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Amirrtha Srikanthan

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Assistant ProfessorDepartment of MedicineUniversity of Ottawa

Amirrtha Srikanthan

Assistant Professor

Department of Medicine

Faculty of Medicine

University of Ottawa

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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28 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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Latest papers

Advancing palliative medicine training in adolescent and young adult care: a needs assessment study.
BMC medical education · 2026
"The Day He Fell Ill, We Turned on a Switch…Now, Everything Is My Responsibility": Scoping Review of Qualitative Studies Among Partners of Patients with Cancer.
Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2026
Exploring Key Unmet Supportive Care Needs of Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Patients: A Qualitative Study to Inform Regional Program Development.
Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2026 · senior author

All 42 publications

Latest funding

A two-arm randomized controlled trial evaluating a physical activity counselling intervention for young adults diagnosed with cancer
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$711,450
Virtual care utilization and impact among individuals with breast cancer on systemic therapy: a population-based retrospective cohort study
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$100,000
A two-arm randomized controlled trial evaluating a physical activity counselling intervention for young adults diagnosed with cancer
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$100,000

All 7 grants and awards

42 publications.

Advancing palliative medicine training in adolescent and young adult care: a needs assessment study.

Bakhsh A, Srikanthan A, Cleyn S, van Zanten SCMV, Tutelman P, Krueger-Naug AM, Parsons H, Lapenskie J, Ruller S, Halman S, Downar J, Abdelaal M

BMC medical education2026

DOI: 10.1186/s12909-026-09774-8 PMID: 42332726

"The Day He Fell Ill, We Turned on a Switch…Now, Everything Is My Responsibility": Scoping Review of Qualitative Studies Among Partners of Patients with Cancer.

Kang P, Ellis U, Cragg JJ, Howard AF, Srikanthan A, Oveisi N, De Vera MA

Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.)2026

DOI: 10.3390/curroncol33020069 PMID: 41744834

Exploring Key Unmet Supportive Care Needs of Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Patients: A Qualitative Study to Inform Regional Program Development.

Sharma S, Cleyn S, Bechthold H, Hilderley A, Srikanthan A

Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.)2026Senior author

DOI: 10.3390/curroncol33070412 PMID: 42505214

Perspectives of Canadian adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer survivors in designing a regional AYA survivorship program.

Srikanthan A, Nagaratnam K, Das S, Siddiqui Z, Cleyn S, Surujballi J

Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice2025First author

DOI: 10.1007/s11764-025-01910-5 PMID: 41145755

Gravida and Birth Outcomes Prior to and after Diagnosis of Early Age-Onset Colorectal Cancer among Female Patients: Population-Based Epidemiologic Studies.

Oveisi N, Sayre EC, Gill S, Cheng V, Cheng V, Brotto LA, Peacock S, McTaggart-Cowan H, Hanley GE, Srikanthan A, De Vera MA

Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology2025

DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-25-0442 PMID: 40531200

Aerobic exercise and CogniTIVe functioning in women with breAsT cancEr (ACTIVATE): A randomized controlled trial.

Brunet J, Sharma S, Zadravec K, Taljaard M, LeVasseur N, Srikanthan A, Bland KA, Sabri E, Collins B, Hayden S, Simmons C, Smith AM, Campbell KL

Cancer2025

DOI: 10.1002/cncr.35540 PMID: 39428863

Sexual health outcomes after colorectal cancer diagnosis in females: a population-based cohort study.

Oveisi N, Sayre EC, Brotto LA, Cheng V, Cheng V, Gill S, Hanley GE, McTaggart-Cowan H, Peacock S, Rayar M, Srikanthan A, Taylor D, Barnes M, De Vera MA

Journal of the National Cancer Institute2025

DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djaf120 PMID: 40449554

"Cancer changes everything, but it makes you wonder-am I still enough?" serial focus groups with adolescent and young adult cancer patients to understand experiences with cancer and sexual and reproductive health.

