Dena Zeraatkar

Dena Zeraatkar is an Assistant Professor at McMaster University in the Departments of Anesthesia and Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact. She completed her doctoral doctoral degree in Health Research Methodology, after which she completed a Banting Fellowship--a highly competitive fellowship intended to attract and retain top-tier postdoctoral talent, both nationally and internationally--at  Harvard Medical School. 

Her research centers on evidence synthesis and evaluation to guide complex healthcare and public health questions. She often works in areas in which the evidence is complex or conflicting or in areas in which the evidence is of low quality, examples of which include COVID-19 therapeutics and nutrition. She has approximately 80 peer-reviewed publications, many of which have been in high-impact journals including Annals of Internal Medicine and BMJ.