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Kimberlyn McGrail

ResearcherEmergency MedicineUniversity of British Columbia

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Kimberlyn McGrail

Researcher

Emergency Medicine

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.
44 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 5 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 13 research grants (13 CIHR), most recently in 2025.
Supervised 8 trainees who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2022.

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Publications

434

Citations

h-index

156

Collaborators

Grants

Publications by year

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Research

Administrative Data Artificial Intelligence Cardiac Imaging Covid-19 Lung Imaging Point-Of-Care Ultrasound Data Linkage Population Health Research

Latest papers

The impact of virtual care on drug prescribing practices: A scoping review.
PLOS digital health · 2026
Ethical Stewardship of Health Data in Public Discourse.
Plastic surgery (Oakville, Ont.) · 2026
Eating Disorder Risk and Diagnosis Among East Asian Youth in the United States: Findings From the Healthy Minds Study, 2020-2023.
The International journal of eating disorders · 2026

All 79 publications

Latest funding

COMPOSE-Canada (COMPositional Outcomes & Simulation for Equity): Evaluating the Health, Healthcare, and Equity Impacts of Ultra-Processed Foods Through Compositional Causal Inference and Child-First Lifecourse Microsimulation.
CIHR · 2026 · Co-investigator
$10,000
Practices and Perspectives in Post Stroke Swallowing Problems (4P)
CIHR · 2026 · Co-investigator
$336,600
Sustaining and Expanding the Canadian Emergency Department Research Network to Improve Pandemic and Health Emergencies Preparedness
CIHR · 2025 · Principal investigator
$3,000,000

All 47 grants and awards

79 publications.

The impact of virtual care on drug prescribing practices: A scoping review.

Rogers M, Hedden L, McGrail K, Law MR

PLOS digital health2026

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pdig.0001192 PMID: 41493962

Ethical Stewardship of Health Data in Public Discourse.

Nair AA, McGrail K, Armstrong K

Plastic surgery (Oakville, Ont.)2026

DOI: 10.1177/22925503261486386 PMID: 42756355

Eating Disorder Risk and Diagnosis Among East Asian Youth in the United States: Findings From the Healthy Minds Study, 2020-2023.

Gao C, Chung J, Xu A, Huang S, Cheng S, Xu W, Law MR, McGrail K, Sunderji N, Austin SB, Beccia AL, Raffoul A

The International journal of eating disorders2026

DOI: 10.1002/eat.24594 PMID: 41250962

Minimum elements for reporting a multi-jurisdiction feasibility assessment of algorithms based on routinely collected health data: Health Data Research Network Canada recommendations.

Hamm NC, Bartholomew S, Zhao Y, Peterson S, Al-Azazi S, McGrail K, Lix LM

International journal of population data science2025

DOI: 10.23889/ijpds.v10i2.2466 PMID: 40129910

How do medical and social contexts affect telemedicine efficiency and quality? A propensity-score matching protocol in Canada's primary care.

Tsuei SH, McGrail K, Law M, Stucchi A, Hedden L

BMJ open2025

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-097225 PMID: 40987728

Satisfaction with Life of Older Men and Women in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) and its Association with Formal and Informal Home Care.

Aaltonen M, McGrail K, Raitanen J, Martin-Matthews A

Canadian journal on aging = La revue canadienne du vieillissement2025

DOI: 10.1017/s0714980825000066 PMID: 40151049

Assessing the impact of day programs on individuals living with dementia and their family/friend caregivers (AIDA-DemCare): protocol of a prospective cohort study combined with a qualitative evaluation.

Hoben M, Ubell A, Maxwell CJ, Allana S, Doupe MB, Symonds-Brown H, Hogan DB, Daly T, Tate KC, Wagg A, Nguyen H, Berta W, Bethell J, Caspar S, Goodarzi Z, McGrail K, Cummings GG, Rowe M, Kay K, Kostyk P, Lazaruk K, MacLean B, Mann J, Prescott K

BMC public health2025

DOI: 10.1186/s12889-025-23896-6 PMID: 40830776

Informing family physician payment reform in Canada: protocol for a cross-provincial, multimethod study.

