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William Ghali

ResearcherCommunity Health SciencesUniversity of Calgary

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William Ghali

Researcher

Community Health Sciences

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.
2 publications in the last five years, latest in 2025.
Principal investigator on 15 research grants (9 CIHR, 3 SSHRC, 3 NSERC), most recently in 2024.
Supervised 3 trainees who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2017.

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Research

Social Determinants Of Health Edi Healthy Cities Physical Activity Walkability Data Analysis Data Visualization Health Data

Latest papers

A national curriculum and community of practice for health services and policy research training: Insights from the Health System Impact Fellowship National Cohort Training Program (HSIF NCTP)
Learning Health Systems · 2025
Training and experience of coding with the World Health Organization's International Classification of Diseases, Eleventh Revision.
Health information management : journal of the Health Information Management Association of Australia · 2023
Connect 2 Care, a Novel Community Outreach Program for Vulnerably Housed Patients With High Acute Care Use: A Mixed-Methods Study Protocol.
Frontiers in public health · 2021

All 19 publications

Latest funding

Research Support Fund | Fonds de soutien à la recherche
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$20,359,197
Research Support Fund | Fonds de soutien à la recherche
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$19,294,147
One Child Every Child: A Transformational Child Health Research Initiative
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$6,443,658

All 58 grants and awards

19 publications.

A national curriculum and community of practice for health services and policy research training: Insights from the Health System Impact Fellowship National Cohort Training Program (HSIF NCTP)

Marshall DA, Sidhu S, Oddone Paolucci E, Lopatina E, Gallant N, Manhas KP, McGrail K, Wasylak T, Zelinsky S, Bryan S

Learning Health Systems20252 citations

DOI: 10.1002/lrh2.70025

Training and experience of coding with the World Health Organization's International Classification of Diseases, Eleventh Revision.

Eastwood CA, Southern DA, Doktorchik C, Khair S, Cullen D, Boxill A, Maciszewski M, Varela LO, Ghali W, Moskal L, Quan H

Health information management : journal of the Health Information Management Association of Australia2023

DOI: 10.1177/18333583211038633 PMID: 34555947

Connect 2 Care, a Novel Community Outreach Program for Vulnerably Housed Patients With High Acute Care Use: A Mixed-Methods Study Protocol.

McBrien KA, Nguyen V, Garcia-Jorda D, Rondeau K, Polachek A, Kamran H, Lang E, Ghali W, Barnabe C, Braun T, McLane P, Milaney K, Ronksley PE, Salvalaggio G, Spackman E, Tang KL, Williamson T, Fabreau G

Frontiers in public health2021

DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.605695 PMID: 34692614

Erratum to "Human-centred design processes for clinical decision support: A pulmonary embolism case study" [Int. J. Med. Inf. (2020) 104196].

Babione JN, Ocampo W, Haubrich S, Yang C, Zuk T, Kaufman J, Carpendale S, Ghali W, Altabbaa G

International journal of medical informatics2021

DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2021.104417 PMID: 33637405

An international Delphi consensus study to define motivational communication in the context of developing a training program for physicians.

Dragomir AI, Boucher VG, Bacon SL, Gemme C, Szczepanik G, Corace K, Campbell TS, Vallis MT, Garber G, Rouleau C, Rabi D, Diodati JG, Ghali W, Lavoie KL

Translational behavioral medicine2021

DOI: 10.1093/tbm/ibaa015 PMID: 32145022

Human-centred design processes for clinical decision support: A pulmonary embolism case study.

Babione JN, Ocampo W, Haubrich S, Yang C, Zuk T, Kaufman J, Carpendale S, Ghali W, Altabbaa G

International journal of medical informatics2020

DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2020.104196 PMID: 32947115

Trajectories of perceived social support in acute coronary syndrome.

Wang M, Norris CM, Graham MM, Santana M, Liang Z, Awosoga O, Southern DA, James MT, Wilton SB, Quan H, Lu M, Ghali W, Knudtson M, Sajobi TT

Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation2019

DOI: 10.1007/s11136-018-02095-4 PMID: 30607784

Environmental scan of infection prevention and control practices for containment of hospital-acquired infectious disease outbreaks in acute care hospital settings across Canada.

Ocampo W, Geransar R, Clayden N, Jones J, de Grood J, Joffe M, Taylor G, Missaghi B, Pearce C, Ghali W, Conly J

American journal of infection control2017

DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2017.05.014 PMID: 28732739

The incremental benefit of EUS for identifying unresectable disease among adults with pancreatic adenocarcinoma: A meta-analysis.

James PD, Meng ZW, Zhang M, Belletrutti PJ, Mohamed R, Ghali W, Roberts DJ, Martel G, Heitman SJ

PloS one2017

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0173687 PMID: 28319148

The Association of Smoking and Surgery in Inflammatory Bowel Disease is Modified by Age at Diagnosis.

