On our second bonus episode, we're extremely excited to be joined by Dr. Alex Hutchinson! Alex is a scientist, a journalist, and the New York Times best-selling author of Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance. Throughout this wide-ranging episode we'll touch on a number of topics including endurance sport, multiple aspects of behavioural change, how to make tough decisions and tackle interesting problems. We also introduce the concept of the adjacent possible - how can two fields come together to enlighten the field that we currently work in - it's something that we'll be exploring in depth in Season Two and speaking with Alex is a wonderful way to start that conversation.

On this special bonus episode, we have the distinct honor of speaking with Dr. Gordon Guyatt, a pioneering figure in modern medicine whose work has fundamentally reshaped how clinicians approach patient care. Dr. Guyatt is a distinguished professor at McMaster University and is internationally renowned for coining the term evidence-based medicine or EBM. EBM introduced a paradigm shift in the way that we integrate clinical expertise with the best available research and patient values to guide medical decision-making.

On our final episode of the season, we’re honoured to welcome Dr. Jonathan Jackson, the executive director of the Community Access Recruitment and Engagement Research Centre at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Jackson’s research focuses on the impact of diversity and inclusion in human subjects research, particularly how community engagement can help overcome barriers to clinical trial participation and build trust in marginalized communities.

On today’s episode, we’re joined by Dr. Janet Branchaw, an associate professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education. Dr. Branchaw is also the faculty director of the Wisconsin Institute for Science Education and Community Engagement (WI Science), where her work focuses on developing, implementing, and evaluating innovative approaches in science education at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

In this episode, we continue our deep dive into qualitative methods with one of Canada's foremost experts in the field, Dr. Maria Mayan. Dr. Mayan is the Associate Director of the Community University Partnership and a professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta.

On this episode, we are honoured to sit down for the first in a two-part series with Dr. Maria Mayan, one of Canada’s foremost leaders in qualitative methods and inquiry. When seeking guidance on understanding the foundations of qualitative research, Dr. Mayan was the clear choice—a renowned expert and author of the 2023 textbook The Essentials of Qualitative Inquiry.

We’re back with Dr. Robert Platt for part two of our deep dive into causal inference in epidemiology! In this episode, Dr. Platt and I explore different approaches to inferring causality, taking a closer look at the assumptions that are key when making causal inferences.

We're joined for the first in a two-part series with Dr. Robert Platt, a professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health at McGill University. Dr. Platt is a senior investigator at the McGill University Health Center, the Lady Davis Institute at the Jewish General Hospital, and a leading expert in pharmacoepidemiology. He holds the Albert Behringer Endowed Chair in Pharmacoepidemiology and is a pioneering figure in causal epidemiology.

On today’s episode, we're excited to interview Dr. Laura Rosella, a professor at the Dalhousie School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. Dr. Rosella holds a CRC Chair in Population Health Analytics and is a principal investigator for the Temerty Center for AI Research and Education in Medicine. She is a leading expert in predictive epidemiology, particularly in the application of machine learning to administrative health data.

On today’s episode, we're thrilled to welcome Dr. Matt Fox, a professor in the departments of epidemiology and global health at Boston University. Dr. Fox’s research spans treatment outcomes in HIV treatment programs, infectious disease epidemiology, and epidemiological methods. He is also the co-host of one of our favourite podcasts, Sirius Epi, alongside Dr. Haley Bannick, who joined us on episode five.

On today’s episode, we have the privilege of speaking with Dr. Norman Rosenblum, a pediatric nephrologist and clinician scientist at SickKids Hospital and the University of Toronto. Dr. Rosenblum is a professor of pediatrics, a past recipient of a Tier 1 CRC Chair in Developmental Nephrology, and the scientific director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Institute for Nutrition Metabolism Diabetes.

On today’s episode, we’re excited to speak with Dr. Haley Banack, an associate professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. Dr. Banack is an epidemiologist with expertise in obesity, aging, epidemiological methods, causal inference, and life course epidemiology. She is also the co-host of the Serious Epi podcast series alongside Matt Fox.

On this episode, we are thrilled to be joined by Dr. Lucy D’Agostino McGowan, an assistant professor in the Department of Statistical Sciences at Wake Forest University. Dr. D’Agostino McGowan is also the co-host of the insightful podcast Casual Inference, alongside Dr. Ellie Murray.

On our third episode, we delve into the critical question of where to find the best evidence for clinical practice and research, and are joined by Drs. Lorianne Linkins and Alfonso Iorio from McMaster University, leaders of an invaluable resource called ACCESSSS.

On this episode, we are honored to host Dr. Bapu Jena, a clinician, economist, and professor at Harvard Medical School, where he holds the Joseph P. Newhouse Professorship in Health Care Policy. Dr. Jena is also the creator and host of the popular podcast Freakonomics, MD, and the author of Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Shape How Doctors Impact Patients and Shape Our Health.

On our debut episode, we’re thrilled to feature Dr. Peter Rosenbaum, renowned professor and clinician scientist in the Department of Pediatrics at McMaster University. Join us as Dr. Rosenbaum shares insights from his remarkable career, including his internationally recognized expertise in mentorship.

The Emerg­ing Schol­ar pod­cast is designed for grad­u­ate stu­dents, med­ical trainees, res­i­dents and fel­lows and grad­u­ate stu­dents to help them on their jour­ney towards their first sci­en­tif­ic project.