Umberin Najeeb, University of Toronto

Research

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Latest papers

Co-Design of strategies to enhance access to Virtual Urgent Care models by equity-deserving populations.
PLOS digital health · 2026
Physician perspectives on providing virtual emergency department care for equity-deserving populations
Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine · 2025
Self-Learning Videos in Focused Transthoracic Echocardiography Training.
The clinical teacher · 2025

All 17 publications

Latest funding

Canadian Training Platform for Trials Leveraging Existing Networks (CAN-TAP-TALENT)
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
$4,314,242
Canadian Training Platform for Trials Leveraging Existing Networks (CAN-TAP-TALENT)
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
$1,078,562

All 2 grants and awards

17 publications.

01

Co-Design of strategies to enhance access to Virtual Urgent Care models by equity-deserving populations.

Hitzig SL, Ahmed YHE, Alamgir A, Kupka CF, Ledwos C, Sothilingam R, Alitawi R, Motsenok M, Orr J, Reis L, Siqueira I, Sivakumaran S, Brush T, Devotta K, Haseeb MK, Huynh E, Jalil E, Khorasheh T, Ky K, McLeod SL, MacLellan W, Mills S, Pilested K, Rosenstein D, Sheppard CL, Stothers S, Zhang J, Yoon R, Zhang C, Mehta S, Najeeb U, Hall JN

PLOS digital health2026Open Access

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pdig.0001368 PMID: 41996312

02

Physician perspectives on providing virtual emergency department care for equity-deserving populations

Justin N. Hall, Y Ahmed, Abirami Vijayakumar, Mariam Ahmer, Shaun Mehta, Umberin Najeeb, Alun Ackery, Sander L. Hitzig

Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine20253 citations

DOI: 10.1007/s43678-024-00830-0 PMID: 39969688

03

Self-Learning Videos in Focused Transthoracic Echocardiography Training.

Morales Castro D, Wong I, Panisko D, Najeeb U, Douflé G

The clinical teacher20251 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1111/tct.70014 PMID: 39746844

04

Dialogues across difference: Teaching for social justice and inclusion in health professions education.

Kumagai AK, Najeeb U

Medical education2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1111/medu.15556 PMID: 39412251

05

Optimizing a mentorship program from the perspective of academic medicine leadership – a qualitative study

Ren M, Choi D, Chan C, Rana S, Najeeb U, Norris M, Singh S, Burns KEA, Straus SE, Hawker G

BMC Medical Education20247 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1186/s12909-024-05463-6

06

Trusting in lived experience

Donald A. Redelmeier, Edward E. Etchells, Umberin Najeeb

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine20243 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1177/01410768241288343 PMID: 39560495

07

The conditional inclusion of Muslims in medicine: intersectional experiences of Muslim medical students at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Medicine from 1887-1964.

Jahangeer RA, Whitehead C, Najeeb U

Canadian medical education journal20242 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.36834/cmej.78134 PMID: 39588035

08

Uprooting the CanMEDS flower? Equity, social justice, and the Medical Expert role.

Najeeb U, Kumagai AK

Canadian medical education journal2024First author

DOI: 10.36834/cmej.79092 PMID: 39114781

09

Psychology of envy towards medical colleagues

Donald A. Redelmeier, Edward E. Etchells, Umberin Najeeb

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine20234 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1177/01410768231182880 PMID: 37378692

10

Honest communication and social asymmetries inside a hospital: Pitfalls for clinicians

Donald A. Redelmeier, Edward E. Etchells, Umberin Najeeb

Journal of Hospital Medicine20224 citationsSenior author

DOI: 10.1002/jhm.12827 PMID: 35535568

Canadian Training Platform for Trials Leveraging Existing Networks (CAN-TAP-TALENT)

Co-investigatorCIHR2022Training Grant: Clinical Trials Training Platforms

Principal investigators: Cheung, Angela M; Ahmed, Sofia B; Allen, Upton D; Bhat, Mamatha; Boyd, Steven K; Crawley, Angela M; Dolatabadi, Elham; Fahim, Christine; Farkouh, Michael E; Feld, Jordan J; Fox, Susan; Furlan, Andrea D; Goligher, Ewan C; Hodgson, David C; Inman, Robert D; Juando Prats, Clara; Lamontagne, Francois; Langlois, Marc-Andre; Levin, Adeera; Mansfield, Avril; Manske, Sarah L; McMaster, W. Robert; Mylopoulos, Maria; Oza, Amit M; Papaioannou, Alexandra; Pinto, Andrew D; Quinn, Kieran L; Rahman, Proton; Razak, Fahad; Richard, Nicolas; Richardson, Harriet; Sander, Beate H; Sellmann, Susanna; Stelfox, Henry T; Straus, Sharon E; Tartaglia, Maria Carmela; Tobe, Sheldon W; Tomlinson, George A; Verma, Amol; Walmsley, Sharon L; Wu, Robert; Xu, Wei

Keywords: Adaptive Trials; Biostatistics; Clinical Trials; Hqp Development; Job Shadowing; Mentorship; Pedogagy; Training

$4,314,242

Canadian Training Platform for Trials Leveraging Existing Networks (CAN-TAP-TALENT)

Co-investigatorCIHR2022Training Grant: Clinical Trials Training Platforms - Indirect Costs

