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Jerome Leis
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Latest papers
Using behavioural science to improve antibiotic stewardship in Canadian long-term care homes: Protocol for a multi-center cluster randomized quality improvement study.
Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada · 2025
Gentamicin Vestibulotoxicity: Further Insights From a Large Clinical Series.
Otology & neurotology : official publication of the American Otological Society, American Neurotology Society [and] European Academy of Otology and Neurotology · 2020
Impact of two-step urine culture ordering in the emergency department: a time series analysis.
BMJ quality & safety · 2018
Latest funding
- $300,000
Canadian antibiotic prescribing feedback initiative: Building a national framework to combat antimicrobial resistance in primary care (CANBuild-AMR)
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $100,000
Investigating the genomic epidemiology, transmission, and infectivity of the non-influenza respiratory viruses
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $50,000
COVID-19 Variant Supplement - The COVID-19 Hospital Analytics Laboratory: Improving the Clinical, Organizational, and System Response to COVID-19
CIHR · 2021 · Co-investigator
4 publications.
Using behavioural science to improve antibiotic stewardship in Canadian long-term care homes: Protocol for a multi-center cluster randomized quality improvement study.
Good T, Cila J, Mosher R, Puka K, Reynolds S, Catt B, Mounchili A, Gravel-Tropper D, Quail P, McGeer A, Moser A, Ashcroft M, Daley P, Piggott K, Leis J, Morrissey M
Gentamicin Vestibulotoxicity: Further Insights From a Large Clinical Series.
Fu TS, Carr SD, Douglas-Jones P, Dillon W, Ilan O, Syed IM, Leis J, Gold W, Pothier DD, Rutka JA
Impact of two-step urine culture ordering in the emergency department: a time series analysis.
Stagg A, Lutz H, Kirpalaney S, Matelski JJ, Kaufman A, Leis J, McCready J, Powis J
Explanation and elaboration of the SQUIRE (Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting Excellence) Guidelines, V.2.0: examples of SQUIRE elements in the healthcare improvement literature
Daisy Goodman, Greg S. Ogrinc, Louise Davies, G. Ross Baker, Jane Barnsteiner, Tina C. Foster, Kari Gali, Joanne M. Hilden, Leora Idit Horwitz, Heather C. Kaplan, Jerome Allen Leis, John C. Matulis, Susan G. Michie, Rebecca Suzie Miltner, Julia B. Neily, William A. Nelson, Matthew F. Niedner, Brant J. Oliver, Lori Rutman, Richard Thomson, Johan Thor
Canadian antibiotic prescribing feedback initiative: Building a national framework to combat antimicrobial resistance in primary care (CANBuild-AMR)
Principal investigators: Schwartz, Kevin L; Sheppard, Donald C; Bonnar, Paul; Burnes Achtymichuk, Laura; Daley, Peter; Ivers, Noah M; Légaré, France; Patrick, David M; Singer, Alexander G; Vanstone, Jason R
Keywords: Antibiotic Use; Antimicrobial Resistance; Antimicrobial Stewardship; Audit And Feedback; Evaluation; Implementation Science; Primary Care
Investigating the genomic epidemiology, transmission, and infectivity of the non-influenza respiratory viruses
Principal investigators: Kozak, Robert A; McGeer, Allison J
Keywords: Infectivity; Long-Term Care; Nosocomial Outbreaks; Respiratory Viruses; Rna Viruses; Transmission; Whole-Genome Sequencing
COVID-19 Variant Supplement - The COVID-19 Hospital Analytics Laboratory: Improving the Clinical, Organizational, and System Response to COVID-19
Principal investigators: Verma, Amol; Greenberg, Anna; Chan, Timothy; Cheung, Angela M; Ghassemi, Marzyeh; Herridge, Margaret S; Mamdani, Muhammad; Razak, Fahad; Rosella, Laura C
Keywords: Clinical Data Platform; Hospital Medicine
COVID-19 Variant Network - The COVID-19 Hospital Analytics Laboratory: Improving the Clinical, Organizational, and System Response to COVID-19
