Meredith Vanstone PhD

Assistant ProfessorAssociate Member, Department of Clinical Epidemiology & BiostatisticsMember, Centre for Health Economics and Policy AnalysisSenior Scientist, Program for Education Research and Development

David Braley Health Sciences Centre - Hamilton, Ontario

Email: meredith.vanstone@mcmaster.ca

Office Phone: (905) 525-9140 ext. 22113

Biography

Meredith is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine, Senior Scientist in the Program for Educational Research and Development, and a member of the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis. Meredith is an interdisciplinary researcher who uses qualitative approaches to examine social and ethical issues related to health professional practice, education and health policy. She is particularly interested in research related to reproduction, women’s health, and marginalized patient populations. Meredith teaches qualitative research methods and social theory for the Master’s of Health Science Education and Health Policy PhD programs.

Meredith has a PhD in Health Professional Education from Western University, and has completed postdoctoral studies in Health Policy at McMaster University. She has provided social and ethics evidence and consulting to provincial, national, and international health policy decision-makers.

Meredith is available to supervise graduate students with relevant research interests in the following McMaster graduate programs: Health Policy (PhD), Health Research Methodology (MSc, PhD), Health Science Education (MHSEd).

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Project:
Unproductive, unprofessional, and abusive behaviours in the clinical workplace: The influence of working environment on the development of future health leaders
Principal Investigators:
Meredith Vanstone,
C E Connelly
Agency:
Michael G DeGroote School of Medicine Undergraduate MD program
Year(s):
2016 - 2018
Grant Amount:
$10,000
Project:
Unproductive, unprofessional, and abusive behaviours in the clinical workplace: The influence of working environment on the development of future health leaders
Principal Investigators:
Meredith Vanstone,
C E Connelly
Agency:
Michael G DeGroote Health Leadership Academy
Year(s):
2016 - 2018
Grant Amount:
$20,000
Project:
The Experience of Power in Clinical Learning Environments
Principal Investigators:
Judy Baird
Agency:
Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine Undergraduate MD program
Year(s):
2016
Grant Amount:
$5,000
Project:
The Experience of Power in Clinical Learning Environments
Principal Investigators:
Judy Baird
Agency:
Canadian Association of Medical Educators Wooster Family Education
Year(s):
2016
Grant Amount:
$3,650
Project:
Understanding Excessive Pregnancy Weight Gain: A Consideration of Psychological and Other Determinants as a Prelude to Developing Interventions
Principal Investigators:
S McDonald
Agency:
CIHR, Transitional Open Operating Grant
Year(s):
2015 - 2018
Grant Amount:
$536,094
Project:
Understanding clinical intuition: A qualitative examination of the use of intuitive reasoning by experienced physicians
Principal Investigators:
Meredith Vanstone
Agency:
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Medical Education Research Grant
Year(s):
2014 - 2017
Grant Amount:
$49,020
Project:
Ethical considerations for health technology policy about non-invasive prenatal testing via fetal DNA in maternal blood
Principal Investigators:
Meredith Vanstone
Agency:
CIHR, Ethics Catalyst Grant
Year(s):
2014 - 2019
Grant Amount:
$98,293

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Author(s):
Meredith Vanstone,
Feli Toledo,
France Clarke,
Anne Boyle,
Mita Giacomini,
Marilyn Swinton,
Lois Saunders,
Melissa Shears,
Nicole Zytaruk,
Anne Woods,
Trudy Rose,
Tracey Hand-Breckenridge,
Diane Heels-Ansdell,
Shelley Anderson-White,
Robert Sheppard,
Deborah Cook
Title:
Narrative Medicine and Death in the ICU: Word Clouds as a visual legacy
Date of Publication:
November 24, 2016 Epub ahead of print
Author(s):
Meredith Vanstone,
Alex Rewegan,
Francesca Brundisini,
Mita Giacomini,
Sujane Kandasamy,
Deirdre DeJean
Title:
Diet modification challenges faced by marginalized and nonmarginalized adults with type 2 diabetes: A systematic review and qualitative meta-synthesis
Date of Publication:
September 2017
Volume:
13
Issue:
3
Author(s):
Meredith Vanstone,
Sujane Kandasamy,
Mita Giacomini,
Deirdre DeJean,
Sarah D McDonald
Title:
Pregnant women’s perceptions of gestational weight gain: A systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative research
Date of Publication:
October 2017
Author(s):
Amanda Peters,
Meredith Vanstone,
Sandra Monteiro,
Geoff Norman,
Jonathan Sherbino,
Matthew Sibbald
Title:
Examining the Influence of Context and Professional Culture on Clinical Reasoning through Rhetorical-Narrative Analysis
Date of Publication:
May 2017
Author(s):
Meredith Vanstone,
Karima Yacoub,
Mita Giacomini,
Danielle Hulan,
Sarah McDonald
Title:
Women’s experiences of publicly funded Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing in Ontario, Canada: Considerations for health technology policy making
Date of Publication:
August 2015
Volume:
25
Issue:
8
Pages:
1069–1084
Author(s):
Meredith Vanstone,
Karima Yacoub,
Shawn Winsor,
Mita Giacomini,
Jeff Nisker
Title:
What is "NIPT"? Divergent characterizations of non-invasive prenatal testing strategies
Date of Publication:
March 2015
Volume:
6
Issue:
1
Pages:
54–67
Author(s):
Meredith Vanstone,
Carol King,
Barbra de Vrijer,
Jeff Nisker
Title:
Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing: Ethics and Policy Considerations
Date of Publication:
June 2014
Volume:
36
Issue:
6
Pages:
515–526
Author(s):
Meredith Vanstone,
Sarah E Boesveld,
Kristen Burrows
Title:
Introducing Physician Assistants to Ontario
Date of Publication:
2014
Volume:
2
Issue:
1
Author(s):
Meredith Vanstone,
Christopher Watling,
Mark Goldszmidt,
Charles Weijer,
Lorelei Lingard
Title:
Resigned Professionalism? Non-Acute Inpatients and Resident Education
Date of Publication:
October 2014
Volume:
19
Issue:
4
Pages:
529–539

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