Richard Long

Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Medicine Dept

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Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Medicine Dept

Email: rlong@ualberta.ca
Phone: (780) 407-1427
Address: 8333A ABC Aberhart Centre
11402 University Avenue

Edmonton AB

T6G 2J3

Overview

Area of Study / Keywords

Tuberculosis care High-Incidence Indigenous Commu

About

Dr. Richard Long is currently appointed as Professor in the Department of Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry.

Featured Publications

Developing Data Governance Agreements with Indigenous Communities in Canada: Toward Equitable Tuberculosis Programming, Research, and Reconciliation

Robin Love, Billie-Jo Hardy, Courtney Heffernan, Amber Heyd, Melissa Cardinal-Grant, Lori Sparling, Bonnie Healy, Janet Smylie, Richard Long

Health and Human Rights Journal. 2022 June; 24 (1):21-33 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35747272/

Chapter 12: An introductory guide to tuberculosis care to improve cultural competence for health care workers and public health professionals serving Indigenous Peoples of Canada

Dunn J.L., Larocque M., Van Dyk D., Vides E., Khan F.A., Wong T., Long R., Alvarez G.G.

Canadian Journal of Respiratory, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine. 2022 March; 6 (S1):184-193 10.1080/24745332.2022.2041328

Chapter 15: Monitoring tuberculosis program performance

Heffernan C., Haworth-Brockman M., Plourde P., Wong T., Ferrara G., Long R.

Canadian Journal of Respiratory, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine. 2022 March; 6 (S1):229-241 10.1080/24745332.2022.2035123

Chapter 2: Transmission and pathogenesis of tuberculosis

Long R., Divangahi M., Schwartzman K.

Canadian Journal of Respiratory, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine. 2022 March; 6 (S1):22-32 10.1080/24745332.2022.2035540

Chapter 3: Diagnosis of tuberculosis disease and drug-resistant tuberculosis

Behr M.A., Lapierre S.G., Kunimoto D.Y., Lee R.S., Long R., Sekirov I., Soualhine H., Turenne C.Y.

Canadian Journal of Respiratory, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine. 2022 March; 6 (S1):33-48 10.1080/24745332.2022.2035638

How much do smear-negative patients really contribute to tuberculosis transmissions? Re-examining an old question with new tools

Asadi L., Croxen M., Heffernan C., Dhillon M., Paulsen C., Egedahl M.L., Tyrrell G., Doroshenko A., Long R.

eClinicalMedicine. 2022 January; 43 10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.101250

Treating latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) with isoniazid and rifapentine in an inner-city population with psychosocial barriers to treatment adherence: a qualitative descriptive study

Amber Heyd, Courtney Heffernan, Kate Storey, T. Cameron Wild, Richard Long

PLOS Global Public Health. 2022 January; 43 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0000017

Engaging frontline providers: an important key to eliminating tuberculosis in Canada, and other high-income countries

Heffernan C., Rowe B.H., Long R.

Canadian Journal of Public Health. 2021 October; 112 (5):872-876 10.17269/s41997-021-00556-x

Local Transmission Plays No Important Role in the Occurrence of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Immigrants to Canada: An In-depth Epidemiologic Analysis

Long R., Lau A., Egedahl M.L., Paulsen C., Heffernan C., Edwards B., Cooper R.

Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2021 September; 224 (6):1029-1038 10.1093/infdis/jiab045

Engaging frontline providers: an important key to eliminating tuberculosis in Canada, and other high-income countries

Heffernan C., Rowe B.H., Long R.

CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH-REVUE CANADIENNE DE SANTE PUBLIQUE. 2021 September; 10.17269/s41997-021-00556-x

Interferon-gamma release assays for latent tuberculosis infection screening in Canadian federal correctional facilities

Agostinis A., Heffernan C., Long R., Beckon A., Cockburn S., Ahmed R.

International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. 2021 June; 25 (6):447-452 10.5588/ijtld.20.0801

Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a health systems intervention for latent tuberculosis infection management (ACT4): a cluster-randomised trial

Oxlade O., Benedetti A., Adjobimey M., Alsdurf H., Anagonou S., Cook V.J., Fisher D., Fox G.J., Fregonese F., Hadisoemarto P., Hill P.C., Johnston J., Khan F.A., Long R., Nguyen N.V., Nguyen T.A., Obeng J., Ruslami R., Schwartzman K., Trajman A., Valiquette C., Menzies D.

Lancet Public Health. 2021 May; S2468-2667 (20):30261-9 10.1016/S2468-2667(20)30261-9

Individual and public health consequences associated with a missed diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in the emergency department: A retrospective cohort study

Heffernan C., Paulsen C., Asadi L., Egedahl M.L., Rowe B.H., Barrie J., Long R.

PLoS One. 2021 March; 16 (3):e0248493 10.1371/journal.pone.0248493

Local Transmission Plays No Important Role in the Occurrence of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Immigrants to Canada: An In-depth Epidemiologic Analysis

Richard Long, Angela Lau, Mary Lou Egedahl, Catherine Paulsen, Courtney Heffernan, Brett Edwards, Ryan Cooper

The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2021 January; 10.1093/infdis/jiab045

Incidence and significance of venous thromboembolism in critically ill pulmonary tuberculosis patients

Lau A., Sligl W., Sun K., Barrie J., Long R.

European Respiratory Journal. 2020 December; 56 (6):2001753 10.1183/13993003.01753-2020

Tuberculosis and COVID-19 in Canada

Long R., King M., Doroshenko A., Heffernan C.

EClinicalMedicine. 2020 October; 27 10.1016/j.eclinm.2020.100584