2026 GDipHR Program - Research Project Catalogue
The Graduate Diploma in Health Research (GDipHR) 2026 program is a 20-month research focused program grants a U of T diploma upon completion, alongside the MD degree. Faculty submitted projects are listed below. This list is for reference ONLY to give faculty and students a sense of the projects that are posted each year. Applications for the Winter 2026 admission cycle are now closed.
| Project # and Faculty Supervisor | SGS Department | Field of Research | Project Title | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Robert Hamilton | Institute of Medical Science (IMS) | Cardiovascular and Translational Research | Studies in Inherited, Congenital and Acquired Rhythm Disorders of the Heart | |
| 2. Gregory Costain | Molecular Genetics | Medical genetics | Assessing genetic diagnoses causing childhood diseases for individualized genetic medicine development | Student has been selected - project is no longer available |
| 3. Seema Mital | Institute of Medical Science (IMS) | Cardiac Precision Medicine | Cardiac Precision Medicine for childhood heart disease | Student has been selected - project is no longer available |
| 4. Peter Selby | Institute of Medical Science (IMS) | Substance Abuse, Addiction Treatment, Virtual Health Coaching, Smoking Cessation, Integrated Care, Implementation Science, Mixed Methods | Implementing Tobacco Addiction Treatment in Virtual Substance Use Treatment Programs | |
| 5. Don Redelmeier | Dalla Lana School of Public Health (DLSPH) | Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation | Long-term Outcomes after Helicopter Rescue for Life-Threatening Trauma | Student has been selected - project is no longer available |
| 6. Kamil Uludag | Medical Biophysics | MRI, Neuroscience, Clinical Applications | Precision Psychiatry: Leveraging 7-Tesla MRI for Tailored Neurosurgical Interventions | Student has been selected - project is no longer available |
| 7. Brian Raught | Medical Biophysics | Pediatric Leukemia, Leukemogenic Fusion Proteins and Proteomics | Characterization of oncogenic fusion proteins driving pediatric leukemias | |
| 8. Chung-Wai Chow | Institute of Medical Science (IMS) | Lung physiology, pulmonary function test, data science, machine learning | Development of machine learning algorithms to improve interpretation of pulmonary function tests | Student has been selected - project is no longer available |
| 9. Kellie Murphy | Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME) | Maternal Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology | Early Alloantibody Titres and Risk of Severe Haemolytic Disease of the Fetus and Newborn (HDNF) | Student has been selected - project is no longer available |
| 10. Michael Fehlings | Institute of Medical Science (IMS) | Neuroscience - Spinal Cord Injury | Examining the molecular mechanisms of neural inflammation in nontraumatic spinal cord injury: From bench to bedside | Student has been selected - project is no longer available |
| 11. Mark Boulos | Institute of Medical Science (IMS) | Sleep Neurology, Stroke, clinical trials | Using Cannabis to Treat Restless Legs Syndrome: A Randomized Placebo Controlled Pilot Safety and Feasibility Trial | Student has been selected - project is no longer available |
| 12. Lisa Hawke | Dalla Lana School of Public Health (DLSPH) | Youth mental health, patient engagement in research | Advancing the science of patient-oriented research: A qualitative descriptive study | |
| 13. Rachel Soyoun Kim | Institute of Medical Science (IMS) | Cancer, genomics, gynaecological malignancies | From gaps to genomics: mapping current diagnostic practices and advancing circulating tumour DNA approaches for uterine sarcoma | Student has been selected - project is no longer available |
| 14. Darrell Tan | Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME) | HIV prevention | Planning for Long-acting ANtiretrovirals as HIV Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (PLAN PEP) - Community interviews | |
| 15. Andrea Waddell | Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME) | Artificial Intelligence and Safer Mental Health Care | Clinical effectiveness of a machine learning based alert to detect psychiatric deterioration in acute inpatient mental health settings. | Student has been selected - project is no longer available |
| 16. Tom Waddell | Institute of Medical Science (IMS) | Lung Regenerative Medicine | Evaluation of immune evading pluripotent stem cells in an ex vivo human lung model of Pulmonary Fibrosis | Student has been selected - project is no longer available |
| 17. Istvan Mucsi | Institute of Medical Science (IMS) | Solid organ transplantation/outcomes research/patient-reported outcomes/health equity | Electronic patient-reported outcome measures to guide systematic symptom and distress management among solid organ transplant recipients | Student has been selected - project is no longer available |
| 18. Dmitry Rozenberg | Institute of Medical Science (IMS) | Respirology; Pulmonary Rehabilitation | Understanding the Impact of Cognitive Function in those with Chronic Lung Disease on Daily Function and Quality of Life: A Qualitative Study | Student has been selected - project is no longer available |
| 19. Bernard Le Foll | Institute of Medical Science (IMS) | Addiction | Secondary analysis of data base | |
| 20. Marianne Saragosa | Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME) | Health Services | Leveraging Local Data to Improve Identification and Support of Patients at Risk of ALC | |
| 21. Eyal Cohen | Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME) | Children with Medical Complexity | Understanding Children with Medical Complexity Transitioning from Paediatric to Adult Care in a Children’s Hospital Using an EMR-Sourced Data Repository | Student has been selected - project is no longer available |
| 22. David Lim | Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME) | Breast cancer clinical research | Long-term oncologic safety of nipple sparing mastectomy in women with high penetrance germline pathogenic variants in breast cancer susceptibility genes | Student has been selected - project is no longer available |
| 23. Gavin Wilson and Jonathan Yeung | Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology | Cancer Genomics | Integrating Clinical Data with Esophageal Adenocarcinoma Multi-Omic Profiling | |
| 24. Lianne Jeffs | Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME) | Health systems research | Realist Evaluation of the Implementation of the Compassionate Care Intervention Bundle | Student has been selected - project is no longer available |
| 25. Tulin Cil | Institute of Medical Science (IMS) | Breast Cancer/Medical Education/Surgical Innovation/Global Health/Health Equity | THE EMPRESS TRIAL: the Effect of Mental Practice and Rehearsal on Emotion, Stress & Surgery | Student has been selected - project is no longer available |
| 26. Andrew Lim | Institute of Medical Science (IMS) | AI, Sleep, Dementia, Genomics, Neuroscience, Wearable Technologies | Closed Loop Auditory Stimulation of the Human Sleep EEG to Improve Sleep and Cognitive Function | |
| 27. Sanjeev Kumar | Institute of Medical Science (IMS) | Cognitive disorders | Examine Cortical Inhibition in Alzheimer's disease and its relevance for neuropsychiatric symptoms of the illness. | |
| 28. Tereza Martinu | Institute of Medical Science (IMS) | Lung transplant translational research | Pulmonary bile acid signature as a diagnostic tool to detect aspiration and predict chronic rejection in lung transplant recipients | |
| 29. Suze Berkhout | Institute for the History & Philosophy of Science & Technology | Implementation science and education scholarship; artificial intelligence | Capacity Building to Collaboratively Address Equity Challenges in Liver Transplantation | Student has been selected - project is no longer available |
| 30. Noah Ivers (Co-supervisors: Nadia Alam and Lyn Sibley) | Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME) | Primary care and health systems research | Strengthening primary care: an evaluation of interdisciplinary team structures and patient outcomes in Ontario, Canada |