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Maria-Beatriz Ospina

Contact Overview Publications

Contact

Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Medicine Dept
Email
mospina@ualberta.ca
Phone
(780) 492-9351

Overview

Area of Study / Keywords

epidemiology cohort study health services utilization Social determinants of health and health inequalities Respiratory health Developmental origins of health and disease Adverse birth outcomes

About

Degrees and Additional Training

  • PhD Public Health Sciences (Clinical Epidemiology). University of Alberta School of Public Health, Edmonton, AB (Canada) (2013)
  • MSc Clinical Epidemiology University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB (Canada) (2004).
  • Visiting Fellow in Systematic Reviews. Iberoamerican Cochrane Centre. Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau. Barcelona (Spain) (2001).

Awards

  • Instructor of the Year (Large Class), School of Public Health Students’ Association, University of Alberta, 2017
  • Instructor of the Year (Distance Class), School of Public Health Students’ Association, University of Alberta, 2016.

Dr. Ospina is a clinical epidemiologist in the area of maternal and perinatal health, Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Adjunct Professor with the Department of Medicine and the School of Public Health. 

She has developed an innovative multidisciplinary translational research program to understand how the first 1,000 days of human life influence future health: DMETRE (Developmental Maternal and perinatal Epidemiology and Translational ResearchEvidence: Data, Birth, Babies + Beyond.

DMETRE is based on a knowledge-to-action approach in which epidemiological methods are applied to produce maternal and perinatal epidemiological knowledge in relation to three main themes:

  • Developmental Trajectories of Chronic Diseases
  • Pathways of Inequalities in Maternal and Perinatal Health
  • Synthesis of Maternal and Perinatal Research Evidence



Research

  • Maternal and perinatal health
  • Developmental origins of health and disease
  • Health inequalities and social determinants of health
  • Indigenous health
  • Life-course approaches and other statistical methods for the analysis of large health datasets and cohort studies
  • Clinical epidemiology and health services research
  • Knowledge translation and implementation science
  • Knowledge synthesis and meta-analysis methods

Teaching

SPH 566 - Systematic Review

Featured Publications

Prevalence of Low Birth Weight, Premature Birth, and Stillbirth Among Pregnant Adolescents in Canada: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

DeMarco N., Twynstra J., Ospina M.B., Darrington M., Whippey C., Seabrook J.A.

Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology. 2021 August; 34 (4):530-537 10.1016/j.jpag.2021.03.003

CAEP/ACMU 2021 Scientific Abstracts : June 15 - 17th, 2021

CJEM. 2021 June; 10.1007/s43678-021-00138-3

The effects of treating underlying paradoxical vocal fold motion disorder on asthma in pediatric patients: A systematic review

Am J Respir Crit Care Med . 2021 May;

Wildfire exposure during pregnancy and the risk of adverse birth outcomes: A systematic review

Amjad S., Chojecki D., Osornio-Vargas A., Ospina M.B.

ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL. 2021 May; 156 10.1016/j.envint.2021.106644

Effectiveness of Probiotic, Prebiotic, and Synbiotic Supplementation to Improve Perinatal Mental Health in Mothers: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Desai V., Kozyrskyj A.L., Lau S., Sanni O., Dennett L., Walter J., Ospina M.B.

Frontiers in Psychiatry. 2021 April; 12 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.622181

Association between the antepartum oral glucose tolerance test and the risk of future diabetes mellitus among women with gestational diabetes: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Moore L.E., Voaklander B., Savu A., Yeung R.O., Ryan E., Chojecki D., Kaul P., Ospina M.B.

JOURNAL OF DIABETES AND ITS COMPLICATIONS. 2021 April; 35 (4):107804 10.1016/j.jdiacomp.2020.107804

Complex exposures require comprehensive and accurate analysis

Ospina M.B., Serrano-Lomelin J.A., Amjad S., Hicks A., Giesbrecht G.F.

Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease. 2021 April; 12 (2):345-346 10.1017/S2040174420000458

Public health measures to reduce the risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in Canada during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic: A scoping review

Polisena J., Ospina M., Sanni O., Matenchuk B., Livergant R., Amjad S., Zoric I., Haddad N., Morrison A., Wilson K., Bogoch I., Welch V.A.

BMJ Open. 2021 March; 11 (3):e046177 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-046177

Characteristics of frequent users of emergency departments in Alberta and Ontario, Canada: an administrative data study

Chen A., Ospina M., McRae A., McLane P., Hu X.J., Fielding S., Rosychuk R.J.

Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2021 March; 23 (2):206-213 10.1007/s43678-020-00013-7

Maternal and cord blood hemoglobin as determinants of placental weight and efficiency: a cross-sectional study

Gragasin F, Ospina MB, Serrano-Lomelin J, Kim SH, Kokotilo M, Woodman AG, Renaud SJ, Bourque SL

Journal of Clinical Medicine. 2021 March; 10 (5):995 10.3390/jcm10050997

Emergency department crowding negatively influences outcomes for children presenting with asthma: a population-based retrospective cohort study

Sagaidak S., Rowe B.H., Ospina M.B., Rosychuk R.J.

PEDIATRIC RESEARCH. 2021 February; 89 (3):679-685 10.1038/s41390-020-0918-2

Latent factors of adverse childhood experiences and adult-onset asthma

Ospina M.B., Serrano-Lomelin J.A., Amjad S., Hicks A., Giesbrecht G.F.

Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease. 2021 February; 12 (1):50-57 10.1017/S2040174419000886

Patterns of respiratory health services utilization from birth to 5 years of children who experienced adverse birth outcomes

Serrano-Lomelin J., Hicks A., Kumar M., Johnson D.W., Chari R., Osornio-Vargas A., Crawford S., Bakal J., Ospina M.B.

PLoS One. 2021 February; 16 (2 February):e0247527 10.1371/journal.pone.0247527

Decreasing Insulin Requirements in Pregnancy With Pre-existing or Gestational Diabetes: Management Practices Across Canada

Pihelgas A., Prior A., Ospina M.B., Jain V.

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada. 2021 January; Jan 5;S1701-2163(20)31037 10.1016/j.jogc.2020.12.015

Geographic inequalities of respiratory health services utilization during childhood in Edmonton and Calgary, Canada: A tale of two cities

Serrano-Lomelin J., Nielsen C.C., Hicks A., Crawford S., Bakal J.A., Ospina M.B.

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2020 December; 17 (23):1-17 10.3390/ijerph17238973