Research
Dale Guenter completed medical school at University of Calgary, internship at Dalhousie, and Master of Public Health at Harvard. He joined the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster in 1999, at North Hamilton Community Health Centre, following several years as a family physician in the Canadian Arctic and in Calgary’s inner city. He developed a lasting collaboration with Ateneo de Zamboanga University in Philippines starting 1997, assisting with problem-based learning curriculum and a new Master of Public Health program. Dr. Guenter co-founded the Shelter Health Network in Hamilton as one part of a health care solution for people whose lives do not fit the mould of traditional medical models, and was the founding primary care lead for the Hamilton Health Links initiative. He joined McMaster Family Practice in 2006, and served as medical co-director from 2008-2016. He is a founding faculty member for the Master of Public Health program at McMaster, which started in 2014. Dr. Guenter’s primary interest is in exploring and delivering novel approaches to health care that that will result in a more effective experience of healing. His research, teaching and clinical work are focused on people affected by HIV, mental health and addiction, chronic pain, incarceration, and end of life concerns. His work takes place through community partnerships, collaborations between public health and primary care, improved communication skills, and reflection-in-practice. He is the Faculty Experience Director for DFM, Director of Postgraduate Research and Scholarship, and physician in jails and in Shelter Health Network.
Research areas are derived from OpenAlex topics of their publications.
36 publications.
Identifying accurate methods of assessing blood pressure and health information by lay volunteers in the Philippines: Adapting a Canadian cardiometabolic health program to LMICs
Angeles R, Arnuco FD, Cristobal F, Dolovich L, Kaczorowski J, Guenter D, Selvarajah K, Parascandalo F, Gaber J, Agarwal G
Make or break: Succeeding in transition from incarceration
Shahaed H, Thirugnanasampanthar SS, Guenter D
Burden of opioid toxicity death in the fentanyl-dominant era for people who experience incarceration in Ontario, Canada, 2015–2020: a whole population retrospective cohort study
Butler A, Croxford R, Bodkin C, Akbari H, Bayoumi AM, Bondy SJ, Guenter D, McLeod KE, Gomes T, Kanagalingam T
Treatments for ADHD in adults in jails, prisons and correctional settings: a scoping review of the literature
Byrne C, Guenter D
Buprenorphine/naloxone access for people with opioid use disorder in correctional facilities: taking steps to support knowledge translation
Regenstreif L, Sadik M, Beaulieu E, Bodkin C, Kiefer L, Guenter D, Lee PWP, Kouyoumdjian FG
Patient contracts for chronic medical conditions: Scoping review.
Gallagher E, Alvarez E, Jin L, Guenter D, Hatcher L, Furlan A
Pandemic Planning in Homeless Shelters: A Pilot Study of a Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Testing and Support Program to Mitigate the Risk of COVID-19 Outbreaks in Congregate Settings
O’Shea T, Bodkin C, Mokashi V, Beal K, Wiwcharuk J, Lennox R, Guenter D, Smieja M, Bulir D, Chong S
Advance care planning conversations in primary care: a quality improvement project using the Serious Illness Care Program
Hafid A, Howard M, Guenter D, Elston D, Fikree S, Gallagher E, Winemaker S, Waters H
A Web-Based Social Network Tool (GENIE) for Supporting Self-management Among High Users of the Health Care System: Feasibility and Usability Study
Valaitis R, Cleghorn L, Vassilev I, Rogers A, Ploeg J, Kothari A, Risdon C, Gillett J, Guenter D, Dolovich L
Clinical guideline for homeless and vulnerably housed people, and people with lived homelessness experience
Pottie K, Kendall CE, Aubry T, Magwood O, Andermann A, Salvalaggio G, Ponka D, Bloch G, Brcic V, Agbata E
Courses taught
2- Graduate
MPH Special Topics
PUBHLTH 707 · last taught 2018
- Graduate
Foundations of Population and Public Health Practice
PUBHLTH 700 · last taught 2017
Roles and appointments
- Faculty Experience Director, family medicine, McMaster University
Research institutes and memberships
- McMaster Institute for Health Equity
Frequent collaborators
40Gina (Ragini) Agarwal
Family Medicine
4 shared papers, latest 2025
Claire Bodkin
Family Medicine
3 shared papers, latest 2023
Ricardo Angeles
Family Medicine
3 shared papers, latest 2025
Jim Dunn
Health, Aging & Society
3 shared papers, latest 2013
Patricia Solomon
Rehabilitation Science
3 shared papers, latest 2005
Saara Greene
Social Work
3 shared papers, latest 2013
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