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Adjunct Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Epidemiology and BiostatisticsWestern University

Jessica Sontrop

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry

Western University

London, Ontario, Canada

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Adjunct, part-time and visiting faculty usually co-supervise alongside a core faculty member.
3 publications in the last five years, latest in 2025.
Principal investigator on 3 research grants (3 CIHR), most recently in 2022.

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Administrative Healthcare Data Implementation Science Methods Pragmatic Clinical Trial Randomized Controlled Trial Training Hypertension Kidney

Latest papers

Impact of Baseline Kidney Function on the Rate of Progressive Kidney Disease After Pregnancy: A Population-Based Cohort Study Research Protocol
Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease · 2025
Health Services Use and Outcomes for Hospital Admissions With a Major Cardiovascular Event Recorded in Health Care Administrative Data in Patients Receiving Maintenance Hemodialysis: A Retrospective Cohort Study
Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease · 2023
Promoting deceased organ and tissue donation registration in family physician waiting rooms (RegisterNow-1): a pragmatic stepped-wedge, cluster randomized controlled registry trial
BMC Medicine · 2022

All 9 publications

Latest funding

A Training Platform in Pragmatic Registry-Based Trials: Connecting Canada's Health, Data, and Biomanufacturing Sectors
CIHR · 2022 · Principal investigator
$3,479,320
Effect of pregnancy on long-term kidney function in women with chronic kidney disease: an observational cohort study
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
$74,997
A Training Platform in Pragmatic Registry-Based Trials: Connecting Canada's Health, Data, and Biomanufacturing Sectors
CIHR · 2022 · Principal investigator
$869,831

All 10 grants and awards

9 publications.

Impact of Baseline Kidney Function on the Rate of Progressive Kidney Disease After Pregnancy: A Population-Based Cohort Study Research Protocol

Bathini L, Jeyakumar N, Sontrop J, McArthur E, Kang Y, Luo B, Bello A, Collister D, Ahmed S, Kaul P

Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease2025

DOI: 10.1177/20543581251318836

Health Services Use and Outcomes for Hospital Admissions With a Major Cardiovascular Event Recorded in Health Care Administrative Data in Patients Receiving Maintenance Hemodialysis: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Al-Jaishi AA, Jeyakumar N, Kang Y, De Chickera S, Dixon SN, Luo B, Sontrop J, Walsh M, Tonelli M, Garg AX

Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease20231 citations

DOI: 10.1177/20543581231165708

Promoting deceased organ and tissue donation registration in family physician waiting rooms (RegisterNow-1): a pragmatic stepped-wedge, cluster randomized controlled registry trial

Li AH-T, Garg AX, Grimshaw JM, Prakash V, Dunnett AJ, Dixon SN, Taljaard M, Mitchell J, Naylor KL, Faulds C

BMC Medicine20223 citations

DOI: 10.1186/s12916-022-02266-8

Effects of accelerated versus standard care surgery on the risk of acute kidney injury in patients with a hip fracture: a substudy protocol of the hip fracture Accelerated surgical TreaTment And Care tracK (HIP ATTACK) international randomised controlled trial

Borges FK, Devereaux PJ, Cuerden M, Bhandari M, Guerra-Farfán E, Patel A, Sigamani A, Umer M, Neary J, Tiboni M

BMJ Open201910 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-033150 PMID: W2975688736

Chronic kidney disease stressors influence choice of dialysis modality.

Harwood L, Wilson B, Sontrop J, Clark AM

Journal of advanced nursing2012

DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2012.05943.x PMID: 22299757

Sociodemographic differences in stressful experience and coping amongst adults with chronic kidney disease.

Harwood L, Wilson B, Sontrop J

Journal of advanced nursing2011Senior author

DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2010.05605.x PMID: 21375575

Stressors and coping in individuals with chronic kidney disease.

Harwood L, Wilson B, Locking-Cusolito H, Sontrop J, Spittal J

Nephrology nursing journal : journal of the American Nephrology Nurses' Association2009

PMID: 19588694

Depressive symptoms during pregnancy in relation to fish consumption and intake of n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids.

Sontrop J, Avison WR, Evers SE, Speechley KN, Campbell MK

Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology2008First author

DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3016.2008.00941.x PMID: 18578753

Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and depression: a review of the evidence and a methodological critique.

Sontrop J, Campbell MK

Preventive medicine2006First author

DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2005.11.005 PMID: 16337677

A Training Platform in Pragmatic Registry-Based Trials: Connecting Canada's Health, Data, and Biomanufacturing Sectors

Principal investigatorCIHR2022Training Grant: Clinical Trials Training Platforms

Principal investigators: Garg, Amit; Basile, Erika; Bhatia, Rajan S; Clemens, Kristin K; Dixon, Stephanie N; Ethier, Jean-Francois; Fowler, Robert A; Gagnier, Joel J; Garrison, Scott R; Grimshaw, Jeremy M; Hohl, Corinne M; Ivers, Noah M; Jairath, Vipul; James, Matthew T; Jerath, Angela; Katz, Alan; Krzyzanowska, Monika K; LeBlanc, Annie; Lee, Douglas S; Mcalister, Finlay A; McGrail, Kimberlyn M; McIntyre, Lauralyn A; Mittmann, Nicole; Naylor, Kyla; Presseau, Justin; Schull, Michael J; Sontrop, Jessica M; Spence, Jessica; Swartz, Richard; Taljaard, Monica; Tangri, Navdeep; Udell, Jacob A; Weijer, Charles E; Zwarenstein, Merrick F

Keywords: Administrative Healthcare Data; Implementation Science; Methods; Pragmatic Clinical Trial; Randomized Controlled Trial; Training

