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Derek MacFadden

ResearcherBiologyCarleton University

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Derek MacFadden

Researcher

Biology

Health Sciences

Carleton University

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
17 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 3 research grants (3 CIHR), most recently in 2025.

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223

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Research

Antimicrobial Resistance Infectious Disease Metagenomics Stewardship Surveillance Targeted Metagenomics

Latest papers

Antibiotic and Nonantibiotic Drugs Associated With Clostridioides difficile Infection Risk: a Pharmacopoeia-Wide Case-Cohort Study
Journal of Infectious Diseases · 2026
Secondary Prophylaxis of Recurrent Clostridioides difficile Infections During Systemic Antibiotics with Vancomycin (SPORES-V): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Trials · 2026
Duration of antibiotic therapy for bacteremia in immune compromised hosts—a post hoc subgroup analysis of the BALANCE randomized clinical trial
Clinical Microbiology and Infection (CMI) · 2026

All 19 publications

Latest funding

Environmental Surveillance in Hospitals of Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns (ESHARP)
CIHR · 2025 · Principal investigator
$604,351
Environmental Surveillance in Hospitals of Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns (ESHARP)
CIHR · 2024 · Principal investigator
$100,000
Environmental Surveillance in Hospitals of Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns (ESHARP)
CIHR · 2024 · Principal investigator
$200,000

All 3 grants and awards

19 publications.

Antibiotic and Nonantibiotic Drugs Associated With Clostridioides difficile Infection Risk: a Pharmacopoeia-Wide Case-Cohort Study

Brown KA, Coburn B, Hernandez A, Langford BJ, Leung V, MacFadden D, Rooney AM, Schwartz KL, Daneman N

Journal of Infectious Diseases20263 citations

DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiag001

Secondary Prophylaxis of Recurrent Clostridioides difficile Infections During Systemic Antibiotics with Vancomycin (SPORES-V): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Prosty C, Carignan A, Chan AK, Chen Y, Daley P, Daneman N, Kandel C, Longtin Y, Perez-Patrigeon S, Wuerz T

Trials20261 citations

DOI: 10.1186/s13063-026-09883-1

Duration of antibiotic therapy for bacteremia in immune compromised hosts—a post hoc subgroup analysis of the BALANCE randomized clinical trial

Hamani M, Pinto R, Lee TC, MacFadden D, McDonald EG, Sligl W, Fowler RA, Daneman N, consortium TB, Daneman N

Clinical Microbiology and Infection (CMI)20261 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2026.06.003

Targeted metatranscriptomic detection of viruses from floors for simultaneous evaluation of respiratory disease burden and viral variant identification.

Carroll AC, Hinz A, Hicks AMA, Khov E, Van Bakel T, Doukhanine E, Fralick M, Nott C, Kassen R, Thampi N, Hug LA, MacFadden D, Wong A

mSphere2026

DOI: 10.1128/msphere.00086-26 PMID: 42007699

The Burden of Antimicrobial Resistant Bacteremia in Ontario: A Population-Wide Analysis of Attributable Mortality From 110 Pathogen-Antibiotic Combinations

Brown KA, Fridman DJ, Garber GE, Johnstone J, Langford BJ, Leung V, MacFadden D, Patel SN, Schwartz KL, Sander B

Clinical Infectious Diseases20256 citations

DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaf213

Using routine asymptomatic Clostridioides difficile testing to identify patients at high risk of developing C. difficile infection during hematopoietic cell transplantation.

Janusz N, Mortimer L, Leite T, Carroll A, Kekre N, Kennah M, Yan A, Senechal J, Buchan CA, MacFadden D

Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada = Journal officiel de l'Association pour la microbiologie medicale et l'infectiologie Canada2025Senior author

DOI: 10.3138/jammi-2024-0032 PMID: 41311620

Follow-up blood cultures do not reduce mortality in hospitalized patients with Gram-negative bloodstream infection: a retrospective population-wide cohort study

Ong SWX, Luo J, Fridman DJ, Lee SM, Johnstone J, Schwartz KL, Diong C, Patel SN, MacFadden D, Langford B

Clinical Microbiology and Infection (CMI)202416 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2024.03.025

Introduction of a penicillin allergy de-labelling program with direct oral challenge and its effects on utilization of beta-lactam antimicrobials: a multicenter retrospective parallel cohort study.

