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Cara Tannenbaum

Cara Tannenbaum CM is a Canadian researcher and practicing physician in the fields of geriatrics, women's health, and gender research. Since 2015, Tannenbaum has served as the Scientific Director of Canadian Institutes of Health Research's Institute of Gender and Health.[1][2] She was appointed as a Member of the Order of Canada on November 17, 2021.[3]

Cara Tannenbaum
CM
Alma materMcGill University
Known forGender and Health
Scientific career
Fieldsgeriatrics, women's health and gender research
InstitutionsUniversité de Montréal

Career

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Tannenbaum completed medical school (1994), additional training in geriatrics (2000), and a Master of Science degree in epidemiology and biostatistics (2002) at McGill University.[4][5][6] She is now a professor of medicine and pharmacy at the Université de Montréal, where she conducts research at the Centre de recherche de l’Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal.[6][2][7][8] In 2015, Tannenbaum was appointed Scientific Director of the Institute of Gender and Health at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and was appointed Departmental Science Advisor for Health Canada in 2019.[9]

Research

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Tannenbaum was initially involved in the EMPOWER (Eliminating Medications Through Patient Ownership of End Results) trial, which is an educational intervention (using a theory-based patient handout) to engage older adults with their pharmacist or physician in discontinuing inappropriate medication.[10][11] The EMPOWER trial resulted in 27% of participants in the intervention group discontinuing their benzodiazepine use (compared with 5% of the control group) at six months.[8][12] Through this trial, Tannenbaum and her colleagues found that two-thirds of individuals who received EMPOWER handouts had taken it to their doctor or pharmacist, but in about half of these instances, the health care professionals discouraged deprescribing.[8] This prompted Tannenbaum to launch and oversee the D-PRESCRIBE clinical trial, which tested whether a pharmacist-led educational intervention could decrease the number of prescriptions issued for inappropriate medication among 489 older adults in Quebec.[7][13][14] The trial found that a pharmacist intervention resulted in greater medication discontinuation (43%) at six months than those receiving regular care.[7][13][14]

Between May 2013 and July 2017, Tannenbaum led the international "Dare to Age Well for Women" urinary incontinence trial (also referred to as the CACTUS-D i.e. Continence Across Continents To Upend Stigma and Dependency), which was a randomised controlled trial to test the effect of a continence promotion intervention on the urinary symptoms and quality of life in 910 women, aged 65 or older, in the United Kingdom, France, and Canada (Alberta, Quebec).[15][16][17] So far, results from the women recruited from the UK indicate that participants in the combined intervention group had the highest rate of urinary symptom improvement, and that the recruitment rate for local community organizations was as high as 44%.[18][19]

Tannenbaum co-founded the Canadian Deprescribing Network (CaDeN), and previously served as a co-director.[6]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Tannenbaum has served on the Canada Chief Science Advisor's Expert Group on Health Systems, and helped lead the implementation efforts for CanCOVID, a Canada-wide network of over 3,000 health, science and policy researchers to facilitate COVID-19 research collaboration.[20][21][22] With Holly Witteman and Jenna Haverfield, Tannenbaum found that when the Canadian Institutes of Health Research implemented data-driven gender policy interventions in a second COVID-19 funding competition (April-May 2020), the funding competition received more grant applications from female scientists, and received and funded more grant applications which considered sex and gender in their study design.[23]

Tannenbaum has published over 200 academic publications, which have been cited over 6,500 times, resulting in a h-index and i10-index of 42 and 101 respectively.[24]

Awards, honours and public engagement

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In 2018, Tannenbaum was inducted as a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.[25][26] She has been awarded the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada's May-Cohen Gender Equity Award, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research's Betty Haven's Knowledge Transfer Prize in Aging, the Society of Chemical Industry Purvis Memorial Award (2020) and the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics' William B. Abrams Awards in Geriatric Clinical Pharmacology (2021), and is the Michel-Saucier Endowed Chair in Geriatric Pharmacology, Health and Aging.[5][2][7][27][28][29][30] In 2020, Tannenbaum was awarded the Canadian Science Policy Centre's Exceptional Contribution to Science Policy Award: Trailblazer Award.[22]

On November 17, 2021, Tannenbaum was appointed as a Member of the Order of Canada for "her leadership in geriatrics, women’s health and gender research, and for her inter-professional collaborations to optimize healthy aging across the lifespan".[3][31]

Tannenbaum has also written editorials regarding various issues related to her research expertise, including an editorial in The BMJ to address the International Association of Athletics Federations' new "differences of sex development" rules causing Caster Semenya to no longer be eligible, and why sex and gender matter in implementation research in the BMC Medical Research Methodology.[32][33][34][35][36]

