Kenneth Lam, MD, MAS
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

My primary research and work interests are on institutionalization; as a geriatrician who regularly counsels persons as they encounter health crises and declining function and are debating whether it is safe to stay at home, I am interested in investigating the experience of disability in late life, how disability threatens independence, methods for objectively measuring the “need” for institutionalization, and what services and equipment can be provided to postpone institutionalization and help people “age in place” instead.

• Return to community living and mortality after moving to a long-term care facility: A nationally representative cohort study.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2022 Lam K, Cenzer I, Covinsky KE
• Ensuring Assisted Living Provides the Assistance Residents Need.
  JAMA network open 2022 Lam K, Covinsky KE
• More POLST forms are being completed in nursing homes, but is this meaningful?
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2022 Lam K, Haddock L, Yukawa M
• Sliding scale insulin use in a national cohort study of nursing home residents with type 2 diabetes.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2022 Lam K, Gan S, Nguyen B, Jing B, Lee SJ
• How an Interdisciplinary Care Team Reduces Prolonged Admissions Among Older Patients with Complex Needs
  NEJM Catalyst 2021 Lam K, Price EL, Garg M, Baskin N, Dunchak M, Hooper S, Fabiny A, Eng JA
• Perspectives on ageing: a qualitative study of the expectations, priorities, needs and values of older people from two Canadian provinces.
  Age and ageing 2021 Savage RD, Hardacre K, Bashi AM, Bronskill SE, Faulkner C, Grieve J, Gruneir A, McCarthy LM, Chamberlain SA, Lam K, Stall NM, Zhu L, Rochon PA
• Prediabetes-A Risk Factor Twice Removed.
  JAMA internal medicine 2021 Lam K, Lee SJ
• Health Forums and Twitter for Dementia Research: Opportunities and Considerations.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2020 Mehta N, Zhu L, Lam K, Stall NM, Savage R, Read SH, Wu W, Pop P, Faulkner C, Bronskill SE, Rochon PA
• Comment on: Antipsychotics and the Risk of Mortality or Cardiopulmonary Arrest in Hospitalized Adults.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2020 Lam K
• Evaluation of a Common Prescribing Cascade of Calcium Channel Blockers and Diuretics in Older Adults With Hypertension.
  JAMA internal medicine 2020 Savage RD, Visentin JD, Bronskill SE, Wang X, Gruneir A, Giannakeas V, Guan J, Lam K, Luke MJ, Read SH, Stall NM, Wu W, Zhu L, Rochon PA, McCarthy LM
• Does Physician Retirement Affect Patients? A Systematic Review.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2019 Lam K, Arnold CG, Savage RD, Stall NM, Zhu L, Wu W, Piggott K, Bronskill SE, Rochon PA
• Often Off-label: Questionable Gabapentinoid Use Noted at Hospital Admission Warrants Deprescribing.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2019 Lam K, Rochon PA, Steinman MA
• Sodium glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors and risk of genital mycotic and urinary tract infection: A population-based study of older women and men with diabetes.
  Diabetes, obesity & metabolism 2019 Lega IC, Bronskill SE, Campitelli MA, Guan J, Stall NM, Lam K, McCarthy LM, Gruneir A, Rochon PA
• Factors associated with attendance at primary care appointments after discharge from hospital: a retrospective cohort study.
  CMAJ open 2018 Lam K, Abrams HB, Matelski J, Okrainec K
• The Top Articles in Geriatrics 2016-2017.
  Canadian geriatrics journal : CGJ 2018 Lam K, Gandell D
• Impact of patient-centered discharge tools: A systematic review.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2017 Okrainec K, Lau D, Abrams HB, Hahn-Goldberg S, Brahmbhatt R, Huynh T, Lam K, Bell CM
• Toxic Alcohol Calculations and Misinterpretation Of Laboratory Results-Reply.
  JAMA internal medicine 2016 Fralick M, Lam K, Himmel ME
• Hemodialysis in a Healthy Patient--A Case of an Erroneous Laboratory Result: A Teachable Moment.
  JAMA internal medicine 2016 Himmel ME, Lam K, Fralick M
• "And you, my father, there on the sad height".
  CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne 2014 Lam K
• Creating the right evidence for system change.
  Healthcare quarterly (Toronto, Ont.) 2013 Lam K, Hwang SW, Dhalla IA, Hota S, Thorpe K, Palda VA, Brown A, Klein DJ