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Dr. Dawn Stacey elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
September 13, 2023
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Dr. Dawn Stacey, head of TOH’s internationally renowned Patient Decision Aids Research Group, has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
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Diabetes: innovative meta-analysis reveals best quality improvement strategies
July 5, 2023
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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.
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Dr. Kednapa Thavorn receives rising star award
May 16, 2023
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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.
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Drs. Dawn Stacey and Ian Graham named Distinguished University Professors
July 27, 2022
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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
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Canadian researchers awarded international prize for COVID-19 Evidence Network
March 3, 2022
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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,
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It’s time to talk about our relationship with research: new guide for health organizations
March 2, 2022
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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.
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Scientists call for "living evidence reviews" to combat COVID confusion
December 15, 2021
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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.
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Five scientists at The Ottawa Hospital ranked among world’s top researchers
November 26, 2021
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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
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Stopping COVID-19 with behavioral science and artificial intelligence
June 8, 2020
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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.
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The Ottawa Hospital awarded nine grants worth $5.6 million from Canadian Institutes of Health Research
February 3, 2020
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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
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Jeremy Grimshaw, David Moher and Peter Tugwell ranked among world’s top researchers
December 18, 2019
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Three senior scientists at The Ottawa Hospital, affiliated with uOttawa, have been ranked among the top researchers in the world for 2019.
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Dr. Jeremy Grimshaw elected into Royal Society of Canada
September 10, 2019
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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.
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Dr. Dawn Stacey co-hosts International Shared Decision Making Conference
August 14, 2019
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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
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Guidelines can help patients avoid unnecessary blood transfusions
April 15, 2019
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Dr. Dean Fergusson played a lead role in an important set of guidelines for patient blood management published in JAMA.
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Can behavioural science help reduce unnecessary medical tests?
March 11, 2019
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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.
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Jeremy Grimshaw and David Moher ranked among world’s top researchers
March 8, 2019
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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
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Research project aims to get stroke survivors moving
October 24, 2018
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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
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Chance encounter on a train led to an award-winning career in research
October 22, 2018
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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
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The Ottawa Hospital awarded $12.7M for research, double the national CIHR success rate
January 30, 2018
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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
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Finding better ways to bring health research to life: World-leading Centre for Implementation Research opens at The Ottawa Hospital
January 18, 2018
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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
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Researchers tap into human behaviour to improve patient safety
February 2, 2017
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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
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15 tips for giving feedback to health-care providers
June 8, 2016
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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
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Decision aids help patients weigh options and make choices
September 25, 2015
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“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
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