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Mark Lysyshyn

ResearcherEmergency MedicineUniversity of British Columbia

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Mark Lysyshyn

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.
20 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 2 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 4 research grants (4 CIHR), most recently in 2024.

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Research

Harm Reduction Data Registry Emergency Care Health Services Opioid Poisoning Methamphetamine Addictions Care Administrative Data

Latest papers

Correction: Unintentional benzodiazepine use and frequency of drug checking service utilization: a cross-sectional study.
Harm reduction journal · 2026
Safe Supply at Insite, North America's First Supervised Consumption Site: A Case Report of Reduced Harms From the Toxic Drug Supply in a Client Prescribed Powdered Fentanyl Alternative.
Drug and alcohol review · 2026
Risk reduction behaviours following the detection of unexpected drugs through community drug checking: a cross-sectional study.
Harm reduction journal · 2026

All 42 publications

Latest funding

Optimizing supervised inhalation services to address the unregulated drug toxicity crisis in British Columbia
CIHR · 2026 · Co-investigator
$780,301
Sustaining and Expanding the Canadian Emergency Department Research Network to Improve Pandemic and Health Emergencies Preparedness
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$3,000,000
Optimizing outcomes for patients presenting to emergency departments with opioid poisoning
CIHR · 2024 · Principal investigator
$1,526,175

All 9 grants and awards

42 publications.

Correction: Unintentional benzodiazepine use and frequency of drug checking service utilization: a cross-sectional study.

Airth L, Goodyear T, Marshall BDL, Grant C, Lysyshyn M, Sherman SG, Wood E, Ti L

Harm reduction journal2026

DOI: 10.1186/s12954-026-01497-9 PMID: 42415130

Safe Supply at Insite, North America's First Supervised Consumption Site: A Case Report of Reduced Harms From the Toxic Drug Supply in a Client Prescribed Powdered Fentanyl Alternative.

Fairbairn N, Hu E, Lysyshyn M, Brar R, Holliday E

Drug and alcohol review2026

DOI: 10.1111/dar.70175 PMID: 42130406

Risk reduction behaviours following the detection of unexpected drugs through community drug checking: a cross-sectional study.

Tobias S, Grant C, Lysyshyn M, Roux P, Wood E, Kerr T, Ti L

Harm reduction journal2026

DOI: 10.1186/s12954-025-01374-x PMID: 41787496

Unintentional benzodiazepine use and frequency of drug checking service utilization: a cross-sectional study.

Airth L, Goodyear T, Marshall BDL, Grant C, Lysyshyn M, Sherman SG, Wood E, Ti L

Harm reduction journal2026

DOI: 10.1186/s12954-025-01381-y PMID: 41559671

Sharing drug checking results in a Canadian setting: a multi-site analysis.

Bird J, Tobias S, Grant C, Lysyshyn M, Tupper K, Wood E, Kerr T, Ti L

The International journal on drug policy2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2025.104903 PMID: 40561713

Impact of having a regular drug dealer on obtaining drug checking results consistent with expectations during a drug toxicity crisis in a Canadian setting.

Esopenko H, Marshall BDL, Lysyshyn M, Grant C, Sherman SG, Wood E, Kerr T, Ti L

Drug and alcohol dependence2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2025.112751 PMID: 40527015

Harm reduction, treatment, and prevention-essential pillars to Canada's response to the drug poisoning crisis.

Daly P, de Villa E, Drouin M, Lysyshyn M, Tockman J

Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2025

DOI: 10.17269/s41997-025-01029-1 PMID: 40164805

Best practice for tobacco smoking policies within an acute substance use disorder care facility: considerations from a withdrawal management setting in British Columbia, Canada.

Caton N, Lysyshyn M, Cowan N, Wood E

Tobacco control2025

DOI: 10.1136/tc-2024-059134 PMID: 40555502

Detection of benzodiazepines in the unregulated drug supply using point of care and confirmatory drug checking technologies: A validation study.