Principal investigators: Verma, Amol; Greenberg, Anna; Chan, Timothy; Cheung, Angela M; Ghassemi, Marzyeh; Herridge, Margaret S; Mamdani, Muhammad; Razak, Fahad; Rosella, Laura C
Keywords: Clinical Data Platform; Hospital Medicine
Risk of Environmental Surface and Air Contamination in COVID-19 Caused by Variant Viruses (RISC-COV-Variants)
Principal investigators: McGeer, Allison J; Gingras, Anne-Claude; Mubareka, Samira
Keywords: Covid-19; Diagnosis; Transmission; Variants Of Concern
COVID-19: Improving the Evidence to Treat an Emerging Infection Through Observational Studies and a Randomized Trial
Principal investigators: Murthy, Srinivas; Amuasi, John; Fowler, Robert A
Keywords: Clinical Characterization; Knowledge Translation; Randomized Clinical Trial; Stakeholder Perspectives
COVID-19 Ring-based Prevention trial for Undermining Spread (CORPUS)
Principal investigators: Tan, Darrell H; McGeer, Allison J
Keywords: Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial; Covid-19; Epidemiology; Lopinavir/Ritonavir; Post-Exposure Prophylaxis
The COVID-19 Hospital Analytics Laboratory: Improving the Clinical, Organizational, and System Response to COVID-19
Principal investigators: Verma, Amol; Greenberg, Anna; Chan, Timothy; Cheung, Angela M; Ghassemi, Marzyeh; Herridge, Margaret S; Mamdani, Muhammad; Razak, Fahad; Rosella, Laura C
Keywords: Clinical Data Platform; Hospital Medicine
Effectiveness of Identifying C. difficile Asymptomatic Carriers on the Incidence of C. difficile Infection (EFFICACI): A Stepped Wedge Cluster Randomized Trial
Principal investigators: Longtin, Yves; Lee, Todd C; Loo, Vivian G; McDonald, Emily G
Keywords: Antibimicrobial Stewardship; Asymptomatic Carriage; Clostridium Difficile Infection; Infection Prevention And Control; Interventional Study; Isolation Precautions; Population-Based Research; Stepped Wedge Cluster Randomized Trial
Assessment of Cancer Patient and Caregiver Perspective on the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) and the Impact on Delivery of Cancer Care at an Institution with a Confirmed Case of COVID-19
Principal investigators: Singh, Simron
Keywords: Cancer; Covid-2019; Knowledge Translation; Qualitative Research; Quantitative Research; Risk Perception
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
- Allison McGeer and Peter Daley: 8 shared papers
- Jeff Powis and Janine McCready: 4 shared papers
- Allison McGeer and Jeff Powis: 3 shared papers
- Allison McGeer and Andrea Moser: 2 shared papers
- Allison McGeer and Janine McCready: 2 shared papers
- Andrea Moser and Peter Daley: 2 shared papers
- Allison McGeer and Katrina Piggott: 1 shared paper
- Allison McGeer and Jerome Leis: 1 shared paper
- Andrea Moser and Katrina Piggott: 1 shared paper
- Andrea Moser and Jerome Leis: 1 shared paper
- Peter Daley and Katrina Piggott: 1 shared paper
- Peter Daley and Jerome Leis: 1 shared paper
- William Nelson and Jerome Leis: 1 shared paper
- Wayne Gold and Jerome Leis: 1 shared paper
- Jeff Powis and Jerome Leis: 1 shared paper
- Katrina Piggott and Jerome Leis: 1 shared paper
- Jerome Leis and Janine McCready: 1 shared paper
- Department of Medicine
- Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology
- Infectious Diseases/Internal Medicine
- Department of Biology
- 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.
Janine McCready
Department of Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Allison McGeer
Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Andrea Moser
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Peter Daley
Infectious Diseases/Internal Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2025
William Nelson
Department of Biology
1 shared papers, latest 2016
Wayne Gold
Department of Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Jeff Powis
Department of Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Katrina Piggott
Department of Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2025
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