Dr. Pahwa is an Assistant Professor at the Community Health and Epidemiology and Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture. She obtained her M.Sc. in Statistics from McMaster University. She worked at the Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture as a Biostatistician from 1989-1995. She did her Ph.D. in Biostatistics from the University of Saskatchewan in the year 2000.

Statistical Modeling of Longitudinal Data , Complex Surveys data, and Correlated Survival Data. Modeling of Missing Observations in Longitudinal Studies. Exposures of Interest: Grain Dust, Pesticide Diseases of Interest: Respiratory Disease, Cancer

Sharma M, Lawson JA, Kanthan R, Karunanayake C, Hagel L, Rennie D, Dosman JA, Pahwa P; Saskatchewan Rural Cohort Study Group. Factors Associated With the Prevalence of Prostate Cancer in Rural Saskatchewan: The Saskatchewan Rural Health Study. J Rural Health. 2016 Mar;32(2):125-35. doi: 10.1111/jrh.12137 Rennie DC, Karunanayake CP, Chen Y, Lawson JA, Hagel L, Senthilselvan A, Pahwa P, Dosman JA; Saskatchewan Rural Cohort Study Group. Early farm residency and prevalence of asthma and hay fever in adults. J Asthma. 2016 Feb;53(1):2-10. doi: 10.3109/02770903.2015.1058394 Setayeshgar S, Whiting SJ, Pahwa P, Vatanparast H. Predicted 10-year risk of cardiovascular disease among Canadian adults using modified Framingham Risk Score in association with dietary intake. Appl Physiol Nutr Metab. 2015 Oct;40(10):1068-74. doi: 10.1139/apnm-2015-0074 Dyck RF, Karunanayake C, Janzen B, Lawson J, Ramsden VR, Rennie DC, Gardipy PJ, McCallum L, Abonyi S, Dosman JA, Episkenew JA, Pahwa P; First Nations Lung Health Team. Do discrimination, residential school attendance and cultural disruption add to individual-level diabetes risk among Aboriginal people in Canada? BMC Public Health. 2015 Dec 9;15:1222. doi: 10.1186/s12889-015-2551-2 Karunanayake CP, Albritton W, Rennie DC, Lawson JA, McCallum L, Gardipy PJ, Seeseequasis J, Naytowhow A, Hagel L, McMullin K, Ramsden V, Abonyi S, Episkenew JA, Dosman JA, Pahwa P, Project Research Team. Ear Infection and Its Associated Risk Factors in First Nations and Rural School-Aged Canadian Children. Int J Pediatr. 2016;2016:1523897. doi: 10.1155/2016/1523897 Presutti R, Harris SA, Kachuri L, Spinelli JJ, Pahwa M, Blair A, Zahm SH, Cantor KP, Weisenburger DD, Pahwa P, McLaughlin JR, Dosman JA, Freeman LB. Pesticide exposures and the risk of multiple myeloma in men: An analysis of the North American Pooled Project. Int J Cancer. 2016 Jun 4. doi: 10.1002/ijc.30218 Ahmed S, Leis A, Chandra-Kanthan S, Fields A, Reeder B, Iqbal N, Haider K, Le D, Pahwa P. Surgical Management of the Primary Tumor in Stage IV Colorectal Cancer: A Confirmatory Retrospective Cohort Study. J Cancer. 2016 Apr 27;7(7):837-45. doi: 10.7150/jca.14717 Karunanayake CP, Hagel L, Rennie DC, Lawson JA, Dosman JA, Pahwa P, The Saskatchewan Rural Health Study Group. Prevalence and risk factors of respiratory symptoms in rural population. J Agromedicine. 2015;20(3):310-7. doi: 10.1080/1059924X.2015.1042613. Rennie DC, Lawson JA, Karunanayake CP, Pahwa P, Chen Y, Chu L, Dosman JA, The Saskatchewan Rural Health Study Group. Farm exposure and atopy in Men and Women: The Saskatchewan Rural Health Study. J Agromedicine. 2015;20(3):302-9. doi: 10.1080/1059924X.2015.1042612. Chen Y, Rennie DC, Karunanayake CP, Janzen B, Hagel L, Pickett W, Dyck R, Lawson J, Dosman JA, Pahwa P; Saskatchewan Rural Health Study Group. Income adequacy and education associated with the prevalence of obesity in rural Saskatchewan, Canada. BMC Public Health. 2015 Jul 24;15:700. doi: 10.1186/s12889-015-2006-9. Ahmed S, Fields A, Pahwa P, Chandra-Kanthan S, Zaidi A, Le D, Haider K, Reeder B, Leis A. Surgical resection of primary tumor in asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic patients with stage IV colorectal cancer: A Canadian Province Experience. Clin Colorectal Cancer. 