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null Romina Pace, MD, M.Sc.

Junior Scientist, RI-MUHC, Montreal General Hospital site

Metabolic Disorders and Complications Program

Centre for Outcomes Research and Evaluation

Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University

 

Keywords

Indigenous health • diabetes • cardiovascular risk factors • health services research • database analysis

Research Focus

My research focuses on working alongside Indigenous communities to assist them in developing, implementing and evaluating data-driven initiatives to improve the healthcare delivery and health outcomes for Indigenous people.

Selected Publications

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  • Primary and secondary cardiovascular prevention among First Nations peoples with type 2 diabetes in Canada: Findings from the FORGE AHEAD program. Pace R, Zaran H, Parry M, Harris SB. CJC Open. 2020 July. 10.1016/j.cjco.2020.07.004. PMID: 33305215.

  • Preventing diabetes after pregnancy with gestational diabetes in a Cree community: an inductive thematic analysis. Pace R, Loon O, Chan D, Porada H, Godin C, Linton J, Linton P, Torrie J, Dasgupta K.BMJ Open Diabetes Res Care. 2020 May;8(1):e001286. doi: 10.1136/bmjdrc-2020-001286. PMID: 32393481.

  • Closing the Indigenous Health Gap in Canada: Results from the TransFORmation of IndiGEnous PrimAry HEAlthcare Delivery (FORGE AHEAD) Program. M Hayward, R Pace, H Zaran, R Dyck, AJ Hanley, ME Green, O Bhattacharyya, M Zwarenstein, J Emond, C Benoit, M Jebb, SB Harris. Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 2020 Apr;162:108066. doi: 10.1016/j.diabres.2020.108066. Epub 2020 Feb 8. PMID: 32045618.

  • Considering parents as a unit: Associations of gestational diabetes and gestational hypertension with postpartum diabetes and hypertension in couples. Pace R, Rahme E, Dasgupta K. Pregnancy Hypertens. 2019 Apr;16:32-37. doi:10.1016/j.preghy.2019.02.004.PMID: 31056157.

  • Conjoint Associations of Gestational Diabetes and Hypertension with Diabetes, Hypertension, and Cardiovascular Disease in Parents: A Retrospective Cohort Study. Romina Pace, Anne-Sophie Brazeau, Sara Meltzer, Elham Rahme, and Kaberi Dasgupta. American Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 186, Issue 10, 15 November 2017, Pages 1115–1124, https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwx263. PMID: 29149255.