Lab Information
Todd Lee (MD)
ScientistClinical Research Unit
Department of Medicine (McGill)
Research Profile
https://www.drtoddlee.com/
Keywords
Quality improvement • patient safety • high value healthcare • antibiotic stewardship • polypharmacyResearch Interests
My research focuses on conducting randomized clinical trials designed to improve the treatment of infectious diseases (e.g., C. difficile, COVID-19, S. aureus, Gram-Negative infections) and to innovate in the domains of care of complex hospitalized patients, care of older adults with polypharmacy, and stewardship of healthcare resources (e.g., testing, medications).Team Members
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Latest Publications
- Aw, M., Lee, T. C., Mendel, A. & Colmegna, I. (2025). Parvovirus B19-Associated Large-Vessel Vasculitis in an Immunocompromised Patient. The Journal of rheumatology.
- Turner, N. A., Hamasaki, T., Doernberg, S. B., Lodise, T. P., King, H. A., Ghazaryan, V., Cosgrove, S. E., Jenkins, T. C., Liu, C., Sharma, S., Zaharoff, S., Wahid, L., Renard, V. J., Cook, P., Raad, I., Hachem, R., Chaftari, A.-M., Sims, M., DeMarco, C., Miller, L. G., McCarthy, M. W., Morse, C. G., Lucasti, C., Forrest, G. N., Cherabuddi, K., Polk, C., Fazili, T., Rupp, M. E., Thompson, G. R., Kim, K., Strnad, L., Schnee, A. E., McKinnell, J. A., Ramesh, M., Silveira, F. P., McCarty, T. P., Lee, T. C., McDonald, E. G., Paolino, K., Wiegand, K., Wall, A., Riccobene, T., Patel, R., Rappo, U., Evans, S., Chambers, H. F., Fowler, V. G., Holland, T. L. & Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group (2025). Dalbavancin for Treatment of Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia: The DOTS Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA.
- Prosty, C., Noutsios, D., Dubé, L.-R., Baden, R., Davar, K., Freling, S., Bhuket, T., Yee, H. F., Spellberg, B., McDonald, E. G. & Lee, T. C. (2025). Prophylactic Antibiotics for Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Patients With Cirrhosis: A Systematic Review and Bayesian Meta-Analysis. JAMA internal medicine.
- 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., Andrew, M., Aubrey-Bassler, K., Barber, D., Barrett, B., Butler, C. C., Crampton, N., Dahrouge, S., Damji, A., Fowler, R., Garies, S., Hudon, C., Hulme, J., Isenor, J., Jenkins, D. J. A., Lall, R., LeBlanc, A., Leong, C., Little, P., Lofters, A., Logsetty, S., Lother, S., Lussier, M.-T., Maclaren, L., Mangin, D., Marshall, E. G., Marshall, J. C., McCracken, R., Moineddin, R., Orava, B., Paquette, J.-S., Park, J. J. H., Persaud, N., Rac, V. E., Ramsden, V. R., Rayner, J., Sanchez-Ramirez, D. C., Saxinger, L., Shi, H., Singer, A., Spiwak, R., Srivastava, A., Sud, A., Tarride, J.-E., Telner, D., Upshur, R. E. G., Walji, S., Walsh, R., Wilchesky, M., Wong, S. T., Wood, B., Zarychanski, R., Zelek, B., Keynan, Y., Piszczek, J., Warshafsky, D. & Pinto, A. D. (2025). Canadian Adaptive Platform Trial of Treatments for COVID in Community Settings (CanTreatCOVID): protocol for a randomised controlled adaptive platform trial of treatments for acute SARS-CoV-2 infection in community settings. BMJ open, vol. 15, p. e097134.
- Lee, J. J., Lee, T. C. & McDonald, E. G. (2025). Response to "Broadening the Lens on Reporting to Include Older Adults' Emotional Responses During Deprescribing Trials". Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
- Spellberg, B., Wald-Dickler, N., Holtom, P., Meyer-Sautter, P., Camp, A., Diaz, A. D., Buhamad, R., Vazquez, A. S. M., Aguirre-Garcia, G. M., Stanton, M., Butler-Wu, S. M., Chiu, I., Ergenc, Z., Bhoojhawon, G., Murri, R., Maraolo, A. E., Cabanilla, G., Riccardi, N., Tshisevhe, V., Behenna, C., Williams, K. S., Kufel, W. D., Wojciaczyk, N., Pimentel, B. V., Muyidi, A., Costa, R. P., Motta, F., Bortolussi-Courval, É., Lee, T. C., McDonald, E., Ghanem, B. & Nelson, Z. (2025). Static vs. cidal: it's not complex; it's simply incorrect. Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, p. e0051325.
- Lasry, D., Lee, T. C., Paquette, K., Demir, K., Yansouni, C., Sweet, D., Cheng, M. P. & Lawandi, A. (2024). Canadian Antibiotic Prescribing for Sepsis (CAPS) Study: A Post Hoc Analysis of the FABLED Cohort Study. 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. 9, p. 239-248.
- Lee, T. C., Albuquerque, A. M., Lawandi, A., Prosty, C. J., Kotani, Y., Landoni, G. & McDonald, E. G. (2025). Systemic Corticosteroids Continue to Reduce Mortality in Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia: An Updated Meta-Analysis. Journal of general internal medicine.
- Phillips, M. C., Davar, K., Freling, S., Tong, S. Y. C., Lee, T. C., McDonald, E. G., Nielsen, T. B., Wald-Dickler, N., Mena Lora, A. J., Lee, R. A., Hamilton, F., Musher, D. M., Costa, R. P. L., Ghanem, B., Baden, R. & Spellberg, B. (2025). Practicing With Intent: How to Teach an Old Dogma New Tricks. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
- Hamilton, F., Lee, T. C., Davey Smith, G., Hartwig, F. P. & Butler-Laporte, G. (2025). Does piperacillin-tazobactam increase mortality risk compared to cefepime? Collider bias and the importance of assumptions in instrumental variable analyses. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
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