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.
Natasha Lane
Investigator, Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Aging
Assistant Professor
Division of Geriatric Medicine, Faculty of Medicine
MD, PhD, FRCPC, MSc
Natasha Lane
Investigator, Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Aging
Areas of Research
health services research, geriatrics, pharmacoepidemiology, restraints, long-term care, administrative data, behavioural and psychiatric symptoms, dementia
