Ingrid Sketris

Education

• BSc(Pharm) (U Toronto)
• PharmD (Minn)
• MPA(HSA) (Dalhousie)
• Clinical Toxicology Residency (UTennesse)

Research interests

She founded a unit, Initiative for Medication Management, Policy Analysis, Research and Training, which conducts research on professional, regulatory, financial and organizational factors affecting the medication management system to improve its safety, effectiveness and affordability.  Her research involves: identifying gaps in appropriate drug use and evaluating strategies to improve.

Selected awards and honours

• 2019-Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health, 30^th Anniversary Medal. One of 10 Canadians to receive this award. https://www.cadth.ca/cadth-anniversary-medal 
• 2019-International Society of Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE) Fellowship.
• 2016-Dalhousie University Research Professor. The honorary title, with a five-year term, recognized. Sketris ability to conduct relevant and rigorous research to inform clinical practice and policy. Dalhousie University Professor honorary title given to up to 15 total professors, recognizes research excellence. 

Selected publications

• Hincapie-Castillo, J., Bugden, S. and Sketris, I. (2024). Drug utilization research in North America. In Drug Utilization Research (eds M. Elseviers, B. Wettermark, R. Benkó, M. Bennie, K. Gvozdanović, M. Hoffmann, I. Iaru, V. Ivanovska, S. MacBride-Stewart, T. Mueller, E. Poluzzi, L. Pont, H. Salvesen Blix, G. Sanfélix-Gimeno, G. Selke, K. Taxis, A.T. Petrović, I. Trečiokienė and S. Vogler); 2024 pp. 563-568
• Black EK, MacLean D, Bell M, Heather L. Neville, Olga Kits, Tasha D. Ramsey, Ingrid Sketris, Lynn Johnston.(2024) A qualitative study evaluating barriers and enablers to improving antimicrobial use for the management of bacteriuria in hospitalized adults. Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology. 2024;4(1):e17. doi:10.1017/ash.2024.13
• Traynor, R. L., Aibibula, W., Filion, K. B., Stewart, S. A., Sketris, I. S., & Helwig, M. (2023). Measuring the Uptake of Pharmacoepidemiologic Research Through Qualitative Analysis of Citations: A Case Study from a Canadian Network of Researchers. Science & Technology Libraries, 43(3), 235–250. https://doi.org/10.1080/0194262X.2023.2242430
• Shanna C. Trenaman, Maia von Maltzahn, Ingrid Sketris, Hala Tamim, Yan Wang, Samuel A. Stewart,( 2023) Patterns of Antipsychotic Dispensation to Long-Term Care Residents, Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, Volume 24, Issue 2, 2023, Pages 185-191.e6, ISSN 1525-8610, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2022.09.009.
• Amy Grant, Shanna Trenaman, Samuel Stewart, Lihui Liu, Judith Fisher, Elizabeth Jeffers, Rebecca Lawrence, Andrea Murphy, Ingrid Sketris, Lisa Woodill, Jennifer E. Isenor,(2023) Uptake of community pharmacist prescribing over a three-year period, Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy, Volume 9,  100221, ISSN 2667-2766, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rcsop.2023.100221.