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David Urbach

ResearcherGeneral SurgeryUniversity of Toronto

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David Urbach

Researcher

General Surgery

Health Sciences

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
8 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Principal investigator on 6 research grants (6 CIHR), most recently in 2019.
Supervised 1 trainee who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2024.

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Publications

116

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Research

Surgery Systematic Reviews Medical Devices Patient Safety Post-Market Surveillance Access To Care Discrete Event Simulation Health Services Research

Latest papers

Neural correlates of illness awareness in obesity: an exploratory pilot fMRI study.
Frontiers in neurology · 2026
A Randomized-Controlled Trial Examining Telephone-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Patients After Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery: 18 Month Follow-up Results.
Obesity surgery · 2025
Evaluating Perceptions of Head and Neck Surgeons on the Role of Single-Entry Models in Managing Surgical Waitlists in Ontario: A Qualitative Study.
Journal of otolaryngology - head & neck surgery = Le Journal d'oto-rhino-laryngologie et de chirurgie cervico-faciale · 2024

All 39 publications

Latest funding

Optimal Clinical and Geographic Placement of Integrated Community Health Services Centres: An Integrated Mixed Methods Approach
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$481,952
Establishing a predictive model for hand trauma recidivism using health administrative data in Ontario, Canada
CIHR · 2024 · Supervisor
$120,000
Hospital characteristics and Adverse event Rate Measurements (HARM) Evaluated over 21 years.
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
$457,470

All 25 grants and awards

39 publications.

Neural correlates of illness awareness in obesity: an exploratory pilot fMRI study.

Song J, Kim J, Bukovsky D, Volpe G, Morra M, Kambari Y, Carmona-Torres E, Ueno F, Chow C, Kyte S, Agarwal SM, Hahn M, Dash S, Sockalingam S, Urbach D, De Luca V, Pollock B, Graff-Guerrero A, Gerretsen P

Frontiers in neurology2026

DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2026.1675116 PMID: 41948616

A Randomized-Controlled Trial Examining Telephone-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Patients After Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery: 18 Month Follow-up Results.

Cassin SE, Park KE, Leung SE, Ma C, Tomlinson G, Hawa R, Wnuk S, Jackson T, Urbach D, Okrainec A, Brown J, Sandre D, Sockalingam S

Obesity surgery2025

DOI: 10.1007/s11695-025-08163-2 PMID: 40887513

Evaluating Perceptions of Head and Neck Surgeons on the Role of Single-Entry Models in Managing Surgical Waitlists in Ontario: A Qualitative Study.

Shapiro J, Axelrod C, Levy BB, Bandargal S, Steinberg EC, Wener E, Almeida J, Davies J, Rotenberg B, Eskander A, Chung J, Urbach D, Chan Y

Journal of otolaryngology - head & neck surgery = Le Journal d'oto-rhino-laryngologie et de chirurgie cervico-faciale2024

DOI: 10.1177/19160216241286793 PMID: 39330971

The price of neonatal intensive care outcomes - in-hospital costs of morbidities related to preterm birth.

Rolnitsky A, Unger S, Urbach D, Bell CM

Frontiers in pediatrics2023

DOI: 10.3389/fped.2023.1068367 PMID: 36824649

Efficacy of Telephone-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Weight Loss, Disordered Eating, and Psychological Distress After Bariatric Surgery: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Sockalingam S, Leung SE, Ma C, Tomlinson G, Hawa R, Wnuk S, Jackson T, Urbach D, Okrainec A, Brown J, Sandre D, Cassin SE

JAMA network open2023

DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.27099 PMID: 37535357

Scheduled and urgent inguinal hernia repair in Ontario, Canada between 2010 and 2022: Population-based cross sectional analysis of trends and outcomes.

Habbous S, Gomez D, Urbach D, Hellsten E

PloS one2023

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0296258 PMID: 38134127

Surgeon Thyroidectomy Case Volume Impacts Disease-free Survival in the Management of Thyroid Cancer.

Eskander A, Noel CW, Griffiths R, Pasternak JD, Higgins K, Urbach D, Goldstein DP, Irish JC, Fu R

The Laryngoscope2023

DOI: 10.1002/lary.30276 PMID: 35796293

Surgical Case Volume has an Impact on Outcomes for Patients with Lateral Neck Disease in Thyroid Cancer.

Siu J, Griffiths R, Noel CW, Austin PC, Pasternak J, Urbach D, Monteiro E, Goldstein DP, Irish JC, Sawka AM, Eskander A

Annals of surgical oncology2022

DOI: 10.1245/s10434-021-10923-0 PMID: 34705145

A Population-Based Analysis of Outpatient Thyroidectomy: Safe and Under-Utilized.

Noel CW, Griffiths R, Siu J, Forner D, Urbach D, Freeman J, Goldstein DP, Irish JC, Higgins KM, Devon K, Pasternak JD, Eskander A

The Laryngoscope2021

DOI: 10.1002/lary.29816 PMID: 34378810

Regional variation in cost of neonatal intensive care for extremely preterm infants.

Rolnitsky A, Urbach D, Unger S, Bell CM

BMC pediatrics2021

DOI: 10.1186/s12887-021-02600-8 PMID: 33731048

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David Urbach

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Neural correlates of illness awareness in obesity: an exploratory pilot fMRI study.

A Randomized-Controlled Trial Examining Telephone-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Patients After Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery: 18 Month Follow-up Results.

Evaluating Perceptions of Head and Neck Surgeons on the Role of Single-Entry Models in Managing Surgical Waitlists in Ontario: A Qualitative Study.

The price of neonatal intensive care outcomes - in-hospital costs of morbidities related to preterm birth.

Efficacy of Telephone-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Weight Loss, Disordered Eating, and Psychological Distress After Bariatric Surgery: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Scheduled and urgent inguinal hernia repair in Ontario, Canada between 2010 and 2022: Population-based cross sectional analysis of trends and outcomes.

Surgeon Thyroidectomy Case Volume Impacts Disease-free Survival in the Management of Thyroid Cancer.

Surgical Case Volume has an Impact on Outcomes for Patients with Lateral Neck Disease in Thyroid Cancer.

A Population-Based Analysis of Outpatient Thyroidectomy: Safe and Under-Utilized.

Regional variation in cost of neonatal intensive care for extremely preterm infants.

Frequent collaborators

Sanjeev Sockalingam

Antoine Eskander

Timothy Jackson

Muhammad Mamdani

Paul Kurdyak

Antonio Finelli

Anna Gagliardi

Tony Panzarella

Rinku Sutradhar

Clement Ma

George Tomlinson

Sharon Unger

Linda Rabeneck

Anna Gagliardi

Philip Gerretsen

Neil Fleshner

Patricia Trbovich

Karim Ladha

Melissa Brouwers

Fahima Dossa

Erik Hellsten

Kathleen Bingham

Rui Fu

Girish Kulkarni

Marko Simunovic

Nancy Baxter

Catherine O'Brien

Jill Tinmouth

Shawn Forbes

Karim Ramji