Hedden L, Grudniewicz A, Katz A, Lavergne MR, McDonald T, Rudoler D, Austin N, Halas G, Spencer S, Thelen R, Mathews M, McCracken R, McGrail K, Shiplett H, Strumpf EC

BMJ open2025

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-103894 PMID: 40541439

The effect of enrolment policies on patient affiliation to a family physician: A quasi-experimental evaluation in Canada.

King C, Lavergne MR, McGrail K, Strumpf E, QC-BC Patient Enrolment Project Team

Health policy (Amsterdam, Netherlands)2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2025.105313 PMID: 40222056

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

COMPOSE-Canada (COMPositional Outcomes & Simulation for Equity): Evaluating the Health, Healthcare, and Equity Impacts of Ultra-Processed Foods Through Compositional Causal Inference and Child-First Lifecourse Microsimulation.

Co-investigatorCIHR2026Team Grant: Health Effects of Ultra-Processed Foods - In HDCYH -LOI

Principal investigators: Jessri, Mahsa; L'Abbe, Mary R; Manuel, Douglas G

Keywords: Causal Inference; Child Health; Chronic Disease Prevention; Compositional Data Analysis; Food Policy Evaluation; Health Equity; Healthcare Utilization; Lifecourse Microsimulation; Nutritional Surveillance; Ultra-Processed Foods

$10,000

Practices and Perspectives in Post Stroke Swallowing Problems (4P)

Co-investigatorCIHR2026Project Grant

Principal investigators: Zhou, Lily W

Keywords: Patient Perspective; Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy; Percutaneous Gastric-Jejunal Tubes; Post Stroke Dysphagia; Practice Variation

$336,600

Sustaining and Expanding the Canadian Emergency Department Research Network to Improve Pandemic and Health Emergencies Preparedness

Principal investigatorCIHR2025Operating Grant: Pandemic Research Platforms Interim Funding - General

Principal investigators: Hohl, Corinne M; Moore, Kieran M; Rizzuti, Francesco A; Archambault, Patrick; Brooks, Steven C; Chandra, Kavish; Cheng, Ivy S; Fok, Patrick T; Grant, Jennifer; Janjua, Naveed Z; Jelic, Tomislav; Leeies, Murdoch A; Legault, Gabrielle; McGrail, Kimberlyn M; McRae, Andrew D; Morrison, Laurie J; Perry, Jeffrey J; Picard, Christopher T; Rosychuk, Rhonda J; Saxinger, Lynora; Stone-McLean, Jordan; Wiemer, Hana M

Keywords: Health Data; Health Emergencies Preparedness; Influenza; Observational Studies; Pandemic Preparedness; Surveillance

$3,000,000

Effect of Canada's first universal contraception subsidy on access, pregnancy outcomes, and costs: a population-based controlled interrupted time series study

Co-investigatorCIHR2024Project Grant

Principal investigators: Schummers, Laura; Clement, Fiona Mary; Henry, Bonnie J; Law, Michael R; Nickel, Nathan C

Keywords: Contraception Access; Contraception Policy; Health Policy Research; Health Services Research; Reproductive Population Health

$929,476

Effect of Canada's first universal contraception subsidy on access, pregnancy outcomes, and costs: a population-based controlled interrupted time series study

Co-investigatorCIHR2024Project Grant - PA: Sex and Gender in Health Research (Bridge funding)

Principal investigators: Schummers, Laura; Clement, Fiona Mary; Henry, Bonnie J; Law, Michael R; Nickel, Nathan C

Keywords: Contraception Access; Contraception Policy; Health Policy Research; Health Services Research; Reproductive Population Health

$100,000

A Computational Ethnography of Involuntary Psychiatric Treatment in British Columbia

Nominated PICIHR2024Catalyst Grant: Moving Upstream - Structural Determinants of Health - General

Principal investigators: McGrail, Kimberlyn M; Kolar, Maja

Keywords: Administrative Data; Computational Ethnography; Institutional Ethnography; Involuntary Psychiatric Care; Mixed-Methods Research; Population Mental Health; Quali-Quantitative Methods

