Michelle Dimitris, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Email: michelle.dimitris@dal.ca
Mailing Address:
Centre for Clinical Research, Room 416
5790 University Ave, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada B3H 1V7
Research Topics:5790 University Ave, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada B3H 1V7
- Advanced epidemiologic methods
- Causal inference
- Child health
- Global health
- Perinatal epidemiology
- Pregnancy health
Education
- PhD (McGill University, Epidemiology)
- MSc (Queen's University, Epidemiology)
- BScH (Queen's University, Life Sciences)
Research Interests
Michelle Dimitris (she/her) is interested in using advanced quantitative methods to investigate research questions about pregnancy and child health that are global in scale and impact. Previously, she applied approaches such as causal mediation analysis and flexible time-to-event models to better understand pregnancy weight gain and its relationship with pregnancy outcomes. Currently, she is especially motivated to understand the patterns and determinants of pregnancy loss in populations around the world, as well as address the methodological challenges of studying pregnancy loss.
Selected Publications
- Dimitris MC, Hutcheon JA, Platt RW, Abrahamowicz M, Beauchamp ME, Himes KP, Bodnar LM, Kaufman JS. Investigating the shape and strength of the relationship between maternal weight gain and gestational age at delivery in twin and singleton pregnancies. Am J Epidemiol 2023 Dec;192(12):2018-2032.
- Dimitris MC, Platt RW. The COVID-19 pandemic, preterm birth, and the potential role of composition of gestations. Paediatr and Perinat Epidemiol 2022 Jul;36(4):490-492.
- Dimitris MC, Kaufman JS, Bodnar LM, Platt RW, Himes KP, Hutcheon JA. Increased risk of gestational diabetes in twin pregnancies with normal weight or overweight pre-pregnancy body mass index is not primarily mediated by gestational weight gain. Epidemiol 2022 Mar;33(2):278-286.
- Dimitris MC, Galea S, Marcus JL, Pan A, Sander B, Platt RW. What has the pandemic revealed about the shortcomings of epidemiology? What can we fix or do better? Am J Epidemiol 2022 Jan; 191(6):980-986.
- Dimitris MC, Platt RW. Consider this before using the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic as an instrumental variable in an epidemiological study. Am J Epidemiol 2021 Nov;190(11):2275-2279.
- Dimitris MC, Hutcheon JA, Platt RW, Himes KP, Bodnar LM, Kaufman JS. Comparison of methods for interpolating gestational weight gain between clinical visits in twin and singleton Pregnancies. Ann Epidemiol. 2021 Aug; 60:45-52.
- Fell DB, Dimitris MC, Hutcheon JA, Ortiz JR, Platt RW, Regan AK, Savitz DA. Guidance for design and analysis of epidemiological studies of fetal and newborn outcomes following COVID- 19 vaccination during pregnancy. Vaccine 2021 Apr;39(14):1882-1886.
- Dimitris MC, Gittings M, King NB. How global is global health research? A large-scale analysis of trends in authorship. BMJ Glob Health. 2021 Jan 26;6(1):e003758.
Service
- Member, Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiologic Research (SPER) Equity Advisory Board
- Member, Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER) Dissemination Committee