Professor of Medicine & Epidemiology

McGill University

Biography

Jay Brophy is a tenured (full) professor with a joint appointment in the Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology and Biostatistics where he works as a clinical cardiologist and does research in cardiovascular epidemiology. His research interests are eclectic and include outcomes research, pharmacoepidemiology, health technology assessment, economic analyses and clinical research which are supported partially through a FRQS chair in health technology assessment and evidence-based medicine.
He is a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and the Canadian Cardiovascular Society.

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Interests

Outcomes research
Pharmacoepidemiology
Health technology assessment (Bayesian statistics)

Education

PhD Epidemiology & biostatistics

McGill University
Cardiology

Université de Montreal
MD

McMaster University
M.Eng.

McMaster University
B.Eng.

McGill University

Skills

MD

33%

Epidemiology

33%

R

15%

Bayesian Statistics

10%

Gordon setter

7%

Painting

1%

Experience

Professor (Joint Medicine and Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Helath)

McGill University

Jul 2001 – Present Montreal

Responsibilities include:

Teaching Intermediate Epidemiology - Syllabus Winter 2020
Research

Cardiologist

McGill University Health Center

Jul 2001 – Present Montreal

Responsibilities include:

Clinical service (CCU, consultations)
Clinical research
Technology Assessment Unit (chair 2018 -)
Department of Medicine Research Committee (chair 2015 - 2020)

Recent Publications

Additional publications - see CV

SAMPLE PUBLICATIONS

(2022). Pacemaker risk following transcatheter aortic valve replacement - A Bayesian reanalysis. International Journal of Cardiology 355 (2022) 32–36.

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(2021). Bayesian reanalyses of recent CV trials. Canadian Journal of Cardiology - Sept 2021.

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(2020). Bayesian Interpretation of the EXCEL and other RCTs. JAMA Intern Med 2020 Jun 1;e201647.

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(2019). Spontaneous variability of high sensitivity cardiac troponin. Canadian Journal of Cardiology 35 (2019) 1505-1512.

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Talks

Can medical guidelines adversely affect the health commons?

Presentation for the McGill Department of Medicine course entitlted “The ‘Crisis’ in Health Research, and its Implications for Research, Health Policy, and Clinical Practice”"

Apr 11, 2022 9:00 AM — 10:30 AM McGill University

Can medical guidelines adversely affect the health commons?

Dual Antiplatelet Therapy (DAPT) in 2022

Grand rounds presentation for St. Mary’s Hospital Department of Medicine.

Feb 3, 2022 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM St. Mary's Hospital

Dual Antiplatelet Therapy (DAPT) in 2022

Colchicine and coronary artery disease

Presentation for the annual scientific meeting of the Quebec Association of Vascular Sciences

Nov 19, 2021 12:00 PM — 1:00 PM Webinar

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Accomplishments

Previous accomplishments (2019 - 2020)

Bayesian Regression Modeling with rstanarm Course - DataCamp certificate
Causal Diagrams: Draw Your Assumptions Before Your Conclusions - EdX certificate
Building Web Applications with Shiny in R - DataCamp Feb 2020 certificate
Mechanical Ventilation for COVID-19 - EdX April 2020 certificate
Visualizing Geospatial Data in R - DataCamp April 2020 certificate
Intermediate Python Programming - DataCamp May 2020 certificate
Machine Learning with Caret in R - DataCamp May 2020 certificate
Foundations of Functional Programming with Purrr - DataCamp May 2020 certificate
Machine Learning for Epidemiologic Analysis in the Era of Big Data - University of Michigan - 55th Summer Session in Epidemiology July 2020 certificate
Methods in Genetic and Epigenetic Epidemiology - University of Michigan - 55th Summer Session in Epidemiology July 2020 certificate