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	Dr. Jeremy Grimshaw retires after an outstanding career in implementation science October 29, 2024 - One of the world’s top knowledge translation and implementation scientists, Dr. Jeremy Grimshaw is retiring after 22 years at OHRI and the University of Ottawa.
	Researchers at The Ottawa Hospital awarded 14 CIHR grants worth more than $10 million July 18, 2024 - “Success at CIHR underscores the creativity, dedication and collaboration of our researchers and their teams. Funding for these innovative projects paves the way for groundbreaking advancement in biomedical sciences, improved patient care and progres
	4 areas to consider when implementing a trauma-informed care program May 17, 2024 - Healthcare staff, youth and caregivers identified four main aspects to consider when implementing a trauma-informed care program in a pediatric mental health unit,
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	Dr. Dawn Stacey elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada September 13, 2023 - Dr. Dawn Stacey, head of TOH’s internationally renowned Patient Decision Aids Research Group, has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
	Diabetes: innovative meta-analysis reveals best quality improvement strategies July 5, 2023 - Dr. Jeremy Grimshaw recently led an innovative Cochrane meta-analysis of 553 clinical trials including more than 400,000 participants around the world to determine the best quality improvement strategies for diabetes care.
	Dr. Kednapa Thavorn receives rising star award May 16, 2023 - Dr. Kednapa Thavorn has been recognized for her outstanding contributions to research design and patient involvement in economic evaluations, which are taking the assessment of drugs and medical devices in new directions.
	Drs. Dawn Stacey and Ian Graham named Distinguished University Professors July 27, 2022 - Senior scientists Drs. Dawn Stacey and Ian Graham have both received the title of Distinguished University Professor from the University of Ottawa in recognition of their exceptional scholarly achievement, pre-eminence in their fields and solid teach
	Canadian researchers awarded international prize for COVID-19 Evidence Network March 3, 2022 - Dr. Jeremy Grimshaw and Dr. John Lavis recently accepted the international REWARD prize from Cochrane on behalf of the COVID-19 Evidence Network (COVID-END) for their efforts to get reliable and timely COVID-19 evidence summaries to decision makers,
	It’s time to talk about our relationship with research: new guide for health organizations March 2, 2022 - Research has the power to save lives and improve our health care system, but to realize the greatest benefits from research, hospitals and other health organizations need to systematically incorporate it into their decision-making and planning.
	Scientists call for "living evidence reviews" to combat COVID confusion December 15, 2021 - Policy missteps will continue to overshadow the global response to Covid because policymakers are overwhelmed with rapidly shifting research evidence, according to scientists writing in the peer-reviewed journal Nature.
	Five scientists at The Ottawa Hospital ranked among world’s top researchers November 26, 2021 - Five scientists at The Ottawa Hospital have made it onto the prestigious list of Highly Cited ResearchersTM for 2021, with multiple papers that rank in the top one percent in their fields. Their research has been used and built upon by tens of thousa
	Stopping COVID-19 with behavioral science and artificial intelligence June 8, 2020 - Dr. Justin Presseau and colleagues plan to use state-of-the-art behavioural science and artificial intelligence to develop an app that can help people reduce how much they touch their eyes, nose and mouth.
	The Ottawa Hospital awarded nine grants worth $5.6 million from Canadian Institutes of Health Research February 3, 2020 - How can we treat depression when nothing else is working? How can heart growth be both good and bad? How can we increase patient participation in clinical trials? These are just a few of the big questions that researchers at The Ottawa Hospital will
	Jeremy Grimshaw, David Moher and Peter Tugwell ranked among world’s top researchers December 18, 2019 - Three senior scientists at The Ottawa Hospital, affiliated with uOttawa, have been ranked among the top researchers in the world for 2019.
	Dr. Jeremy Grimshaw elected into Royal Society of Canada September 10, 2019 - Dr. Jeremy Grimshaw has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a group called upon to make significant and substantial contributions of knowledge, understanding, and insight through engagement with the larger society.
	Dr. Dawn Stacey co-hosts International Shared Decision Making Conference August 14, 2019 - Dr. Dawn Stacey co-hosted the International Shared Decision Making Conference in Quebec City with Dr. France Légaré. More than 400 people from 22 countries participated in the conference, which focused on Patient-Oriented Shared Decision Ma
	Guidelines can help patients avoid unnecessary blood transfusions April 15, 2019 - Dr. Dean Fergusson played a lead role in an important set of guidelines for patient blood management published in JAMA.
