Dante Morra, University of Toronto

Research

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Latest papers

Improving stroke prevention therapy for patients with atrial fibrillation in primary care: protocol for a pragmatic, cluster-randomized trial.
Implementation science : IS · 2016
A smartphone-enabled communication system to improve hospital communication: usage and perceptions of medical trainees and nurses on general internal medicine wards.
Journal of hospital medicine · 2015
Put a face to a name: a randomized controlled trial evaluating the impact of providing clinician photographs on inpatients' recall.
The American journal of medicine · 2015

All 15 publications

Latest funding

Improving communications between clinicians: environmental scan and building the team
CIHR · 2010 · Co-investigator
$24,533
Empowering Patients as Active Partners in Their Care: Lupus Interactive Navigator (LIN)
CIHR · 2010 · Co-investigator
$245,578
A Virtual Ward to Reduce Readmissions after Hospital Discharge
CIHR · 2009 · Co-investigator
$349,951

All 3 grants and awards

15 publications.

01

Improving stroke prevention therapy for patients with atrial fibrillation in primary care: protocol for a pragmatic, cluster-randomized trial.

Lee TM, Ivers NM, Bhatia S, Butt DA, Dorian P, Jaakkimainen L, Leblanc K, Legge D, Morra D, Valentinis A, Wing L, Young J, Tu K

Implementation science : IS201610 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1186/s13012-016-0523-2 PMID: 27912776

02

A smartphone-enabled communication system to improve hospital communication: usage and perceptions of medical trainees and nurses on general internal medicine wards.

Wu R, Lo V, Morra D, Appel E, Arany T, Curiale B, Ryan J, Quan S

Journal of hospital medicine201557 citations

DOI: 10.1002/jhm.2278 PMID: 25352429

03

Put a face to a name: a randomized controlled trial evaluating the impact of providing clinician photographs on inpatients' recall.

Appel L, Abrams H, Morra D, Wu RC

The American journal of medicine201512 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2014.08.035 PMID: 25261009

04

Use of an interdisciplinary, participatory design approach to develop a usable patient self-assessment tool in atrial fibrillation.

Maccallum L, McGaw H, Meshkat N, Valentinis A, Ashley LB, Bhatia RS, Benson K, Ivers N, Leblanc K, Morra D

Patient preference and adherence20135 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.2147/ppa.s51285 PMID: 24235817

05

Computerised provider order entry and residency education in an academic medical centre.

Wong B, Kuper A, Robinson N, Morra D, Etchells E, Wu R, Shojania K

Medical education20127 citations

DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.2012.04317.x PMID: 22803757

06

US physician practices versus Canadians: spending nearly four times as much money interacting with payers.

Morra D, Nicholson S, Levinson W, Gans DN, Hammons T, Casalino LP

Health affairs (Project Hope)2011112 citationsFirst author

DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2010.0893 PMID: 21813866

07

A Review of the Cost of Atrial Fibrillation

Walter P. Wodchis, R. Sacha Bhatia, Kori Leblanc, Nazanin Meshkat, Dante J. Morra

Value in Health2011112 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.jval.2011.09.009 PMID: 22433754

08

Implementation of a continuous admission model reduces the length of stay of patients on an internal medicine clinical teaching unit

Nicolas Szecket, Hannah J. Wong, Robert Clark Wu, Hershl Berman, Dante J. Morra

Journal of Hospital Medicine201125 citationsSenior author

DOI: 10.1002/jhm.926 PMID: 21954169

09

Real-time automated paging and decision support for critical laboratory abnormalities.

Etchells E, Adhikari NK, Wu R, Cheung M, Quan S, Mraz R, Wong B, Pinto R, Mehta R, Morra D, Fowler R, Sibbald W, Abrams H, Rossos PG

BMJ quality & safety201122 citations

DOI: 10.1136/bmjqs.2010.051110 PMID: 21725046

10

An Evidence-Based Case for the Value of Social Workers in Efficient Hospital Discharge

Monika Galati, Hannah J. Wong, Dante J. Morra, Robert Clark Wu

The Health Care Manager201121 citations

DOI: 10.1097/hcm.0b013e318225e1dd PMID: 21808176

Improving communications between clinicians: environmental scan and building the team

Co-investigatorCIHR2010Planning Grants - Priority Announcement: Health Services and Policy Research

Principal investigators: Wu, Robert

Keywords: Cellular Phone; Communication; Email; Health Services Research; Information Technology

$24,533

Empowering Patients as Active Partners in Their Care: Lupus Interactive Navigator (LIN)

Co-investigatorCIHR2010Partnerships for Health System Improvement (PHSI)

Principal investigators: Fortin, Paul R; Bergeron, Louise; Da Costa, Deborah M

Keywords: Health System Improvement; Interactive Navigator; Knowledge Transfer; Lupus; Patient Centered Care; Patient Empowerment; Psychological Stress; Quality Of Life; Social Support; Systemic Autoimmune Rheumatic Disease

$245,578

A Virtual Ward to Reduce Readmissions after Hospital Discharge

Co-investigatorCIHR2009Partnerships for Health System Improvement (PHSI)

