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Colin Dormuth

ResearcherAnesthesiology, Pharmacology and TherapeuticsUniversity of British Columbia

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Colin Dormuth

Researcher

Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Health Sciences

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
11 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 6 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 7 research grants (7 CIHR), most recently in 2025.
Supervised 1 trainee who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2025.

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Research

Diabetes Management Medication Effectiveness Prediabetes Drug Utilization Research Medication Safety Risk Communication Antidiabetic Medications Prevention Of Diabetes Related Complications

Latest papers

DSM-5 Changes, COVID-19, and ADHD Diagnosis Rates in Individuals Younger Than 30 Years.
JAMA network open · 2026 · senior author
Estimating prevalence and predictors of glucose-lowering overtreatment among older adults with type 2 diabetes in long-term care and community settings: a machine learning-based cohort study.
BMJ open · 2026 · senior author
Use of sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors among older adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus in British Columbia.
Diabetes, obesity & metabolism · 2026

All 18 publications

Latest funding

People with Prediabetes and Mild Diabetes: management and outcomes (PPreMild DM study)
CIHR · 2025 · Principal investigator
$416,924
Measuring the impact of pharmacist minor ailments prescribing policy on health system burden
CIHR · 2025 · Supervisor
$140,000
Safety Advisories Framework for Effective Risk communication - Phase 2 (SAFER-2)
CIHR · 2024 · Nominated PI
$753,524

All 13 grants and awards

18 publications.

DSM-5 Changes, COVID-19, and ADHD Diagnosis Rates in Individuals Younger Than 30 Years.

Cui Z, Ambasta A, Thompson W, Bassett K, Carney G, Dormuth C

JAMA network open2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2026.5775 PMID: 41949868

Estimating prevalence and predictors of glucose-lowering overtreatment among older adults with type 2 diabetes in long-term care and community settings: a machine learning-based cohort study.

Carney G, Burnett S, Ambasta A, Thompson W, Lapp L, Dormuth C

BMJ open2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-106707 PMID: 41840748

Use of sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors among older adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus in British Columbia.

Harbi H, Carney G, Dormuth C, Stidsen JV, Lega I, McCarthy LM, Grenet G, Ambasta A, Eskandari R, Pottegård A, Thompson W

Diabetes, obesity & metabolism2026

DOI: 10.1111/dom.70375 PMID: 41388639

Barriers and facilitators to reducing overuse of thyroid function testing: a mixed-methods study.

Chapman AJ, Khan A, Thompson J, Curran V, Otte J, Ghaznavi S, Carney G, Campbell K, Lam V, Saunders C, Bassett K, Dormuth C, Kuo IF, Ambasta A

BMJ quality & safety2025

DOI: 10.1136/bmjqs-2025-019042 PMID: 41047230

Use of prescription opioids and other psychotropic drugs during pregnancy and their impact on the mother and developing child: protocol for a cohort study using linked administrative data from Manitoba and British Columbia, Canada.

Singal D, Dahl L, Brownell M, Dormuth C, Bolton JM, Enns JE, Hanlon-Dearman A, Katz A, Katz LY, Kelly LE, Leong C, McGrail K, Nickel NC, Ruth C, Dahl M, Kim J, Chateau D

BMJ open2025

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-097657 PMID: 40316364

Pragmatic randomised trial assessing the impact of peer comparison and therapeutic recommendations, including repetition, on antibiotic prescribing patterns of family physicians across British Columbia for uncomplicated lower urinary tract infections.

Carney G, Maclure M, Patrick DM, Otte J, Ambasta A, Thompson W, Dormuth C

BMJ quality & safety2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1136/bmjqs-2024-017296 PMID: 39414374

Changes in Sedative Use in British Columbia, Canada from 2012 to 2021: A Drug Utilization Study.

Thompson W, Kim JD, Carney G, Otte J, Dormuth C

Journal of general internal medicine2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1007/s11606-024-09065-2 PMID: 39414735

Evaluation of audit and feedback to family physicians on prescribing of opioid analgesics to opioid-naïve patients: A pragmatic randomized delay trial.

McCracken RK, Narayan S, Maclure M, Cooper I, Cui Z, Cullen W, Dormuth C, Hamilton MA, Nolan S, Singer J, Socías ME, Wong S, Klimas J

Contemporary clinical trials2023

DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2023.107354 PMID: 37802223

Dyslipidemia in Muscular Dystrophy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Sun Z, Wang X, White Z, Dormuth C, Morales F, Bernatchez P

Journal of neuromuscular diseases2023

DOI: 10.3233/jnd-230064 PMID: 37182897

The Impact of Mandatory Nonmedical Switching From Originator to Biosimilar Insulin Glargine.

Fisher A, Kim JD, Dormuth C

Clinical therapeutics2022Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.clinthera.2022.05.003 PMID: 35691731

People with Prediabetes and Mild Diabetes: management and outcomes (PPreMild DM study)

Principal investigatorCIHR2025Project Grant

Principal investigators: Ambasta, Anshula; Butalia, Sonia; Dormuth, Colin R; Lega, Iliana C; Thompson, Wade

Keywords: Antidiabetic Medications; Diabetes Management; Medication Effectiveness; Prediabetes; Prevention Of Diabetes Related Complications

$416,924

Measuring the impact of pharmacist minor ailments prescribing policy on health system burden

SupervisorCIHR2025Canada Postdoctoral Research Award (CPRA) program

Principal investigators: Chan, Fiona K

Keywords: Health Equity; Health Services Research; Interrupted Time Series; Observational Study; Pharmacy Services; Primary Care

$140,000

Safety Advisories Framework for Effective Risk communication - Phase 2 (SAFER-2)

