Tara O'Brien, University of Toronto

Research

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Latest papers

A Program to Reduce Emergency Department Transfers and Build Long-Term Care Home Capacity: A Mixed-Methods Study.
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2025
A comparative analysis of graduate preparedness for a career in General Internal Medicine before and after national subspecialty recognition to inform curricular changes: have we met the mark?
Canadian medical education journal · 2023
Quality of virtual care for ambulatory care sensitive conditions: Patient and provider experiences.
International journal of medical informatics · 2022

All 8 publications

Latest funding

Harnessing a novel multi-institutional cross-sectoral partnership for providing enhanced COVID and non-COVID care in long term care homes
CIHR · 2020 · Co-investigator
$149,960

All 1 grants and awards

8 publications.

01

A Program to Reduce Emergency Department Transfers and Build Long-Term Care Home Capacity: A Mixed-Methods Study.

Mukerji G, Rotteau L, Goldman J, Verma AA, Shojania KG, Razak F, Feldman S, Rios P, Pus L, Pariser P, O'Brien T, Moser AL, Wong BM

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association20251 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2025.105488 PMID: 39933692

02

A comparative analysis of graduate preparedness for a career in General Internal Medicine before and after national subspecialty recognition to inform curricular changes: have we met the mark?

Halman S, Tran A, O'Brien T, Card SE

Canadian medical education journal20231 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.36834/cmej.74949 PMID: 37719413

03

Quality of virtual care for ambulatory care sensitive conditions: Patient and provider experiences.

Nayyar D, Pendrith C, Kishimoto V, Chu C, Fujioka J, Rios P, Sacha Bhatia R, Lyons OD, Harvey P, O'Brien T, Martin D, Agarwal P, Mukerji G

International journal of medical informatics202224 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2022.104812 PMID: 35691260

04

Outpatient visit trends for internal medicine ambulatory care sensitive conditions after the COVID-19 pandemic: a time-series analysis.

Pendrith C, Nayyar D, Chu C, O'Brien T, Lyons OD, Agarwal P, Martin D, Bhatia RS, Mukerji G

BMC health services research202224 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1186/s12913-022-07566-6 PMID: 35164751

05

Obstructive sleep apnea and nocturnal attacks of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation.

Lin CH, Timofeeva M, O'Brien T, Lyons OD

Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine2022

DOI: 10.5664/jcsm.9840 PMID: 34931608

06

A narrative review of ambulatory care education in Canadian internal medicine.

Spiegle G, Yin P, Wright S, Ng S, O'Brien T, Friesen F, Friesen M, Shah R

Canadian medical education journal20204 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.36834/cmej.69333 PMID: 33349759

07

A multifaceted primary care practice-based intervention to reduce ED visits and hospitalization for complex medical patients: A mixed methods study.

O'Brien T, Ivers N, Bhattacharyya O, Calzavara A, Pus L, Mukerji G, Friedman SM, Abrams H, Stanaitis I, Hawker GA, Pariser P

PloS one20195 citationsFirst authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0209241 PMID: 30601835

08

Exploring Integration in Action: Competencies as Building Blocks of Expertise.

Mylopoulos M, Borschel DT, O'Brien T, Martimianakis S, Woods NN

Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges201722 citations

DOI: 10.1097/acm.0000000000001772 PMID: 28640027

Harnessing a novel multi-institutional cross-sectoral partnership for providing enhanced COVID and non-COVID care in long term care homes

Co-investigatorCIHR2020Operating Grant: Strengthening Pandemic Preparedness in Long-Term Care - Open

Principal investigators: Bhatia, Rajan S; Feldman, Sid; Moser, Andrea L; Mukerji, Geetha; Shojania, Kaveh G; Verma, Amol; Wong, Brian M

