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Mark Boulos
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Latest papers
Study protocol for the Outcomes Post-Treatment: Impact on Motor Impairment of Sleep Efficiency in Spinal Cord Injury (OPTIMISE SCI) - a randomised controlled trial.
BMJ open · 2025 · senior author
Reliability of Automatic Computer Vision-Based Assessment of Orofacial Kinematics for Telehealth Applications.
Digital biomarkers · 2022
An Unusual Cause of Stroke—the Importance of Saline Contrast Echocardiography
Echocardiography · 2008
Latest funding
- $6,000
Examining the use of Cannabis for the Treatment of Restless Legs Syndrome
CIHR · 2026 · Supervisor
- $100,000
Development of Advanced Machine Learning Models and Novel Voice Biomarkers for Sleep Apnea Assessment
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $250,000
Stroke in Women: Growing Opportunities to Realize optimal Evaluation, Diagnosis, and outcomes (StrokeGoRed)
CIHR · 2024 · Principal investigator
3 publications.
Study protocol for the Outcomes Post-Treatment: Impact on Motor Impairment of Sleep Efficiency in Spinal Cord Injury (OPTIMISE SCI) - a randomised controlled trial.
Furlan JC, Yao C, McKay M, Walsh S, Boulos M
Reliability of Automatic Computer Vision-Based Assessment of Orofacial Kinematics for Telehealth Applications.
Simmatis L, Barnett C, Marzouqah R, Taati B, Boulos M, Yunusova Y
An Unusual Cause of Stroke—the Importance of Saline Contrast Echocardiography
Tsang W, Boulos M, Moody AR, Sahlas DJ, Morgan CD
Examining the use of Cannabis for the Treatment of Restless Legs Syndrome
Principal investigators: Ali, Hephzibah Ojonuyo
Keywords: Disorder; Legs; Quality Of Life; Restless Legs Syndrome; Sleep
Development of Advanced Machine Learning Models and Novel Voice Biomarkers for Sleep Apnea Assessment
Principal investigators: Yadollahi, Azadeh
Keywords: Airway Collapsibility; Diagnosis; Machine Learning; Sleep Apnea; Sleep Apnea Treatment; Voice
Stroke in Women: Growing Opportunities to Realize optimal Evaluation, Diagnosis, and outcomes (StrokeGoRed)
Principal investigators: Yu, Amy Ying Xin; Boulos, Mark I; Coutts, Shelagh B; Ganesh, Aravind; Kamal, Noreen R; Kapral, Moira K; MacDonald, Shannon; MacIntosh, Bradley J; Quigley, Adria; Rudzicz, Frank; Tang, Ada; Zhou, Lily W
Keywords: Administrative Data; Diagnosis; Gender; Indigenous Health; Neuroimaging; Outcomes; Rehabilitation; Sex; Stroke; Treatment
Understanding how, why and for whom Lifestyle Medicine Interventions work for the management of Hypertension as a Modifiable Risk Factor to reduce Stroke and Vascular Cognitive Impairment & Dementia: A Realist Review
Principal investigators: Pikula, Aleksandra; Ibrahim, Sarah; Rac, Valeria E
Keywords: Hypertension; Knowledge Translation; Lifestyle Interventions; Modifiable Risk Factors; Stroke; Vascular Cognitive Impairment And Dementia (Vcid)
Using an Interactive Website to Disseminate Normal Overnight and Daytime Polysomnography Parameters
Principal investigators: Boulos, Mark I; Kendzerska, Tetyana
Keywords: Cluster Analysis; Interactive Web-Based Tool; Multiple Sleep Latency Test; Normative Data; Polysomnography; Sleep; Sleep Disorders
Strengthening Oropharyngeal Muscles as a Novel Approach to Treat Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Principal investigators: Boulos, Mark I; Asztalos, Elizabeth V; Yunusova, Yana
Keywords: Home Sleep Apnea Test; Obstructive Sleep Apnea; Oropharyngeal Exercises; Randomized Controlled Trial; Speech Language Pathology; Therapy
Cardiac DOC: the predictive validity of a simple screen for Depression, Obstructive sleep apnea and Cognitive impairment (DOC) to identify heart failure patients at risk of adverse outcomes in a prospective, multicenter cohort.
Principal investigators: Swartz, Richard; Edwards, Jodi D; Ross, Heather J
Keywords: Cognitive Impairment; Comorbidity; Death; Depression; Diagnostic Testing; Heart Failure; Myocardial Infarction; Obstructive Sleep Apnea; Outcome Study; Screening
CardiacDOC: Prospective multi-centre feasibility and validation of a unified screening tool for Depression, Obstructive sleep apnea and Cognition (DOC) in heart failure patients
Principal investigators: Swartz, Richard; Edwards, Jodi D
Keywords: Cognitive Impairment; Comorbidity; Depression; Diagnostic Testing; Heart Failure; Obstructive Sleep Apnea; Screening; Sensitivity/Specificity; Validation
Using an Interactive Website to Disseminate Normal Polysomnography Parameters in Healthy Adults
Principal investigators: Boulos, Mark I; Ayas, Najib; Kendzerska, Tetyana
Keywords: Meta-Analysis; Normative; Polysomnography; Sleep; Website
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
- Yana Yunusova and Babak Taati: 6 shared papers
- Mark Boulos and Mark Boulos: 3 shared papers
- Demetrios Sahlas and Mark Boulos: 1 shared paper
- Demetrios Sahlas and Mark Boulos: 1 shared paper
- Yana Yunusova and Mark Boulos: 1 shared paper
- Yana Yunusova and Mark Boulos: 1 shared paper
- Mark Boulos and Babak Taati: 1 shared paper
- Babak Taati and Mark Boulos: 1 shared paper
- Department of Medicine
- Medicine
- Department of Speech-Language Pathology
- Other
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