Nominated PICIHR2024Project Grant

Principal investigators: Dormuth, Colin R; Mintzes, Barbara J; Otte, Jessica

Keywords: Co-Design; Drug Utilization Research; Focus Groups; Knowledge Translation Exchange; Medication Safety; Quality Improvement; Risk Communication

$753,524

People with Prediabetes and Mild Diabetes: characteristics, management and outcomes

Principal investigatorCIHR2022Project Grant - PA: Patient-Oriented Research: Early-Career Investigator

Principal investigators: Ambasta, Anshula; Butalia, Sonia; Dormuth, Colin R; Lega, Iliana C; Thompson, Wade

Keywords: Diabetes Management; Diabetes Prevention; Early Or Mild Diabetes; Glucose Lowering Agents; Medication Effectiveness; Prediabetes

$100,000

Reducing unsafe prescribing of prescription opioid medications to opioid nai¨ve patients

Co-investigatorCIHR2020Project Grant

Principal investigators: McCracken, Rita; Wood, Evan

Keywords: Academic Detailing; Behavioural Nudges; Decision Support Tool; Health Administrative Data; Opioid Overdose; Opioid Use Disorder/Addiction; Peer Comparison Letter; Public Health; Safer Prescribing; Training And Education

$481,950

What works best to protect public health? An international comparison of post-market regulatory risk communication on prescription drugs

Nominated PICIHR2016Project Grant

Principal investigators: Dormuth, Colin R; Mintzes, Barbara J; Sketris, Ingrid S

Keywords: Drug Utilization Research; International Comparison; Key Informant Interviews; Medication Safety; Pharmacoepidemiology; Regulatory Policy; Risk Communication; Systematic Review

$1,158,976

Surgery Quality Outcome Reports (SQORs): low-cost evaluation and spread of a surgery outcomes improvement program

Co-investigatorCIHR2013Partnerships for Health System Improvement (PHSI)

Principal investigators: Preston, Roanne L; Cochrane, David D

Keywords: Epidemiologic Methods; Hospital Acquired Infections; Knowledge Translation; Quality Improvement; Surgery Outcomes

$399,500

Psychotropic drug use in pregnancy: patterns of use and neonatal and infant health outcomes

Co-investigatorCIHR2011Catalyst Grant: Post Market Drug Safety and Effectiveness

Principal investigators: Mintzes, Barbara J

Keywords: Administrative Database Analysis; Antidepressants; Anxiolytics/Sedatives; Atypical Antipsychotics; Cohort Analysis; Infant Outcomes; Nested Case-Control Analysis; Perinatal Health; Prescription Drug Use; Stimulants

$94,041

Optimum Prescribing Updates and Support (OPUS) Action-Period Tools

Co-investigatorCIHR2011Operating Grant: Knowledge to Action

Principal investigators: Maclure, Malcolm; White, Keith J

Keywords: Action Cycle; Action Research; Controlled Time Series Analysis; Educational Interventions; Institutional Ethnography; Integrated Knowledge Exchange; Knowledge Translation; Optimal Prescribing; Primary Health Care Renewal; Qualitative Methods

$199,900

Multiple lines of evidence on the long term impacts of antipyschotic exposure on height, weight, BMI, and educational attainment developed using propensity score matched comparison groups and instrumental variables

Co-investigatorCIHR2011Catalyst Grant: Post Market Drug Safety and Effectiveness

Principal investigators: Maclure, Malcolm; Panagiotopoulos, Constadina

Keywords: Administrative Data; Antipsychotic Medications; Child & Adolescent Psychiatry; Drug Effectiveness; Drug Safety; High-Dimensional Propensity Scores; Metabolic Effects; Pharmacoepidemiology

$97,900

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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Colin Dormuth

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

DSM-5 Changes, COVID-19, and ADHD Diagnosis Rates in Individuals Younger Than 30 Years.

Estimating prevalence and predictors of glucose-lowering overtreatment among older adults with type 2 diabetes in long-term care and community settings: a machine learning-based cohort study.

Use of sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors among older adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus in British Columbia.

Barriers and facilitators to reducing overuse of thyroid function testing: a mixed-methods study.

Use of prescription opioids and other psychotropic drugs during pregnancy and their impact on the mother and developing child: protocol for a cohort study using linked administrative data from Manitoba and British Columbia, Canada.

Pragmatic randomised trial assessing the impact of peer comparison and therapeutic recommendations, including repetition, on antibiotic prescribing patterns of family physicians across British Columbia for uncomplicated lower urinary tract infections.

Changes in Sedative Use in British Columbia, Canada from 2012 to 2021: A Drug Utilization Study.

Evaluation of audit and feedback to family physicians on prescribing of opioid analgesics to opioid-na&#xef;ve patients: A pragmatic randomized delay trial.

Dyslipidemia in Muscular Dystrophy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

The Impact of Mandatory Nonmedical Switching From Originator to Biosimilar Insulin Glargine.

Frequent collaborators

Wade Thompson

Anshula Ambasta

Jessica Otte

Jan Klimas

Paul Khairy

Anshula Ambasta

Iliana Lega

Richard Morrow

Vernon Curran

Seonaid Nolan

Anne Marie Holbrook

Sabrina Wong

Alan Katz

Kimberlyn McGrail

Connie Marras

Lucie Blais

Pascal Bernatchez

Christel Renoux

Ana Hanlon-Dearman

Russell Steele

Marni Brownell

Kendall Ho

Charity Evans

Evaluation of audit and feedback to family physicians on prescribing of opioid analgesics to opioid-naïve patients: A pragmatic randomized delay trial.