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Professor Michael Kramer

Professor Michael Kramer

Professor Michael Kramer

michael.kramer@mcgill.ca

Dr. Michael S. Kramer is the S. Shan Ratnam Visiting Professor in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology at the National University of Singapore. He is also Professor Emeritus at the McGill University Faculty of Medicine in Montreal, Canada.

Dr. Kramer served as Scientific Director of CIHR’s Institute of Human Development and Child and Youth Health (IHDCYH) from 2003 to 2011 and Director of the Centre for Outcomes Research and Evaluation at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre from 2013 to 2018. In 2011, Dr. Kramer was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 2016, he received the American College of Epidemiology’s Abraham Lilienfeld Award for Overall Excellence in Epidemiology — only the third Canadian ever to have won this prestigious award.

Dr. Kramer held prestigious salary awards from Canadian and Quebec health research funding agencies for 25 continuous years from 1982 to 2007. He has authored or co-authored 20 books and monographs and has published over 500 original research articles. His systematic review of the evidence on the optimal duration of exclusive breastfeeding led directly to new infant feeding recommendations by WHO and the World Health Assembly in 2001. His research on trends in perinatal population health contributed to recent recommendations to reduce labour induction and prelabour caesarean delivery before 39 completed weeks, resulting in a decline in preterm and early term births in Canada and the U.S. He was recently cited as among the most impactful 0.01% of the world’s researchers across all scientific fields.

Publications

  1. Cai S, Pang WW, Low YL, Si LW, Sam SC, Bruntraeger MB, Wong EQ, Fok D, Broekman BF, Singh L, Richmond J, Agarwal P, Qiu A, Saw SM, Yap F, Godfrey KM, Gluckman PD, Chong YS, Meaney MJ, Kramer MS, Rifkin-Graboi A, GUSTO Study Group. Infant feeding effects on early neurocognitive development in Asian children. Am J Clin Nutr 2015;101:326-336.
  2. Pang WW, Aris IM, Fok D, Soh S-E, Chua MC, Lim SB, Saw S-Mei, Kwek K, Gluckman PD, Godfrey KM, van Dam RM, Kramer MS, Chong Y-S on behalf of the GUSTO Study Group. Determinants of breastfeeding practices and success in a multi-ethnic Asian population. Birth 2016;43:68-77.
  3. Tint MT, Fortier MV, Godfrey KM, Shuter B, Kapur J, Rajadurai VS, Agarwal P, Chinnadurai A, Niduvaje K, Chan Y-H, Aris IBM, Soh S-E, Yap F, Saw S-Mei, Kramer MS, Gluckman PD, Chong Y-S, Lee Y-S. Abdominal adipose tissue compartments vary with ethnicity in Asian neonates: Growing Up in Singapore Toward Healthy Outcomes birth cohort study. Am J Clin Nutr 2016;103:1311-1317.
  4. Aris IM, Bernard JY, Chen LW, Tint MT, Pang WW, Lim WY, Soh SE, Saw S-M, Godfrey KM, Gluckman PD, Chong Y-S, Yap F, Kramer MS, Lee YS. Infant body mass index peak and early childhood cardio-metabolic markers in a multi-ethnic Asian birth cohort. Int J Epidemiol 2017;46:513-525.
  5. Chen L-W, Tint M-T, Fortier M, Aris I, Shek LP-C, Tan KH, Chan S-Y, Gluckman PD, Chong Y-S, Godfrey K, Rajadurai V, Yap F, Kramer M, Lee YS. Which anthropometric measures best reflect neonatal adiposity? Int J Obes 2018;42:501-506.
  6. Chi C, Pang D, Aris IM, Teo WT, Li SW, Biswas A, Yong EL, Chong YS, Tan K, Kramer MS. Trends and predictors of cesarean birth in Singapore, 2005-2014: a population-based cohort study. Birth 2018;45:399-408.
  7. Bernard JY, Pan H, Aris IM, Moreno-Betancur M, Soh SE, Yap F, Tan KH, Shek LP, Chong YS, Gluckman PD, Calder PC, Godfrey KM, Chong MFF, Kramer MS, Karnani N, Lee YS. Long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids, gestation duration, and birth size: a Mendelian randomization study using fatty acid desaturase variants. Am J Clin Nutr 2018;108:1-9
  8. Padmapriya N, Aris IM, Tint MT, Loy SL, Cai S, Tan KH, Shek LP, Chong YS, Godfrey KM, Gluckman PD, Lee YS, Saw SM, Yap F, Kramer MS, Bernard JY, Müller-Riemenschneider F. Sex-specific longitudinal associations of screen viewing time in children at 2-3 years with adiposity at 3-5 years. Int J Obes (Lond). 2019;43(7):1334-1343.
  9. Yong EL, Ganesan G, Kramer MS, Howe TS, Koh JSB, Thu WP, Logan S, Cauley JA, Tan KB. Risk factors and trends associated with mortality among adults with hip fracture in Singapore. JAMA Netw Open. 2020;3(2):e1919706.
  10. Yuan WL, Lin J, Kramer MS, Godfrey KM, Gluckman PD, Chong YS, Shek LP, Tan KH, Chan SY, Eriksson JG, Yap F, Lee YS, Choo JTL, Ling LH. Maternal glycemia during pregnancy and child carotid intima media thickness, pulse wave velocity, and augmentation index. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2020;105(7):dgaa211.
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