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Cheryl Barnabe

ResearcherMedicineUniversity of Calgary

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Cheryl Barnabe

Researcher

Medicine

Health Sciences

University of Calgary

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
80 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 19 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 15 research grants (15 CIHR), most recently in 2026.
Supervised 4 trainees who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2021.

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Academic metrics

194

Publications

368

Citations

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160

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Grants

Publications by year

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Research

Health Services Research Primary Care Arthritis Indigenous Health Psoriatic Arthritis Rheumatoid Arthritis Indigenous Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

Latest papers

Understanding the Effect of Meeting Performance Measures on the Outcomes of Joint Replacement in Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Population-Based Study in British Columbia, Canada.
The Journal of rheumatology · 2026
What Affects Care Complexity in Rheumatoid Arthritis? An Integrative Review of Complexity Domains and Associated Patient and Health System Outcomes.
The Journal of rheumatology · 2026
The Development of Rheumatoid Arthritis-Specific Ambulatory Care-Sensitive Conditions: Results of a Consensus Process.
Arthritis care & research · 2026 · senior author

All 194 publications

Latest funding

RAAISE: Rapid Access to Autoimmune Testing in Indigenous Communities for SystEmic Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases
CIHR · 2026 · Co-investigator
$1,438,200
Measuring what Matters Most: Integrating Patient-Reported Outcome Measures into the Alberta Rheumatology Provincial Learning Health System
CIHR · 2026 · Co-investigator
$340,426
Implementing Electronic Health Record-based social determinants of health risk factor screening and intervention in rheumatology care
CIHR · 2026 · Principal investigator
$348,074

All 43 grants and awards

From the 150 most recent of 194 publications.

Understanding the Effect of Meeting Performance Measures on the Outcomes of Joint Replacement in Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Population-Based Study in British Columbia, Canada.

Barber CEH, Xie H, Zheng Y, Widdifield J, Barnabe C, Werle J, Lacaille D

The Journal of rheumatology2026

DOI: 10.3899/jrheum.2026-0352 PMID: 42542377

What Affects Care Complexity in Rheumatoid Arthritis? An Integrative Review of Complexity Domains and Associated Patient and Health System Outcomes.

Dhiman K, Russell O, Hill C, Hoens AM, Crump T, Zafar S, Lacaille D, Ester M, Stiegelmar C, Barnabe C, Szpunar M, Sipley M, Katz S, Rankin J, Hazlewood G, Barber CEH

The Journal of rheumatology2026

DOI: 10.3899/jrheum.2026-0088 PMID: 42457353

The Development of Rheumatoid Arthritis-Specific Ambulatory Care-Sensitive Conditions: Results of a Consensus Process.

Irwin K, Feldman CH, Barber CEH, Fabreau G, Jennings J, Patten S, Barnabe C, Inflammatory Arthritis‐Specific ACSC Consensus Process Working Group

Arthritis care & research2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1002/acr.80135 PMID: 42573199

Evaluating Care Complexity in Inflammatory Arthritis: A Population-Based Approach Using Classification and Regression Tree Analysis to Examine Health Care Utilization.

Sipley M, Aquino C, Crump T, Barnabe C, Hazlewood G, Barber CEH, Holodinsky JK

ACR open rheumatology2026

DOI: 10.1002/acr2.90134 PMID: 42634488

Hospital admissions for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions among people with gout and other crystal arthropathies in Alberta, Canada: a population-based matched cohort study.

Contreras DG, Barber CEH, Barnabe C

Lancet regional health. Americas2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.lana.2026.101635 PMID: 42741609

Emergency department encounters' impacts on First Nations members, families and communities: Results of a thematic analysis of sharing circles in three treaty areas.

McLane P, Bill L, Rittenbach K, Barnabe C, Holroyd BR, Big Plume T, Janvier K, Louis E, Neri D, Healy B

Social science & medicine (1982)2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119381 PMID: 42176676

Rheumatology Care Among Indigenous Populations.

Barnabe C

Rheumatic diseases clinics of North America2026First author

DOI: 10.1016/j.rdc.2026.02.005 PMID: 42097722

Intersecting Social Identities and Health in Arthritis: A Latent Class Analysis of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging.