Selected bibliography

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  • Tannenbaum, Cara, Philippe Martin, Robyn Tamblyn, Andrea Benedetti, and Sara Ahmed. "Reduction of inappropriate benzodiazepine prescriptions among older adults through direct patient education: the EMPOWER cluster randomized trial." JAMA Internal Medicine 174, no. 6 (2014): 890-898.
  • Tannenbaum, Cara, Julie Clark, Kevin Schwartzman, Sylvan Wallenstein, Robert Lapinski, Diane Meier, and Marjorie Luckey. "Yield of laboratory testing to identify secondary contributors to osteoporosis in otherwise healthy women." The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism 87, no. 10 (2002): 4431-4437.
  • Andersson, Karl-Erik, Christopher R. Chapple, Linda Cardozo, Francisco Cruz, Hashim Hashim, Martin C. Michel, Cara Tannenbaum, and Alan J. Wein. "Pharmacological treatment of overactive bladder: report from the International Consultation on Incontinence." Current Opinion in Urology 19, no. 4 (2009): 380-394.
  • Tannenbaum, Cara, Amélie Paquette, Sarah Hilmer, Jayna Holroyd-Leduc, and Ryan Carnahan. "A systematic review of amnestic and non-amnestic mild cognitive impairment induced by anticholinergic, antihistamine, GABAergic and opioid drugs." Drugs & Aging 29, no. 8 (2012): 639-658.

