Professor
McMaster University
McMaster University
Dr. Bosch is an occupational therapist with a clinical interest in functional outcomes and improving outcomes after stroke. She is the Assistant Dean of the McMaster Occupational Therapy Program, a Professor at the School of Rehabilitation Science, a Researcher at the Chanchlani Research Centre, and a Scientist at the Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University.
She has focussed her research efforts on the conduct of large, multinational clinical trials in the areas of primary and secondary cardiovascular disease and diabetes prevention. Dr. Bosch’s clinical interest is in the area of functional outcomes, and she has worked with colleagues to develop functional outcome measures used in several large, international trials, to try and understand the effect of interventions on functional as well as clinical outcomes. She is currently the co-principal investigator of a large observational study examining clinical and functional outcomes of gastrointestinal bleeding (INTERBLEED) and a co-investigator in the LEADER-PAD study examining the effect of colchicine in those with peripheral arterial disease.
Since 2014 she has been the co-principal investigator on the OSCAIL (Organized Stroke Care Across Income Levels) which was designed to determine if key aspects of organized stroke care could be implemented in low resources settings to improve outcomes after stroke. The study demonstrated that small, inexpensive changes to stroke care could make an important difference in outcomes.
Dr. Bosch is interested in the design of clinical research and in improving the efficiency of conducting clinical trials and has been involved in the Sensible Guidelines working group to improve key aspects of research implementation. She has been a faculty member of the International Clinical Trials courses offered by PHRI and has co-chaired the Canadian Initiative to Streamline Clinical Trials.
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Friday, October 27, 2023
14:00 – 14:15 EST