Thomas MM, Sayre EC, Harrison M, Barnabe C, Ronquillo CE, Avina-Zubieta JA, Samson A, Kuluva M, Trehan N, Bhatti N, De Vera MA

ACR open rheumatology2026

DOI: 10.1002/acr2.90038 PMID: 42055048

Moving Equity into Practice: Evaluation of an Online Asynchronous Continuing Medical Education Program for Rheumatology Care.

Sauve E, Hazlewood G, Pianarosa E, Thomas M, Johnson N, Fifi-Mah A, Henry R, Lane T, Kuluva M, Koehn C, English K, Hassen N, Kleissen T, Lacaille D, Barnabe C

Journal of medical education and curricular development2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1177/23821205261443553 PMID: 41993965

Examining emergency department utilisation in people with Crystal Arthropathies: a 10-year analysis of visits in a publicly funded universal healthcare system.

Sauer L, Contreras DG, McLane P, Barber CEH, Elliott MJ, Chomistek K, Lin K, McQuitty S, Davidson E, Hildebrandt C, Katz S, Lang E, Holroyd BR, Barnabe C

EULAR rheumatology open2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.ero.2026.01.007 PMID: 42370121

RAAISE: Rapid Access to Autoimmune Testing in Indigenous Communities for SystEmic Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases

Co-investigatorCIHR2026Project Grant

Principal investigators: Choi, May Y; Mosher, Dianne P

Keywords: Autoantibodies; Autoimmune Diagnostics; Barriers To Care; Biomarkers; Delibrative Dialogue; Dried Blood Spots; Epidemiology; Indigenous Health; Saliva; Systemic Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases

$1,438,200

Measuring what Matters Most: Integrating Patient-Reported Outcome Measures into the Alberta Rheumatology Provincial Learning Health System

Co-investigatorCIHR2026Project Grant

Principal investigators: Barber, Claire E; Bartlett, Susan J

Keywords: Implementation Science; Patient-Reported Outcome Measures; Rheumatoid Arthritis

$340,426

Implementing Electronic Health Record-based social determinants of health risk factor screening and intervention in rheumatology care

Principal investigatorCIHR2026Project Grant

Principal investigators: Barber, Claire E; Adhikari Dahal, Kamala; Barnabe, Cheryl C

Keywords: Electronic Health Records; Optimizing Care Quality; Rheumatology; Screening And Intervention; Social Determinants Of Health

$348,074

You-CAN (Youth Concussion Awareness Network) SHRed Concussions (Surveillance in High School and Community Sport to Reduce Concussions and their Consequences): Canadian Youth Informing Best Practice and Policy in the Prevention of Sport-related Concussions

Co-investigatorCIHR2025Team Grant: Healthy Youth

Principal investigators: Emery, Carolyn A; Fuselli, Pamela A; Paulgaard, Julia R; Babul, Shelina; Belton, Kathy L; Macpherson, Alison; Mchugh, Tara-Leigh; Moore, Sarah A; Ramsay, Scott; Reed, Nicholas; Russell, Kelly F; Schneider, Kathryn J

Keywords: Concussion; Epidemiology; Injury; Mixed-Methods; Peer-Support; Prevention; Risk Factors; Sport; Surveillance; Youth

$1,500,000

Arthritis Liaison: a First Nations community-based patient care facilitator

Nominated PICIHR2025CIHR-IMHA Inclusive Research Excellence Prizes-Indigenous Health Research

Principal investigators: Barnabe, Cheryl C

Keywords: Arthritis; Community Engaged Research; Health Services Research; Indigenous Health; Qualitative Research

$25,000

A randomized trial of a Decision-Aid for Tapering Advanced therapy in Rheumatoid Arthritis (DATA-RA)

Co-investigatorCIHR2025Project Grant

Principal investigators: Hazlewood, Glen S; Wells, George A

Keywords: Decision Aid; Deprescribing; Patient Preferences; Pragmatic Trials; Randomized Controlled Trial; Rheumatoid Arthritis

$654,075

IIA-PATH (Indigenous Inflammatory Arthritis Prevention And Treatment Approaches for Health Equity)