Principal investigators: Laupacis, Andreas; Levinson, Wendy; Rochon, Paula A

Keywords: Community-Based Care; Health Services Research; Hospital Care; Interdisciplinary Care; Readmissions; Transitions In Care

$349,951

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

Neill Adhikari and Ruxandra Pinto: 46 shared papers
Karen Tu and Noah Ivers: 37 shared papers
Rajan Bhatia and Noah Ivers: 34 shared papers
Kaveh Shojania and Brian Wong: 16 shared papers
Noah Ivers and Paul Dorian: 15 shared papers
Karen Tu and Paul Dorian: 14 shared papers
Brian Wong and Ayelet Kuper: 13 shared papers
Robert Wu and Brian Wong: 11 shared papers
Rajan Bhatia and Paul Dorian: 9 shared papers
Neill Adhikari and George Tomlinson: 9 shared papers
Robert Fowler and Neill Adhikari: 8 shared papers
Karen Tu and Rajan Bhatia: 8 shared papers
Noah Ivers and George Tomlinson: 8 shared papers
Robert Wu and Howard Abrams: 8 shared papers
Paul Dorian and Ruxandra Pinto: 7 shared papers
Robert Wu and Dante Morra: 7 shared papers
Robert Fowler and Ruxandra Pinto: 6 shared papers
George Tomlinson and Howard Abrams: 6 shared papers
Kaveh Shojania and Ayelet Kuper: 6 shared papers
Paul Dorian and Kori Leblanc: 5 shared papers
Rajan Bhatia and Kaveh Shojania: 4 shared papers
Rajan Bhatia and Sacha Bhatia: 4 shared papers
Howard Abrams and Dante Morra: 4 shared papers
Noah Ivers and Kori Leblanc: 3 shared papers
Noah Ivers and Sacha Bhatia: 3 shared papers
Howard Abrams and Michael Caesar: 3 shared papers
Howard Abrams and Rajin Mehta: 3 shared papers
Kaveh Shojania and Edward Etchells: 3 shared papers
Brian Wong and Rajin Mehta: 3 shared papers
Brian Wong and Dante Morra: 3 shared papers
Kori Leblanc and Dante Morra: 3 shared papers
Rajan Bhatia and Nazanin Meshkat: 2 shared papers
Rajan Bhatia and Dante Morra: 2 shared papers
Noah Ivers and Dante Morra: 2 shared papers
Robert Wu and Lora Appel: 2 shared papers
Robert Wu and Edward Etchells: 2 shared papers
Howard Abrams and Michael Carter: 2 shared papers
Howard Abrams and Lora Appel: 2 shared papers
Brian Wong and Edward Etchells: 2 shared papers
Kori Leblanc and Nazanin Meshkat: 2 shared papers
Edward Etchells and Dante Morra: 2 shared papers
Michael Caesar and Dante Morra: 2 shared papers
Nazanin Meshkat and Dante Morra: 2 shared papers
Robert Fowler and Robert Wu: 1 shared paper
Robert Fowler and Mark Cheung: 1 shared paper
Robert Fowler and Rajin Mehta: 1 shared paper
Robert Fowler and Dante Morra: 1 shared paper
Karen Tu and Sacha Bhatia: 1 shared paper
Karen Tu and Dante Morra: 1 shared paper
Rajan Bhatia and Lori MacCallum: 1 shared paper
Noah Ivers and Lori MacCallum: 1 shared paper
Neill Adhikari and Mark Cheung: 1 shared paper
Neill Adhikari and Dante Morra: 1 shared paper
Paul Dorian and Dante Morra: 1 shared paper
Robert Wu and Michael Carter: 1 shared paper
Robert Wu and Ayelet Kuper: 1 shared paper
Robert Wu and Mark Cheung: 1 shared paper
Robert Wu and Michael Caesar: 1 shared paper
George Tomlinson and Michael Carter: 1 shared paper
George Tomlinson and Dante Morra: 1 shared paper
Kaveh Shojania and Dante Morra: 1 shared paper
Brian Wong and Khalil Sivjee: 1 shared paper
Michael Carter and Dante Morra: 1 shared paper
Ayelet Kuper and Dante Morra: 1 shared paper
Lora Appel and Dante Morra: 1 shared paper
Ruxandra Pinto and Dante Morra: 1 shared paper
Kori Leblanc and Lori MacCallum: 1 shared paper
Lori MacCallum and Dante Morra: 1 shared paper
Sacha Bhatia and Dante Morra: 1 shared paper
Mark Cheung and Dante Morra: 1 shared paper
Khalil Sivjee and Dante Morra: 1 shared paper
Rajin Mehta and Dante Morra: 1 shared paper

Department of Medicine
Status
Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation
The Patient-Partnered Diagnostic Center of Excellence
Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division
Biostatistics Division
Department of Family & Community Medicine
Other

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Paper to mention

Subject: Prospective PhD student Dear Professor Morra, 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 "Improving stroke prevention therapy for patients with atrial fibrillation in primary care: protocol for a pragmatic, cluster-randomized trial." (2016), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] 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]