Peter Cram, MD, MBA

Senior Scientist, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute (TGHRI)
Keywords: health care costs, patient safety, orthopaedics, international comparisons
Peter Cram is the Director of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics at Sinai Health System and University Health Network and a Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Toronto. A practicing General Internist, Dr. Cram’s research has focused on: 1) understanding variations in complication rates after orthopaedic surgery procedures; 2) health care costs and utilization; 3) how to communicate complex healthcare information to patients. Dr. Cram has published more than 125 papers. His orthopaedic research has appeared in journals including JAMA, JBJS and BMJ.
Dr. Cram’s research focuses on:

1) quality and cost in the areas of orthopaedic surgery and osteoporosis;
2) patient safety with a specific focus on insuring that test results are consistently communicated to patients; and
3) development of clinical decision aids that include personalized risk assessment.
Test Result Management Practices of Canadian Internal Medicine Physicians and Trainees.
J Gen Intern Med. 2018 Oct 08;:
Bodley T, Kwan JL, Matelski J, Darragh PJ, Cram P
Patient and Caregiver Understanding of Prognosis After Hip Fracture.
Can Geriatr J. 2018 Sep;21(3):274-283
Eikelboom R, Gagliardi AR, Gandhi R, Kuzyk PRT, Soong C, Cram P
The prevalence of overtreatment of osteoporosis: results from the PAADRN trial.
Arch Osteoporos. 2018 Sep 28;13(1):103
Hall SF, Wright NC, Wolinsky FD, Lou Y, Edmonds S, Roblin D, Jones M, Saag K, Cram P
Changes in Ability of Hospitals to Provide Pricing for Total Hip Arthroplasty From 2012 to 2016.
JAMA Intern Med. 2018 May 29;:
Mahomed S, Rosenthal J, Matelski J, Cram P
Comparing Canadian health care to that in other countries: looking beyond the headlines.
CMAJ. 2018 Feb 26;190(8):E207-E208
McAlister FA, Cram P, Bell CM
Can Patient Selection Explain the Obesity Paradox in Orthopaedic Hip Surgery? An Analysis of the ACS-NSQIP Registry.
Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2018 May;476(5):964-973
Zhang JC, Matelski J, Gandhi R, Jackson T, Urbach D, Cram P
Diet and exercise changes following bone densitometry in the Patient Activation After DXA Result Notification (PAADRN) study.
Arch Osteoporos. 2018 Jan 06;13(1):4
Roblin DW, Cram P, Lou Y, Edmonds SW, Hall SF, Jones MP, Saag KG, Wright NC, Wolinsky FD, PAADRN Investigators
Utilization and Short-Term Outcomes of Primary Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasty in the United States and Canada: An Analysis of New York and Ontario Administrative Data.
Arthritis Rheumatol. 2018 Apr;70(4):547-554
Cram P, Landon BE, Matelski J, Ling V, Stukel TA, Paterson JM, Gandhi R, Hawker GA, Ravi B
Understanding the Relationship Between 3-Month and 2-Year Pain and Function Scores After Total Knee Arthroplasty for Osteoarthritis.
J Arthroplasty. 2018 May;33(5):1368-1372
Gandhi R, Mahomed NN, Cram P, Perruccio AV
Patient characteristics, resource use and outcomes associated with general internal medicine hospital care: the General Medicine Inpatient Initiative (GEMINI) retrospective cohort study.
CMAJ Open. 2017 Dec 11;5(4):E842-E849
Verma AA, Guo Y, Kwan JL, Lapointe-Shaw L, Rawal S, Tang T, Weinerman A, Cram P, Dhalla IA, Hwang SW, Laupacis A, Mamdani MM, Shadowitz S, Upshur R, Reid RJ, Razak F

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Senior Scientist, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute (TGHRI)

Director, Division of General Internal Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital/UHN
Professor, Internal Medicine, University of Toronto
Professor (status only), Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME), University of Toronto
Associate Member, School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto
Adjunct Scientist, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES)