Team Member

Biography

Michael Cristian is an international student from the Philippines currently doing an MSc degree in Health Research Methodology at McMaster University. His thesis is a mixed-methods study to produce reporting guidelines for studies on the prevalence of drug-resistant HIV. Michael Cristian developed a keen interest in both health policy and clinical epidemiology – particularly clinical pharmacology – during his time as a research assistant at various institutions such as St. Michael’s Hospital, The Hospital for Sick Children, St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, and the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project. Currently, Cristian is leading both a systematic review and retrospective database analysis on the relationship between QT-prolonging medications and adverse cardiac events.