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Edward Fitzgibbon

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Assistant ProfessorDepartment of MedicineUniversity of Ottawa

Edward Fitzgibbon

Assistant Professor

Department of Medicine

Faculty of Medicine

University of Ottawa

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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3 publications in the last five years, latest in 2025.
Principal investigator on 1 research grant (1 CIHR), most recently in 2022.

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Research

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Care Transitions Co-Design Implementation Science Interdisciplinary Mixed Methods Palliative And End-Of-Life Care Patient- And Caregiver-Centered Qualitative Methods

Latest papers

Advancing the Care Experience for Patients Receiving Palliative Care as They Transition From Hospital to Home (ACEPATH): Phase 2 of Codesigning an Intervention to Improve Hospital-to-Home Transitions for Patients and Family Caregivers.
Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2025
Engaging patients, family caregivers and healthcare providers to develop metrics tailored to a palliative care population: a content validity process.
Journal of patient-reported outcomes · 2025
Advancing the Care Experience for patients receiving Palliative care as they Transition from hospital to Home (ACEPATH): Codesigning an intervention to improve patient and family caregiver experiences.
Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2024

All 9 publications

Latest funding

Advancing the Care Experience in PAlliative care patient Transitions from hospital to Home (ACE-PATH): Co-designing an intervention to address the needs of patients and family caregivers and testing the intervention's acceptability and feasibility using an implementation study
CIHR · 2022 · Principal investigator
$655,157
Evaluating the palliative and end-of-life care of older Canadians living and dying with dementia
CIHR · 2020 · Co-investigator
$378,675

All 2 grants and awards

9 publications.

Advancing the Care Experience for Patients Receiving Palliative Care as They Transition From Hospital to Home (ACEPATH): Phase 2 of Codesigning an Intervention to Improve Hospital-to-Home Transitions for Patients and Family Caregivers.

McCoy M, Shorting T, Mysore VK, Fitzgibbon E, Rice J, Savigny M, Ernecoff NC, Weiss M, Bush SH, Vincent D, Hagarty M, Lalumière G, Pattison R, Kornberg M, Stern M, Kuluski K, Webber C, Bruni A, Connolly T, Isenberg SR

Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy2025

DOI: 10.1111/hex.70331 PMID: 40644305

Engaging patients, family caregivers and healthcare providers to develop metrics tailored to a palliative care population: a content validity process.

Shorting T, McCoy M, Weiss M, Schue J, Ernecoff NC, Bush SH, Lalumière G, Rice J, Hagarty M, Vincent D, Wentlandt K, David D, MacLeod KK, Mysore VK, Savigny M, Fitzgibbon E, Isenberg SR

Journal of patient-reported outcomes2025

DOI: 10.1186/s41687-025-00885-2 PMID: 40327215

Advancing the Care Experience for patients receiving Palliative care as they Transition from hospital to Home (ACEPATH): Codesigning an intervention to improve patient and family caregiver experiences.

McCoy M, Shorting T, Mysore VK, Fitzgibbon E, Rice J, Savigny M, Weiss M, Vincent D, Hagarty M, MacLeod KK, Ernecoff NC, Pattison R, Kornberg M, Bruni A, Bush SH, Kuluski K, Fiset V, Li C, Parsons HA, Lalumière G, Connolly T, Webber C, Isenberg SR

Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy2024

DOI: 10.1111/hex.14002 PMID: 38549352

Red blood cell transfusion and associated outcomes in patients referred for palliative care: A retrospective cohort study.

Chin-Yee N, Scott M, Perelman I, Pugliese M, Tuna M, Fitzgibbon E, Downar J, Tinmouth A, Fergusson D, Tanuseputro P, Saidenberg E

Transfusion2021

DOI: 10.1111/trf.16560 PMID: 34145904

Acute Care Utilization and Place of Death among Patients Discharged from an Inpatient Palliative Care Unit.

Webber C, Hsu AT, Tanuseputro P, Fitzgibbon E, Li C

Journal of palliative medicine2020

DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2019.0162 PMID: 31305204

Advance care planning after hospital discharge: qualitative analysis of facilitators and barriers from patient interviews.

Peck V, Valiani S, Tanuseputro P, Mulpuru S, Kyeremanteng K, Fitzgibbon E, Forster A, Kobewka D

BMC palliative care2018

DOI: 10.1186/s12904-018-0379-0 PMID: 30518345

Fear of pain in patients with advanced cancer or in patients with chronic noncancer pain.

Lemay K, Wilson KG, Buenger U, Jarvis V, Fitzgibbon E, Bhimji K, Dobkin PL

The Clinical journal of pain2011

DOI: 10.1097/ajp.0b013e3181f3f667 PMID: 20890182

Barriers to palliative radiotherapy referral: a Canadian perspective.

Samant RS, Fitzgibbon E, Meng J, Graham ID

Acta oncologica (Stockholm, Sweden)2007

DOI: 10.1080/02841860600979005 PMID: 17562442

Family physicians' perspectives regarding palliative radiotherapy.

Samant RS, Fitzgibbon E, Meng J, Graham ID

Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology2006

DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2005.11.008 PMID: 16330118

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Care Transitions Dear Professor Fitzgibbon, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Advancing the Care Experience for Patients Receiving Palliative Care as They Transition From Hospital to Home (ACEPATH): Phase 2 of Codesigning an Intervention to Improve Hospital-to-Home Transitions for Patients and Family Caregivers." (2025), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your CIHR-funded project "Advancing the Care Experience in PAlliative care patient Transitions from hospital to Home (ACE-PATH): Co-designing an intervention to address the needs of patients and family caregivers and testing the intervention's acceptability and feasibility using an implementation study" (2022), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]

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Edward Fitzgibbon

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Advancing the Care Experience for Patients Receiving Palliative Care as They Transition From Hospital to Home (ACEPATH): Phase 2 of Codesigning an Intervention to Improve Hospital-to-Home Transitions for Patients and Family Caregivers.

Engaging patients, family caregivers and healthcare providers to develop metrics tailored to a palliative care population: a content validity process.

Advancing the Care Experience for patients receiving Palliative care as they Transition from hospital to Home (ACEPATH): Codesigning an intervention to improve patient and family caregiver experiences.

Red blood cell transfusion and associated outcomes in patients referred for palliative care: A retrospective cohort study.

Acute Care Utilization and Place of Death among Patients Discharged from an Inpatient Palliative Care Unit.

Advance care planning after hospital discharge: qualitative analysis of facilitators and barriers from patient interviews.

Fear of pain in patients with advanced cancer or in patients with chronic noncancer pain.

Barriers to palliative radiotherapy referral: a Canadian perspective.

Family physicians' perspectives regarding palliative radiotherapy.

Advancing the Care Experience in PAlliative care patient Transitions from hospital to Home (ACE-PATH): Co-designing an intervention to address the needs of patients and family caregivers and testing the intervention's acceptability and feasibility using an implementation study

Evaluating the palliative and end-of-life care of older Canadians living and dying with dementia

Frequent collaborators

Jill Rice

Colleen Webber

Peter Tanuseputro

Kerry Kuluski

Mona Kornberg

Khadija Bhimji

Kwadwo Kyeremanteng

Alan Tinmouth

Sunita Mulpuru

James Downar

Dean Fergusson

Daniel Kobewka

Alan Forster