Keywords: Covid-19; Long-Term Care; Pandemic

$149,960

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

Frequent collaborators

Fahad Razak and Amol Verma: 149 shared papers
Rajan Bhatia and Onil Bhattacharyya: 53 shared papers
Rajan Bhatia and Payal Agarwal: 50 shared papers
Onil Bhattacharyya and Payal Agarwal: 45 shared papers
Rajan Bhatia and Noah Ivers: 34 shared papers
Payal Agarwal and Geetha Mukerji: 30 shared papers
Rajan Bhatia and Danielle Martin: 29 shared papers
Noah Ivers and Danielle Martin: 29 shared papers
Rajan Bhatia and Geetha Mukerji: 26 shared papers
Maria Mylopoulos and Nicole Woods: 21 shared papers
Payal Agarwal and Danielle Martin: 19 shared papers
Onil Bhattacharyya and Geetha Mukerji: 18 shared papers
Kaveh Shojania and Brian Wong: 16 shared papers
Noah Ivers and Fahad Razak: 15 shared papers
Brian Wong and Joanne Goldman: 14 shared papers
Gillian Hawker and Noah Ivers: 13 shared papers
Kaveh Shojania and Leahora Rotteau: 9 shared papers
Rajan Bhatia and Brian Wong: 8 shared papers
Joanne Goldman and Leahora Rotteau: 8 shared papers
Amol Verma and Kaveh Shojania: 7 shared papers
Kaveh Shojania and Joanne Goldman: 7 shared papers
Brian Wong and Leahora Rotteau: 7 shared papers
Noah Ivers and Pauline Pariser: 6 shared papers
Fahad Razak and Brian Wong: 5 shared papers
Amol Verma and Brian Wong: 5 shared papers
Andrea Moser and Geetha Mukerji: 4 shared papers
Geetha Mukerji and Pauline Pariser: 4 shared papers
Geetha Mukerji and Tara O'Brien: 4 shared papers
Gillian Hawker and Onil Bhattacharyya: 3 shared papers
Gillian Hawker and Howard Abrams: 3 shared papers
Gillian Hawker and Pauline Pariser: 3 shared papers
Payal Agarwal and Dhruv Nayyar: 3 shared papers
Howard Abrams and Brian Wong: 3 shared papers
Fahad Razak and Andrea Moser: 3 shared papers
Amol Verma and Andrea Moser: 3 shared papers
Geetha Mukerji and Dhruv Nayyar: 3 shared papers
Danielle Martin and Dhruv Nayyar: 3 shared papers
Rajan Bhatia and Howard Abrams: 2 shared papers
Rajan Bhatia and Tara O'Brien: 2 shared papers
Payal Agarwal and Tara O'Brien: 2 shared papers
Geetha Mukerji and Paula Harvey: 2 shared papers
Danielle Martin and Tara O'Brien: 2 shared papers
Pauline Pariser and Tara O'Brien: 2 shared papers
Tara O'Brien and Dhruv Nayyar: 2 shared papers
Gillian Hawker and Tara O'Brien: 1 shared paper
Rajan Bhatia and Paula Harvey: 1 shared paper
Noah Ivers and Tara O'Brien: 1 shared paper
Onil Bhattacharyya and Tara O'Brien: 1 shared paper
Payal Agarwal and Paula Harvey: 1 shared paper
Howard Abrams and Tara O'Brien: 1 shared paper
Fahad Razak and Tara O'Brien: 1 shared paper
Amol Verma and Tara O'Brien: 1 shared paper
Andrea Moser and Tara O'Brien: 1 shared paper
Kaveh Shojania and Tara O'Brien: 1 shared paper
Brian Wong and Tara O'Brien: 1 shared paper
Maria Mylopoulos and Samantha Halman: 1 shared paper
Maria Mylopoulos and Tara O'Brien: 1 shared paper
Joanne Goldman and Tara O'Brien: 1 shared paper
Nicole Woods and Tara O'Brien: 1 shared paper
Leahora Rotteau and Tara O'Brien: 1 shared paper
Samantha Halman and Tara O'Brien: 1 shared paper
Penny Yin and Gillian Spiegle: 1 shared paper
Penny Yin and Rupal Shah: 1 shared paper
Penny Yin and Tara O'Brien: 1 shared paper
Gillian Spiegle and Rupal Shah: 1 shared paper
Gillian Spiegle and Tara O'Brien: 1 shared paper
Rupal Shah and Tara O'Brien: 1 shared paper
Paula Harvey and Tara O'Brien: 1 shared paper

Department of Medicine
Centre for Urban Health Solutions
Clinical Public Health Division
Family Practice
Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology
Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation
Department of Paediatrics
Other

1 shared papers, latest 2019

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Subject: Prospective PhD student Dear Professor O'Brien, 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 "A Program to Reduce Emergency Department Transfers and Build Long-Term Care Home Capacity: A Mixed-Methods Study." (2025), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] 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]