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Tara Kiran

ResearcherCentre for Urban Health SolutionsUniversity of Toronto

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Tara Kiran

Researcher

Centre for Urban Health Solutions

Health Sciences

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
44 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 12 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 5 research grants (5 CIHR), most recently in 2025.
Supervised 1 trainee who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2023.

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Research

Performance Measurement Quality Improvement Health Policy Primary Care Hospital Medicine Patient-Oriented Research Patient Engagement Chronic Disease

Latest papers

Complexity of medical needs and primary care attachment shape patient experiences with episodic virtual primary care: a mixed methods study in two Canadian provinces.
BMC primary care · 2026
Perceptions and use of publicly funded episodic virtual care: Cross-sectional survey data from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2026
Interprofessional teams and capacity in collaborative primary care: a rapid scoping review.
Systematic reviews · 2026

All 75 publications

Latest funding

Tying the kNOT: advancing Naturally Occurring Teams for pharmacist-primary care integration
CIHR · 2026 · Co-investigator
$554,626
Measuring What Matters to Patients and the Public: Co-developing Performance Measures for Primary Care
CIHR · 2025 · Nominated PI
$150,000
Our Health Counts Next Generations: Advancing Indigenist Data and Data Sovereignty to Assure Wellbeing Across Urban and Related Homelands
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$4,284,000

All 32 grants and awards

75 publications.

Complexity of medical needs and primary care attachment shape patient experiences with episodic virtual primary care: a mixed methods study in two Canadian provinces.

Correia RH, Hasan E, Gallant F, Doucet S, Kiran T, Lapointe-Shaw L, MacNeill AL, Thelen R, Welton S, Easley J, Grudniewicz A, Hedden L, Lavergne MR

BMC primary care2026

DOI: 10.1186/s12875-026-03441-z PMID: 42343257

Perceptions and use of publicly funded episodic virtual care: Cross-sectional survey data from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.

Hasan E, Gallant F, Correia RH, Welton S, Lapointe-Shaw L, Kiran T, Hedden L, Easley J, Austin N, Doucet S, MacNeill AL, Luke A, Thelen R, Newman C, Lavergne MR

Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien2026

DOI: 10.46747/cfp.7209555 PMID: 42728048

Interprofessional teams and capacity in collaborative primary care: a rapid scoping review.

Ansari H, Neupane D, Ivers N, Kiran T, Thirugnanasampanthar SS, Dourka J, Sibley LM, Khan PA, Nincic V, Thelen R, Pearce S, Rajendra K, Carter C, Martin D, Zhao J, Kong M, Tricco AC

Systematic reviews2026

DOI: 10.1186/s13643-026-03189-8 PMID: 42057206

Mapping policies, regulations, and practice supports for medical office assistants in primary care: a scoping review.

Shuldiner J, Ragunathan A, Mohammed J, Katz A, Andiappan M, Barber D, Condon A, Garber G, Kiran T, Hysong S, Schoon J, Martin D, Wong ST, Ivers N

BMC primary care2026

DOI: 10.1186/s12875-026-03222-8 PMID: 41721235

Elevating an invisible role: co-designing solutions to optimize medical office assistants in primary care.

Shuldiner J, Ragunathan A, Mohammed J, Khan A, Hare N, Meninato T, Haggerty J, Garber G, Reid RJ, Andiappan M, Martin D, Kaplan D, Kiran T, Hysong SJ, Wong ST, Zhao QJ, Sherlock C, Légaré F, Ivers N

BMC primary care2026

DOI: 10.1186/s12875-025-03155-8 PMID: 41495689

Timeliness, continuity or travel time: results of a choice-based analysis exploring public preferences for access to primary care in Canada

Kiran T, Daneshvarfard M, Beyer A, Martin D, Breton M, McCracken RK, Lavergne MR, Kovacina N, Katz A, Pinto AD

BMC Primary Care2026First author

DOI: 10.1186/s12875-026-03265-x

Strengthening family medicine through coaching-informed peer support: a pilot program evaluation.

Shuldiner J, Varkul O, Gnaneswaran T, Iqbal A, Szymanski K, Plenert E, Gill N, Smith SJ, Ramji N, Kim S, Tsang D, Kiran T, Ivers N

BMC primary care2025

DOI: 10.1186/s12875-025-02969-w PMID: 40855407

Changes and contributions to the gender pay gap in surgery in Canada: a repeated cross-sectional analysis from 1996 to 2020.

Cohen M, Dossa F, Moineddin R, Kiran T

BMJ open2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-103427 PMID: 41407425

Proportion of Female Physicians in a Specialty and Median Annual Payments in Ontario, Canada.

Kiran T, Schultz SE, Moineddin R, Daneshvarfard M, Cohen M, Latifovic L, Sibley LM, Glazier RH

JAMA network open2025First author

DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.49815 PMID: 41400950

Family Physicians in Focused Practice in Ontario, Canada: A Population-Level Study of Trends From 1993/1994 Through 2021/2022.

Ansari H, Glazier RH, Schultz SE, Green ME, Premji K, Frymire E, Daneshvarfard M, Jaakkimainen L, Kiran T

Annals of family medicine2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1370/afm.240377 PMID: 40425467

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Performance Measurement Dear Professor Kiran, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Complexity of medical needs and primary care attachment shape patient experiences with episodic virtual primary care: a mixed methods study in two Canadian provinces." (2026), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your CIHR-funded project "Measuring What Matters to Patients and the Public: Co-developing Performance Measures for Primary Care" (2025), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]

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Tara Kiran

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Complexity of medical needs and primary care attachment shape patient experiences with episodic virtual primary care: a mixed methods study in two Canadian provinces.

Perceptions and use of publicly funded episodic virtual care: Cross-sectional survey data from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.

Interprofessional teams and capacity in collaborative primary care: a rapid scoping review.

Mapping policies, regulations, and practice supports for medical office assistants in primary care: a scoping review.

Elevating an invisible role: co-designing solutions to optimize medical office assistants in primary care.

Timeliness, continuity or travel time: results of a choice-based analysis exploring public preferences for access to primary care in Canada

Strengthening family medicine through coaching-informed peer support: a pilot program evaluation.

Changes and contributions to the gender pay gap in surgery in Canada: a repeated cross-sectional analysis from 1996 to 2020.

Proportion of Female Physicians in a Specialty and Median Annual Payments in Ontario, Canada.

Family Physicians in Focused Practice in Ontario, Canada: A Population-Level Study of Trends From 1993/1994 Through 2021/2022.

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Lauren Lapointe-Shaw

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Aisha Lofters

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Mina Tadrous

Lindsay Hedden

Karen Weyman

Christopher Meaney

Payal Agarwal

Simon Berthelot

Sheryl Spithoff

Paul Kurdyak

Lindsay Hedden

Karen Okrainec

Kamila Premji

Julie Easley

Kimberly Devotta

Rita McCracken

Kerry McBrien

Alan Katz

J Michael Paterson

Mylaine Breton

Shelley Doucet

Lawrence Paszat

Monica Taljaard

David Kaplan

Justin Presseau

Ruth Martin-Misener

Claire de Oliveira

Jason Sutherland

Peter Selby

Gary Garber

Isaac Bogoch

Tyler Williamson

Andrew Pinto