Busse JW
Dr. Jason W. Busse
Scientist
PhD, Health Research Methodology, McMaster University
Dr. Jason Busse understands the value of mentorship. He entered the world of chiropractic medicine on the advice of a professor at the University of Toronto. He recalls, “It was his belief that the profession needed more people with research expertise, and the clinical population interested me enormously.”
At CMCC, Busse worked with patients whose chronic pain prevented them from performing even simple tasks on their “bad days.” In many cases, he says, the response from the health-care system was to treat pain symptoms in isolation.
“Most of these patients had been in treatment for years, and had experienced little relief,” he says. “I realized that, in many cases, there can be a solution to chronic pain, or other unexplained somatic complaints, if you can identify contributing factors like work stress and encourage a focus on functional gains over symptom relief. Sometimes that means engaging patients in a new paradigm or way of thinking about their situation.”
Following graduation, Busse pursued post-graduate training under the supervision, in part, of Dr. Eldon Tunks – a psychiatrist who oversaw the chronic pain clinic at McMaster University. Then, Busse began graduate studies in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McMaster University under the supervision of Professor Gordon Guyatt.
Busse was recently awarded a prestigious New Investigator Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
Bio Sketch
Dr. Busse is a scientist at the Institute for Work & Health, and Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, McMaster University.
He completed his doctoral training in 2009 at McMaster University, in Health Research Methodology.
Busse’s work with complex disability has since become a focus of both his research and clinical endeavours. He is a consultant to disability insurance companies, providing advice in managing complex disability claims. As a scientist at the Institute for Work & Health, he studies work disability prevention and management.
Current Projects
A prospective multi-centre randomized controlled trial to evaluate therapeutic ultrasound in the treatment of tibial fractures (TRUST)
Predictors of prolonged recovery following acceptance for disability benefits: a systematic review
A systematic review of the effect of case management on return to work
Selected Publications
Busse JW, Kulkarni AV, Badwell P, Guyatt GH, for the Medically Unexplained Syndromes Research Group. Attitudes towards fibromyalgia: A survey of Canadian chiropractic, naturopathic, physical therapy and occupational therapy students. BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2008; 8(1):24.
Busse JW, Kaur J, Mollon B, Bhandari M, Tornetta P, 3rd, Schünemann HJ, Guyatt GH. Low intensity pulsed ultrasonography for fractures: Systematic review of randomised controlled trials. British Medical Journal, 2009; 338: b351.
Kulkarni AV, Aziz B, Shams I, Busse JW. Comparisons of citations in web of science, scopus, and Google Scholar for articles published in general medical journals. Journal of the American Medical Association, 2009; 302(10):1092-1096.
Sun X, Briel M, Busse JW, You JJ, Akl EA, Mejza F, Bala M, Bassler D, Mertz D, Diaz-Granados N, Vandvik PO, Malaga G, Srinathan SK, Dahm P, Johnston BC, Alonso-Coello P, Hassouneh B, Walter SD, Heels-Ansdell DM, Altman DG, Guyatt GH. Study characteristics associated with reporting of subgroup analyses in randomized controlled trials. British Medical Journal, 2011; 342: d1569.
The SPRINT investigators and the Medically Unexplained Syndromes Research Group [writing group: Busse JW (chair), Bhandari M, Guyatt GH, Heels-Ansdell D, Kulkarni AV, Mandel S, Sanders D, Schemitsch E, Swiontkowski M, Tornetta P 3rd, Wai E, Walter SD; The SPRINT Investigators & the Medically Unexplained Syndromes Study Group. Development and validation of an instrument to predict functional recovery in tibial fracture patients: The somatic pre-occupation and coping (SPOC) questionnaire. Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma, 2011 Oct 18; [Epub ahead of print] doi: 10.1097/BOT.0b013e31822421e2.