Heather Boon, University of Toronto

Research

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Pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences, n.e.c.Naturopathy Health services and systems Complementary and alternative medicine Health policy

Latest papers

Using the CARD system for university-based pop-up vaccination clinics: A two-stage hybrid effectiveness-implementation study.
Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2025
Care partner needs in Parkinson's disease: A systematic review of qualitative and quantitative data.
Journal of Parkinson's disease · 2025
Psychological stress associated with prognostic uncertainties in recently diagnosed Parkinson's disease patients: A qualitative study.
PloS one · 2025

All 53 publications

Latest funding

Integrative Medicine in North America: Paradigm Shift or New Physician Specialty?
CIHR · 2020 · Nominated PI
$455,175
Statutory Regulation and Emerging Traditional/Complementary Health Care Professions
CIHR · 2016 · Nominated PI
$279,224
The collaborative ideal in Canadian healthcare delivery: Its rise, practice and future
CIHR · 2016 · Co-investigator
$300,000

All 9 grants and awards

53 publications.

01

Using the CARD system for university-based pop-up vaccination clinics: A two-stage hybrid effectiveness-implementation study.

Gudzak V, Logeman C, Crown N, Ilersich ANT, Folinas M, McMurtry CM, Bucci LM, Shea C, Shah V, Boon H, Katz J, Dolovich L, Taddio A

Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics2025

DOI: 10.1080/21645515.2025.2509484 PMID: 40773168

02

Care partner needs in Parkinson's disease: A systematic review of qualitative and quantitative data.

Hulshoff M, Sun C, Book E, Tanner C, Dahodwala N, Reynolds B, Boon H, Marras C

Journal of Parkinson's disease2025

DOI: 10.1177/1877718x251344066 PMID: 40448327

03

Psychological stress associated with prognostic uncertainties in recently diagnosed Parkinson's disease patients: A qualitative study.

Aboelzahab YH, Bojmehrani A, Ahmed YE, Boon H, Marras C, Foty R

PloS one2025

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0319576 PMID: 40067783

04

A Randomized Three-Arm Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Study of Homeopathic Treatment of Children and Youth with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.

Brulé D, Landau-Halpern B, Nastase V, Zemans M, Mitsakakis N, Boon H

Journal of integrative and complementary medicine2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1089/jicm.2023.0043 PMID: 37672605

05

A Qualitative Study on the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Solid Organ Transplantation.

Puerto Nino AK, Batistella Zasso F, Boonchit A, Salim S, Mirza R, Ferenbok J, Mucsi I, Boon H, Levy G

Progress in transplantation (Aliso Viejo, Calif.)2023

DOI: 10.1177/15269248231212912 PMID: 37964560

06

Toward a 'green allopathy'? Naturopathic paradigm and practice in Ontario, Canada.

Ijaz N, Welsh S, Boon H

Social science & medicine (1982)2022Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115557 PMID: 36413855

07

Safety, Effectiveness, and Professional Judgment: A Survey of Training-Related Perspectives Among Physiotherapists Who Practise Acupuncture in Ontario.

Ijaz N, Zhang Q, Welsh S, Boon H

Physiotherapy Canada. Physiotherapie Canada2022Senior author

DOI: 10.3138/ptc-2020-0116 PMID: 37325209

08

A mixed-methods survey of physiotherapists who practice acupuncture and dry needling in Ontario, Canada: practice characteristics, motivations, and professional outcomes.

Ijaz N, Welsh S, Boon H

BMC complementary medicine and therapies2021Senior author

DOI: 10.1186/s12906-021-03440-w PMID: 34666749

09

A cross-sectional workforce survey of three traditional and complementary medicine professions in Ontario, Canada.

Ijaz N, Welsh S, Zhang Q, Brule D, Boon H

PloS one2021Senior author

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0250223 PMID: 33983955

10

A Comparative Study for License Application Regulations on Proprietary Chinese Medicines in Hong Kong and Canada.

Zhong LLD, Lam WC, Lu F, Tang XD, Lyu A, Bian Z, Boon H

Frontiers in medicine2021Senior author

DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2021.617625 PMID: 33768103

Integrative Medicine in North America: Paradigm Shift or New Physician Specialty?

Nominated PICIHR2020Project Grant

Principal investigators: Boon, Heather S

Keywords: Complementary And Alternative Medicine; Health Professions; Integative Medicine; Medical Specialties; North America; Physicians; Sociology Of Professions

$455,175

Statutory Regulation and Emerging Traditional/Complementary Health Care Professions

Nominated PICIHR2016Project Grant

Principal investigators: Boon, Heather S; Welsh, Sandy G

Keywords: Complementary Medicine; Health Care Professions; Mixed Methods; Professionalization; Qualitative Methods; Regulation; Traditional Medicine

$279,224

The collaborative ideal in Canadian healthcare delivery: Its rise, practice and future

