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Dr Elham Rahme is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine and Associate Member in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics of McGill University. She is also Medical Scientist in the Division of Clinical Epidemiology of the McGill University Health Centre. She is a member of the executive committee of the Réseau Québécois de recherche sur l’usage des médicaments and a member of the  Réseau Québécois de recherche sur le suicide. She is an Editorial Board member of the Open Rheumatology Journal, World Journal of Gastrointestinal Pharmacology and Therapeutics, BMC Geriatrics and Current Drug Safety. She holds a PhD in statistics and has extensive expertise in pharmacoepidemiology and health services research. Her research interests include the evaluation of the safety, effectiveness, and economic implications of prescribed medications. She has conducted population-based studies on the utilization, adverse events, and cost of NSAIDs; risks and benefits of extended outpatient anticoagulant use following total hip and knee arthroplasty; home care following hospital discharge from hemiarthroplasty, use of serotonin re-uptake inhibitors in association with suicide; rate of infection and the development of multi-drug resistance in patients undergoing dialysis; estimation of the prevalence of diagnosed and undiagnosed diabetes in Quebec; utilisation, safety and cost of anti-TNF-alpha drugs; and assessment and development of biostatistical methods for pharmacoepidemiology research.