selected scholarly activity
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conferences
- Asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Respiratory Tract Infections And Viruses: Admission Rates, Emergency Room Visits And Age. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 2017
- Rates Of Hospital Admission And Emergency Room Visits With Asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, And Respiratory Tract Infection Relative To Age And Season In Ontario, Canada. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 2017
- Does Neighbourhood Matter? A Study of Maternal Health Behaviours. Reproductive Sciences. 321A-321A. 2014
- Montelukast Added to Usual Therapy during the September Epidemic of Asthma Exacerbations in Children. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. S4-S4. 2007
- EVALUATION OF PUBLIC-HEALTH DEVELOPMENTAL SCREENING OF PRESCHOOL-CHILDREN - THE PROCESS AND OUTCOME OF A COMMUNITY PROGRAM. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology. 43-44. 1986
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journal articles
- Social determinants of health and sepsis: a case-control study. Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia. 71:1397-1405. 2024
- Associations between education policies and the geographic disposition of family physicians: a retrospective observational study of McMaster University education data. Advances in Health Sciences Education. 29:641-657. 2024
- Examining the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on community virus prevalence and healthcare utilisation reveals that peaks in asthma, COPD and respiratory tract infection occur with the re-emergence of rhino/enterovirus. Thorax. 78:1248-1253. 2023
- Understanding the influence of medical education on physician geographic disposition: A qualitative study of family physician perspectives in Canada. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 29:1261-1270. 2023
- Influence of age, sex and respiratory viruses on the rates of emergency department visits and hospitalisations with respiratory tract infections, asthma and COPD. ERJ Open Research. 7:00053-2021. 2021
- Emergency department visits and hospitalisations for asthma, COPD and respiratory tract infections: what is the role of respiratory viruses, and return to school in September, January and March?. ERJ Open Research. 6:00593-2020. 2020
- Prevalence and contribution of respiratory viruses in the community to rates of emergency department visits and hospitalizations with respiratory tract infections, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma. PLoS ONE. 15:e0228544-e0228544. 2020
- Relation between socioeconomic variables and surgical, systemic and radiation treatment in a cohort of patients with breast cancer in an urban Canadian centre. Canadian Journal of Surgery. 62:83-92. 2019
- Seasonal and geographic variations in the incidence of asthma exacerbations in the United States. Journal of Asthma. 54:818-824. 2017
- Colds as predictors of the onset and severity of COPD exacerbations. International Journal of COPD. Volume 12:839-848. 2017
- Detection of COPD Exacerbations and Compliance With Patient-Reported Daily Symptom Diaries Using a Smartphone-Based Information System. Chest. 144:507-514. 2013
- The Code Red Project: Engaging Communities in Health System Change in Hamilton, Canada. Social Indicators Research. 108:317-327. 2012
- The promise of electronic data capture in respiratory medicine. European Respiratory Journal. 37:228-230. 2011
- A probit- log- skew-normal mixture model for repeated measures data with excess zeros, with application to a cohort study of paediatric respiratory symptoms. BMC Medical Research Methodology. 10:55. 2010
- The Back to School asthma study: the effect of montelukast on asthma burden when initiated prophylactically at the start of the school year. Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. 105:174-181. 2010
- The Christmas Season as a Risk Factor for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbations. Canadian Respiratory Journal. 17:275-281. 2010
- Gender Differences in the Effectiveness of Asthma Treatment: In Reply. Pediatrics. 121:1289-1290. 2008
- The Similarities and Differences of Epidemic Cycles of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Asthma Exacerbations. Annals of the American Thoracic Society. 4:591-596. 2007
- Attenuation of the September Epidemic of Asthma Exacerbations in Children: A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Montelukast Added to Usual Therapy. Pediatrics. 120:e702-e712. 2007
- Understanding the September asthma epidemic. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 120:526-529. 2007
- The September epidemic of asthma exacerbations in children: A search for etiology (vol 115, pg 132, 2005). Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 120:365-365. 2007
- The September epidemic of asthma hospitalization: School children as disease vectors (vol 117, pg 557, 2006). Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 120:47-47. 2007
- Asthma exacerbations {middle dot} 1: Epidemiology. Thorax. 61:722-728. 2006
- The September epidemic of asthma hospitalization: School children as disease vectors. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 117:557-562. 2006
- The September epidemic of asthma exacerbations in children: A search for etiology. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 115:132-138. 2005
- Evaluation of public health preschool child developmental screening: the process and outcomes of a community program.. American Journal of Public Health. 77:45-51. 1987
- Biomedical Surveillance: Rights Conflict With Rights. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 28:958-965. 1986
- AUTHORS' REPLY. Annals of Work Exposures and Health. 29:524-526. 1985
- AUDIOMETRY—THE ULTIMATE TEST OF SUCCESS? <xref ref-type="fn" rid="fn1"><sup>*</sup></xref>. Annals of Work Exposures and Health. 27:427-447. 1983
- Randomized clinical trial of supportive follow-up for cigarette smokers in a family practice.. CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL. 126:127-129. 1982
- Relationship between Tissue Sensitization and IgE Antibody Production in Rats Infected with the Nematode, <i>Nippostrongylus brasiliensis</i>. International Archives of Allergy and Applied Immunology. 67:213-218. 1982
- Thymic mast cell deficiency in avian muscular dystrophy.. Thymus. 3:369-376. 1981
- Gut-associated lymphoid tissue in the chicken. I. Morphology, ontogeny, and some functional characteristics of Peyer's patches.. Journal of Immunology. 125:2626-2632. 1980
- Nippostrongylus brasiliensis: Mast cells and histamine levels in tissues of infected and normal rats. Experimental Parasitology. 48:1-8. 1979
- A morphologic study of rabbit bronchial lymphoid aggregates and lymphoepithelium.. Laboratory Investigation. 35:343-348. 1976
- Abolition of non-specific fluorescent staining of eosinophils. Immunotechnology : an international journal of immunological engineering. 4:189-194. 1974
- Bronchial lymphoid tissue. I. Morphologic characteristics.. Laboratory Investigation. 28:686-692. 1973
- Bronchial lymphoid tissue. II. Functional characterisitics.. Laboratory Investigation. 28:693-698. 1973