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Tara Gomes

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ProfessorPsychosocial Oncology and Palliative CareUniversity of Toronto

Tara Gomes

Professor

Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care

Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Canada Research Chair in Drug Policy and Substance Use

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148 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 77 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 21 research grants (21 CIHR), most recently in 2025.
Supervisor on 4 trainee awards (4 CIHR), most recently in 2025.

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332

Publications

3,952

Citations

236

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Grants

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Research

Read how they describe their research on their University of Toronto profile.

Opioid Use Disorder Pharmacoepidemiology Mental Health And Addictions Methadone Drug Safety Policy Evaluation Opioid Agonist Treatment Opioid Agonist Therapy

Latest papers

Opioid Toxicity Following Concomitant Use of Macrolide Antibiotics with Fentanyl, Hydromorphone, or Oxycodone: A Population‐Based Study
Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics · 2026 · senior author
Mailed Audit and Feedback for Antibiotic Prescribing in Primary Care
JAMA Network Open · 2026
Evaluating equitable access based on sociodemographic predictors of nirmatrelvir-ritonavir use during the first year of availability in Ontario, Canada: A population-based ecological study
Canadian Journal of Public Health · 2026

All 332 publications

Latest funding

Preconception mental illness and perinatal psychiatric risk: a population-based study
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$233,324
Evaluating the quality, accessibility, effectiveness, and safety of residential treatment services for opioid use disorder in Ontario
CIHR · 2025 · Nominated PI
$757,352
Advancing HIV, STBBI Health Equity through Substance Use Health: A Pan-Canadian Research, Knowledge Translation and Capacity Building Network
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$992,626

All 50 grants and awards

From the 150 most recent of 332 publications.

Opioid Toxicity Following Concomitant Use of Macrolide Antibiotics with Fentanyl, Hydromorphone, or Oxycodone: A Population‐Based Study

Antoniou T, Yang J, Juurlink DN, Ho JM, Mamdani M, Wu F, Tadrous M, Gomes T

Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics20261 citationsSenior author

DOI: 10.1002/cpt.70267

Mailed Audit and Feedback for Antibiotic Prescribing in Primary Care

Masucci L, Schwartz K, Ivers N, Bai L, Brown K, Tadrous M, Grimshaw JM, Witteman HO, Friedman L, Langford BJ

JAMA Network Open2026

DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2026.1641

Evaluating equitable access based on sociodemographic predictors of nirmatrelvir-ritonavir use during the first year of availability in Ontario, Canada: A population-based ecological study

Lacroix M, Langford BJ, Chen C, Wang J, Tadrous M, Daneman N, Leung V, Gomes T, Friedman L, Daley P

Canadian Journal of Public Health2026

DOI: 10.17269/s41997-026-01189-8

Safety of antibiotic audit and feedback: secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial

Schwartz KL, Bai L, Brown KA, Tadrous M, Grimshaw JM, Witteman HO, Friedman L, Langford BJ, Leung V, Gomes T

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy2026

DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkag216

Recent hydromorphone injection and risk of incident infective endocarditis among people who inject drugs in Toronto, Canada: a cohort study.

Bakewell N, Bouck Z, Greenwald ZR, Upham K, Warren CM, Birck MG, Moura CS, Bernatsky S, Neville A, Gomes T, Werb D

Harm reduction journal2026

DOI: 10.1186/s12954-026-01479-x PMID: 42321840

Association between initial benzodiazepine prescribing patterns and time to benzodiazepine discontinuation: A population-based retrospective cohort study.

Bozinoff N, Hauck TS, Kleinman RA, Sloan ME, Sproule BA, Vigod SN, Wyman J, Pequeno P, Gomes T

PLoS medicine2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1005126 PMID: 42313778

Immigration Status and Time to Accessing Publicly Funded Flash Glucose Monitoring Systems.

Elias MN, Allin S, Yang J, Chiu M, Shah BR, Wu F, Gomes T

JAMA network open2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2026.16141 PMID: 42228372

The Longer-Term Impact of Biosimilar Switching Policies in Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease in British Columbia, Canada: A Retrospective, Population-Based Study.

Harrison M, Blitz S, Law M, Tadrous M, Gomes T, Clement F, Rosenfeld G, Anis A, Bansback N

Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety2026

DOI: 10.1002/pds.70395 PMID: 42157439

The short-term impacts of the decriminalization of personal possession of select illegal drugs on drug possession criminal incidents and criminal cases in British Columbia, Canada (2013 to 2023).

Abdul SA, Wu E, Jiang H, Russell C, Ali F, Rehm J, Butler A, Elton-Marshall T, Henderson I, Gomes T, Greer A, Kinniburgh B, Le Foll B, Palis H, Patenaude S, Imtiaz S

The International journal on drug policy2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2026.105261 PMID: 41985344

Measuring the Impact of the Substitution of Innovator Biologics With Biosimilars on Uptake and Costs Among Ontario Public Drug Benefit Recipients.

Iacono A, Ho MKH, Yang J, Campbell T, Wynne W, Shearer D, Andersen L, Majer E, Ledlie S, Tadrous M, Gomes T

Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1002/cpt.70214 PMID: 41589765

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Tara Gomes

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Opioid Toxicity Following Concomitant Use of Macrolide Antibiotics with Fentanyl, Hydromorphone, or Oxycodone: A Population‐Based Study

Mailed Audit and Feedback for Antibiotic Prescribing in Primary Care

Evaluating equitable access based on sociodemographic predictors of nirmatrelvir-ritonavir use during the first year of availability in Ontario, Canada: A population-based ecological study

Safety of antibiotic audit and feedback: secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial

Recent hydromorphone injection and risk of incident infective endocarditis among people who inject drugs in Toronto, Canada: a cohort study.

Association between initial benzodiazepine prescribing patterns and time to benzodiazepine discontinuation: A population-based retrospective cohort study.

Immigration Status and Time to Accessing Publicly Funded Flash Glucose Monitoring Systems.

The Longer-Term Impact of Biosimilar Switching Policies in Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease in British Columbia, Canada: A Retrospective, Population-Based Study.

The short-term impacts of the decriminalization of personal possession of select illegal drugs on drug possession criminal incidents and criminal cases in British Columbia, Canada (2013 to 2023).

Measuring the Impact of the Substitution of Innovator Biologics With Biosimilars on Uptake and Costs Among Ontario Public Drug Benefit Recipients.

Frequent collaborators

Mina Tadrous

Tony Antoniou

J Michael Paterson

Muhammad Mamdani

Pamela Leece

Nikki Bozinoff

Yona Lunsky

Yona Lunsky

Gillian Kolla

Kathleen Pajer

William Gardner

Hannah Wunsch

Melanie Penner

Jennifer Wyman

Astrid Guttmann

Rinku Sutradhar

Gillian Kolla

David Juurlink

Anne Marie Holbrook

Carol Strike

Nick Daneman

Beth Sproule

Michael Fralick

Samantha Young

Paul Kurdyak

Gillian Kolla

Joanne Ho

Amit Garg

Andreas Laupacis

Paul Oh

Noah Ivers

Bradley Langford

Monica Taljaard

Noah Ivers

Teresa To

Karen Tu

Merrick Zwarenstein

Gary Garber

Kednapa Thavorn

Danielle Martin