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Brett Thombs

Brett Thombs
Contact Information
Address: 

Lady Davis Institute of Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital; Department of Psychiatry  4333 Cote Ste-Catherine Rd
Montreal, QC, Canada H3T 1E4

Phone: 
Tel: 514-340-8222 ext. 5112
Email address: 
brett.thombs [at] mcgill.ca
Biography: 

Brett Thombs is a Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ, a Senior Investigator at the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research at the Jewish General Hospital, Chair of the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care and Director of the Scleroderma Patient-centered Intervention Network (SPIN) and DEPRESsion Screening Data (DEPRESSD) Projects. Members of the Thombs Research Team work in three projects or areas: (1) SPIN, which conducts observational studies and conducts trials of patient support interventions using a large cohort from 48 sites in 7 countries; (2) the DEPRESSD Project (Directed jointly with  Andrea Benedetti), which uses datasets collected from over 300 investigators from more than 50 countries to conduct individual participant data meta-analyses of depression screening tool accuracy, and (3) meta research and policy, which includes the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (CTFPHC), the development of an extension of the CONsolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) statement for trials conducted in cohorts and other routinely collected data, and other meta-research projects

Areas of expertise: 

Non-pharmacological clinical trials, Health services, Screening and preventive care, Systematic review and meta-analysis, Mental Health, Depression

Group: 
Associate Members
Research areas: 
Clinical Epidemiology and Informatics
Health Services and Health Policy
Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology
Areas of interest: 

Keywords: Mental health, Rare diseases, Chronic diseases, Screening, Prevention, clinical trials, meta analysis

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