My main research interests include scientific inference in epidemiology and clinical research; diagnostic error and diagnostic excellence; clinical reasoning; evidence and evidence-based medicine; and Alzheimer’s biomarkers. I study these topics primarily using philosophy and bioethics, drawing on my training in philosophy of medicine, history and philosophy of science, clinical medicine, and medical education research. Pedagogically, I teach graduate courses in support of the university’s PhD in History and Philosophy of Science and its MA in Bioethics as well as undergraduate courses in support of its Certificate in Conceptual Foundations of Medicine. I am also interested in the role of philosophy of medicine and the health humanities as well as the sciences of reasoning in medical education. Lastly, I direct the university’s Research Ethics Consultation Service.
- BMSc, Physiology, Western University, 2010
- PhD, Philosophy of Medicine, University of Toronto, 2016
- MD, University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, 2019
- Research Fellowship, Health Professions Education, The Wilson Centre, University of Toronto, 2016
Education & Training
Fuller J. The New Modern Medicine: Disease, Evidence, and Epidemiological Medicine. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2025.
Fuller J, Chin-Yee B, Upshur REG. The argument framework is a flexible approach to evidence in healthcare. Nat Med. 2024 Aug;30(8):2113-2116. PMID: 38671239.
Fuller J. Demarcating scientific medicine. Stud Hist Philos Sci. 2024 Aug;106:177-185. PMID: 38996617.
- Beyond the Ivory Tower Fellow, The John Templeton Foundation
ADRC Developmental Grant, The biomarkerization of Alzheimer’s: ethical and conceptual implications of biomarker tests and criteria for the clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, PI, 2026-2027.
