Amanda Caissie

Clinical sites

Head and Neck 

Education

• BSc (McGill University)
• PhD (McGill University)
• MD (Queen's University)
• FRCPC (University of Toronto)

Research interests

• Quality improvement (QI) in radiotherapy through inter-departmental/inter-disciplinary collaboration: promoting pan-Canadian initiatives of Big Data and Patient Reported Outcomes

Administrative roles

• Head (Interim), Dept. of Radiation Oncology
• Nova Scotia Health Cancer Care Program, Medical Co-Lead for System Integration, Quality and Patient Safety
• Steering Committee member of the Canadian Partnership for Quality Radiotherapy (CPQR)
• Chair of the Canadian Association of Radiation Oncology (CARO) Quality and Standards Committee

Recent publications

• Mayo CS, Feng MU, Brock KK, Kudner R, Balter P, Buchsbaum JC, Caissie A, Covington E, Daugherty EC, Dekker AL, Fuller CD, Hallstrom A, Hong  DS, Hong JC, Kamran S, Katsoulakis E, Kildea J, Krauze AV, Kruse JC, McNutt T, Mierzwa M, Moreno A, Palta JR, Popple R, Purdie TG, Richardson S, Sharp GC, Shiraishi S, Tarbox L,Venkatesan A, Witztum A, Woods KE, Yao J, Farahani K, Aneja S, Gabriel PE, Hadjiski L, Ruan D, Siewerdsen JH, Bratt S, Casagni M, Chen S, Christodouleas J, DiDonato A, Hayman J, Kapoor R, Kravitz S, Sebastian S, Von Siebenthal M, Xiao Y. Operational Ontology for Radiation Oncology (OORO) – A Professional Society Based, Multi-Stakeholder, Consensus Driven Informatics Standard Supporting Clinical and Research use of “Real -World” Data from Patients Treated for Cancer. Operational Ontology for Radiation Oncology Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. Manuscript submitted/under revision
• Caissie AL, Mierzwa M, Fuller C, Rajaraman M, Lin A, McDonald A, Popple R, Xiao Y, vanDijk L, Balter P, Fong H, Ping H, Kavoor M, Lee J, Rao A, Thompson R, Martel M, Merz B, Mayo C. Head and Neck Radiotherapy Patterns of Practice Variability Identified as a Challenge to Real-World Data: Results from the Learning from Analysis of Multicentre Big Data Aggregation (LAMBDA) Consortium. Accepted for publication Advances in Radiation Oncology 2022
• Caissie AL, Olson R, Barbera L, O’Donnell J, Davis C-A, Croke J, Bird L, Kildea J, Brown E, Brundage M, Milosevic M. Striving to fill in gaps between clinical practice and standards: the evolution of a Pan-Canadian approach to patient reported outcomes use. Curr Oncol. May 19;29(5):3698-3707, 2022 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35621686/
• Robin G, Brown E, Davis C-A, Bird L, Wilson L, Halperin R, Brundage M, Croke J, Caissie A, and on behalf of CARO Quality and Standards’ Patient Engagement/Education Working Group. Patient Engagement: An Assessment of Canadian Radiotherapy Programs’ Current Practices, Perceived Barriers and Facilitators. J Cancer Educ. Dec;37(6):1834-41, 2022 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34518991/
• Kang S, Caissie A, Kassam Z, Ingledew PA, Alfieri J, Parliament M, Bezjak A, Giuliani M. Promoting Career Selection Through a Comprehensive Enrichment Experience: A Review of the Canadian Radiation Oncology Summer Studentship.  Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. May 1;107(1):27-32, 2020. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31987964/
• Malik NH, Li GJ, Giuliani M, Brundage M, Caissie A, Cao JQ, Halperin R, Ingledew PA, Vigneault E, Bezjak A. Mapping the Current State of Canadian Medical School Oncology Interest Groups. J Cancer Educ. Feb;37(1):203-209, 2022. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32594313/
• Sherwood M, Rioux D, Knight R, LeBlanc M, Betsch T, Giuliani M, Caissie A. Increasing Undergraduate Exposure to Oncology: the Role of Oncology Interest Groups. J Cancer Educ. Oct;35(5):997-1001, 2020. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31165422/
• Matuszak M, Fuller C, Yock T, Hess C, McNutt T, Jolly S, Gabriel P, Mayo C, Thor M, Caissie A, Rao A, Owen D, Smith W, Palta J, Kapoor R, Hayman J, Waddle M, Rosenstein B, Miller R, Choi S, Moreno S, Herman J, Feng M. Performance/Outcomes Data and Physician Process Challenges for Practical Big Data Efforts in Radiation Oncology. Medical Physics 45(10): e811-819, 2019. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/302299466
• Caissie A, Brown E, Olson R, Barbera L, Davis C-A, Brundage M, Milosevic M. Improving Patient Outcomes and Radiotherapy Systems: A Pan-Canadian Approach to Patient Reported Outcome Use. Medical Physics 45(10): e841-844, 2018. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30144083
• Rouette J, Gutierrez E, O'Donnell J, Reddeman L, Hart M, Foxcroft S, Mitera G, Warde P, Brundage MD; Cancer Care Ontario Radiation Oncology Program Leads; Pan-Canadian Peer Review Steering Committee. Directly Improving the Quality of Radiation Treatment Through Peer Review: A Cross-sectional Analysis of Cancer Centres Across a Provincial Cancer Program. International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics 98(3): 521-529,2017  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Directly+Improving+the+Quality+of+Radiation+Treatment+Through+Peer+Review%3A