Michael Wallace, University of Waterloo

Research

Causal Inference Dynamic Treatment Regimes Personalized Medicine

Latest papers

SPIE: An organizational framework to facilitate accessibility in academic statistical consulting centers.
Journal of clinical and translational science · 2026
Neighbourhood deprivation and diet quality among a nationally representative sample of adults in Canada: an intersectional investigation
Public Health Nutrition · 2026
On flexible inverse probability of treatment and intensity weighting: Informative censoring, variable selection, and weight trimming.
Statistical methods in medical research · 2025 · senior author

All 8 publications

Latest funding

CHARacterizing heterogeneity in dietary intake among structurally excluded populations using Multidimensional data (CHARM)
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$2,000,000
Beyond estimation: broadening the dynamic treatment regime literature
NSERC · 2017 · Principal investigator
$133,000
Personalized medicine from theory to health practice: making dynamic treatment regimes more accessible
CIHR · 2016 · Nominated PI
$255,000

All 3 grants and awards

8 publications.

01

SPIE: An organizational framework to facilitate accessibility in academic statistical consulting centers.

Huebner M, Wallace M, Stukes F, Manski S, Montez-Rath M

Journal of clinical and translational science2026

DOI: 10.1017/cts.2026.10712 PMID: 41822555

02

Neighbourhood deprivation and diet quality among a nationally representative sample of adults in Canada: an intersectional investigation

Doan N, Olstad DL, Wallace M, Neiterman E, Cooke M

Public Health Nutrition2026

DOI: 10.1017/s1368980026103218

03

On flexible inverse probability of treatment and intensity weighting: Informative censoring, variable selection, and weight trimming.

Tompkins G, Dubin JA, Wallace M

Statistical methods in medical research2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1177/09622802241313289 PMID: 40289608

04

Multidimensional dietary patterns and their joint associations with intersecting sociodemographic characteristics among adults in Canada: a cross-sectional study.

Hutchinson JM, Spicker D, Lamarche B, Wallace M, Côté M, Torres Espín A, Kirkpatrick S

Applied physiology, nutrition, and metabolism = Physiologie appliquee, nutrition et metabolisme2025

DOI: 10.1139/apnm-2025-0045 PMID: 41247783

05

Challenges for Predictive Modeling With Neural Network Techniques Using Error-Prone Dietary Intake Data.

Spicker D, Nazemi A, Hutchinson J, Fieguth P, Kirkpatrick S, Wallace M, Dodd KW

Statistics in medicine2025

DOI: 10.1002/sim.70013 PMID: 39921576

06

Enrichment of the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow's Health Study: Protocol for Administering Multiple Online Dietary and Movement Behavior Assessment Tools in a Longitudinal Cohort Study.

Murphy RA, Vena JE, Milano AD, Faulkner G, Lamarche B, Matthews CE, Minaker LM, Spicker D, Sweeney E, Wallace M, Widener MJ, Kirkpatrick SI

JMIR research protocols2025

DOI: 10.2196/71680 PMID: 41329954

07

Estimating dynamic treatment regimes for ordinal outcomes with household interference: Application in household smoking cessation.

Jiang C, Thompson M, Wallace M

Statistical methods in medical research2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1177/09622802241242313 PMID: 38623615

08

Investigating the Intersections of Racial Identity and Perceived Income Adequacy in Relation to Dietary Quality Among Adults in Canada.

Doan N, Olstad DL, Vanderlee L, Hammond D, Wallace M, Kirkpatrick SI

The Journal of nutrition2022

DOI: 10.1093/jn/nxac076 PMID: 35544238

CHARacterizing heterogeneity in dietary intake among structurally excluded populations using Multidimensional data (CHARM)

Co-investigatorCIHR2024Tm Gr.:Embr. Diversity to Achieve Precision/Health Equity-Nutrition/Meta. Health

Principal investigators: Murphy, Rachel; Gould, Shantelle; Bhatti, Parveen; Kirkpatrick, Sharon; Vena, Jennifer E

Keywords: Cancer Prevention; Dietary Intake; Health Equity; Metabolism; Population Health; Precision Nutrition

$2,000,000

Beyond estimation: broadening the dynamic treatment regime literature

Principal investigatorNSERC2017Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Wallace, Michael

$133,000

Personalized medicine from theory to health practice: making dynamic treatment regimes more accessible

Nominated PICIHR2016Project Grant

Principal investigators: Wallace, Michael P

Keywords: Causal Inference; Dynamic Treatment Regimes; Personalized Medicine

$255,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Frequent collaborators

School of Public Health Sciences
Statistics and Actuarial Science
Health, Aging & Society
Community Health and Epidemiology
School of Kinesiology
Nutrition
School of Public Health and Health Systems
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Martin Cooke

School of Public Health and Health Systems

1 shared papers, latest 2026

Ellen Sweeney

Community Health and Epidemiology

1 shared papers, latest 2025

Elena Neiterman

Health, Aging & Society

1 shared papers, latest 2026

David Hammond

School of Public Health Sciences

1 shared papers, latest 2022

Sharon Kirkpatrick

School of Public Health Sciences

1 shared papers, latest 2025

Guy Faulkner

School of Kinesiology

1 shared papers, latest 2025

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Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

SPIE: An organizational framework to facilitate accessibility in academic statistical consulting centers.

Neighbourhood deprivation and diet quality among a nationally representative sample of adults in Canada: an intersectional investigation

On flexible inverse probability of treatment and intensity weighting: Informative censoring, variable selection, and weight trimming.

Multidimensional dietary patterns and their joint associations with intersecting sociodemographic characteristics among adults in Canada: a cross-sectional study.

Challenges for Predictive Modeling With Neural Network Techniques Using Error-Prone Dietary Intake Data.

Enrichment of the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow's Health Study: Protocol for Administering Multiple Online Dietary and Movement Behavior Assessment Tools in a Longitudinal Cohort Study.

Estimating dynamic treatment regimes for ordinal outcomes with household interference: Application in household smoking cessation.

Investigating the Intersections of Racial Identity and Perceived Income Adequacy in Relation to Dietary Quality Among Adults in Canada.

CHARacterizing heterogeneity in dietary intake among structurally excluded populations using Multidimensional data (CHARM)

Beyond estimation: broadening the dynamic treatment regime literature

Personalized medicine from theory to health practice: making dynamic treatment regimes more accessible

Frequent collaborators

Martin Cooke

Lana Vanderlee

Ellen Sweeney

Mary Thompson

Elena Neiterman

David Hammond

Sharon Kirkpatrick

Guy Faulkner