Natasha Lane, MD, PhD
Dr. Lane is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Geriatric Medicine at the University of British Columbia and the University of Toronto Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (status only), as well as an Investigator at the Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Aging and a Research Fellow at ICES in Toronto. She works as an Internist and Geriatrician at Providence Health Care.
Dr. Lane completed her PhD in Health Services Research, with a specialization in Health Outcomes and Evaluation as part of the University of Toronto’s combined MD/PhD Program. She trained in Internal Medicine at the University of British Columbia and in Geriatric Medicine at the University of Toronto, and completed her postdoctoral fellowship at ICES. She has a Master’s in Health Studies and Gerontology from the University of Waterloo and is an Associate Editor at the Canadian Geriatrics Journal.
Her research uses knowledge synthesis, clinical and health administrative data to improve medication prescribing and hospital and community-based care for older adults. Current projects are focused on access to specialist care in long-term care settings, minimization of physical restraint use among hospitalized older adults and management of behavioural and psychiatric symptoms of dementia.
Key words: geriatrics, pharmacoepidemiology, restraints, long-term care, administrative data, behavioural and psychiatric symptoms, dementia
Email: natasha.lane@ubc.ca