Collaborators

The OMNI team extends across to our collaborators who have jointly worked with us on various projects while providing us with notable support. 

Team members currently supervising or seeking graduate students are noted. 

Laura M Gaudet, MD, MSc

Clinician Scientist and Associate Professor
Affiliate OMNI Investigator

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kingston Health Sciences Centre
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Queen’s University
School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa
Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Dr. Gaudet is a specialist in Maternal Fetal Medicine at Kingston Health Sciences Centre and an Associate Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Queen’s University. Her clinical practice is broad, but special populations of interest include pregnancies complicated by high BMI, diabetes and substance use. 

Dr. Gaudet is a Clinician Scientist with training in Perinatal Epidemiology.  Her research interests are focused on the investigation of effects of high maternal BMI on health outcomes of mother, fetus and child. In addition to conducting both observational studies and clinical trials in that subject area, she has been an active recruiter for OMNI–led clinical trials. Dr. Gaudet has served as a clinical content expert for systematic reviews in the fields of excess weight in pregnancy and preterm birth. Finally, Dr. Gaudet is studying effects of substance use on pregnancy outcomes, placental health and the life trajectory of expectant parents and their babies.   

*Dr. Gaudet is currently supervising/seeking graduate students at Queen’s University

Yanfang (Mary) Guo, PhD

Adjunct Professor and Affiliate OMNI Investigator

BORN Ontario, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO)
Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa

Dr. Guo is an epidemiologist with extensive experience using large health administrative databases for pediatric and perinatal research. Her research interests are in the short- and long-term maternal and child outcomes relative to perinatal exposures, in particular with regard to obesity, gestational weight gain and gestational diabetes. 

Katherine Muldoon, PhD

Senior Clinical Research Associate and Assistant Professor

Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Ottawa

Dr Muldoon is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Ottawa, a Senior Research Associate at OHRI, and collaborating researcher at ICES.

She specializes in social epidemiology with content expertise in sexual and gender-based violence, sexual reproductive health, and sex and gender-based analyses. She has a PhD in Epidemiology from UBC, Masters in Public Health from Simon Fraser University, a BSc in Psychology from McGill University and completed a Post-doctoral Fellowship at Columbia University with the Mailman School of Public Health. She has worked as a consultant with the United Nations, sits on the Ottawa Police Service Violence Against Women Advisory Board, and is a Content Expert with PHAC on gender-based violence.