Mir A, Lanoue D, Zanichelli V, van Walraven C, Olynych T, Nott C, MacFadden D

Allergy, asthma, and clinical immunology : official journal of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1186/s13223-024-00877-9 PMID: 38444037

SARS-CoV-2 burden on the floor was associated with COVID-19 cases and outbreaks in two acute care hospitals: a prospective cohort study.

Fralick M, Moggridge JA, Wiebe M, Castellani L, McGeer A, Feenstra B, Hinz A, Hicks AMA, Hug LA, Wong A, Van Bakel T, Abeygunawardena S, Burhunduli T, Mejbel HS, Kassen R, Thampi N, MacFadden D, Nott C

Infection control and hospital epidemiology2024

DOI: 10.1017/ice.2024.121 PMID: 39301606

A simple electronic medical record-based predictors of illness severity in sepsis (sepsis) score.

Cressman AM, Wen B, Saha S, Jun HY, Waters R, Lail S, Jabeen A, Koppula R, Lapointe-Shaw L, Sheehan KA, Weinerman A, Daneman N, Verma AA, Razak F, MacFadden D

PloS one2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0299473 PMID: 38924010

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Derek MacFadden

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Antibiotic and Nonantibiotic Drugs Associated With Clostridioides difficile Infection Risk: a Pharmacopoeia-Wide Case-Cohort Study

Secondary Prophylaxis of Recurrent Clostridioides difficile Infections During Systemic Antibiotics with Vancomycin (SPORES-V): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Duration of antibiotic therapy for bacteremia in immune compromised hosts—a post hoc subgroup analysis of the BALANCE randomized clinical trial

Targeted metatranscriptomic detection of viruses from floors for simultaneous evaluation of respiratory disease burden and viral variant identification.

The Burden of Antimicrobial Resistant Bacteremia in Ontario: A Population-Wide Analysis of Attributable Mortality From 110 Pathogen-Antibiotic Combinations

Using routine asymptomatic Clostridioides difficile testing to identify patients at high risk of developing C. difficile infection during hematopoietic cell transplantation.

Follow-up blood cultures do not reduce mortality in hospitalized patients with Gram-negative bloodstream infection: a retrospective population-wide cohort study

Introduction of a penicillin allergy de-labelling program with direct oral challenge and its effects on utilization of beta-lactam antimicrobials: a multicenter retrospective parallel cohort study.

SARS-CoV-2 burden on the floor was associated with COVID-19 cases and outbreaks in two acute care hospitals: a prospective cohort study.

A simple electronic medical record-based predictors of illness severity in sepsis (sepsis) score.

Environmental Surveillance in Hospitals of Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns (ESHARP)

Environmental Surveillance in Hospitals of Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns (ESHARP)

Environmental Surveillance in Hospitals of Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns (ESHARP)

Frequent collaborators

Derek MacFadden

Nick Daneman

Bradley Langford

Miranda So

Caroline Nott

Jennie Johnstone

Caroline Nott

Bradley Langford

Jennifer Tsang

Alex Wong

Bryan Coburn

Michaeline McGuinty

Derek MacFadden

Nisha Thampi

Rees Kassen

Alex Wong

Elizabeth Leung

Derek MacFadden

Michael Fralick

Rees Kassen

Ruxandra Pinto

Peter Daley

Michael Kennah

Leanne Mortimer

Andrew Purssell

Antonio Giulivi

Juthaporn Cowan

Emilie Trinh

Guillaume Butler-Laporte

Andrea Benedetti

Sunita Mulpuru

Kednapa Thavorn