Jessica Widdifield » Network Member Directory

Jessica Widdifield is a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University in Montreal and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Toronto. She received her PhD in 2013 in Health Outcomes & Evaluations in Health Services Research at the University of Toronto, Institute of Health Policy, Management, & Evaluation. She is a Banting Scholar and also funded by The Arthritis Society.

 

Her research to date has focused on population-based epidemiological assessments of autoimmune diseases, including pharmacoepidemiology and evaluating processes of care and quality care (such as timely access to specialists & access to treatments). Much of her work involves improving methods for rheumatology research and surveillance using health administrative databases, electronic medical records and data linkages.