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Keith Ahamad

ResearcherFamily PracticeUniversity of British Columbia

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Keith Ahamad

Researcher

Family Practice

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.
6 publications in the last five years, latest in 2025.
Principal investigator on 1 research grant (1 CIHR), most recently in 2016.
Supervised 1 trainee who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2019.

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Research

Addiction Clinical Practice Guidelines Implementation Science Pragmatic Trials Randomized Controlled Clinical Trials Substance Use Disorders

Latest papers

Comparative Effectiveness of Buprenorphine/Naloxone and Methadone on Methamphetamine/Amphetamine Use Among People with Opioid Use Disorder in Canada.
Substance use & addiction journal · 2025
Associations of Methadone and BUP/NX Dose Titration Patterns With Retention in Treatment and Opioid Use in Individuals With Prescription-Type Opioid Use Disorder: Secondary Analysis of the OPTIMA Study.
Journal of addiction medicine · 2024
Pharmacogenetics of Biochemically Verified Abstinence in an Opioid Agonist Therapy Randomized Clinical Trial of Methadone and Buprenorphine/Naloxone.
Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics · 2024

All 33 publications

Latest funding

Optimizing strategies to identify patient risks of prescription opioid addiction when initiating opioids for pain
CIHR · 2019 · Co-investigator
$10,105
Evaluating the response to British Columbia's overdose crisis within Vancouver Coastal Health: Moving research into practice
CIHR · 2019 · Supervisor
$35,417
Implementation evaluation of barriers and facilitators to buprenorphine use in Canada using a behaviour change framework to identify effective strategies for change
CIHR · 2018 · Co-investigator
$99,965

All 8 grants and awards

33 publications.

Comparative Effectiveness of Buprenorphine/Naloxone and Methadone on Methamphetamine/Amphetamine Use Among People with Opioid Use Disorder in Canada.

Langlois J, Fairbairn N, Jutras-Aswad D, Le Foll B, Ahamad K, Lim R, Socías ME

Substance use & addiction journal2025

DOI: 10.1177/29767342241298044 PMID: 39614597

Associations of Methadone and BUP/NX Dose Titration Patterns With Retention in Treatment and Opioid Use in Individuals With Prescription-Type Opioid Use Disorder: Secondary Analysis of the OPTIMA Study.

Bakouni H, Haquet L, Socias ME, Le Foll B, Lim R, Ahamad K, Jutras-Aswad D, OPTIMA Research Group within the Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Misuse

Journal of addiction medicine2024

DOI: 10.1097/adm.0000000000001267 PMID: 38258865

Pharmacogenetics of Biochemically Verified Abstinence in an Opioid Agonist Therapy Randomized Clinical Trial of Methadone and Buprenorphine/Naloxone.

Kazi I, Chenoweth MJ, Jutras-Aswad D, Ahamad K, Socias ME, Le Foll B, Tyndale RF

Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics2024

DOI: 10.1002/cpt.3112 PMID: 38009933

Patient opinion and acceptance of emergency department buprenorphine/naloxone to-go home initiation packs.

Duncan K, Scheuermeyer F, Lane D, Ahamad K, Moe J, Dong K, Nolan S, Buxton J, Miles I, Johnson C, Christenson J, Whyte M, Daoust R, Garrod E, Badke K, Kestler A

CJEM2023

DOI: 10.1007/s43678-023-00568-1 PMID: 37606738

Associations of methadone and buprenorphine-naloxone doses with unregulated opioid use, treatment retention, and adverse events in prescription-type opioid use disorders: Exploratory analyses of the OPTIMA study.

Bakouni H, McAnulty C, Tatar O, Socias ME, Le Foll B, Lim R, Ahamad K, Jutras-Aswad D, OPTIMA Research Group within the Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Misuse

The American journal on addictions2023

DOI: 10.1111/ajad.13439 PMID: 37308805

Flexible Buprenorphine/Naloxone Model of Care for Reducing Opioid Use in Individuals With Prescription-Type Opioid Use Disorder: An Open-Label, Pragmatic, Noninferiority Randomized Controlled Trial.