References

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  1. ^ "Cara Tannenbaum nommée directrice scientifique de l'Institut de la santé des femmes et des hommes des IRSC - Faculté de médecine - Université de Montréal". Faculté de médecine (in French). 2014-11-18. Retrieved 2020-01-04.
  2. ^ a b c Government of Canada, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (2011-06-29). "Biography – IGH Scientific Director: Dr. Cara Tannenbaum - CIHR". cihr-irsc.gc.ca. Retrieved 2020-01-04.
  3. ^ a b General, Office of the Secretary to the Governor (2021-12-20). "Governor General announces 135 new appointments to the Order of Canada". The Governor General of Canada. Retrieved 2022-01-08.
  4. ^ "Researcher". La recherche - Université de Montréal. Retrieved 2020-01-04.
  5. ^ a b "Cara Tannenbaum : oser vieillir en santé - Faculté de médecine - Université de Montréal". Faculté de médecine (in French). Retrieved 2020-01-04.
  6. ^ a b c "Tannenbaum Cara". CRIUGM. Retrieved 2022-01-08.
  7. ^ a b c d "Want to cut down on your meds? Your pharmacist can help". nouvelles.umontreal.ca. 2019-07-15. Archived from the original on 2019-01-31. Retrieved 2020-01-04.
  8. ^ a b c Pike, Harriet. "Deprescribing: the fightback against polypharmacy has begun". The Pharmaceutical Journal. Archived from the original on 2020-09-10. Retrieved 2020-01-04.
  9. ^ Government of Canada, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (2011-06-29). "Biography – IGH Scientific Director: Dr. Cara Tannenbaum - CIHR". cihr-irsc.gc.ca. Retrieved 2022-01-08.
  10. ^ "An Intervention Study to Reduce the Use and Impact of Potentially Inappropriate Medications Among Older Adults - Full Text View - ClinicalTrials.gov". clinicaltrials.gov. Retrieved 2020-01-04.
  11. ^ Martin, Philippe; Tannenbaum, Cara (2017-04-01). "A realist evaluation of patients' decisions to deprescribe in the EMPOWER trial". BMJ Open. 7 (4): e015959. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2017-015959. ISSN 2044-6055. PMC 5566584. PMID 28473524.
  12. ^ Tannenbaum, Cara; Martin, Philippe; Tamblyn, Robyn; Benedetti, Andrea; Ahmed, Sara (2014-06-01). "Reduction of Inappropriate Benzodiazepine Prescriptions Among Older Adults Through Direct Patient Education: The EMPOWER Cluster Randomized Trial". JAMA Internal Medicine. 174 (6): 890–898. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.949. ISSN 2168-6106. PMID 24733354.
  13. ^ a b Martin, Philippe; Tamblyn, Robyn; Benedetti, Andrea; Ahmed, Sara; Tannenbaum, Cara (2018-11-13). "Effect of a Pharmacist-Led Educational Intervention on Inappropriate Medication Prescriptions in Older Adults: The D-PRESCRIBE Randomized Clinical Trial". JAMA. 320 (18): 1889–1898. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.16131. ISSN 0098-7484. PMC 6248132. PMID 30422193.
  14. ^ a b Carroll, Aaron E. (2019-01-28). "The Unsung Role of the Pharmacist in Patient Health". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-01-04.
  15. ^ "Continence Across Continents to Upend Stigma and Dependency - Full Text View - ClinicalTrials.gov". clinicaltrials.gov. Retrieved 2020-01-04.
  16. ^ Tannenbaum, Cara; van den Heuvel, Eleanor; Fritel, Xavier; Southall, Kenneth; Jutai, Jeffrey; Rajabali, Saima; Wagg, Adrian (December 2015). "Continence Across Continents To Upend Stigma and Dependency (CACTUS-D): study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial". Trials. 16 (1): 565. doi:10.1186/s13063-015-1099-x. ISSN 1745-6215. PMC 4676178. PMID 26652168.
  17. ^ "Cara Tannenbaum et Jean-Pierre Gagné au cœur des six projets 2012 retenus par l'ERA-AGE - École d'orthophonie et d'audiologie - Université de Montréal". École d'orthophonie et d'audiologie (in French). 2012-11-08. Retrieved 2020-01-04.
  18. ^ Tannenbaum, Cara; Agnew, Rona; Benedetti, Andrea; Thomas, Doneal; van den Heuvel, Eleanor (December 2013). "Effectiveness of continence promotion for older women via community organisations: a cluster randomised trial". BMJ Open. 3 (12): e004135. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2013-004135. ISSN 2044-6055. PMC 3863125. PMID 24334159.
  19. ^ Agnew, Rona; van den Heuvel, Eleanor; Tannenbaum, Cara (February 2013). "Efficiency of using community organisations as catalysts for recruitment to continence promotion trials". Clinical Trials: Journal of the Society for Clinical Trials. 10 (1): 151–159. doi:10.1177/1740774512460144. ISSN 1740-7745. PMID 23043154. S2CID 20884658.
  20. ^ Government of Canada, Innovation. "Expert Group on Health Systems - Science.gc.ca". science.gc.ca. Retrieved 2022-01-08.
  21. ^ Government of Canada, Innovation. "CanCOVID Network - Science.gc.ca". science.gc.ca. Retrieved 2022-01-08.
  22. ^ a b Digital, Rocket. "Trailblazer Award Winner". CSPC. Retrieved 2022-01-08.
  23. ^ Witteman, Holly O.; Haverfield, Jenna; Tannenbaum, Cara (2021-02-09). "COVID-19 gender policy changes support female scientists and improve research quality". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 118 (6): e2023476118. Bibcode:2021PNAS..11820234W. doi:10.1073/pnas.2023476118. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 8017703. PMID 33531366.
  24. ^ "Cara Tannenbaum". scholar.google.ca. Retrieved 2022-01-08.
  25. ^ "CAHS Fellows Directory – Canadian Academy of Health Sciences". Retrieved 2020-01-04.
  26. ^ "Deux professeurs de l'UdeM entrent à l'Académie canadienne des sciences de la santé". nouvelles.umontreal.ca (in French). 2018-09-14. Archived from the original on 2020-11-23. Retrieved 2020-01-04.
  27. ^ "Better care for women's health". Scientifique en chef. Retrieved 2020-01-04.
  28. ^ "Prix Betty-Havens 2013 de l'application des connaissances de l'Institut du vieillissement des IRSC pour Dre Cara Tannenbaum - Département de médecine - Université de Montréal". Département de médecine (in French). 2013-08-20. Retrieved 2020-01-04.
  29. ^ "Society of Chemical Industry - Purvis Memorial Award". www.soci.org. Retrieved 2022-01-08.
  30. ^ "ASCPT Awards". www.ascpt.org. Retrieved 2022-01-08.
  31. ^ "Two dozen Quebecers appointed to the Order of Canada". montrealgazette. Retrieved 2022-01-08.
  32. ^ Tannenbaum, Cara; Bekker, Sheree (2019-03-20). "Sex, gender, and sports". BMJ. 364: l1120. doi:10.1136/bmj.l1120. ISSN 0959-8138. PMID 30894351. S2CID 84843710.
  33. ^ "article". nouvelles.umontreal.ca. 2019-07-15. Retrieved 2020-01-04.
  34. ^ "Sex and gender in science: why they matter". nouvelles.umontreal.ca. 2019-07-15. Archived from the original on 2020-09-01. Retrieved 2020-01-04.
  35. ^ Tannenbaum, Cara; Greaves, Lorraine; Graham, Ian D. (December 2016). "Why sex and gender matter in implementation research". BMC Medical Research Methodology. 16 (1): 145. doi:10.1186/s12874-016-0247-7. ISSN 1471-2288. PMC 5084413. PMID 27788671.
  36. ^ Lowrie, Morgan (2019-03-20). "Testosterone rule for female athletes is unscientific, Canadian researcher says". CTVNews. Retrieved 2020-01-04.
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