Dr. Elizabeth Stringer » Network Member Directory

Dr. Stringer is a pediatric rheumatologist at the IWK Health Centre and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Dalhousie University.  Her research has focused on the use of administrative data to estimate the prevalence and incidence of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) and systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases in children in Nova Scotia.  Dr. Stringer has completed a preliminary validation study of administrative data case definitions for JIA and has surveyed the pediatric rheumatology community in Canada regarding their billing practices to determine this may impact the use of administrative data for surveillance and research purposes.