Mika Nonoyama
PhD

Research and expertise

• Background and interests

  Dr. Mika Nonoyama’s research program is in respiratory therapy, specifically, respiratory disease management across all age groups. Programs across the whole health-care continuum are needed to improve prevention; provide effective management; and supply alternative, consistent models of service delivery for those living with respiratory-related diseases and disorders. Dr. Nonoyama is involved with several different research areas to help address these issues. First, she is invested in optimizing the quality of health-care services for individuals affected by long-term respiratory failure and use of prolonged or long-term mechanical ventilation. Secondly, she is a Health Clinician Scientist at SickKids, researching innovative approaches to paediatric respiratory therapy. Finally, she has an interest in the management of chronic respiratory disease, including rehabilitation and exercise. The goals for her research are to gather information and understand, develop and evaluate effective respiratory therapies to help individuals affected by respiratory related diseases and disorders across their life span.

  Dr. Nonoyama is a registered respiratory therapist with a PhD in the Rehabilitation Science Institute from the University of Toronto. She completed post-doctoral fellowships at Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and the University of Toronto's Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Ontario Tech University; she holds a status-only Associate Professor position in the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences Institute at the University of Toronto, and a Health Clinician Scientist position at SickKids in the Respiratory Therapy Department and Clinical Health Evaluative Sciences. She volunteers for many organizations, including the Ontario and Canadian Lung Associations and the Respiratory Therapy Society of Ontario.

• Publications

  For a comprehensive list of publications, visit GoogleScholar, ResearchGate, ORCID and the SickKids Research, Education and Clinical Hub (REACH).

• Research collaborators
  • College of Respiratory Therapists of Ontario (CRTO): General Certificate #001869
  • Canadian Society of Respiratory Therapists (CSRT)
  • Respiratory Therapy Society of Ontario (RTSO)
  • Canadian Thoracic Society (CTS)
  • Ontario Respiratory Care Society (ORCS)
  • Ontario Thoracic Society (OTS)
  • American Association of Respiratory Care (AARC)
  • European Respiratory Society (ERS)
  • Canadian Critical Care Trials Group (CCCTG)
• Courses taught

  Courses taught (past and present) at the undergraduate level:

  • HLSC 3910U: Research Methods for Health Care Professionals: Theory and Application
  • HLSC 4998U: Research Practicum
  • HLSC 4807U: Perspectives in Aging

  Courses taught (past and present) at the graduate level:

  • HLSC 5122G: Successful Aging
• Graduate student research
  • Samantha Mekhuri: The Influence of Weather on Individuals with Chronic Lung Disease.
  • Shirley Quach: A Survey of Pediatric Mechanical Ventilation Best Practice.
  • Samira Ansari: Unplanned Extubations in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
  • Kristopher Knopf: Extubation Readiness in Critically Ill Children: A Scoping Review.
  • Elise Cunningham: Pilot Study on Nordic Pole Walking and Individuals with Cancer: Effects on Physical Function and Quality of Life.
  • Lily Yang: Home Mechanical Ventilation: Developing a Risk Profile through a Retrospective Review Using the World Health Organization’s International Patient Safety Event Classification
• Grants

   

  Research activity	Role	Value
  2019 Canadian Institutes of Health Research: Transitions in Care Team Grant, Phase 1	Co-applicant	$949,813
  2019 Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Transitions in Care Evaluation Operating Grant	Co-applicant	$199,692
  2018 Network for Canadian Oral Health Research: New Frontier Seed Grant Program	Co-investigator	$20,000
  2018 The Canadian Lung Association - Breathing as One: Allied Health Research Grant	Co-investigator	$20,000
  2017 HSBC Bank Canada Catalyst Research Grant from The Hospital for Sick Children	Principal Investigator	$49,040
  2017 Ontario Tech University Teaching Innovation Fund (TIF)	Co-investigator	$7,932
  2016 Muscular Dystrophy Canada Respiratory Care Grant	Co-investigator	$49,998
  2016 Ontario Lung Association	Project Manager	$5,500
  2016 Post-Polio Health International (including International Ventilator Users Network)	Co-Principal Investigator	$147,000
  2015 Muscular Dystrophy Canada Respiratory Care Grant	Co-investigator	$49,505
  2015 Canadian Lung Association, Canadian Respiratory Health Professionals	Co-investigator	$19,929
  2014 Muscular Dystrophy Canada Respiratory Care Grant	Co-investigator	$49,690
  2014 Canadian Lung Association, Canadian Respiratory Health Professionals	Principal Investigator	$26,748
  2014 The ALS Society of British Columbia	Principal Investigator	$7,600
  2013 Sick Kids Norman Saunders Complex Care Grant	Co-investigator	$30,000
  2012 Toronto East General Hospital Community Based Research Fund	Co-investigator	$10,518
  2012 Canadian Lung Association, Canadian Respiratory Health Professionals	Principal Investigator	$15,248
  2012 Ontario Lung Association, Ontario Respiratory Care Society	Principal Investigator	$15,000
  2012 Ontario Lung Association National Grant Review/Grant-in-Aid	Principal Investigator	$49,326
  2011 Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Partnerships for Health Systems Improvement	Co-investigator	$348,864
  2011 The Ottawa Hospital Academic Medical Association	Co-investigator	$99,793
  2008 Health Force Ontario’s Optimizing Use of Health Providers’ Competencies Fund	Co-applicant	$250,000
  2008 Ontario Lung Association, Ontario Respiratory Care Society	Co-investigator	$12,867
  2007 Canadian Lung Association, Canadian Respiratory Health Professionals	Co-investigator	$4,332
  2007 Ontario Lung Association, Ontario Respiratory Care Society	Co-investigator	$4,000
  2006 Physiotherapy Foundation of Canada	Co-investigator	$5,000

• Education
  • PhD, Rehabilitation Sciences Institute, University of Toronto
  • Respiratory Therapy Diploma, The Michener Institute of Education at UHN