Andrea Waddell, University of Toronto

Research

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Latest papers

Patient engagement in forensic mental health care: a scoping review
Evidence-Based Mental Health · 2025
"Trying to Do No Harm": exploring clinician concerns towards the use of AI for risk prediction in psychiatry.
BMJ digital health & AI · 2025 · senior author
The development of early warning scores or alerting systems for the prediction of adverse events in psychiatric patients: a scoping review.
BMC psychiatry · 2024 · senior author

All 5 publications

Latest funding

Shared Decision-Making with the Aging Populations in Forensic Mental Health Settings: A Knowledge Synthesis and Research Priority Setting Study Using an Integrated Knowledge Translation Approach
CIHR · 2023 · Principal investigator
$99,738

All 1 grants and awards

5 publications.

01

Patient engagement in forensic mental health care: a scoping review

Zhao J, Junes S, Canning C, Jull J, Mishra A, Waddell A, Zisman-Ilani Y, Hilton NZ

Evidence-Based Mental Health20258 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1136/bmjment-2025-301678

02

"Trying to Do No Harm": exploring clinician concerns towards the use of AI for risk prediction in psychiatry.

Chang J, Tamayo Velasquez V, Waddell A

BMJ digital health & AI2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1136/bmjdhai-2025-000078 PMID: 42712347

03

The development of early warning scores or alerting systems for the prediction of adverse events in psychiatric patients: a scoping review.

Velasquez VT, Chang J, Waddell A

BMC psychiatry2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1186/s12888-024-06052-z PMID: 39468486

04

A Communication-Based Assessment Station as an Alternative to the OSCE.

Sandhu VK, Garcia C, Hawa R, Waddell A

Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges2021Senior author

DOI: 10.1097/acm.0000000000003841 PMID: 33492831

05

An expert consensus on core competencies in integrated care for psychiatrists.

Sunderji N, Waddell A, Gupta M, Soklaridis S, Steinberg R

General hospital psychiatry201634 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2016.05.003 PMID: 27302722

Shared Decision-Making with the Aging Populations in Forensic Mental Health Settings: A Knowledge Synthesis and Research Priority Setting Study Using an Integrated Knowledge Translation Approach

Principal investigatorCIHR2023Operating Grant: BHCIA: Knowledge Synthesis and Mobilization Grants - HEP

Principal investigators: Zhao, Junqiang; Bolshaw-Walker, Helen E; DuPlessy, Shannon; Waddell, Andrea E

Keywords: Aging Populations; Cognitive Impairment; Dual Diagnosis; Forensic Settings; Mental Health; Shared Decision Making

$99,738

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

Frequent collaborators

Department of Psychiatry
Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences
School of Rehabilitation Therapy
Clinical Public Health Division
Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division

1 shared papers, latest 2025

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Subject: Prospective PhD student Dear Professor Waddell, 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 "Patient engagement in forensic mental health care: a scoping review" (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 "Shared Decision-Making with the Aging Populations in Forensic Mental Health Settings: A Knowledge Synthesis and Research Priority Setting Study Using an Integrated Knowledge Translation Approach" (2023), 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]