Lab Information
Emily McDonald (MD/MSc)
ScientistCentre for Outcomes Research and Evaluation
Department of Medicine (McGill)
Research Profile
Keywords
Quality improvement • patient safety • infectionResearch Interests
My research focuses on interventions related to polypharmacy, safe and effective prescribing, and medication rationalization. A number of my studies relating to the appropriate use of hospital resources, tests and investigations have been published in high impact peer-reviewed journals and several relating to safer prescribing in older adults were featured recently in the media. I supervise postgraduate students in the field of medication safety and have received funding from the CIHR, the Centre for Ageing and Brain Health Innovation, the Canadian Frailty Network and, locally, from the McGill Interdisciplinary Initiative in Infection and Immunity (MI-4).Team Members
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Latest Publications
- Filosa, E., Schönenberger, N., Essien, U. R., Gagnon, C., Gnjidic, D., Kouladjian O'Donnell, L., Manias, E., McCarthy, L. M., Moriarty, F., Nguyen-Soenen, J., Scott, S., Steinman, M. A., Thürmann, P. A., Wilson, M. G., Gutman, B. J., Mendel, A., Trinh, E., Lee, T. C. & McDonald, E. G. (2026). Identification of Potentially Inappropriate Medications for Adults Below 65 Years: Protocol for a Modified Delphi Study. JMIR research protocols, vol. 15, p. e92082.
- Staphylococcus aureus Network Adaptive Platform (SNAP) Trial Group, Lee, T. C., Barina, L. A., Walls, G., Goodman, A. L., Yahav, D., Cheng, M. P., Bonten, M., Bowen, A. C., Boyles, T., Daneman, N., Ekkelenkamp, M. B., Ghanem-Zoubi, N., Hensgens, M. P. M., Jager, N. G. L., Kaasch, A. J., Kouijzer, I. J. E., Lewis, R. J., Lumley, T., Lye, D. C., McDonald, E. G., McKew, G., McLean, A. R. D., McMullan, B. J., McQuilten, Z. K., Morpeth, S. C., Paterson, D. L., Roberts, J. A., Robinson, J. O., Saito, H., Scarborough, M., Ten Oever, J., Turner, R. M., Tverring, J., van Hal, S. J., Webb, S. A., Whiteway, L. M., Arias, C. A., Henderson, A., Heriot, G. S., Snelling, T. L., Afra, K., Ali, S. S., Amit, S., Anagnostou, N. A., Archuleta, S., Aston, S. J., Athan, E., Baharav, N., Bai, A. D., Barber, B. E., Baskaran, A., Berkeley, M. M. A., Best, E. J., Bhilave, N. R., Bloomfield, M. G., Bond, K. A., Bostock, J., Botheras, C. L., Boyd, M. A., Bradshaw, S. M. E., Briggs, E. J., Britton, P. N., Campbell, A. J., Carr, B. Z., Chancellor, J. A., Chen, K., Cheong, E. Y., Chew, K. L., Chia, P. Y., Chomba, R., Chong, B. S. W., Clews, C. J. N., Cohen, J. M., Commons, R. J., Cutfield, T., Daley, P., Daniel, D. S., Davies, J., De, P., Denholm, J. T., Di Virgilio, M., Dishon-Benattar, Y., Dotel, R., Duan, E. H., Easom, N., Eliakim-Raz, N., England, M. M., Fahmy, M., Findlater, A. R., Flanagan, K. L., Foo, E. Z. J., Foo, H., Forster, D. P., Fralick, M., Frazer, J. L., Gador-Whyte, A. P., Garnham, K., German, G. J., Ghosh, N., Gisolf, E. H., Giulieri, S. G., Goulding, S. R., Grant, J. M., Gregson, D., Grimwade, K. C., Grupper, M., Guy, S. D., Gwee, A., Hall, V. G., Hardy, E. J., Harris, D. J., Hatcher, J., Hobbs, M. R., Holmes, N. E., Howden, B. P., Huggan, P. J., Jennings, Z. A., Johnstone, J., Juniper, T., Kalimuddin, S., Kamfose, M., Kandel, C., Kelly, M. J., Kozak, R. A., Kümin, M., Lamontagne, F., Lau, J. S. Y., Lee, I. R., Lin, R. J., Lindsay, D., Llewelyn, M. J., Longtin, Y., Lother, S. A., Luey, C. E., MacFadden, D. R., Mahony, A. A., Malden, C., Malhamé, I., Manning, L. A., Marks, M., Martin, L. J., Matthews, G. V., McGann, P. H., McMahon, J. H., Melon, A., Menon, V., Mertz, D., Meyer, M. P., Molton, J. S., Mora, J. M., Moran, E., Mortimer, L. M., Motaganahalli, S., Muller, M. P., Munro, A. P. S., Murray, F. A., Murthy, S., Nagendra, V., Nel, H., New, D. W. J., Nguyen, V., Norton, G., Norton, K. M., Nourse, C. B., Nye, C. J. S., O'Callaghan, K., O'Sullivan, M. V. N., Ong, S. W. X., Otu, A. A., Owen, M., Papenburg, J., Parkes, L. O., Paul, M., Perez-Patrigeon, S., Petersiel, N., Petrella, L., Pett, S. L., Pham, D., Piazzese, C. J., Poulin, S., Rehak, R., Rennert-May, E., Richards, A. J., Rogers, B. A., Sahng, E., Salada, B., Scheuerman, O., Schneider, K., Schulz, T. R., Schwartz, K. L., Simos, P. A., Singh, H., Sinkeler, F. S., Smith, S., Smith, B. J., Smith, S. W., Somayaji, R., Sommerville, C., Song, R. X. J., Sowden, D. C., Stark, M. J., Stone, N. R. H., Strunk, T., Sud, A., Swe, K. P., Symons, C. R., Tan, Y. E., Ten Doesschate, T., Thien, S. Y., Thomas, A., Trad, M.-A., Tramontana, A. R., Tsang, J. L. Y., Ulett, K., Underwood, J., van Welzen, B. J., Vazquez-Grande, G., Velasquez Reyes, D. C., Verberk, J. D. M., Voss, L. M., Ward, D., Webb, R. H., Whitmore, T. J., Wieder-Finesod, A., Wilson, H. L., Wilson, E. W., Wong, H. M., Wong She, K., Wuerz, T., Yamamura, D. L., Yeoh, A., Yow, B. L. H., Dymock, M., Mahar, R. K., McGlothlin, A., Marsh, J. A., Davis, J. S. & Tong, S. Y. C. (2026). Cefazolin for Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia. The New England journal of medicine, vol. 394, p. 2329-2339.
