Dr. Brent Hagel

Dr. Brent Hagel is an epidemiologist and associate professor with the Departments of Paediatrics and Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary. He holds the Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation Professorship in Child Health and Wellness funded by an anonymous donor and the Canadian National Railway Company, the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research Population Health Investigator and Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator awards. Dr. Hagel’s current research interests involve evaluation of the intended and unintended effects of protective equipment use and injury prevention policies (e.g., ski and snowboard helmet use, bike helmet legislation, body checking and minor hockey participation), with particular interest in child and adolescent sport and recreational injury prevention.

Dr. Hagel, together with Dr. Carolyn Emery, are recent recipients of the University of Calgary Peak Scholars award. 

Peer-Reviewed:

1. Embree T, Romanow NTR, Djerboua M, Morgunov N, Bourdeaux J, Hagel BE. Risk Factors for Bicycling Injuries in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review. Pediatrics Nov 2016, 138 (5) e20160282; DOI: 10.1542/peds.2016-0282.
2. Pfister T, Pfister K, Hagel BE, Ghali WA, Ronksley P. The Incidence of Concussion in Youth Sports: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. British Journal of Sports Medicine 2015 Nov 30. pii: bjsports- 2015-094978. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2015-094978. [Epub ahead of print]
3. Black AM, Macpherson A, Hagel BE, Romiti MA, Palacios-Derflingher L, Kang J, Meeuwisse WH, Emery CA. Policy change eliminating body checking in 11 and 12 year old non-elite ice hockey leads to  a 3-fold reduction in injury and concussion risk in young players. British Journal of Sports Medicine 2015; 50(1):55-61
4. Gaudet L, Romanow NTR, Nettel-Aguirre A, Voaklander D, Hagel BE, Rowe BH. The epidemiology of   fatal cyclist crashes over a 14-year period in Alberta, Canada. BMC Public Health. 2015, 15:1142. DOI: 10.1186/s12889-015-2476-9
5. Hagel BE, Romanow NT, Enns N, Williamson J, Rowe BH. Severe bicycling injury risk factors in  children and adolescents: A case–control study. Accident Analysis & Prevention 2015;78:165-172
6. Thompson GC, Schuh S, Gravel J, Reid S, Fitzpatrick E, Turner T, Bhatt M, Beer D, Blair G, Eccles R, Jones S, Kilgar J, Liston N, Martin J, Hagel B, Nettel-Aguirre A. Variations in the diagnosis and management of appendicitis at Canadian pediatric hospitals. Academic Emergency Medicine 2015 Jul;22(7):811-22. doi: 10.1111/acem.12709. Epub 2015 Jun 30.
7. Graves JM, Whitehill JM, Hagel BE, Rivara FP. The use of narrative text emergency department injury surveillance data to conduct case-control studies of helmet effectiveness. Injury 2015 May;46(5):891-7. doi: 10.1016/j.injury.2014.11.012. Epub 2014 Nov 26
8. Ebel B, Hagel BE. Building the Evidence Base for Safe and Active Bicycling: A Historical Commentary on Rivara et al: Epidemiology of Bicycle Injuries and Risk Factors for Serious Injury. Injury Prevention 2015;21(1):52 doi:10.1136/injuryprev-2014-041516
9. Russell K, Meeuwisse WH, Nettel-Aguirre A, Emery CA, Gushue S, Wishart J, Romanow N, Rowe BH, Goulet C, Hagel BE Listening to a personal music player and  odds of injury among snowboarders in a  terrain park: a case-control study. Br J Sports Med. 2014 Jul 8. pii: bjsports-2014-093487. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2014-093487. [Epub  ahead of print]:
10. Hagel BE, Romanow NTR, Morgunov N, Embree T, Couperthwaite AB, Voaklander D,  Rowe BH. Do visibility aids reduce the risk of motor-vehicle collision or hospitalization in  bicyclists? Accident Analysis & Prevention 2014,65:85-96.