Margaret Taabazuing, MD, FRCPC
Position: Geriatrician
Office: LHSC, Victoria Hospital
Phone: 519.685.8816 Fax: 519.685.8813
E-mail: marymargaret.taabazuing@lhsc.on.ca
Specialty: Readmission in the Elderly, Quality Improvment and patient safety
Dr. Margaret Taabazuing is an Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, Western University. She graduated from The Higher Institute of Medical Sciences, Havana, Cuba. She completed her residency and Geriatric Medicine training in the United States, at Woodhull Medical Center and at William Beaumont Hospital. In 2018, she completed a Master’s degree in Health Evaluation from the University of Waterloo.
Dr. Margaret Taabazuing is an Associate Professor in the Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University. Dr. Taabazuing’s clinical interest is in quality improvement initiatives and readmissions in acute care.
At the local level, she is the Geriatric physician Lead for the Acute Care of the Elderly Clinical Teaching Unit (ACE-CTU) at Victoria Hospital. She provides clinical leadership and collaborates with other Physician Clinical Leads and Nursing Leadership in the Department of Medicine.
She is a core member of the Center for Quality Innovation and Safety (CQuInS). Dr. Taabazuing has collaborated in multiple research projects in Quality Improvement.
At the National level, Dr. Taabazuing was the Lead physician for the Mobilization of Venerable Elderly in Ontario (MOVE-ON) In this role she worked with colleagues from other Academic Hospitals with the aim to minimize hospital associated functional decline in the elderly.
University Held Positions
Associate Professor, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University. Faculty of CQuINS.
Peer Reviewed Publications
Fat, G. L., Goy, C., Lee, P., Gopaul, A., & Taabazuing, M. (2023). Alternate level of care patients waiting in hospital incur more healthcare-associated adverse events than long-term care residents: A cohort study comparing london, ontario hospitals and long-term care homes. Canadian Geriatrics Journal, 26(2), 295-296.
Kansanga, M. M., Batung, E., Mohammed, K., Sano, Y., Taabazuing, M. M., & Luginaah, I. (2023). Beyond Purchasing Power: The Association Between Sense of Community Belongingness and Food Insecurity Among Older Adults in Canada. Journal of Aging & Social Policy, 1-20.
Lim Fat, G.J., Gopaul, A., Pananos, A.D., & Taabazuing, M.-M. Healthcare-Associated Adverse Events in Alternate Level of Care Patients Awaiting Long-Term Care in Hospital. Geriatrics 2022, 7, 81.
Carson, J., Taabazuing, M. M., Sider, C., Payne, M., Behzadian, Y., Newman, A., ... & Devoe, B. (2020). 6 Reducing unnecessary patient isolation on general medicine units. BMJ Open Quality, 9(Suppl 1), A9-A10.
Boateng, G. O., Adams, E. A., Odei Boateng, M., Luginaah, I. N., & Taabazuing, M. M. (2017). Obesity and the burden of health risks among the elderly in Ghana: A population study. PloS one, 12(11), e0186947.
Juma, S., Taabazuing, M. M., & Montero-Odasso, M. (2016). Clinical frailty scale in an acute medicine unit: a simple tool that predicts length of stay. Canadian Geriatrics Journal, 19(2), 34.
Boateng, G. O., Luginaah, I. N., & Taabazuing, M. M. (2015). Examining the risk factors associated with hypertension among the elderly in Ghana. Journal of aging and health, 27(7), 1147-1169.