$3,479,320

Effect of pregnancy on long-term kidney function in women with chronic kidney disease: an observational cohort study

Co-investigatorCIHR2022Operating Grant: Data Analysis Using Existing CDN Databases and Cohorts

Principal investigators: Garg, Amit; Bathini, Lavanya; Hladunewich, Michelle A

Keywords: Chronic Kidney Disease; Epidemiology; Low Kidney Function; Pregnancy

$74,997

A Training Platform in Pragmatic Registry-Based Trials: Connecting Canada's Health, Data, and Biomanufacturing Sectors

Principal investigatorCIHR2022Training Grant: Clinical Trials Training Platforms - Indirect Costs

Keywords: Administrative Healthcare Data; Implementation Science; Methods; Pragmatic Clinical Trial; Randomized Controlled Trial; Training

$869,831

Filling Knowledge Gaps for the Success of Ontario Renal Plan 3

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Project Grant

Principal investigators: Weir, Matthew A; Beaucage, Mary B; Blake, Peter G; Chanchlani, Rahul; Clark, Edward G; Clemens, Kristin K; Dixon, Stephanie N; Harel, Ziv; Jain, Arsh K; Molnar, Amber; Silver, Samuel; Sood, Manish M; Zappitelli, Michael

Keywords: Administrative Health Care Data; Chronic Kidney Disease; Community-Based Research; Drug Safety; First Nations Communities; Kidney Transplantation; Mental Health; Patient-Oriented Research; Population-Based Study

$1,143,676

Innovative Pragmatic Cluster-Randomized Registry Trials to Improve Hemodialysis Care

Co-investigatorCIHR2019Operating Grant: SPOR Innovative Clinical Trial Multi-Year Grant

Principal investigators: Garg, Amit; Cote, Brenden B; Vorster, Arris H; Blake, Peter G; Bohm, Clara; Lacson, Jr., Eduardo; Levin, Adeera; Silver, Samuel; Tonelli, Marcello

Keywords: Comparative Effectiveness

$2,817,233

An Integrated Platform for Innovative Pragmatic Cluster-Randomized Registry Trials in Hemodialysis

Co-investigatorCIHR2016Operating Grant: SPOR Innovative Clinical Trial Multi-Year Grant

Principal investigators: Garg, Amit; McCormick, Michael; Blake, Peter G; Grimshaw, Jeremy M; McIntyre, Christopher W; Molnar, Amber; Taljaard, Monica; Weijer, Charles E; Zwarenstein, Merrick F

Keywords: Chronic Kidney Disease; Cluster-Randomized Registry Trials; Comparative Effectiveness Research; Dialysis; Healthcare Databases; Hemodialysis; Implementation Research; Kidney Health; Pragmatic Trials; Quality And Safety

$2,970,675

Registration for Deceased Organ Donation in Family Physician Offices

Co-investigatorCIHR2016Catalyst Grant: SPOR Innovative Clinical Trials (iCT)

Principal investigators: Presseau, Justin; Mitchell, Joanna; Prakash, Versha; Garg, Amit; Grimshaw, Jeremy M

Keywords: Health Behaviour Change; Health Services Research; Innovative Clinical Trial; Organ And Tissue Donation; Primary Care; Stepped-Wedge

$97,987

Standard Criteria Living Kidney Donor Safety Study

Co-investigatorCIHR2013Operating Grant

Principal investigators: Garg, Amit

Keywords: Chronic Kidney Disease; Cohort Study; Hypertension; Kidney Donation; Kidney Transplantation; Organ Donation

$917,071

Safety and Outcomes of Accepting Hypertensive Individuals as Living Kidney Donors

Principal investigatorCIHR2012Operating Grant

Principal investigators: Garg, Amit; Sontrop, Jessica M

Keywords: Hypertension; Kidney; Living Kidney Donation; Organ Donation; Prospective Cohort Study; Safety

$352,097

Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy after Bacterial Gastroenteritis

Co-investigatorCIHR2011Operating Grant - Secondary Analysis of Databases

Principal investigators: Garg, Amit

Keywords: E.Coli Infections; Eclampsia; Gestational Hypertension; Kidney Injury; Preeclampsia; Premature Births; Walkerton Outbreak

$86,136

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Jessica Sontrop

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Impact of Baseline Kidney Function on the Rate of Progressive Kidney Disease After Pregnancy: A Population-Based Cohort Study Research Protocol

Health Services Use and Outcomes for Hospital Admissions With a Major Cardiovascular Event Recorded in Health Care Administrative Data in Patients Receiving Maintenance Hemodialysis: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Promoting deceased organ and tissue donation registration in family physician waiting rooms (RegisterNow-1): a pragmatic stepped-wedge, cluster randomized controlled registry trial

Effects of accelerated versus standard care surgery on the risk of acute kidney injury in patients with a hip fracture: a substudy protocol of the hip fracture Accelerated surgical TreaTment And Care tracK (HIP ATTACK) international randomised controlled trial

Chronic kidney disease stressors influence choice of dialysis modality.

Sociodemographic differences in stressful experience and coping amongst adults with chronic kidney disease.

Stressors and coping in individuals with chronic kidney disease.

Depressive symptoms during pregnancy in relation to fish consumption and intake of n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids.

Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and depression: a review of the evidence and a methodological critique.

Frequent collaborators

Amit Garg

Michelle Hladunewich

Marcello Tonelli

Justin Presseau

Nir Melamed

Aminu Bello

Branko Braam

David Collister

Sofia Ahmed

Philip Devereaux

Flavia Kessler Borges

Mohit Bhandari

Ameen Patel

Vikas Tandon

John Neary

Maria Tiboni

David Collister

Monica Taljaard

Michael Walsh

Marcello Tonelli