Crepeault H, Tobias S, Angelucci J, Dubland S, Lysyshyn M, Wood E, Ti L

Drug and alcohol dependence2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2025.112631 PMID: 40081082

Management of Amphetamine and Methamphetamine Use Disorders: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-analysis of Randomized Trials

Khalili M, Sadeghirad B, Bach P, Crabtree A, Javadi S, Sadeghi E, Moradi S, Mirzayeh Fashami F, Nakhaeizadeh M, Salehi S

International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction202512 citations

DOI: 10.1007/s11469-024-01379-w

Optimizing supervised inhalation services to address the unregulated drug toxicity crisis in British Columbia

Co-investigatorCIHR2026Project Grant

Principal investigators: Salters, Kate; Arredondo Sanchez Lira, Jaime

Keywords: Equity; Harm Reduction; Health Services; Ikte; Innovation; Mixed-Methods

$780,301

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

Co-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

Optimizing outcomes for patients presenting to emergency departments with opioid poisoning

Principal 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

Optimizing outcomes for patients presenting to emergency departments with opioid poisoning

Principal investigatorCIHR2024Project Grant - PA: Pandemic Preparedness and Health Emergencies Research

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

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

$100,000

Preventing Opioid Deaths due to COVID Related Increase in Smoking Illicit Substances (Preventing OD CRISIS)

Co-investigatorCIHR2020Op Gr: COVID-19 MH/SU - Developing Innovative Adaptations of Services/Delivery

Principal investigators: Moe, Jessica; Davison, Carolyn; Buxton, Jane; Salmon, Amy L; Slaunwhite, Amanda K

Keywords: Innovative Adaptations Of Services For People Smoking Drugs; Matching Access To Harm Reduction To Smoking-Specific Risks

$200,000

In the shadows of the opioid crisis: the epidemiology and impact of methamphetamine use in Canada

Principal investigatorCIHR2019Operating Grant: Methamphetamine and related psychostimulant use

Principal investigators: Cragg, Jacquelyn J; Lysyshyn, Mark; Bach, Paxton J

Keywords: Administrative Data; Demographic Trends; Epidemiology; Geographic Trends; Hospitalizations; Methamphetamine; Temporal Trends

$100,000

Concurrent Use and Transition to Methamphetamine among persons at risk of OverDose (CUT Meth OD)

Co-investigatorCIHR2019Operating Grant: Methamphetamine and related psychostimulant use

Principal investigators: Buxton, Jane; Corneil, Trevor A

Keywords: Epidemiology; Harm Reduction; Methamphetamine; Polysusbtance Use; Qualitative Interviews

$100,000

What works for methamphetamine use disorder? A systematic review of reviews

Principal investigatorCIHR2019Operating Grant: Methamphetamine and related psychostimulant use

Principal investigators: Buxton, Jane; Lysyshyn, Mark; Karamouzian, Mohammad

Keywords: Harm Reduction; Methamphetamine; Substance Use Disorders; Substance Use Treatment

$93,967

A scoping review to identify the impact of different legal approaches on opioid-related harms and mortality

Co-investigatorCIHR2017Operating Grant: Opioid Crisis Knowledge Synthesis

Principal investigators: Buxton, Jane; Henry, Bonnie J

Keywords: Legal Approaches; Opioid Crisis

$59,982

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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Mark Lysyshyn

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Correction: Unintentional benzodiazepine use and frequency of drug checking service utilization: a cross-sectional study.

Safe Supply at Insite, North America's First Supervised Consumption Site: A Case Report of Reduced Harms From the Toxic Drug Supply in a Client Prescribed Powdered Fentanyl Alternative.

Risk reduction behaviours following the detection of unexpected drugs through community drug checking: a cross-sectional study.

Unintentional benzodiazepine use and frequency of drug checking service utilization: a cross-sectional study.

Sharing drug checking results in a Canadian setting: a multi-site analysis.

Impact of having a regular drug dealer on obtaining drug checking results consistent with expectations during a drug toxicity crisis in a Canadian setting.

Harm reduction, treatment, and prevention-essential pillars to Canada's response to the drug poisoning crisis.

Best practice for tobacco smoking policies within an acute substance use disorder care facility: considerations from a withdrawal management setting in British Columbia, Canada.

Detection of benzodiazepines in the unregulated drug supply using point of care and confirmatory drug checking technologies: A validation study.

Management of Amphetamine and Methamphetamine Use Disorders: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-analysis of Randomized Trials

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Lianping Ti

Evan Wood

Thomas Kerr

Michael Schwandt

Trevor Goodyear

Kora DeBeck

Kanna Hayashi

Kanna Hayashi

Pierre-julien Coulaud

Samantha Young

Eileen de Villa

Mohammad Karamouzian

Andrew Kestler

Inna Sekirov

Paxton Bach

Daniel Beriault

Mohammad Karamouzian

Keith Ahamad

Nadia Fairbairn

Jane Buxton

Eric Grafstein

Jessica Moe

Scott Harrison

Behnam Sadeghirad

Seonaid Nolan

Mel Krajden

Lindsey Richardson

Kenneth Tupper

Daniel Werb

Ryan Mcneil