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Jeffrey Bakal

ResearcherFamily MedicineUniversity of Alberta

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Jeffrey Bakal

Researcher

Family Medicine

Health Sciences

University of Alberta

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
12 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 3 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 4 research grants (4 CIHR), most recently in 2024.
Supervised 1 trainee who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2025.

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Research

Deprescribing Electronic Usual Care Health Data Learning Healthcare System Novel Pragmatic Trial Methodology Patient Partners Polypharmacy Primary Care Provincial Health Data Custodian

Latest papers

Paramedic Perspectives on Managing Agitation in Older Adults: A Descriptive Mixed-Methods Cross-Sectional Survey in Alberta, Canada.
The Journal of emergency medicine · 2026
The relationship between prolonged emergency department (ED) wait times and short-term all-cause mortality: an analysis of multi-institutional administrative data in Alberta.
CJEM · 2025
Publicly funded healthcare costs associated with orofacial clefts for children born in Alberta, Canada between 2002 and 2018.
Birth defects research · 2024

All 19 publications

Latest funding

Addressing Health Inequities in Non-Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury: Enhancing Case-Finding Strategy to Quantify Burden and Guide Equitable Service Planning
CIHR · 2025 · Supervisor
$108,500
Community of Neurorehabilitation Networks for Engaged Care and Transformation (CONNECT) Alberta to improve the quality and equitable access of neurorehabilitation care and research
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$125,000
Precision health IDEAS (Inclusion/Diversity/Equity/Accessibility/Sustainability) for NeuroHIV: disrupted immunometabolism in the brain
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$20,000

All 10 grants and awards

19 publications.

Paramedic Perspectives on Managing Agitation in Older Adults: A Descriptive Mixed-Methods Cross-Sectional Survey in Alberta, Canada.

Shah FI, Lee R, Reich K, Crowder K, VandenBerg S, Schonnop R, Ismail Z, Lang E, Holroyd-Leduc J, Lee JS, McGillivray M, McLane P, Silvius JL, Ewa V, Bakal J, Seitz DP, Watt JA, Hoben M, Blanchard IE, Goodarzi Z

The Journal of emergency medicine2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2026.04.022 PMID: 42235087

The relationship between prolonged emergency department (ED) wait times and short-term all-cause mortality: an analysis of multi-institutional administrative data in Alberta.

Taghizadeh N, Bakal J, McLane P, Vigna M, Vigna C, McRae AD, Dowling S, Holroyd BR, Lang E

CJEM2025

DOI: 10.1007/s43678-025-00964-9 PMID: 40715992

Publicly funded healthcare costs associated with orofacial clefts for children born in Alberta, Canada between 2002 and 2018.

Bedard T, Lowry RB, Crawford S, Wang TG, Bakal J, Metcalfe A, Harrop AR, Grevers X, Thomas MA

Birth defects research2024

DOI: 10.1002/bdr2.2295 PMID: 38179866

Increased Prevalence of Adverse Health Outcomes Across the Lifespan in Those Affected by Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: A Canadian Population Cohort.

Vine D, Ghosh M, Wang T, Bakal J

CJC open2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.cjco.2023.12.010 PMID: 38487056

Symptomology following COVID-19 among adults in Alberta, Canada: an observational survey study.

Chen X, Norris C, Whitten T, Ho C, Mann B, Bakal J

BMJ open2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-078119 PMID: 38458800

Novel Application of the World Health Organization Community-Based Rehabilitation Matrix to Understand Services' Contributions to Community Participation for Persons With Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury: A Mixed-Methods Study.

Raha SS, Yip S, Ho C, Olayinka O, Peláez-Ballestas I, Rame-Montiel AK, MacIsaac R, Henderson R, Kovacs Burns K, Bakal J, Charbonneau R, Kamran R, Loyola-Sanchez A

American journal of physical medicine & rehabilitation2023

DOI: 10.1097/phm.0000000000002220 PMID: 36917031

Bedtime versus morning use of antihypertensives in frail continuing care residents (BedMed-Frail): protocol for a prospective, randomised, open-label, blinded end-point pragmatic trial.

Garrison SR, Youngson E, Perry DA, Campbell FN, Kolber MR, Korownyk C, Allan GM, Green L, Bakal J

BMJ open2023Senior author

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-074777 PMID: 37527898

Assessing the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the health of residents and the healthcare system in Alberta, Canada: an observational study-The Alberta POST-COVID Follow-up Study.

Chen X, Bakal J, Whitten T, Waldie B, Ho C, Wright P, Hassam S, Norris C

BMJ open2023

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-067449 PMID: 36806075

Tolerability of bedtime diuretics: a prospective cohort analysis

Garrison SR, Kelmer M, Korownyk T, Kolber MR, Allan GM, Bakal J, Singer A, Katz A, Mcalister F, Padwal RS

BMJ Open20237 citations

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-068188

Developing EMR-based algorithms to Identify hospital adverse events for health system performance evaluation and improvement: Study protocol.

Wu G, Eastwood C, Zeng Y, Quan H, Long Q, Zhang Z, Ghali WA, Bakal J, Boussat B, Flemons W, Forster A, Southern DA, Knudsen S, Popowich B, Xu Y

PloS one2022

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0275250 PMID: 36197944

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Jeffrey Bakal

Research

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Latest funding

Paramedic Perspectives on Managing Agitation in Older Adults: A Descriptive Mixed-Methods Cross-Sectional Survey in Alberta, Canada.

The relationship between prolonged emergency department (ED) wait times and short-term all-cause mortality: an analysis of multi-institutional administrative data in Alberta.

Publicly funded healthcare costs associated with orofacial clefts for children born in Alberta, Canada between 2002 and 2018.

Increased Prevalence of Adverse Health Outcomes Across the Lifespan in Those Affected by Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: A Canadian Population Cohort.

Symptomology following COVID-19 among adults in Alberta, Canada: an observational survey study.

Novel Application of the World Health Organization Community-Based Rehabilitation Matrix to Understand Services' Contributions to Community Participation for Persons With Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury: A Mixed-Methods Study.

Bedtime versus morning use of antihypertensives in frail continuing care residents (BedMed-Frail): protocol for a prospective, randomised, open-label, blinded end-point pragmatic trial.

Assessing the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the health of residents and the healthcare system in Alberta, Canada: an observational study-The Alberta POST-COVID Follow-up Study.

Tolerability of bedtime diuretics: a prospective cohort analysis

Developing EMR-based algorithms to Identify hospital adverse events for health system performance evaluation and improvement: Study protocol.

Frequent collaborators

Jeffrey Bakal

Colleen Norris

Chester Ho

Lee Green

Patrick McLane

Alexander Singer

Braden O’Neill

Michelle Greiver

Hude Quan

Finlay Mcalister

Kimberlyn McGrail

Derelie A Mangin

Rita Henderson

Eddy Lang

Yuan Xu

Kathryn Crowder

Matthias Hoben

Balraj Mann

Ian Paterson

Shawn Dowling

Rebecca Charbonneau

Katharina Kovacs Burns

Adalberto Loyola-Sanchez

Rita McCracken

Zahra Goodarzi

Finlay Mcalister

Todd Anderson

Jayna Holroyd-Leduc

Jayna Holroyd-Leduc

Donna Vine

Rita Henderson

Amy Metcalfe

Richard Lewanczuk

Braden Manns

Alan Katz

Alan Forster

Alvaro Osornio Vargas