Rita Iskandar, MD, MSc

Biography

Dr. Rita Iskandar is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Research and Innovation Institute, Women’s College Hospital, the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, and ICES. She received the Patient-Oriented Research (POR)-Mitacs Fellowship, supervised by Drs. Aaron Drucker and Mina Tadrous. Dr. Iskandar holds a medical degree from the Lebanese American University and an MSc in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She also serves as a trainee on the Skin Investigation Network of Canada steering committee.

Dr. Iskandar’s research aims to improve  patients’ well-being by providing evidence-based guidance for policy and healthcare strategies through a better understanding of skin disease epidemiology. Her current work evaluates skin-related minor ailment services and dermatologic drug safety using Ontario’s linked administrative health data. She additionally leads a network meta-analysis of the cardiovascular safety of systemic medications used for adults with psoriasis.