	Can behavioural science help reduce unnecessary medical tests? March 11, 2019 - Up to one in three medical tests and treatments in Canada are not needed, and can expose patients to harm, stress, and longer wait times.
	Jeremy Grimshaw and David Moher ranked among world’s top researchers March 8, 2019 - Drs. Jeremy Grimshaw and David Moher have once again been ranked among the world’s top scientists. According to Clarivate Analytics, they are both among the most highly cited scientists in the world in the field of Social Sciences, with tens of thous
	Research project aims to get stroke survivors moving October 24, 2018 - Exercise has been proven to enhance brain repair, decrease depression, maintain cognitive function and reduce frailty in stroke survivors. However, stroke survivors don’t always have access to evidence-based exercise programs in the community. A new
	Chance encounter on a train led to an award-winning career in research October 22, 2018 - A job on the Rocky Mountaineer train took Dr. Kristin Danko to places that weren’t on the route between Vancouver and Calgary. One stop was a research lab at The Ottawa Hospital. Now she is the recipient of the Worton Researcher in Training Award fro
	The Ottawa Hospital awarded $12.7M for research, double the national CIHR success rate January 30, 2018 - Sixteen research groups at The Ottawa Hospital, affiliated with the University of Ottawa, have been awarded $12.7 million in the most recent project grant competition from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). This represents a success r
	Finding better ways to bring health research to life: World-leading Centre for Implementation Research opens at The Ottawa Hospital January 18, 2018 - Researchers regularly make discoveries that have the potential to improve patient care and quality of life. However, getting those findings adopted by health-care systems can be a challenge. Researchers at The Ottawa Hospital are already world l
	Researchers tap into human behaviour to improve patient safety February 2, 2017 - The Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI) announced a new partnership with Dr. Jeremy Grimshaw and his colleagues at The Ottawa Hospital’s Centre for Implementation Research. They will apply their knowledge of implementation and behavioural scie
	15 tips for giving feedback to health-care providers June 8, 2016 - A key tool for improving quality in health care is to audit how it is being provided and give feedback on how to improve. However, some kinds of feedback are more helpful than others. Dr. Jamie Brehaut and colleagues set out to learn what feedbac
	Decision aids help patients weigh options and make choices September 25, 2015 - “This process is not to second guess the doctor,” explained Brian Cullen, reflecting on his experience with using a decision aid. “It’s about having information to make an informed choice.” Brian Cullen had just retired when a routine annual p

Researchers

Name	Scientific appointment	Diseases, conditions and populations of interest	Research and clinical approaches
Berrio, Marta MD, MSc, FASE	Clinician Investigator (Acute Care Research)	Frailty, Health in older peoples, Heart disease	Anesthesiology, Knowledge translation and implementation research, Patient safety, Peri-operative medicine, Translational research
Boet, Sylvain MD, PhD	Affiliate Investigator (Acute Care Research)	COVID-19	Anesthesiology, Behaviour, Clinical trials, Knowledge translation and implementation research, Patient engagement, Psychology, Qualitative methods, Quality Improvement, Surgery, Systematic reviews, Translational research
Brehaut, Jamie PhD	Senior Scientist (Methodological and Implementation Research)		Behaviour, Health professional behaviour change, Health services research, Knowledge translation and implementation research, Patient decision aids, Patient engagement, Psychology, Psychometrics, Qualitative methods, Shared decision making, Surveys
Clemons, Mark MB BS, BMedSci, MSc, MD, FRCP, FRCPC	Scientist (Cancer Research)	Breast cancer, Cancer	Basic research, Clinical research, Clinical trials, Health research methods, Knowledge translation and implementation research
Graham, Ian MA, PhD, FCAHS, NYAM, FRSC	Senior Scientist (Methodological and Implementation Research)		Health professional behaviour change, Health research methods, Health services research, Knowledge translation and implementation research, Patient engagement, Shared decision making
