Kednapa Thavorn
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Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at uOttawa | Senior Scientist and Scientific Lead of Health Economics at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Adjunct Scientist at ICES
NMD4C Involvement: Pillar 3: Clinical Practice Research
Email KednapaResearch Interests: Pharmacoeconomics, Health Economics, Pharmacoepidemiology, Outcome Research
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Biography
Dr. Kednapa Thavorn is a Senior Scientist and a Scientific Lead of Health Economics at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. She is also an Associate Professor with the School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa, an Adjunct Scientist at ICES (Full Status). She holds a Ph.D. in Health Services Research from the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME), University of Toronto. She completed post-doctoral fellowship programs in Applied Pharmacoeconomics from the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital and Health Services Research from the IHPME, University of Toronto. Her research focuses on health economics, health technology assessment, pharmacoepidemiology, health equity, care for people with complex needs, and population health. As a health economist, she has collaborated with patient partners, clinicians, researchers, and policymakers in Canada and other countries on various health services research and health technology assessment projects.
Recent Publications
Roberts, R, Tanuseputro, P, Lawlor, P, Bush, SH, Watt, CL, Pugliese, M et al.. Long-Term Care Ownership and Operator Factors in Probable Delirium: A Population-Based Study from Ontario, Canada. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2025.26 (7)105610 PMID:40311659
D'Silva, OA, Lancione, S, Ananthakrishnan, O, Addae, A, Shrestha, S, Alsdurf, H et al.. The catastrophic cost of TB care: Understanding costs incurred by individuals undergoing TB care in low-, middle-, and high-income settings - A systematic review. PLOS Glob Public Health. 2025.5 (4)e0004283 PMID:40173113
Cherian, M, Masoudian, P, Thavorn, K, Sandoz, J, Shorr, R, Mulpuru, S et al.. The impact of frailty on clinical outcomes among individuals with COPD: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Pulm Med. 2025.25 (1)146 PMID:40165150
Li, N, Riazi, K, Pan, J, Thavorn, K, Ziegler, J, Rochwerg, B et al.. Unsupervised clustering for sepsis identification in large-scale patient data: a model development and validation study. Intensive Care Med Exp. 2025.13 (1)37 PMID:40111645
Kendzerska, T, Pugliese, M, Manuel, D, Sadatsafavi, M, Povitz, M, Stukel, TA et al.. Healthcare utilization trends in adults with asthma or COPD during the first year of COVID-19 pandemic in comparison to pre-pandemic: A population-based study. PLoS One. 2025.20 (3)e0316553 PMID:40048456
Nochaiwong, S, Ruengorn, C, Kiratikanon, S, Rujiwetpongstorn, R, Chieosilapatham, P, Tovanabutra, N et al.. Patient-Reported Outcomes among people living with Chronic Pruritus (PROs-CP): Protocol for a single-center, multistage, mixed-methods prospective cohort study in Thailand. PLoS One. 2025.20 (2)e0314548 PMID:39928603
Caulley, L, Lasso, A, Zagorski, B, Wilton, AS, Saskin, R, Sahlollbey, N et al.. The Economic Burden of Management of Pituitary Adenomas: A Propensity-Score-Matched Cost Analysis. J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2025.54 19160216251314793 PMID:39868520
Lukas, KJ, Ojaghi, R, Thavorn, K, Carsen, S, Smit, K, Beaulé, PE et al.. Combined hip arthroscopy with periacetabular osteotomy for hip dysplasia: a systematic review. J Hip Preserv Surg. 2024.11 (3)223-231 PMID:39664216
Garland, A, Li, N, Sligl, W, Lane, A, Thavorn, K, Wilcox, ME et al.. Adjudication of Codes for Identifying Sepsis in Hospital Administrative Data by Expert Consensus. Crit Care Med. 2024.52 (12)1845-1855 PMID:39637258
Li, C, Guo, M, Karimuddin, A, Guo, M, Li, C, Karimuddin, A et al.. 2024 Canadian Surgery Forum: Sept. 25-28, 2024. Can J Surg. 2024.67 (6suppl2)S77-S108 PMID:39609036
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