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Laura Avila

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Faculty memberInstitute of Health Policy, Management, and EvaluationUniversity of Toronto

Laura Avila

Faculty member

Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation

Dalla Lana School of Public Health

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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32 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 16 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.

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Research

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Latest papers

Exploring the clothing-related needs and barriers of children and youth with physical disabilities: a scoping review.
Disability and rehabilitation · 2026
Explaining recurrent thrombotic events and predicting bleeding in critically ill neonates diagnosed with umbilical central venous catheter-related portal vein thrombosis.
Journal of thrombosis and haemostasis : JTH · 2026 · senior author
Ultrafast shear-wave elastography for pediatric deep vein thrombosis: a prospective feasibility study.
Pediatric radiology · 2026 · senior author

All 70 publications

70 publications.

Exploring the clothing-related needs and barriers of children and youth with physical disabilities: a scoping review.

Alam R, Abdeahad N, Novak AC, Avila L, Lindsay S

Disability and rehabilitation2026

DOI: 10.1080/09638288.2025.2573856 PMID: 41116150

Explaining recurrent thrombotic events and predicting bleeding in critically ill neonates diagnosed with umbilical central venous catheter-related portal vein thrombosis.

Goren K, Brandão LR, Lee KS, Hilwah L, Mancini A, Vincelli J, Avila L

Journal of thrombosis and haemostasis : JTH2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.jtha.2026.06.039 PMID: 42413823

Ultrafast shear-wave elastography for pediatric deep vein thrombosis: a prospective feasibility study.

Aguet J, Fakhari N, Mertens L, Baranger J, Villemain O, Brandao LR, Avila L

Pediatric radiology2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1007/s00247-026-06733-9 PMID: 42550209

An International Survey on the Assessment of Screening and Treatment of Thrombosis Complications in Pediatrics (ASTRO-Kids): communication from the ISTH SSC Subcommittee on Pediatric and Neonatal Thrombosis and Hemostasis.

Cohen C, Klaassen I, Zhang S, Kumar R, Ahuja S, Goldenberg N, Rajpurkar M, Betensky M, Avila L, Zia A

Journal of thrombosis and haemostasis : JTH2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.jtha.2026.03.001 PMID: 41833696

Healthcare Professional Identified Priorities for a New Musculoskeletal Examination Scoring System for People With Hemophilia-an International Consensus.

Teshler L, Abad A, Aspdahl M, Avila L, Bladen M, Funk S, Hilliard P, John JA, Manco-Johnson M, Net JV, Stephensen D, St-Louis J, Timmer M, Warren BB, Wright FV, Zourikian N, Feldman BM

Haemophilia : the official journal of the World Federation of Hemophilia2026

DOI: 10.1111/hae.70368 PMID: 42659406

Screening, diagnosis, and management of pediatric postthrombotic syndrome following extremity thrombosis.

Avila L, Betensky M, Klaassen I, Rajpurkar M, Zia A

Journal of thrombosis and haemostasis : JTH2026First author

DOI: 10.1016/j.jtha.2025.11.031 PMID: 41448541

A global survey on practice changes and barriers to the use of direct oral anticoagulants in children.

Avila ML, Di Ruggiero E, Vincelli J, Brandão LR

Blood advances20254 citationsFirst authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2025016681 PMID: 40353824

Clinically relevant outcomes for research in pediatric pulmonary embolism: communication from the ISTH SSC Subcommittee on Pediatric/Neonatal Thrombosis and Hemostasis

Ayesha N Zia, Hilary Whitworth, Laura Avila, Frederikus Albertus Klok, Manal Alqahtani, Deepa Gopalan, Megan Griffiths, Rachel Pam Greenerger Rosovsky, Suzan A. Williams, Tony G. Babb, Madhvi Rajpurkar

Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis20252 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.jtha.2025.10.014 PMID: 41192569

Skeletal muscle oxygenation and fluid content in upper extremity postthrombotic syndrome: a proof-of-concept study.

Avila L, Thomas S, Mancini A, Wong G, Wong B, Brandão LR, Stavrakoukas A, Ward L, Bentley RF

Research and practice in thrombosis and haemostasis20252 citationsFirst authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.rpth.2025.103008 PMID: 40980256

Recurrent thrombotic events in pediatric antiphospholipid syndrome: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Alexandra Zabeida, Alessandra Bosch, Elizabeth M. Uleryk, Laura Avila

Thrombosis Research20242 citationsSenior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.thromres.2024.109116 PMID: 39167942

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Laura Avila

Research

Latest papers

Exploring the clothing-related needs and barriers of children and youth with physical disabilities: a scoping review.

Explaining recurrent thrombotic events and predicting bleeding in critically ill neonates diagnosed with umbilical central venous catheter-related portal vein thrombosis.

Ultrafast shear-wave elastography for pediatric deep vein thrombosis: a prospective feasibility study.

An International Survey on the Assessment of Screening and Treatment of Thrombosis Complications in Pediatrics (ASTRO-Kids): communication from the ISTH SSC Subcommittee on Pediatric and Neonatal Thrombosis and Hemostasis.

Healthcare Professional Identified Priorities for a New Musculoskeletal Examination Scoring System for People With Hemophilia-an International Consensus.

Screening, diagnosis, and management of pediatric postthrombotic syndrome following extremity thrombosis.

A global survey on practice changes and barriers to the use of direct oral anticoagulants in children.

Clinically relevant outcomes for research in pediatric pulmonary embolism: communication from the ISTH SSC Subcommittee on Pediatric/Neonatal Thrombosis and Hemostasis

Skeletal muscle oxygenation and fluid content in upper extremity postthrombotic syndrome: a proof-of-concept study.

Recurrent thrombotic events in pediatric antiphospholipid syndrome: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Frequent collaborators

Maria Avila

Brian Feldman

Eleanor Pullenayegum

Jennifer Stinson

Marie-Claude Pelland-Marcotte

Robert Bentley

Prakesh Shah

Prakeshkumar Shah

Lee Dupuis

Kuan Liu

Scott Thomas

Julien Aguet

Victor Blanchette

Suzan Williams

George Tomlinson

Luc Mertens

Erica Di Ruggiero

Abha Gupta

Neil Goldenberg

Yaron Finkelstein

Jane Thornton

Sanja Stanojevic

Samantha Stephens

Olivier Villemain

Gino Somers