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Steven Hawken

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Associate ProfessorSchool of Epidemiology and Public HealthUniversity of Ottawa

Steven Hawken

Associate Professor

School of Epidemiology and Public Health

Faculty of Medicine

University of Ottawa

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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66 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 2 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 6 research grants (6 CIHR), most recently in 2023.
Supervisor on 2 trainee awards (2 CIHR), most recently in 2025.

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137

Publications

140

Citations

129

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Research

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Machine Learning Covid-19 Health Determinants Healthcare Utilization Neurodevelopment Pregnancy Prenatal Exposures Sars-Cov-2

Latest papers

Permanent cognitive or physical impairment after transfer from long-term care to acute care: a retrospective cohort study
Age and Ageing · 2026
Venous thromboembolism and bleeding in cancer patients: role of inflammatory and cardiac biomarkers.
European heart journal · 2026 · senior author
Socioeconomic Disparities in Concussion Presentation.
JAMA network open · 2026

All 137 publications

Latest funding

Dynamic Prediction of Major Bleeding Risk in Cancer Patients: A Population-Based ICES Study
CIHR · 2025 · Supervisor
$140,000
Assessing maternal and infant health outcomes following immunization for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) disease
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$646,426
BIOlogic drug safety and effectiveness interNational pharmacoepidemiologIC study in pregnant women with autoimmune disorders and asthma and their children (BIONIC)
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$1,268,322

All 37 grants and awards

137 publications.

Permanent cognitive or physical impairment after transfer from long-term care to acute care: a retrospective cohort study

Yin C, Scott M, Talarico R, Hakimjavadi R, Kierulf J, Webber C, Hawken S, Moledina A, Manuel DG, Hsu AT

Age and Ageing20261 citations

DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afag066

Venous thromboembolism and bleeding in cancer patients: role of inflammatory and cardiac biomarkers.

Roy DC, Wang TF, Mallick R, Burger D, Carrier M, Wells P, Hawken S

European heart journal2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehaf1002 PMID: 41384379

Socioeconomic Disparities in Concussion Presentation.

Corwin DJ, Li W, Fung SG, Yu C, Backman C, Lamoureux M, Hawken S, Johnston S, Zemek R, Transforming Research by Assessing Neuroinformatics Across the Spectrum of Concussion by Embedding Interdisciplinary Data-Collection to Enable Novel Treatments (TRANSCENDENT) Research Program

JAMA network open2026

DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2026.7416 PMID: 42018325

Impact of Philips device recall on adults with obstructive sleep apnea treated with PAP therapy: Results of a cross-national patient survey.

Kendzerska T, Blades K, Mallampalli MP, Povitz M, Vyuha R, Mackenzie C, Gershon AS, Ayas NT, Kaminska M, Fenton ME, McBrien KA, Hawken S, Saymeh M, Ratycz DC, Owens RL, Pendharkar SR

Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine2026

DOI: 10.1007/s44470-026-00045-3 PMID: 41922810

MetaCAM as an ensemble-based class activation mapping framework improves model explainability.

Dick K, Kaczmarek E, Miguel OX, Bowie AC, Ducharme R, Dingwall-Harvey ALJ, Hawken S, Armour CM, Walker MC

Scientific reports2026

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-026-42879-0 PMID: 41912604

Development of models for predicting the 7-month risk of venous thromboembolism and clinically relevant bleeding in ambulatory patients with cancer: analysis from the apixaban for the prevention of venous thromboembolism in high-risk ambulatory cancer patients trial.

Roy DC, Wang TF, Wells P, Mallick R, Burger D, Carrier M, Hawken S

Journal of thrombosis and haemostasis : JTH2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.jtha.2026.04.028 PMID: 42107707

Development and internal validation of an intrapartum caesarean risk prediction model to guide rural obstetric transfer decisions: a population-based study using BORN Ontario data.

Jolin-Dahel K, Hawken S, Bruce L

BMJ open2026

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-110073 PMID: 42731847

Association between potentially inappropriate prescribing and adverse patient outcomes using codified STOPP-START and Beers criteria in large, routinely collected population health datasets: a retrospective cohort study.

Bjerre LM, Smith G, Catley C, Halil R, Ramsay T, Cahir C, Ryan C, Farrell B, Thavorn K, Hawken S, Gillespie U, Manuel DG, Abdulaziz KE

Journal of clinical epidemiology2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2026.112246 PMID: 41865806

The Effectiveness of the Palivizumab Programme in Reducing the Risk of Paediatric Asthma: A Population-Based Study in Ontario, Canada.

Foley KA, Buchan SA, McNally D, Dimitris M, Swayze S, Kwong JC, Hawken S, Saxena S, Hargreaves D, Fitzpatrick T

Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology2026

DOI: 10.1111/ppe.70141 PMID: 41914371

Late Pregnancy Antiseizure Medication Exposure and Offspring Neurodevelopmental Risk: A Multi-Child Cohort Study.

Sheehy O, Tchuente V, Eltonsy S, Hawken S, Kaul P, Walker M, Pugliese M, Dragan R, Savu A, Leal L, Morin L, Malhamé I, Pana R, Bérard A

Annals of neurology2026

DOI: 10.1002/ana.78084 PMID: 41311311

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Steven Hawken

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Permanent cognitive or physical impairment after transfer from long-term care to acute care: a retrospective cohort study

Venous thromboembolism and bleeding in cancer patients: role of inflammatory and cardiac biomarkers.

Socioeconomic Disparities in Concussion Presentation.

Impact of Philips device recall on adults with obstructive sleep apnea treated with PAP therapy: Results of a cross-national patient survey.

MetaCAM as an ensemble-based class activation mapping framework improves model explainability.

Development of models for predicting the 7-month risk of venous thromboembolism and clinically relevant bleeding in ambulatory patients with cancer: analysis from the apixaban for the prevention of venous thromboembolism in high-risk ambulatory cancer patients trial.

Development and internal validation of an intrapartum caesarean risk prediction model to guide rural obstetric transfer decisions: a population-based study using BORN Ontario data.

Association between potentially inappropriate prescribing and adverse patient outcomes using codified STOPP-START and Beers criteria in large, routinely collected population health datasets: a retrospective cohort study.

The Effectiveness of the Palivizumab Programme in Reducing the Risk of Paediatric Asthma: A Population-Based Study in Ontario, Canada.

Late Pregnancy Antiseizure Medication Exposure and Offspring Neurodevelopmental Risk: A Multi-Child Cohort Study.

Frequent collaborators

Kumanan Wilson

Pranesh Chakraborty

Julian Little

Mark Walker

Kednapa Thavorn

Benjamin Hibbert

Tzu-Fei Wang

Colleen Webber

Doug Coyle

Raphael Saginur

Dylan Burger

Philip Wells

Monica Taljaard

Marc Carrier

Carl van Walraven

Claudio Martin

Kusum Menon

Peter Tanuseputro

John Marshall

Deborah Cook

Alison Fox-Robichaud

Timothy Ramsay

Thierry Lacaze-Masmonteil

Daniel Kobewka

Sherif Eltonsy

Constance Mackenzie

Manish Sadarangani

Anna Gunz

Roland Halil

Hong Chen

Aliza Moledina

Frank Molnar

Tetyana Kendzerska

Astrid Guttmann

Linda Dodds

Charles Weijer

Marta Kaminska

Alan Tinmouth

Shane English

Barbara Farrell