2026 GDipHR Program - Research Project Catalogue
The Graduate Diploma in Health Research (GDipHR) 2026 program is now open to applicants. This 20-month research focused program grants a U of T diploma upon completion, alongside the MD degree. Faculty submitted projects are listed below. To learn more about a specific project, please go to our Sharepoint folder to view the original project submission form (listed numerically to correspond with the supervisor list below).
Once you have identified which projects you would like to work on, please reach out to the prospective supervisor(s) to discuss potential projects. Each supervisor may only support one student's application.
If you have a supervisor with a School of Graduate Studies appointment that you are interested in working with that is not listed below, please contact the GDipHR office at gdip.hres@utoronto.ca by October 28, 2025, so we can verify the supervisor's eligibility prior to the application deadline.
| 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 | robert.hamilton@sickkids.ca |
| 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 | seema.mital@sickkids.ca |
| 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 | peter.selby@camh.ca |
| 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 | brian.raught@uhn.ca |
| 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 | cw.chow@utoronto.ca |
| 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) | kellie.murphy@sinaihealth.ca |
| 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 | lisa.hawke@camh.ca |
| 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 | darrell.tan@gmail.com |
| 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. | awaddell@waypointcentre.ca |
| 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 | istvan.mucsi@utoronto.ca |
| 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 | Dmitry.Rozenberg@uhn.ca |
| 19. Bernard Le Foll | Institute of Medical Science (IMS) | Addiction | Secondary analysis of data base | bernard.lefoll@camh.ca |
| 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 | marianne.saragosa@sinaihealth.ca |
| 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 | eyal.cohen@sickkids.ca |
| 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 | David.Lim@wchospital.ca |
| 23. Gavin Wilson and Jonathan Yeung | Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology | Cancer Genomics | Integrating Clinical Data with Esophageal Adenocarcinoma Multi-Omic Profiling | gavin.wilson@uhn.ca jonathan.yeung@uhn.ca |
| 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 | tulin.cil@uhn.ca |
| 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 | andrew.lim@utoronto.ca |
| 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. | Sanjeev.kumar@camh.ca |
| 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 | tereza.martinu@uhn.ca |
| 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 | suze.berkhout@uhn.ca |
| 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 | noah.ivers@wchospital.ca nadia.alam@icloud.com lyn.sibley@oma.org |