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Justin Lee

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Assistant ProfessorMedicineMcMaster University

Justin Lee

Assistant Professor

Medicine

Faculty of Health Sciences

McMaster University

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

In this role since 2021

Supervision signals

Professors usually supervise graduate students in their department's programs.
No graduate courses on record.
39 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 9 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.

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Publications

841

Citations

h-index

114

Collaborators

Grants

Publications by year

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Contact

justin.lee@medportal.ca

Research

Research areas, by share of publications

Balance, Gait, and Falls PreventionHealth Professions
Frailty in Older AdultsMedicine

Research areas are derived from OpenAlex topics of their publications.

75 publications.

Screening for potentially inappropriate prescribing in primary care: Canadian guideline.

McDonald EG, Gagnon M-E, Jorgenson DJ, Kraut RY, Lee J, Leung L, Mangin D, Marcoux G, McCracken RK, Raman-Wilms L

Canadian Family Physician20261 citations

DOI: 10.46747/cfp.7203173

Lessons learned from Canadian family physicians deprescribing medications in older adults – a five-year retrospective review of medico-legal cases

Smith JD, Sadowski CA, Lee JY, Bernard C, Casey GM, Larivière KE, Finestone P, Zhang C, Garber GE

BMC Geriatrics20261 citations

DOI: 10.1186/s12877-025-06894-6

Evaluation of a Student-Older Adult Telephone Befriending Program to Reduce Social Isolation During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Ahuja M, Lewis K, Owais S, Compagnone J, Fallico L, Fishbein F, Stefanova I, Xu KM, Gui S, Woo T

Canadian Journal of Geriatrics2026

DOI: 10.5770/cgj.29.857

Intervention reporting in prehabilitation trials for total hip or knee arthroplasty: A methodological review

Azizudin AM, Hewston P, Ioannidis G, Lee J, Winemaker M, Adili A, Schemitsch E, Schneider P, Madden K, Negm A

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics Plus2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.aggp.2026.100303

The appropriate use of chemical and physical restraints for older adults

Riar S, Lee J

2026Senior author

DOI: 10.3138/cjgim.2026.0008

Repérage des prescriptions potentiellement inappropriées en soins primaires

McDonald EG, Gagnon M-E, Jorgenson DJ, Kraut RY, Lee J, Leung L, Mangin D, Marcoux G, McCracken RK, Raman-Wilms L

Canadian Family Physician2026

DOI: 10.46747/cfp.7203e59

Study protocol for a pragmatic, cluster, randomized controlled trial of a multifaceted fracture prevention model for long-term care: the PREVENT trial

Papaioannou A, Feldman S, Katz P, Costa AP, Kennedy CC, Adachi JD, Boyd H, Giangregorio L, Heckman G, Hewston P

Trials2026

DOI: 10.1186/s13063-025-09398-1

Cognitive Groove community-based rehabilitation for older adults: study protocol for a multisite parallel randomized controlled trial

Papaioannou A, Ioannidis G, Kennedy C, Hladysh G, Lee J, Adachi JD, Cowan D, Duarte D, Hategan A, Innes A

Trials2026

DOI: 10.1186/s13063-026-09782-5

Study protocol for a multiarm, randomized controlled trial to determine the effectiveness of community-based frailty rehabilitation to improve physical function in older adults: The OPTIMAL Fitness Trial

Papaioannou A, Kennedy C, Lee J, Hewston P, McArthur C, Maharaj S, Adachi J, Boulos P, Bobba R, Rabinovich A

PLoS ONE2026

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0343338

The Implementation of Frailty Assessment Tools in the Acute Care Setting: A Scoping Review

Hothi H, Paolone AR, Pezeshki M, Griffith LE, Kennedy CC, Leong DP, Marcucci M, Papaioannou A, Lee J

Journal of The American Geriatrics Society202514 citationsSenior author

DOI: 10.1111/jgs.19438

Research institutes and memberships

McMaster Institute for Research on Aging (MIRA)