Colin Josephson

Faculty Researcher

Centre for Health Informatics

Assistant Professor

Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Internship - Health Informatics

University College London

FRCPC - Neurology

Dalhousie University

Fellowship - Intracranial Vascular Malformations

University of Edinburgh

Doctor of Medicine (MD)

Dalhousie University

MSc - Physiology

McGill University

BScH - Biology

Queen’s University

Contact information

Location

Foothills Campus : TRW Building 5E 31

Biography

Colin's major research interest is the application of large linked clinical and electronic medical records and "big data" to epidemiological and outcomes-based research in epilepsy. He has a strong interest in advanced analytics, prediction modelling, and machine learning as a means of generating novel breakthroughs with practical bedside applications in large multimodal datasets.


Publications

Wahby S, Karnik V, Sajobi TT, Wiebe S, Josephson CB. Cannabis use is both independently associated with and mediates worse psychosocial health in patients with epilepsy. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2019; 90(8):945-951. 

Lowerison M, Josephson CB, Jette N, Sajobi TT, Patten S, Williamson T, Deardon R, Barkema HW, and Wiebe S. Level of specialized care and risk of death in a Canadian epilepsy population. JAMA Neurology. 2019 [Epub ahead of print].

Josephson CB, Engbers JDT, Jette N, Patten SB, Singh S, Sajobi TT, Marshall D, Agha-Khani Y, Federico P, Mackie A, Macrodimitris S, McLane B, Pillay N, Sharma R, and Wiebe S. Prediction tools for psychiatric adverse effects following levetiracetam prescription. JAMA Neurology. 2019; 76(4):440-446.