Frolkis AD, de Bruyn J, Jette N, Lowerison M, Engbers J, Ghali W, Lewis JD, Vallerand I, Patten S, Eksteen B, Barnabe C, Panaccione R, Ghosh S, Wiebe S, Kaplan GG

Clinical and translational gastroenterology2016

DOI: 10.1038/ctg.2016.21 PMID: 27101004

Research Support Fund | Fonds de soutien à la recherche

Principal investigatorSSHRC2024Research Support Fund

Principal investigators: Ghali, William

Keywords: Research Support Fund | Fonds de soutien à la recherche

$20,359,197

Research Support Fund | Fonds de soutien à la recherche

Principal investigatorSSHRC2023Research Support Fund

Principal investigators: Ghali, William

Keywords: Research Support Fund | Fonds de soutien à la recherche

$19,294,147

One Child Every Child: A Transformational Child Health Research Initiative

Principal investigatorNSERC2022Canada First Research Excellence Fund

Principal investigators: Ghali, William

$6,443,658

COVID-19 Evidence Network to support Decision-making (COVID-END) - Extension

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Operating Grant: COVID-19 Evidence Network to support Decision-making Extension

Principal investigators: Lavis, John N; Grimshaw, Jeremy M; Santesso, Nancy A; Smith, Maureen M; Tricco, Andrea C

Keywords: Clinical Management Of Covid-19 & Pandemic-Related Decisions; Covid-19; Economic And Social Responses To Covid-19; Evidence Synthesis; Health-System Arrangements For Covid-19; Knowledge Translation; Public-Health Measures To Prevent Covid-19; Stakeholder Engagement

$1,100,000

Bridging the divide between acute medical care and housing: A comprehensive evaluation of a "medical respite program" for the homeless

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Project Grant

Principal investigators: Tang, Karen L; Campbell, David J

Keywords: Acute Care Utilization; Complex Needs; Homelessness; Medical Respite Program; Patient-Reported Outcomes

$459,000

Building evidence for adopting a new disease classification system in Canadian primary care settings: a mixed methods feasibility study

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Project Grant

Principal investigators: Williamson, Tyler; Campbell, David J; Garies, Stephanie; McBrien, Kerry

Keywords: Administrative Data; Disease Classification System; Family Medicine; International Classification For Primary Care (Icpc); International Classification Of Diseases (Icd); Primary Care

$646,424

Generating EMR-Based Algorithms to Identify Hospital Adverse Events for Health System Performance Evaluation and Improvement

Co-investigatorCIHR2020Project Grant

Principal investigators: Xu, Yuan; Eastwood, Catherine A; Long, Quan; Zeng, Yong

Keywords: Adverse Events; Electronic Medical Records; Knowledge Translation; Machine Learning; Natural Language Processing; Patient Safety; System Performance

$1,189,576

CRCES-2020-1

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Canada Research Chairs - EDI Stipend

Principal investigators: Ghali, William

Keywords: CRCES-Unknown

$11,000

CRCES-2020-1

Principal investigatorNSERC2020Canada Research Chair EDI Stipend

Principal investigators: Ghali, William

$19,500

Improving physician competency in communication skills for behavior change counselling: The validation of a new digital assessment tool

Co-investigatorCIHR2020Project Grant

Principal investigators: Lavoie, Kim; Bacon, Simon L; Gauthier, Annick

Keywords: Behavior Change Counselling; Chronic Disease Prevention; Competency Assessments; Health Promotion; Health Services Research; Medical Education; Motivational Communication; Psychometric Validation; Quality Of Care; Tool Development

$294,525

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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William Ghali

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

A national curriculum and community of practice for health services and policy research training: Insights from the Health System Impact Fellowship National Cohort Training Program (HSIF NCTP)

Training and experience of coding with the World Health Organization's International Classification of Diseases, Eleventh Revision.

Connect 2 Care, a Novel Community Outreach Program for Vulnerably Housed Patients With High Acute Care Use: A Mixed-Methods Study Protocol.

Erratum to "Human-centred design processes for clinical decision support: A pulmonary embolism case study" [Int. J. Med. Inf. (2020) 104196].

An international Delphi consensus study to define motivational communication in the context of developing a training program for physicians.

Human-centred design processes for clinical decision support: A pulmonary embolism case study.

Trajectories of perceived social support in acute coronary syndrome.

Environmental scan of infection prevention and control practices for containment of hospital-acquired infectious disease outbreaks in acute care hospital settings across Canada.

The incremental benefit of EUS for identifying unresectable disease among adults with pancreatic adenocarcinoma: A meta-analysis.

The Association of Smoking and Surgery in Inflammatory Bowel Disease is Modified by Age at Diagnosis.

Research Support Fund | Fonds de soutien à la recherche

Research Support Fund | Fonds de soutien à la recherche

One Child Every Child: A Transformational Child Health Research Initiative

COVID-19 Evidence Network to support Decision-making (COVID-END) - Extension

Bridging the divide between acute medical care and housing: A comprehensive evaluation of a "medical respite program" for the homeless

Building evidence for adopting a new disease classification system in Canadian primary care settings: a mixed methods feasibility study

Generating EMR-Based Algorithms to Identify Hospital Adverse Events for Health System Performance Evaluation and Improvement

CRCES-2020-1

CRCES-2020-1

Improving physician competency in communication skills for behavior change counselling: The validation of a new digital assessment tool

Frequent collaborators

Doreen Rabi

Hude Quan

Nathalie Jette

Cheryl Barnabe

Doreen Rabi

Fiona Clement

Guanmin Chen

Tyler Williamson

Gabriel Fabreau

Greta Cummings

Brenda Hemmelgarn

Marcello Tonelli

Sandeep Aggarwal

Eldon Spackman

John Conly

Tracy Wasylak

Kathryn Todd

Shannon MacDonald

Patrick McLane

Malcolm King

Guillaume Martel

Tracy Wasylak

Katrina Milaney

Marcello Tonelli

Brenda Hemmelgarn

Ted Braun

Marcello Tonelli

Karen Tu

Scott Patten

Iwona Bielska

Christine Friedenreich

Stirling Bryan

Braden Manns