Mahyar Etminan

Dr. Mahyar Etminan is a pharmacoepidemiologist and an associate professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. His area of research is focused on ocular epidemiology and drug safety using large population-based databases. In recent years, he has taken a keen interest in the science of causation as well as the use of causal diagrams in better quantifying different types of biases in pharmacoepidemiologic studies. Dr. Etminan has published close to 180 publications, some of which have appeared in journals such as the Journal of the American Medical Association, the British Medical Journal, Lancet Public Health and the International Journal of Epidemiology.