Dr Iorio is an Associate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics and Medicine at McMaster University. He is the Director of the Health Information Research Unit and Director of the Hemophilia Clinic, Hamilton Health Sciences, McMaster Site.
His main research interests are in targeting research results to individual specificities, knowledge translation, risk stratification and usage of individual patient data databases. In the field of knowledge translation, his specific interest is in communication of research results to the lay public, including shared decision making.
He is the principal investigator of many multicentre initiatives including: CHESS (Canadian Hemophilia Surveillance Scheme); the Canadian “branch” of the EUHASS surveillance scheme for adverse effects of hemophilia treatment; CBDR (Canadian Bleeding Disorders Registry), the new clinical management software for the network of hemophilia clinics in Canada; WAPPS-Hemo (Web-based Application for the Population Pharmacokinetic Service for Hemophilia) a web-based solution for simplified estimation of individual factor concentrate pharmacokinetics and recently the WBDR (World Bleeding Disorder Registry), a new tool that collects patient data from Hemophilia Treatment Centres (HTCs) worldwide, with technical support from the Health Information Research Unit.
Dr Iorio is an Associate Editor for the blood coagulation disorders of the Cystic Fibrosis and Genetic Disorders Review Group of the Cochrane Collaboration, Associate Editor to the journal Thrombosis
Research and Chair of the Data and Demographics Committee of the World Federation of Hemophilia (WFH) and as well he works closely with many other international organizations in the field of hemophilia. He is a world renowned leader in the field of hemophilia.