2015 Jun 6. pii: S1533-0028(15)00066-3. doi: 10.1016/j.clcc.2015.05.008. Pahwa P, Abonyi S, Karunanayake C, Rennie DC, Janzen B, Kirychuk S, Lawson JA, Katapally T, McMullin K, Seeseequasis J, Naytowhow A, Hagel L, Dyck RF, Fenton M, Senthilselvan A, Ramsden V, King M, Koehncke N, Marchildon G, McBain L, Smith-Windsor T, Smylie J, Episkenew JA, Dosman JA. A community-based participatory research methodology to address, redress, and reassess disparities in respiratory health among First Nations. BMC Res Notes. 2015 May 16;8(1):199 Chu L, Rennie D, Cockcroft D, Pahwa P, Dosman J, Hagel L, Karunanayake C, Lawson J. Agreement between Questionnaire Report of Allergy-related Outcomes in School-age Children and Objective Measures of Atopy: The Saskatchewan Rural Health Study. Clin Exp Allergy. 2015 Mar 23. doi: 10.1111/cea.12533 Ahmed S, Pahwa P, Fields A, Chandra-Kanthan S, Iqbal N, Zaidi A, Reeder B, Plaza FA, Zhu T, Leis A. Predictive Factors of the Use of Systemic Therapy in Stage IV Colorectal Cancer: Who Gets Chemotherapy? Oncology. 2015;88(5):289-97. doi: 10.1159/000368245. Epub 2015 Jan 14 Janzen B, Karunanayake C, Pahwa P, Dyck R, Rennie D, Lawson J, Pickett W, Bryce R, Hagel L, Zhao G, Dosman J; Saskatchewan Rural Health Study Team. Exploring diversity in socioeconomic inequalities in health among rural dwelling Canadians. J Rural Health. 2015 Apr;31(2):186-98. doi: 10.1111/jrh.12101 Andreotti G, Birmann BM, Cozen W, De Roos AJ, Chiu BC, Costas L, de Sanjosé S, Moysich K, Camp NJ, Spinelli JJ, Pahwa P, Dosman JA, McLaughlin JR, Boffetta P, Staines A, Weisenburger D, Benhaim-Luzon V, Brennan P, Costantini AS, Miligi L, Campagna M, Nieters A, Becker N, Maynadié M, Foretová L, Zheng T, Tricot G, Milliken K, Krzystan J, Steplowski E, Baris D, Purdue MP. A pooled analysis of cigarette smoking and risk of multiple myeloma from the international multiple myeloma consortium. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2015 Mar;24(3):631-4. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965 Chu LM, Rennie DC, Cockcroft DW, Pahwa P, Dosman J, Hagel L, Karunanayake C, Pickett W, Lawson JA. Prevalence and determinants of atopy and allergic diseases among school-age children in rural Saskatchewan, Canada. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2014 Oct;113(4):430-9. doi: 10.1016/j.anai.2014.07.003 Schmid S, Bryce R, Reeder B, Rana M, Pahwa P, Shoker A, Moser MA. Volatility of serum creatinine relative to tacrolimus levels predicts kidney transplant rejection. Ann Transplant. 2014 Aug 15;19:403-6. doi: 10.12659/AOT.890815 Ahmed S, Leis A, Fields A, Chandra-Kanthan S, Haider K, Alvi R, Reeder B, Pahwa P. Survival impact of surgical resection of primary tumor in patients with stage IV colorectal cancer: results from a large population-based cohort study. Cancer. 2014 Mar 1;120(5):683-91. doi: 10.1002/cncr.28464. Premkumar K, Pahwa P, Banerjee A, Baptiste K, Bhatt H, Lim HJ. Changes in self-directed learning readiness in dental students: a mixed-methods study. Dent Educ. 2014 Jun;78(6):934-43. Pahwa M, Beane Freeman L, Spinelli JJ, Blair A, Pahwa P, Dosman JA, McLaughlin JR, Demers PA, Hoar Zahm S, Cantor KP, Weisenburger DD, Harris SA. The North American Pooled Project (NAPP): Pooled analyses of case-control studies of pesticides and agricultural exposures, lymphohematopoietic cancers and sarcoma. Occup Environ Med. 2014;71 Suppl 1:A116. doi: 10.1136/oemed-2014-102362.364. Karunanayake CP, Dosman JA, Pahwa P. Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and work in Agriculture: results of a two case-control studies in Saskatchewan, Canada. Indian Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2014, 17(3):114-21. doi: 10.4103/0019-5278.130860. Gjevre JA, Pahwa P, Karunanayake CP, Rennie DC, Lawson J, Hagel L, Dyck R, Dosman JA, and the Saskatchewan Rural Health Study Team. Excessive Daytime Sleepiness amongst Rural Residents in Saskatchewan. Canadian Respiratory Journal 2014..