Oveisi N, Cheng V, Taylor D, Kang P, Brotto LA, Peacock S, McTaggart-Cowan H, Hanley GE, Gill S, Rayar M, Srikanthan A, Barnes M, Bechthold H, Jansen N, De Vera MA

BMC cancer2025

DOI: 10.1186/s12885-025-14561-7 PMID: 40751145

What factors influence sexual and reproductive health care among adolescent and young adult cancer patients?: a novel serial focus group study.

Oveisi N, Cheng V, Taylor D, Kang P, Brotto LA, Peacock S, McTaggart-Cowan H, Hanley GE, Gill S, Rayar M, Srikanthan A, Barnes M, Bechthold H, Jansen N, De Vera MA

BMC cancer2025

DOI: 10.1186/s12885-025-14380-w PMID: 40597028

Feasibility and acceptability of a parallel, two-arm randomized controlled trial to evaluate an online physical activity behavior counseling intervention for young adults diagnosed with cancer: a mixed-methods pilot study.

Brunet J, Price J, Gillison F, Standage M, Taljaard M, Beauchamp MR, Reed J, Srikanthan A

Pilot and feasibility studies2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1186/s40814-025-01701-w PMID: 41189005

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Amirrtha Srikanthan

Research

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Advancing palliative medicine training in adolescent and young adult care: a needs assessment study.

"The Day He Fell Ill, We Turned on a Switch&#x2026;Now, Everything Is My Responsibility": Scoping Review of Qualitative Studies Among Partners of Patients with Cancer.

Exploring Key Unmet Supportive Care Needs of Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Patients: A Qualitative Study to Inform Regional Program Development.

Perspectives of Canadian adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer survivors in designing a regional AYA survivorship program.

Gravida and Birth Outcomes Prior to and after Diagnosis of Early Age-Onset Colorectal Cancer among Female Patients: Population-Based Epidemiologic Studies.

Aerobic exercise and CogniTIVe functioning in women with breAsT cancEr (ACTIVATE): A randomized controlled trial.

Sexual health outcomes after colorectal cancer diagnosis in females: a population-based cohort study.

"Cancer changes everything, but it makes you wonder-am I still enough?" serial focus groups with adolescent and young adult cancer patients to understand experiences with cancer and sexual and reproductive health.

What factors influence sexual and reproductive health care among adolescent and young adult cancer patients?: a novel serial focus group study.

Feasibility and acceptability of a parallel, two-arm randomized controlled trial to evaluate an online physical activity behavior counseling intervention for young adults diagnosed with cancer: a&#xa0;mixed-methods pilot study.

A two-arm randomized controlled trial evaluating a physical activity counselling intervention for young adults diagnosed with cancer

Virtual care utilization and impact among individuals with breast cancer on systemic therapy: a population-based retrospective cohort study

A two-arm randomized controlled trial evaluating a physical activity counselling intervention for young adults diagnosed with cancer

Towards Informing and Improving the Sexual and Reproductive Health Outcomes of Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Patients

Following reproductive and sexual health care and outcomes of adolescent and young adult cancer patients (FUTURE)

Effects of exercise on cognitive and brain outcomes in young adults diagnosed with cancer: a randomized controlled trial

Physical, psychological, and functional late effects and health care use in survivors of adolescent and young adult cancer: A population-based study.

Frequent collaborators

Niki Oveisi

Stuart Peacock

Helen Mctaggart-Cowan

Stuart Peacock

Abha Gupta

Ying Wang

Jennifer Brunet

Monica Taljaard

Sumit Gupta

Jennifer Reed

Eitan Amir

Rinku Sutradhar

Kimberley Widger

Camilla Zimmermann

Barbara Collins

Ramy Saleh

Jolanta Karpinski

Samantha Halman

Sharon McGee

Corey Tsang

Brian Hutton

Nancy Baxter

Chad Hammond

"The Day He Fell Ill, We Turned on a Switch…Now, Everything Is My Responsibility": Scoping Review of Qualitative Studies Among Partners of Patients with Cancer.

Feasibility and acceptability of a parallel, two-arm randomized controlled trial to evaluate an online physical activity behavior counseling intervention for young adults diagnosed with cancer: a mixed-methods pilot study.