Jutras-Aswad D, Le Foll B, Ahamad K, Lim R, Bruneau J, Fischer B, Rehm J, Wild TC, Wood E, Brissette S, Gagnon L, Fikowski J, Ledjiar O, Masse B, Socias ME, OPTIMA Research Group within the Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Misuse

The American journal of psychiatry2022

DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.21090964 PMID: 35702828

Building a hospital-based addiction medicine consultation service in Vancouver, Canada: the path taken and lessons learned.

Braithwaite V, Ti L, Fairbairn N, Ahamad K, McLean M, Harrison S, Wood E, Nolan S

Addiction (Abingdon, England)2021

DOI: 10.1111/add.15383 PMID: 33339073

Temporal changes in non-fatal opioid overdose patterns among people who use drugs in a Canadian setting.

Fairgrieve C, Nosova E, Milloy MJ, Fairbairn N, DeBeck K, Ahamad K, Wood E, Kerr T, Hayashi K

Substance abuse2020

DOI: 10.1080/08897077.2019.1677280 PMID: 32348197

Barriers and facilitators to buprenorphine use for opioid agonist treatment: protocol for a scoping review.

Leece P, Khorasheh T, Corace K, Strike C, Bayoumi AM, Taha S, Marks E, Pach B, Ahamad K, Grennell E, Holowaty M, Manson H, Straus SE

BMJ open2019

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-032285 PMID: 31843837

Successful Management of Gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB) Withdrawal Using Baclofen as a Standalone Therapy: A Case Report.

Habibian S, Ahamad K, McLean M, Socias ME

Journal of addiction medicine2019

DOI: 10.1097/adm.0000000000000514 PMID: 30907765

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Keith Ahamad

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Comparative Effectiveness of Buprenorphine/Naloxone and Methadone on Methamphetamine/Amphetamine Use Among People with Opioid Use Disorder in Canada.

Associations of Methadone and BUP/NX Dose Titration Patterns With Retention in Treatment and Opioid Use in Individuals With Prescription-Type Opioid Use Disorder: Secondary Analysis of the OPTIMA Study.

Pharmacogenetics of Biochemically Verified Abstinence in an Opioid Agonist Therapy Randomized Clinical Trial of Methadone and Buprenorphine/Naloxone.

Patient opinion and acceptance of emergency department buprenorphine/naloxone to-go home initiation packs.

Associations of methadone and buprenorphine-naloxone doses with unregulated opioid use, treatment retention, and adverse events in prescription-type opioid use disorders: Exploratory analyses of the OPTIMA study.

Flexible Buprenorphine/Naloxone Model of Care for Reducing Opioid Use in Individuals With Prescription-Type Opioid Use Disorder: An Open-Label, Pragmatic, Noninferiority Randomized Controlled Trial.

Building a hospital-based addiction medicine consultation service in Vancouver, Canada: the path taken and lessons learned.

Temporal changes in non-fatal opioid overdose patterns among people who use drugs in a Canadian setting.

Barriers and facilitators to buprenorphine use for opioid agonist treatment: protocol for a scoping review.

Successful Management of Gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB) Withdrawal Using Baclofen as a Standalone Therapy: A Case Report.

Frequent collaborators

Evan Wood

Seonaid Nolan

Thomas Kerr

Kanna Hayashi

Bernard Le Foll

Cheyenne Johnson

Jan Klimas

Nadia Fairbairn

Kora DeBeck

Andrew Kestler

Lianping Ti

Jane Buxton

Kanna Hayashi

Benedikt Fischer

Julio Montaner

Kimberly Corace

Raoul Daoust

Benoît Mâsse

Kathryn Dong

Scott Harrison

Pamela Leece

Jessica Moe

Mark Lysyshyn

Paxton Bach

Evan Wood

Eric Grafstein

Bernard Le Foll

Julie Bruneau

Raoul Daoust

Bohdan Nosyk

Heather Manson

Didier Jutras-Aswad

Carol Strike

Lindsey Richardson

Bohdan Nosyk

Benoît Mâsse