Grimshaw, Jeremy MBCHB, PHD	Senior Scientist Emeritus (Methodological and Implementation Research)	COVID-19	Behaviour, Cluster randomized trials, Health professional behaviour change, Health research methods, Health services research, Knowledge translation and implementation research, Patient engagement, Qualitative methods, Quality Improvement, Surveys, Systematic reviews
Harrison, Denise RN, PhD	Affiliate Investigator (Methodological and Implementation Research)	Newborn and child health, Pain	Clinical trials, Cluster randomized trials, Knowledge translation and implementation research
Hatcher, Simon BSc MBBS MMedSc MD FRCPC FRANZCP MRCPsych	Scientist (Neuroscience)	Anxiety, Brain and neuromuscular disease, COVID-19, First Nations, Inuit and Métis Health, Health equity, Mental health, Traumatic brain injury, Depression, Health in disadvantaged peoples, Suicide	Clinical research, Digital and mobile health, Health economics, Health professional behaviour change, Health research methods, Health services research, Health technology, Knowledge translation and implementation research, Patient engagement, Prevention, Public health, Qualitative methods, Clinical trials, Cluster randomized trials, Epidemiology, Psychology, Systematic reviews
Kanji, Salmaan BSc Pharm, PharmD	Associate Scientist (Acute Care Research)	Global health, Septic shock	Clinical research, Clinical trials, Cohort studies, Critical care, Epidemiology, Knowledge translation and implementation research, Pharmacology, Pharmacy, Systematic reviews
Kwok, Edmund MD MHA MSc FRCPC	Clinician Investigator (Acute Care Research)		Clinical research, Critical care, Emergency medicine, Health professional behaviour change, Health services research, Knowledge translation and implementation research, Patient safety, Pragmatic trials, Qualitative methods, Quality Improvement, Rapid reviews, Systematic reviews
Lavallee, Luke MDCM, MSc, FRCSC	Scientist (Acute Care Research)	Cancer, Kidney disease, Population health, Prostate cancer	Clinical research, Clinical trials, Cohort studies, Epidemiology, Health economics, Health professional behaviour change, Imaging, Knowledge translation and implementation research, Patient decision aids, Quality Improvement, Surgery, Systematic reviews
MacPherson, Paul PhD, MD, FRCPC	Scientist (Methodological and Implementation Research)	Gay men's health, HIV, Infectious disease, Men's health, Sexually transmitted infections	Behaviour, Cohort studies, Epidemiology, Health promotion, Health services research, Knowledge translation and implementation research, Prevention, Psychology, Qualitative methods, Surveys
Mei, Shirley PhD, MSc	Investigator (Regenerative Medicine)	COVID-19, Infectious disease, Influenza, Lung disease, Septic shock	Basic research, Biomarkers, Cell therapy, Critical care, Disease models, Drug development, Epigenetics, Gene therapy, Knowledge translation and implementation research, Molecular and cellular biology, Regenerative medicine, Stem cells, Translational research
Mitchell, Simeon MD CM, MScHQ, FRCPC	Clinician Investigator (Acute Care Research)		Clinical research, Emergency medicine, Health professional behaviour change, Health services research, Knowledge translation and implementation research, Patient engagement, Patient safety, Quality Improvement
Moher, David PhD	Senior Scientist (Methodological and Implementation Research)		Epidemiology, Health research methods, Health services research, Journalology, Knowledge translation and implementation research, Patient engagement, Systematic reviews
Moore, Gregory MD, FRCPC	Clinician Investigator (Acute Care Research)	Newborn and child health	Clinical research, Knowledge translation and implementation research, Patient decision aids, Qualitative methods, Quality Improvement, Shared decision making, Systematic reviews
Nicholls, Stuart BSc(Hons), MSc, MRes, PhD	Scientist (Methodological and Implementation Research)	Health equity	Health research methods, Health services research, Health technology, Knowledge translation and implementation research, Patient decision aids, Patient engagement, Pragmatic trials, Qualitative methods, Quality Improvement, Rapid reviews, Systematic reviews
Poulin, Patricia C. Psych.	Associate Scientist (Neuroscience)	Addiction, Anxiety, Cancer, Chronic pain, Depression, Health equity, Musculoskeletal conditions, Pain	Anesthesiology, Behaviour, Biomarkers, Clinical research, Clinical trials, Emergency medicine, Epidemiology, Health professional behaviour change, Health services research, Knowledge translation and implementation research, Palliative care, Patient decision aids, Patient safety, Peri-operative medicine, Pragmatic trials, Psychology, Qualitative methods, Quality Improvement, Systematic reviews