- Hamani, M., Pinto, R., Lee, T. C., MacFadden, D., McDonald, E. G., Sligl, W., Fowler, R. A., Daneman, N. & BALANCE consortium (2026). Duration of antibiotic therapy for bacteraemia in immune compromised hosts-a post-hoc subgroup analysis of the Bacteremia Antibiotic Length Actually Needed For Clinical Effectiveness (BALANCE) randomized clinical trial. Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.
- Colmegna, I., Hudson, M., Biard, L., Azuelos, I., Davies, L., Hirsch, A., Leger, S., McDonald, E. G., Peltier, L., Popradi, G., Resche-Rigon, M., Robitaille, C., Svahn, M., Walter-Petrich, A., Martin, J. G. & Farge-Bancel, D. (2026). Umbilical cord mesenchymal stromal cells for respiratory complications of COVID-19 infection (ProTrans): phase II randomized clinical trial. Cytotherapy, vol. 28, p. 102775.
- Prosty, C., Desormeau, B., Lee, T. C. & McDonald, E. G. (2026). Diagnosis, treatment, and prophylaxis of Clostridioides difficile infections: A cross-sectional survey of Canadian clinicians. Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada = Journal officiel de l'Association pour la microbiologie medicale et l'infectiologie Canada, vol. 11, p. 37-50.
- Ross, S. B., Bortolussi-Courval, É., Juhásová, Z., Weir, D. L., Wilson, A. G., Lee, T. C., McDonald, E. G. & Wilson, M. G. (2026). Measuring Medication Related Harm: Proposed Guidance for Adverse Drug Event Adjudication to Harmonize Outcomes in Deprescribing Research. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
- Butler, C. C., Pinto, A. D., Harris, V., Holmes, J., Rahman, N. M., Cureton, L., Hayward, G., Richards, D. B., Lowe, D. M., Standing, J. F., Breuer, J., Hood, K., Png, M. E., Petrou, S., Dorward, J., Patel, M. G., Thomas, N. P. B., Evans, P., Hart, N. D., Jani, B. D., Hosseini, B., Murthy, S., McBrien, K., Condon, A., McDonald, E. G., Daley, P., Greiver, M., da Costa, B. R., Selby, P., Jüni, P., Lee, T. C., Shi, H., Detry, M. A., Saunders, C. T., Fitzgerald, M., Berry, N. S., Saville, B. R., Khoo, S. H., Nguyen-Van-Tam, J. S., Hobbs, F. D. R., Yu, L.-M., Little, P. & PANORAMIC Trial and CanTreatCOVID Trial Collaborative Groups (2026). Oral Nirmatrelvir-Ritonavir for Covid-19 in Higher-Risk Outpatients. The New England journal of medicine, vol. 394, p. 1583-1594.
- Spellberg, B., Ghanem, B., Morante-Ruiz, M., Bortolussi-Courval, É., Makam, A. N., Ergenc, Z., Riccardi, N., Meyer-Sautter, P., Alharbi, S., Rocha-Pereira, N., Centor, R. M., Ryder, J., Bhoojhawon, G., Ahmed, I., Cabanilla, M. G., Almeida, F., Pimentel, B. V., Starkey, J., Costa, R. P. L., Maraolo, A. E., Tong, S. Y. C., Anderson, D. T., Murri, R., McDonald, E. G. & Lee, T. C. (2026). Evidence Over Eminence: Rethinking Specialty Guidelines Amid the ATS-IDSA Debate. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
- Hosseini, B., Condon, A., da Costa, B. R., Daley, P., Greiver, M., Jüni, P., Lee, T. C., McBrien, K., McDonald, E. G., Murthy, S., Selby, P. & Pinto, A. D. (2026). Lessons learned and recommendations from the Canadian adaptive platform trial of treatments for COVID in community settings (CanTreatCOVID). Contemporary clinical trials, vol. 165, p. 108303.
- McDonald, E. G., Gagnon, M.-E., Jorgenson, D. J., Kraut, R. Y., Lee, J., Leung, L., Mangin, D., Marcoux, G., McCracken, R. K., Raman-Wilms, L., Sirois, C., Trimble, J., Young, J., Rizvi, A., Workentin, A. & Persaud, N. (2026). Screening for potentially inappropriate prescribing in primary care: Canadian guideline. Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien, vol. 72, p. 173-178.
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