Co-investigatorCIHR2016Project Grant

Principal investigators: Paradis, Elise

Keywords: Collaboration; Comparative Ethnography; Health Professions Education; Healthcare Delivery; Institutional Theory; Integrated Knowledge Translation; Interprofessional Education; Interprofessional Relations; Qualitative Research; Sociology

$300,000

Better education for better teamwork: Understanding the discourses to improve the practices of interprofessional education

Co-investigatorCIHR2012Operating Grant

Principal investigators: Whitehead, Cynthia

Keywords: Collaborative Practice; Critical Social Theory; Discourse Analysis; Foucault; History Of Health Professions Education; Interprofessional Education

$242,261

Integrative health care: ideal or reality

Co-investigatorSSHRC2006International Opportunities Fund

Principal investigators: Kelner, Merrijoy S.

Keywords: complementary medicine; integrated health care; health services; alternative medicine

$20,890

Exploring cultures of medicines-related health care decision-making by elderly women and men

Co-investigatorSSHRC2005Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Ballantyne, Peri J.

Keywords: elderly; medicines; decision-making; compliance/adherence; patient/professional relations

$114,585

Professionalism revisited: the tension between biomedicine and complementary and alternative medicine

Co-investigatorSSHRC2004Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Kelner, Merrijoy S.

Keywords: professionalization; work and occupations; complementary and alternative medicine; biomedicine; scientific method; professional boundaries and jurisdictions

$123,705

Canadian Advanced Foods and Biomaterials Network / Réseau Canadien sur les Aliments et Biomatériaux Avancés

Co-investigatorNSERC2003Networks of Centres of Excellence

Principal investigators: Yada, Rickey

$19,470,000

Complementary and alternative practitioners and the professionalization process: a comparative analysis of four health occupations

Co-investigatorSSHRC2000Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Kelner, Merrijoy

Keywords: occupations; professions; complementary and alternative medicine; power; conflict; professionalization

$100,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Frequent collaborators

Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division
Toronto General Research Institute
Medicine
Pharmacy Practice
Medicine/Neurology
Pediatrics
Rehabilitation Science
Other

Co-authors at University of Toronto, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.

Sandy Welsh

Faculty

10 shared papers, latest 2022

Paula Rochon

Faculty

4 shared papers, latest 2006

Sunita Vohra

Faculty

4 shared papers, latest 2014

Zubin Austin

Faculty

4 shared papers, latest 2014

Paula Rochon

Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division

4 shared papers, latest 2006

Claire Bombardier

Toronto General Research Institute

4 shared papers, latest 2006

David Moher

Medicine

3 shared papers, latest 2006

Kumanan Wilson

Faculty

2 shared papers, latest 2008

Sunita Vohra

Pediatrics

2 shared papers, latest 2018

Anna Taddio

Pharmacy Practice

2 shared papers, latest 2025

Connie Marras

Medicine/Neurology

2 shared papers, latest 2025

Natalie Crown

Faculty

1 shared papers, latest 2025

Ayelet Kuper

Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division

1 shared papers, latest 2017

Joel Gagnier

Faculty

1 shared papers, latest 2006

Raza Mirza

Institute for Human Development, Life Course & Aging

1 shared papers, latest 2023

Lisa Dolovich

Faculty

1 shared papers, latest 2025

Rahim Moineddin

Department of Family and Community Medicine

1 shared papers, latest 2008

Christine Shea

Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation

1 shared papers, latest 2025

Merrijoy Kelner

Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division

1 shared papers, latest 2006

Nicholas Mitsakakis

Biostatistics Division

1 shared papers, latest 2024

Vibhuti Shah

Clinical Developmental Psychology

1 shared papers, latest 2025

Istvan Mucsi

Faculty

1 shared papers, latest 2023

Paul Ritvo

Anesthesiology and Pain Management

1 shared papers, latest 2008

Karine Toupin April

Rehabilitation Sciences

1 shared papers, latest 2016

Peter Tugwell

School of Epidemiology and Public Health

1 shared papers, latest 2016

Paul Ritvo

Health Policy and Management

1 shared papers, latest 2008

Joel Katz

Faculty

1 shared papers, latest 2025

Vibhuti Shah

Faculty

1 shared papers, latest 2025

Edward Joseph Mills

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

1 shared papers, latest 2005

Elise Paradis

Faculty

1 shared papers, latest 2017

Jason Walter Busse

Anesthesia

1 shared papers, latest 2005

Gavin Andrews

Health, Aging & Society

1 shared papers, latest 2005

Anita R Gross

Rehabilitation Science

1 shared papers, latest 2018

Murray Krahn

Toronto General Research Institute

1 shared papers, latest 2012

Jennifer Stinson

Faculty

1 shared papers, latest 2016

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences, n.e.c. Dear Professor Boon, 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 "Using the CARD system for university-based pop-up vaccination clinics: A two-stage hybrid effectiveness-implementation study." (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 "Integrative Medicine in North America: Paradigm Shift or New Physician Specialty?" (2020), 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]