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Lisa Dolovich, B.Sc.Phm. (Toronto), M.Sc. (McMaster), Pharm.D. (Toronto)
Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine (DFM)
Associate Member, Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Scientist, Centre for Evaluation of Medicines (CEM)
Lead mentor, CIHR Training Program in Bridging Scientific Domains for Medication Safety and Effectiveness (www.safeandeffectiverx.ca)
Telephone: 905-522-1155 ext 33968 (CEM)
Alt. Telephone: 905-521-2100 ext 28503 (DFM)
Fax: 905-528-7386
E-mail: ldolovic@mcmaster.ca
Mailing Address
Department of Family Medicine
McMaster University
McMaster Innovation Park
175 Longwood Road South, Suite 201A
Hamilton, ON L8P 0A1
Academic Interests
Dr. Dolovich’s current research interests include graduate training in drug safety and effectiveness research, pharmacist integration into primary care practice, pharmacy and health services practice research, evaluating the clinical and policy relevance of interventions that can improve prescribing and patient medication-taking behaviour, and the patient perspective about using or deciding to use medications.
Current HRM Graduate Students
Kalpana Nair, Ph.D.
Christine Rodriguez, M.Sc.
Ric Angeles, Ph.D.
Margaret Jin, M.Sc.
Recent HRM Graduate Students
Jane Jurcic, M.Sc. (2006)
Adnan Quershi (2008)
Ning Ou (2008)
Lisa McCarthy (2009)
Selected Publications
- Dolovich L, Gagnon A, McAiney CA, Sparrow L, Burns S. Initial pharmacist experience with the Ontario-based MedsCheck Program. Can Pharm J 2008;141(6):339-345.
- Dolovich L, Howard M, Sellors C, Kaczorowski J, Rodriguez C, Goeree R, Haq M, Patel P, Sellors J. Medication recommendations to physicians by pharmacists for seniors: expected clinical impact in relation to implementation and expected time frame to effect. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice 2008;15:159-165
- Kennie N and Dolovich L. Reliability testing of a case-leveling framework for assigning level of difficulty of pharmacist’s initial patient medication assessments. Journal of the American Pharmacists Association. 2008;48(5):640-647.
- Kaczorowski J, Chambers LW, Karwalajtys T, Dolovich L, Farrell B, McDonough B, Sebaldt R, Levitt C, Hogg W, Thabane L, Tu K, Goeree R, Paterson JM, Shubair M, Gierman T, Sullivan S, Carter M. Cardiovascular health awareness program (CHAP): A community cluster-randomised trial among elderly Canadians. Preventive Medicine 2008;46:537-544.
- Dolovich L, Pottie K, Kaczorowski J, Farrell B, Austin Z, Rodriguez C, Gaebel K, Sellors C. Integrating Family Medicine and Pharmacy to Advance Primary Care Therapeutics. Clinical pharmacology & Therapeutics. 2008;83(6):913-917.
- Nair KM, Dolovich L, Brazil K, Raina P. It's all about relationships: A qualitative study of health researchers' perspectives of conducting interdisciplinary health research. BMC Health Services Research 2008, 8: 110 doi:10.1186/1472-6963-8-110.
- Dolovich L, Nair K, Sellors C, Lohfeld L, Lee A, Levine MAH. Do patients’ expectations influence their use of medication? Can Fam Physician 2008;54:384-93.
- Dolovich L, Sabharwal M, Agro K, Foster G, Lee A, McCarthy L, Willan A. The effect of pharmacist education on asthma treatment plans for simulated patients. Pharm World Sci 2007; 29: 228-239.
- Dolovich L, Burns S, Cassels A, Levine M, Nair K, McCormack J, Mann K, Gray J. Using patient-oriented evidence-based information guides in practice: the family physician and community pharmacist perspective. Drug Information Journal 2006;40(1):61-7.
- Dolovich L, Nair K, Ciliska D, Lee H, Birch S, Gafni A, Hunt D. The Diabetes Continuity of Care Scale: the development and evaluation of a scale that measures continuity from the patient perspective. Health and Social Care in the Community. 2004;12(6):475-487.
- Sellors J, Kaczorowski J, Woodward C, Willan A, Sellors C, Dolovich L, Goeree R, Cosby R, Trim K, Sebaldt R, Howard M, Poston J. Randomized controlled trial of a pharmacist consultation program for family physicians and their elderly patients. CMAJ 2003;169:17-22.