Presseau, Justin PhD	Senior Scientist (Methodological and Implementation Research)	Chronic pain, COVID-19, Diabetes, Health equity, Hepatitis C, Immigrant and refugee health, Inflammatory bowel syndrome, Retinal disease, Vision	Artificial intelligence and data science, Health services research, Patient engagement, Psychometrics, Public health, Qualitative methods, Quality Improvement, Rapid reviews, Transfusions, Transplantation, Behaviour, Psychology, Health professional behaviour change, Knowledge translation and implementation research, Health promotion, Cluster randomized trials, Surveys
Stacey, Dawn RN, PhD, FRSC, FCAHS, FAAN, FCAN, CON(C)	Senior Scientist (Methodological and Implementation Research)		Clinical research, Clinical trials, Health professional behaviour change, Health research methods, Health services research, Knowledge translation and implementation research, Patient decision aids, Patient engagement, Qualitative methods, Quality Improvement, Shared decision making, Surveys, Systematic reviews
Sulis, Giorgia MD, PhD	Associate Scientist (Methodological and Implementation Research)	Global health, Health in disadvantaged peoples, Health in older peoples, Infectious disease, Tuberculosis	Epidemiology, Health professional behaviour change, Health services research, Immunization, Knowledge translation and implementation research, Prevention, Public health, Systematic reviews
Taljaard, Monica PhD	Senior Scientist (Methodological and Implementation Research)		Biostatistics, Clinical decision rules, Clinical trials, Cluster randomized trials, Cohort studies, Epidemiology, Health professional behaviour change, Health research methods, Health services research, Knowledge translation and implementation research, Patient engagement, Quality Improvement
Thake, Miriam MD	Clinician Investigator (Inflammation and Chronic Disease)	Aging, Dementia, Frailty, Health in older peoples	Knowledge translation and implementation research
Thavorn, Kednapa BPharm, MPharm, PhD	Senior Scientist (Methodological and Implementation Research)	Cancer, COVID-19, Diabetes, Gastrointestinal disease, Glaucoma, Global health, Health equity, Health in disadvantaged peoples, Health in older peoples, HIV, Immigrant and refugee health, Population health, Septic shock, Stroke, Thrombosis / thromboembolism, Vision	Clinical research, Cohort studies, Epidemiology, Health economics, Health research methods, Health services research, Knowledge translation and implementation research, Patient engagement, Pharmacy, Public health, Quality Improvement, Systematic reviews
Tugwell, Peter O.C., MD, FRCPC	Senior Scientist (Methodological and Implementation Research)	Arthritis, Global health, Population health	Clinical research, Epidemiology, Knowledge translation and implementation research, Patient engagement, Public health, Systematic reviews
Walker, Mark MD, FRCPC, MSc, MScHCM	Senior Scientist (Acute Care Research)	Global health, Health equity, Infertility, Maternal and fetal health, Newborn and child health, Population health, Pregnancy, Women's health	Clinical research, Clinical trials, Cluster randomized trials, Cohort studies, Epidemiology, Health economics, Health promotion, Health research methods, Health services research, Knowledge translation and implementation research, Pragmatic trials, Prevention, Public health, Quality Improvement, Rapid reviews, Risk assessment, Surveys, Systematic reviews
Boet, Sylvain MD, PhD	Affiliate Investigator (Acute Care Research)	COVID-19	Anesthesiology, Behaviour, Clinical trials, Knowledge translation and implementation research, Patient engagement, Psychology, Qualitative methods, Quality Improvement, Surgery, Systematic reviews, Translational research
Montoya, Lorraine MSc	Clinician Investigator (Methodological and Implementation Research)		Knowledge translation and implementation research
Sacheli, Matthew PhD	Clinician Investigator (Methodological and Implementation Research)	Health in older peoples	Knowledge translation and implementation research, Quality Improvement
Vaillancourt, Christian MD, MSc, FRCPC, CSPQ	Senior Scientist (Acute Care Research)	Cardiac arrest, Heart disease, Population health, Spinal cord injury, Traumatic brain injury, Traumatic injuries	Clinical decision rules, Clinical research, Clinical trials, Cluster randomized trials, Cohort studies, Critical care, Emergency medicine, Epidemiology, Health economics, Health professional behaviour change, Health services research, Knowledge translation and implementation research, Public health, Quality Improvement, Surveys, Systematic reviews

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