Thérèse Stukel

Thérèse Stukel is a biostatistician and health services researcher. She is a Senior Scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Toronto, Professor of Biostatistics at Dartmouth Medical School, and Professor of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. She has published over 140 peer-reviewed papers in the medical literature. 

Her research interests have focused on statistical methods development and cancer epidemiology, in the past, and, more recently, on health services research involving cardiovascular care, health human resources, and sustainability and longitudinal efficiency of healthcare systems. She collaborated on the Ontario Ministry of Health's policy initiative to create Local Health Integration Networks by deriving boundaries based on travel patterns for hospital care. In 2007, she was appointed a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.

Key research interests:

• Quality and outcomes of care for chronic illness
• Methods for observational studies (propensity scores; instrumental variables)
• Methods for clustered data (longitudinal models; multi-level models)
• Volume-outcome studies