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Amanda Sheppard

Senior Scientist, Indigenous Cancer Care Unit, Acute and Hospital-Based Care, Ontario Health

Lead Scientist 
amanda.sheppard@ontariohealth.ca

Research Interests

  • First Nations, Inuit and Métis health
  • Cancer surveillance and research

 

Current Appointments

  • Group Manager and Scientist, Indigenous Cancer Care Unit, Prevention and Cancer Control, Clinical Institutes and Quality Programs, Ontario Health
  • Director, Collaborative Program in Aboriginal Health, University of Toronto
  • Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

 

Selected Past Appointments

  • Applied Scientist, AboutKidsHealth, The Hospital for Sick Children
  • Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

 

Education and Credentials

  • PhD, Medical Sciences Research, Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto
  • MSc, Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Toronto
  • BSc, Biology and Anthropology, Trent University

 

Skills and Experience

  • Knowledge of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples and their communities, including socio-economic issues, and historical, geographic and cultural perspectives
  • Conducting complex analysis of administrative health data for surveillance, research and policy

Selected Publications

O'Grady JR, Ferdus J, Leylachian S, Bolarinwa Y, Wagamese J, Ellison LK, Siedule C, Batista R, Sheppard AJ. Lung cancer in First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples in Canada - a scoping review. Int J Circumpolar Health. 2024 Dec;83(1):2381879. doi: 10.1080/22423982.2024.2381879. Epub 2024 Jul 29. PMID: 39074244.

Tammemägi MC, Darling GE, Schmidt H, Walker MJ, Langer D, Leung YW, Nguyen K, Miller B, Llovet D, Evans WK, Buchanan DN, Espino-Hernandez G, Aslam U, Sheppard A, Lofters A, McInnis M, Dobranowski J, Habbous S, Finley C, Luettschwager M, Cameron E, Bravo C, Banaszewska A, Creighton-Taylor K, Fernandes B, Gao J, Lee A, Lee V, Pylypenko B, Yu M, Svara E, Kaushal S, MacNiven L, McGarry C, Della Mora L, Koen L, Moffatt J, Rey M, Yurcan M, Bourne L, Bromfield G, Coulson M, Truscott R, Rabeneck L. Risk-based lung cancer screening performance in a universal healthcare setting. Nat Med. 2024 Apr;30(4):1054-1064. doi: 10.1038/s41591-024-02904-z. Epub 2024 Apr 19. PMID: 38641742.

Walker MJ, Blackmore KM, Chang A, Lambert-Côté L, Turgeon A, Antoniou AC, Bell KA, Broeders MJ, Brooks JD, Carver T, Chiquette J, Després P, Easton DF, Eisen A, Eloy L, Evans DG, Fienberg S, Joly J, Kim RH, Kim SJ, Knoppers BM, Lofters AK, Nabi H, Paquette JS, Pashayan N, Sheppard AJ, Stockley TL, Dorval M, Simard J, Chiarelli AM. Implementing Multifactorial Risk Assessment with Polygenic Risk Scores for Personalized Breast Cancer Screening in the Population Setting: Challenges and Opportunities. Cancers (Basel). 2024 Jun;16(11):2116. doi: 10.3390/cancers16112116. PMID: 38893236.

For a full list of Amanda Sheppard's journal articles, visit PubMed.