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Sarah Colman

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Assistant ProfessorDepartment of PsychiatryUniversity of Toronto

Sarah Colman

Assistant Professor

Department of Psychiatry

Temerty Faculty of Medicine

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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8 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 1 recent paper, a sign of leading a research group.

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Research

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Latest papers

Standardizing care for agitation in Alzheimer's disease, results from a randomized controlled trial of an integrated care pathway versus usual care – the StaN trial
Alzheimer's and Dementia · 2026
Exploring the Landscape of Intensive Outreach Services for Older Adults With Serious Mental Illness: A Scoping Review.
The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry · 2025
Sex Differences in Phenomenology of Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia
Neurodegenerative Diseases · 2025

All 13 publications

13 publications.

Standardizing care for agitation in Alzheimer's disease, results from a randomized controlled trial of an integrated care pathway versus usual care – the StaN trial

Kumar S, Burhan AM, Colman S, Chu L, Davies S, Derkach P, Elmi S, Gerretsen P, Graff‐Guerrero A, Greenway K

Alzheimer's and Dementia2026Open Access

DOI: 10.1002/alz.71610

Exploring the Landscape of Intensive Outreach Services for Older Adults With Serious Mental Illness: A Scoping Review.

Stanley C, Namasivayam A, Colman S, Stergiopoulos V

The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry20253 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.jagp.2025.04.208 PMID: 40348667

Sex Differences in Phenomenology of Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia

Choudhury S, Colman S, Chu L, Davies SJC, Derkach P, Elmi S, Fischer CE, Gerretsen P, Graff-Guerrero A, Hussain M

Neurodegenerative Diseases2025Open Access

DOI: 10.1159/000548713

The impact of lifetime excessive alcohol use on behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia

Tavakoli E, Niciforos E, Amid P, Cuperfain AB, Burhan AM, Colman S, Chu L, Davies SJC, Derkach P, Gerretsen P

Alcohol and Alcoholism2025

DOI: 10.1093/alcalc/agaf048

Are Opioids Agitating? A Data Analysis of Baseline Data from the STAN Study.

Lesage M, Cinalioglu K, Chan S, Kumar S, Rajji T, Melichercik A, Desjardins C, Friedland J, Burhan A, Colman S, Chu L, Davies S, Derkach P, Elmi S, Gerretsen P, Graff-Guerrero A, Hussain M, Ismail Z, Kim D, Krisman L, Moghabghab R, Mulsant BH, Pollock BG, Rostas A, Van Bussel L, StaN Study Group, Rej S

Journal of Alzheimer's disease reports2024Open Access

DOI: 10.3233/adr-240025 PMID: 39434822

Coaching in Postgraduate Competency-Based Medical Education: a Qualitative Exploration of Three Models.

Baenziger K, Chan M, Colman S

Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry2023Senior author

DOI: 10.1007/s40596-022-01628-x PMID: 35501473

Impact of standardizing care for agitation in dementia using an integrated care pathway on an inpatient geriatric psychiatry unit.

Kumar S, Shanbhag A, Burhan AM, Colman S, Gerretsen P, Graff-Guerrero A, Kim D, Ma C, Mulsant BH, Pollock BG, Woo VL, Davies SJC, Rajji TK

International psychogeriatrics202210 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1017/s1041610222000321 PMID: 35546289

The Rationale and Design of Behavioral Interventions for Management of Agitation in Dementia in a Multi-Site Clinical Trial.

Zarei S, Colman S, Rostas A, Burhan AM, Chu L, Davies SJ, Derkach P, Elmi S, Hussain M, Gerretsen P, Graff-Guerrero A, Ismail Z, Kim D, Krisman L, Moghabghab R, Mulsant BH, Nair V, Pollock BG, Rej S, Simmons J, Van Bussel L, Rajji TK, Kumar S, StaN Study Group

Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD20223 citations

DOI: 10.3233/jad-215261 PMID: 35147535

Invited letter: Integrated palliative care in a geriatric mental health setting during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Cristina de Lasa, Eric E. Brown, Rebecca E. Colman, Tarek K. Rajji, Sarah Colman

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry20215 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1002/gps.5654 PMID: 34792225

Curriculum Mapping: an Innovative Approach to Mapping the Didactic Lecture Series at the University of Toronto Postgraduate Psychiatry.

Colman S, Wong L, Wong AHC, Agrawal S, Darani SA, Beder M, Sharpe K, Soklaridis S

Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry20205 citationsFirst author

DOI: 10.1007/s40596-020-01186-0 PMID: 32026306

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Sarah Colman

Research

Latest papers

Standardizing care for agitation in Alzheimer's disease, results from a randomized controlled trial of an integrated care pathway versus usual care – the StaN trial

Exploring the Landscape of Intensive Outreach Services for Older Adults With Serious Mental Illness: A Scoping Review.

Sex Differences in Phenomenology of Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia

The impact of lifetime excessive alcohol use on behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia

Are Opioids Agitating? A Data Analysis of Baseline Data from the STAN Study.

Coaching in Postgraduate Competency-Based Medical Education: a Qualitative Exploration of Three Models.

Impact of standardizing care for agitation in dementia using an integrated care pathway on an inpatient geriatric psychiatry unit.

The Rationale and Design of Behavioral Interventions for Management of Agitation in Dementia in a Multi-Site Clinical Trial.

Invited letter: Integrated palliative care in a geriatric mental health setting during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Curriculum Mapping: an Innovative Approach to Mapping the Didactic Lecture Series at the University of Toronto Postgraduate Psychiatry.

Frequent collaborators

Tarek Rajji

Donna Kim

Philip Gerretsen

Sanjeev Kumar

Amer Burhan

Ariel Graff-Guerrero

Benoit Mulsant

Aviva Rostas

Soham Rej

Li Chu

Lisa VanBussel

Zahinoor Ismail

Maria Hussain

David Lloyd Streiner

Simon Davies

Clement Ma

Rebecca Colman

Shehroz Khan

Sanjeev Sockalingam

Maria Mylopoulos

Carrie McAiney

Sophie Soklaridis

Ari Cuperfain

Corinne Fischer