Nominated PICIHR2024Team Gr.: Embr. Diversity to Achieve Precision/Health Equity-Infection/Immunity

Principal investigators: Barnabe, Cheryl C; Fox, Terri-Lynn; Montesanti, Stephanie R; O'Neil, Liam J; Roach, Pamela Marie

Keywords: Health Services Research; Implementation Research; Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis; Models Of Care; Prevention Trial; Psoriatic Arthritis; Rheumatoid Arthritis; Screening; Shared Decision Making; Spondyloarthritis

$2,000,000

Indigenous Inflammatory Arthritis Prevention And Treatment approaches for Health equity (IIA-PATH)

Nominated PICIHR2024Team Gr.: Emb. Diversity to Achieve Precision/Health Eq-Infection & Immunity-LOI

Principal investigators: Barnabe, Cheryl C; Fox, Terri-Lynn; Montesanti, Stephanie R; O'Neil, Liam J; Roach, Pamela Marie

Keywords: Environmental Risk Factors; First Nations People; Health Services Research; Indigenous Health Research; Inflammatory Arthritis; Metis People; Pre-Clinical Disease Detection; Proteomics; Shared Decision Making; Wellness

$20,000

Canada Research Chair - Tier 2

Nominated PICIHR2023Canada Research Chairs - CIHR Funded - Tier 2

Principal investigators: Barnabe, Cheryl C

Keywords: Crc

$500,000

OsNET: The Canadian Bone Health Research Network

Co-investigatorCIHR2023Network Grants in Skin Health, Bone Health, and Muscular Dystrophy - Bone Health

Principal investigators: Boyd, Steven K; Cheung, Angela M; Morin, Suzanne N

Keywords: Advanced Imaging; Bone Health; Clinical Guidelines; Diagnostics; Fracture Prediction; Knowledge Transfer; Musculoskeletal; Network; Personalized Medicine; Research

$1,200,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Cheryl Barnabe

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Understanding the Effect of Meeting Performance Measures on the Outcomes of Joint Replacement in Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Population-Based Study in British Columbia, Canada.

What Affects Care Complexity in Rheumatoid Arthritis? An Integrative Review of Complexity Domains and Associated Patient and Health System Outcomes.

The Development of Rheumatoid Arthritis-Specific Ambulatory Care-Sensitive Conditions: Results of a Consensus Process.

Evaluating Care Complexity in Inflammatory Arthritis: A Population-Based Approach Using Classification and Regression Tree Analysis to Examine Health Care Utilization.

Hospital admissions for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions among people with gout and other crystal arthropathies in Alberta, Canada: a population-based matched cohort study.

Emergency department encounters' impacts on First Nations members, families and communities: Results of a thematic analysis of sharing circles in three treaty areas.

Rheumatology Care Among Indigenous Populations.

Intersecting Social Identities and Health in Arthritis: A Latent Class Analysis of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging.

Moving Equity into Practice: Evaluation of an Online Asynchronous Continuing Medical Education Program for Rheumatology Care.

Examining emergency department utilisation in people with Crystal Arthropathies: a 10-year analysis of visits in a publicly funded universal healthcare system.

Frequent collaborators

Diane Lacaille

Dianne Mosher

Glen Hazlewood

Rita Henderson

Pamela Roach

Patrick McLane

Peter Tugwell

Lea Bill

Diane Lacaille

Lynden Crowshoe

Adalberto Loyola-Sanchez

Sasha Bernatsky

Rita Henderson

Jessica Widdifield

Lynden Crowshoe

Sasha Bernatsky

Adam Murry

Stephanie Montesanti

Janet Pope

Pamela Roach

Brenda Hemmelgarn

Claire Bombardier

Deborah Marshall

Andrea Kennedy

Mark Harrison

Susanne Benseler

Arnav Agarwal

Margaret Larche

Michal Abrahamowicz

Vivian Welch

Stephanie Keeling

Marie Hudson

Heinrike Schmeling

Claire Barber

Scott Patten

Derek Allan Haaland

Michelle Batthish

Holger Schunemann

Richard Lester

Hude Quan