Principal investigators: Cheung, Angela M; Ahmed, Sofia B; Allen, Upton D; Bhat, Mamatha; Boyd, Steven K; Crawley, Angela M; Dolatabadi, Elham; Fahim, Christine; Farkouh, Michael E; Feld, Jordan J; Fox, Susan; Furlan, Andrea D; Goligher, Ewan C; Hodgson, David C; Inman, Robert D; Juando Prats, Clara; Lamontagne, Francois; Langlois, Marc-Andre; Levin, Adeera; Mansfield, Avril; Manske, Sarah L; McMaster, W. Robert; Mylopoulos, Maria; Oza, Amit M; Papaioannou, Alexandra; Pinto, Andrew D; Quinn, Kieran L; Rahman, Proton; Razak, Fahad; Richard, Nicolas; Richardson, Harriet; Sander, Beate H; Sellmann, Susanna; Stelfox, Henry T; Straus, Sharon E; Tartaglia, Maria Carmela; Tobe, Sheldon W; Tomlinson, George A; Verma, Amol; Walmsley, Sharon L; Wu, Robert; Xu, Wei

Keywords: Adaptive Trials; Biostatistics; Clinical Trials; Hqp Development; Job Shadowing; Mentorship; Pedogagy; Training

$1,078,562

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

Sander Hitzig and Christine Sheppard: 51 shared papers
Cynthia Whitehead and Ayelet Kuper: 36 shared papers
Sharon Straus and Catherine Yu: 34 shared papers
Brian Wong and Ayelet Kuper: 13 shared papers
Karen Burns and Sharon Straus: 11 shared papers
Sander Hitzig and Marina Motsenok: 9 shared papers
Karen Burns and Gillian Hawker: 5 shared papers
Sharon Straus and Gillian Hawker: 5 shared papers
Cynthia Whitehead and THIRUSHA NAIDU: 5 shared papers
Donald Redelmeier and Umberin Najeeb: 5 shared papers
Brian Wong and Lynfa Stroud: 5 shared papers
Ayelet Kuper and Gianni Lorello: 5 shared papers
Sharon Straus and Sander Hitzig: 3 shared papers
Ayelet Kuper and THIRUSHA NAIDU: 3 shared papers
Ayelet Kuper and Lynfa Stroud: 3 shared papers
Cynthia Whitehead and Brian Wong: 2 shared papers
Cynthia Whitehead and Umberin Najeeb: 2 shared papers
Gillian Hawker and Donald Redelmeier: 2 shared papers
Sander Hitzig and Umberin Najeeb: 2 shared papers
Sander Hitzig and Shaun Mehta: 2 shared papers
Simron Singh and Brian Wong: 2 shared papers
Ayelet Kuper and Umberin Najeeb: 2 shared papers
Alun Ackery and Shaun Mehta: 2 shared papers
Umberin Najeeb and Shaun Mehta: 2 shared papers
Karen Burns and Catherine Yu: 1 shared paper
Karen Burns and Simron Singh: 1 shared paper
Karen Burns and Mireille Norris: 1 shared paper
Karen Burns and Umberin Najeeb: 1 shared paper
Sharon Straus and Simron Singh: 1 shared paper
Sharon Straus and Mireille Norris: 1 shared paper
Sharon Straus and Umberin Najeeb: 1 shared paper
Cynthia Whitehead and Gianni Lorello: 1 shared paper
Cynthia Whitehead and Stephanie Waterman: 1 shared paper
Catherine Yu and Gillian Hawker: 1 shared paper
Catherine Yu and Mireille Norris: 1 shared paper
Catherine Yu and Umberin Najeeb: 1 shared paper
Gillian Hawker and Umberin Najeeb: 1 shared paper
Sander Hitzig and Kimberly Devotta: 1 shared paper
Sander Hitzig and Rosanra Yoon: 1 shared paper
Sander Hitzig and Alun Ackery: 1 shared paper
Simron Singh and Gianni Lorello: 1 shared paper
Simron Singh and Umberin Najeeb: 1 shared paper
Brian Wong and Umberin Najeeb: 1 shared paper
Ayelet Kuper and Stephanie Waterman: 1 shared paper
Diana Morales Castro and Umberin Najeeb: 1 shared paper
Christine Sheppard and Marina Motsenok: 1 shared paper
Christine Sheppard and Kimberly Devotta: 1 shared paper
Christine Sheppard and Rosanra Yoon: 1 shared paper
Christine Sheppard and Umberin Najeeb: 1 shared paper
Marina Motsenok and Kimberly Devotta: 1 shared paper
Marina Motsenok and Rosanra Yoon: 1 shared paper
Marina Motsenok and Umberin Najeeb: 1 shared paper
Kimberly Devotta and Umberin Najeeb: 1 shared paper
Rosanra Yoon and Umberin Najeeb: 1 shared paper
Gianni Lorello and Stephanie Waterman: 1 shared paper
Gianni Lorello and THIRUSHA NAIDU: 1 shared paper
Gianni Lorello and Umberin Najeeb: 1 shared paper
Stephanie Waterman and Umberin Najeeb: 1 shared paper
THIRUSHA NAIDU and Umberin Najeeb: 1 shared paper
Alun Ackery and Umberin Najeeb: 1 shared paper
Lynfa Stroud and Umberin Najeeb: 1 shared paper
William Kingston and Umberin Najeeb: 1 shared paper
William Kingston and Andrew Micieli: 1 shared paper
Mireille Norris and Umberin Najeeb: 1 shared paper
Umberin Najeeb and Andrew Micieli: 1 shared paper

Department of Medicine
Clinical Public Health Division
Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division
Critical Care Medicine
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education
Other

1 shared papers, latest 2020

Karen Burns

Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

1 shared papers, latest 2024

Mireille Norris

Department of Medicine

1 shared papers, latest 2024

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Subject: Prospective PhD student Dear Professor Najeeb, 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 "Co-Design of strategies to enhance access to Virtual Urgent Care models by equity-deserving populations." (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.] 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]