JM Gamble

JM Gamble
Clinical Associate Professor, Associate Director, Graduate Studies and Research
Location: PHR 3002

Biography

Dr. Gamble is a pharmacist and epidemiologist who leads a research program in drug safety and effectiveness. His team focuses on understanding the real-world use and effects of diabetes therapies. Moreover, Dr. Gamble’s lab is interested in exploring methods to communicate drug information to facilitate evidence informed decision making for patients, health provider, and policy-makers.

Research Interests

  • Post-marketing drug safety and effectiveness
  • Comparative safety and effectiveness
  • Pharmacoepidemiology
  • Diabetes health outcomes
  • Drug information science
  • Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Practice

Scholarly Research

Dr. Gamble conducts drug safety and effectiveness research using epidemiologic methods. His team generates new evidence of drug effects through knowledge syntheses and observational drug effect studies in the area of diabetes pharmacotherapy., Dr. Gamble’s other research interests include knowledge translation of drug information, evidence-based monitoring of medications, and pharmaceutical policy evaluation.

Education

  • 2012 PhD Public Health Science (University of Alberta)
  • 2008 MSc Clinical Epidemiology (University of Alberta)
  • 2005 BSc Pharmacy (University of Alberta)
  • 2001 BSc Biology (Lakehead University)

Awards

  • 2017 Primary Healthcare Researcher of the Year, Memorial University
  • 2013-2018 New Investigator Award, Canadian Institutes of Health Research
  • 2013-2018 Clinician Scientist Award, Canadian Diabetes Association
  • 2005 Dean George A Burbidge Memorial Award, Canadian Pharmacists Association

Professional Associations

  • Member, CIHR College of Reviewers (Sept. 2017 – present)
  • Board Member, Canadian Association of Population Therapeutics (Nov 2015 - present)
  • Member, Diabetes Canada Clinical & Scientific Section (2009 – present)
  • Member, International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology (2008 – present)

Teaching*

  • PHARM 220 - Integrated Patient Focused Care 1
    • Taught in 2020
  • PHARM 222 - Integrated Patient Focused Care 3
    • Taught in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
  • PHARM 377 - Drug-Induced Disease
    • Taught in 2020
  • PHARM 401 - Independent Study 2
    • Taught in 2024
  • PHARM 611 - Special Topics in Pharmacy Practice
    • Taught in 2022, 2023
  • PHARM 656 - Analysis of Quantitative Health Care Data
    • Taught in 2024

* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.