation: Scientist at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute; Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy at the University of Toronto; Associate, Graduate Department of Rehabilitation Science, University of Toronto
Project Involvement: Core Outcome Set for Studies on Obesity in Pregnant Patients (COSSOPP), Core Outcome Set for studies on Invasive Placentation (COSIP), Composite Adverse Obstetric Outcome Study (CAOOS)
Dr. Mathew Sermer
Affiliation: Chief of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Maternal-Fetal Medicine Physican at Mount Sinai Hospital and Medical Lead of the Women's & Infants' Centre of Excellence
Project Involvement: Core Outcome Set for studies on Cardiac disease in Pregnancy (COSCarP)
Dr. Candice Silversides
Affiliation: Cardiology at Toronto General Hospital, Health of Obstetric Medicine Division at Mount Sinai Hospital and Research Director and the Toronto Congenital Cardiac Centre for Adults
Project Involvement: Core Outcome Set for studies on Cardiac disease in Pregnancy (COSCarP)
Dr. Samuel Siu
Affiliation: Professor of Medicine and Cardiology at Schulic School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western Univeristy
Project Involvement: Core Outcome Set for studies on Cardiac disease in Pregnancy (COSCarP)
Dr. Julien Viau-Lapointe
Affiliation: Internist-Intensivist, Department of Medicine, Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
Project Involvement: Core Outcome Set for studies on Critically ill Obstetric patients (COSCO)
Dr. James Webbe
Affiliation: Clinical Research Fellow, Section of Neonatal Medicine, Imperial College London, UK
Project Involvement: Composite Adverse Obstetric Outcome Study (CAOOS), Core Outcomes In Neonatology (COIN)
Dr. Rory Windrim
Affiliation: Maternal-Fetal Medicine physician at Mount Sinai Hospital
Project Involvement: Core Outcome Set for Studies on Obesity in Pregnant Patients (COSSOPP)
Graduate Students
The following are in alphabetical order
Affiliation: MSc. (PhD direct transfer 2019) Institute of Medical Science (Collaborative Specialization in Women's Health), University of Toronto |
Affiliation: MSc Student, Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto |
Affiliation: First year of MSc. at the Institute of Medical Science (Collaborative Specialization in Women's Health), University of Toronto |
Affiliation: First year of MSc. at the Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto with a collaborative specialization in Women’s Health at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health |
Affiliation: University of Toronto, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation; Sunnybrook Research Institute, Department of Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Women and Babies Program |
Rachel Dadouch
Salman Hashim
Dylan Herman
Alexandria King
Susan O'RinnCollaborators
The following are in alphabetical order:
Affiliation: Research Assistant, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto |
Affiliation: First Year, Medicine, University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine |
Affiliation: Third Year Biomedical Science Student, York University |
Affiliation: Second Year, Medicine, University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine |
Affiliation: Second Year, Medicine, University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine |
Affiliation: First year, Medicine, University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine |
Affiliation: Final year, Medicine, University of Aberdeen School of Medicine and Dentistry (Scotland) |
Affiliation: First year, Master's Translational Research, Univeristy of Toronto Institute of Medical Science |
Affiliation: First year, Medicine, University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine |
Affiliation: University of Toronto, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology |
Affiliation: First Year Medical Resident, Obstetrics and Gynaecology with the University of Toronto |
Affiliation: Second Year, Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine |
Dr. Rizwana Ashraf
Susan Dong
Ariana Fathi
Chelsea Hall
Tommy Hana
Justin Lim
Kar Yee Lor
Ankita Pal
Yenah Seo
Dr. Meron Seyoum
Anna Shishkina
Linda Villani