$124,709

Older adults during the 2021 British Columbia heat dome: health impacts and predictors of health care use

Nominated PICIHR2024Catalyst Grant: CBR in Climate Change Priority Area - Climate Justice

Principal investigators: McGrail, Kimberlyn M; Kadowaki, Laura T

Keywords: Administrative Data; Climate Change; Equity; Extreme Heat Events; Frailty; Health Services Utilization; Linked Data; Older Adults

$125,000

Optimizing outcomes for patients presenting to emergency departments with opioid poisoning

Co-investigatorCIHR2024Project Grant

Principal investigators: Hohl, Corinne M; Archambault, Patrick; Brooks, Steven C; Chandra, Kavish; Daoust, Raoul; Dong, Kathryn A; Fok, Patrick T; Grunau, Brian E; Kestler, Andrew; Lock, Kurt; Lysyshyn, Mark; McRae, Andrew D; Moe, Jessica; Morrison, Laurie J; Orkin, Aaron M; Perry, Jeffrey J; Rosychuk, Rhonda J; Stone-McLean, Jordan

Keywords: Addictions Care; Data Registry; Emergency Care; Harm Reduction; Health Services; Opioid Poisoning

$1,526,175

Establishing a Research Career to Support High Quality, Equitable Care for Older Adults Living with Dementia

SupervisorCIHR2022Summer Program in Aging

Principal investigators: Helmer-Smith, Mary L

Keywords: Aging; Community-Dwelling Older Adults; Covid-19 Pandemic; Dementia; Equity; Health Administrative Data; Health Services And Policy; Population Health Trends; Quality Indicators; Quality Of Care

$809

System transformation to achieve equitable access to effective contraception

Co-investigatorCIHR2022Cat Gr:Policy Res. for Health Sys. Transf.- Canadian Healthcare Workforce

Principal investigators: Schummers, Laura; Henry, Bonnie J

Keywords: Contraception Access; Health Policy Research; Health Services Research; Patient Oriented Research

$150,000

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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Kimberlyn McGrail

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

The impact of virtual care on drug prescribing practices: A scoping review.

Ethical Stewardship of Health Data in Public Discourse.

Eating Disorder Risk and Diagnosis Among East Asian Youth in the United States: Findings From the Healthy Minds Study, 2020-2023.

Minimum elements for reporting a multi-jurisdiction feasibility assessment of algorithms based on routinely collected health data: Health Data Research Network Canada recommendations.

How do medical and social contexts affect telemedicine efficiency and quality? A propensity-score matching protocol in Canada's primary care.

Satisfaction with Life of Older Men and Women in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) and its Association with Formal and Informal Home Care.

Assessing the impact of day programs on individuals living with dementia and their family/friend caregivers (AIDA-DemCare): protocol of a prospective cohort study combined with a qualitative evaluation.

Informing family physician payment reform in Canada: protocol for a cross-provincial, multimethod study.

The effect of enrolment policies on patient affiliation to a family physician: A quasi-experimental evaluation in Canada.

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.

Frequent collaborators

Alan Katz

Lindsay Hedden

Lindsay Hedden

Hsien Seow

Michelle Greiver

Rinku Sutradhar

Matthias Hoben

Rita McCracken

Maria Mathews

Michael Law

Kimberlyn McGrail

David Rudoler

Matthias Hoben

Derelie A Mangin

Stirling Bryan

Sonya Cressman

Peter Tanuseputro

Colleen Webber

Sonya Cressman

Mark Harrison

Christopher Meaney

Alexander Singer

Richard Lewanczuk

Colleen Norris

Jehannine Austin

Kathleen Elizabeth Wheeler

Erin Strumpf

Ruth Martin-Misener

Tamara Daly

Walter Wodchis

Sabrina Wong

Jeremiah Hurley

Nancy Heddle

Soyeon Kim

Britt Dennis

Yang Liu

Stephanie Saunders

Mieke Koehoorn

Boris Sobolev

Braden Manns