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Director, General Practice Research Group Dee Mangin

MB ChB DPH(Otago)
Director, McMaster University Sentinel and Information Collaboration (M.U.S.I.C.)

Email dee.mangin@otago.ac.nz

Dee Mangin is currently Professor of General Practice at University of Otago, Christchurch and at McMaster University, Canada. She is Director of the Primary Care Research Group at the University of Otago, Christchurch. She previously held the David Braley Nancy Gordon Chair in Family Medicine for 10 years at McMaster University, Canada, and has been an active adviser in Canada during this time on health system improvement and operationalisation in primary care.

As well as undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, Dee’s overarching interests are the influences of science, policy and commerce on the nature of care. Her interest in research is as a lever for advocacy, to support and improve health care for patients that will best enable a life worth living, on their terms.

Dee has wide clinical research experience in primary care, including observational and interventional quantitative research methods and community RCTs of innovative models of care. Topics areas include innovative systems of care (incorporation of patient priorities and preferences into care, complex interventions for older adults, extended models of primary care), rational medicine use (antidepressants, antibiotics, deprescribing trials of the reduction of single medicines as well as deprescribing multiple medicines in older adults).

Dee supported capacity building for primary care research through the development and inception of the David Braley Primary Care Research Collaborative while Associate Chair, Research at McMaster DFM and supporting capacity development for General Practice and General Practice research continues to be a strong interest. She is happy to be contacted by anyone interested in developing their primary care research role or skills.

Current research Interests

  • Multimorbidity and its natural consequence, polypharmacy
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWbdsu-JUNI
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzkxJzD5Y08
  • Integration of evidence- and patient- centred practice to improve care
  • Innovative models of primary care
  • Understanding and enhancing the value of generalist care at education and health system level

Awards

RNZCGP Distinguished Service Medal (2012) and The Canadian College of Family Physicians Donald I Rice Award (2018), both for leadership and service to General Practice nationally and internationally, as well as the Canadian College of Family Physician Researcher of the Year Award (2023).

Publications

Ronksley, P., Pathiraja, H., Mangin, D., Singer, A., Jensen, C., Kosowan, L., … Bello, A. (2026). Polypharmacy among people living with chronic kidney disease: Findings from the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network. Kidney International Reports, 11(4, Suppl.), 104702. [Abstract] Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Ronksley, P., Pathiraja, H., Mangin, D., Singer, A., Jensen, C., Kosowan, L., … Bello, A. (2026). Implementation and evaluation of a team approach to polypharmacy evaluation and reduction (TAPER) among adults with chronic kidney disease in Canadian primary care. Kidney International Reports, 11(4, Suppl.), 104701. [Abstract] Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Jun, H., Al-Busaidi, I. S., Vakamacawai, E., Bridgford, P., Mangin, D., & Hudson, B. (2026). Epidemiology of Pacific Peoples in Canterbury primary care: A cross-sectional study of five priority ethnicity subgroups. Journal of Primary Health Care. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1071/HC26109 Journal - Research Article

Dao-Tran, T.-H., Keramat, S. A., Etherton-Beer, C., Page, A., Naganathan, V., Mangin, D., … Comans, T. (2026). Proxy reports on the EQ-5D-5L in residential aged care facilities: A validation study. Health & Quality of Life Outcomes. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1186/s12955-026-02553-5 Journal - Research Article

Mangin, D. (2026, April). General Practice for a Brave New World. Keynote presentation at the 21st WONCA World Rural Health Conference, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Aotearoa, Wellington New Zealand. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

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