Lab Information

Sasha Bernatsky (MD/PhD)

Senior Scientist
Centre for Outcomes Research and Evaluation
Department of Medicine (McGill)

Research Profile

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Keywords

Pharmacoepidemiology • systemic lupus • rheumatic disease • drug safety and effectiveness • air pollution

Research Interests

My research focuses mainly on outcomes in rheumatic diseases, pharmacoepidemiology, and air pollution’s effects on health.


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Latest Publications

  1. Bakewell, N., Bouck, Z., Greenwald, Z. R., Upham, K., Warren, C. M., Birck, M. G., Moura, C. S., Bernatsky, S., Neville, A., Gomes, T. & Werb, D. (2026). Recent hydromorphone injection and risk of incident infective endocarditis among people who inject drugs in Toronto, Canada: a cohort study. Harm reduction journal.
  2. Zhao, N., Bernatsky, S., Dowell, S., Banbury, B., Curtis, J. R., Wright, G. C., Holladay, E. E., Mudano, A., Moura, C. S. & Kerr, G. S. (2026). Fine Particulate Matter Constituents, Ozone, and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Large General-Population Cohort Analysis With Extended Quantile g-Computation. Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.).
  3. Goulet, D., Guertin, C., Larché, M., Ferdinand, I., Hudson, M., Choi, M. Y., Osman, M., Pope, J., Thorne, C., Baron, M., Bernatsky, S. & Hoa, S. (2026). Distinct Systemic Sclerosis Phenotypes Related to Ethnicity: An Opportunity to Personalize Care?. Arthritis care & research.
  4. Stein, O. A., Lee, J. L., Vinet, E., Mendel, A., Pineau, C. A., Kalache, F., Grenier, L.-P. & Bernatsky, S. (2026). Artificial Intelligence-based Online Symptom Assessment Tools for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) diagnosis: Patient Perspectives. Arthritis care & research.
  5. Farhat, R., Zamora-Medina, M. D. C., Bae, S.-C., Barber, M. R. W., Clarke, A. E., Fortin, P. R., Touma, Z., Laskin, C. A., Malhamé, I., Sebastiani, G., Peschken, C., Ugarte-Gil, M. F., Legge, A., Bernatsky, S. & Vinet, É. (2026). Increased Risk of Intrahepatic Cholestasis of Pregnancy in Women With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Exposed to Azathioprine. Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.).
  6. Barber, M. R. W., St Pierre, Y., Peschken, C. A., Legge, A., Hanly, J. G., Vinet, E., Pineau, C. A., Bernatsky, S., Touma, Z., Urowitz, M. B., Gladman, D. D., Fortin, P. R. & Clarke, A. E. (2026). Forgotten costs of systemic lupus erythematosus: estimating indirect healthcare costs in a national prospective observational Canadian lupus cohort. Lupus science & medicine, vol. 13.
  7. Flatman, L. K., Beauchamp, M.-E., St-Pierre, Y., Malhamé, I., Bérard, A., Bernatsky, S. & Vinet, É. (2026). Diarrhoea events in offspring exposed to tumour necrosis factor inhibitors and rotavirus vaccine: a population-based cohort study. Rheumatology (Oxford, England), vol. 65.
  8. Kaddoura, R., Bernatsky, S., Beauchamp, M.-E., Guerra, S. F., Almeida-Brasil, C. C., Hanly, J. G., Urowitz, M., Clarke, A. E., Ruiz-Irastorza, G., Gordon, C., Ramsey-Goldman, R., Petri, M. A., Ginzler, E. M., Wallace, D. J., Bae, S.-C., Romero-Diaz, J., Dooley, M.-A., Peschken, C., Isenberg, D., Manzi, S., Jacobsen, S., Lim, S. S., Nived, O., Jönsen, A., Kamen, D. L., Aranow, C., Sánchez-Guerrero, J., Gladman, D. D., Fortin, P. R., Alarcón, G. S., Merrill, J. T., Kalunian, K., Ramos-Casals, M., Zoma, A. A., Askanase, A. D., Khamashta, M., Bruce, I. N., Inanc, M., Lukusa, L. & Abrahamowicz, M. (2026). Bias due to interval censored outcomes in a study of flare risk after hydroxychloroquine taper/cessation in systemic lupus erythematosus. Journal of clinical epidemiology, vol. 195, p. 112261.
  9. Barreth, N., Leclair, V., Hudson, M., Bernatsky, S., Krustev, E., Moran Toro, C., St Pierre, Y., Clarke, A., Sciore, P. J. A., Tarnopolsky, M., Fritzler, M. J., Choi, M. Y. & Canadian Inflammatory Myopathy Study (2026). Soluble SIGLEC1 as a biomarker of disease activity in idiopathic inflammatory myopathies. Rheumatology (Oxford, England), vol. 65.
  10. Elsayed, M., Hsu, Z., McAlister, F. A., Leslie, W. D., Lix, L. M., Bernatsky, S., Morin, S. N., Graham, M. M., Fifi-Mah, A., Jamal, S., Roberts, J. & Ye, C. (2026). Validation of International Classification of Diseases Code-Based Case Definitions of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor-Associated Inflammatory Arthritis From Administrative Health Data. Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.).
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