Cancer Patient Portals and Health Outcomes

After completing two bachelor’s degrees (in philosophy and industrial relations), Steven pursued graduate studies at Université Laval and completed a PhD in 2016. As part of his thesis, which was based on a longitudinal study, he studied the evolution of nurses’ working and employment conditions (their well-being at work) in critical care units. Having been diagnosed with cancer in 2019,  he experiences the burden of dealing with many appointments and administrative tasks. Interested in the impact of digital technologies, he is wondering if the use of digital portals could potentially enhance the cancer patients’ quality of life and health outcomes.

Maxime Sasseville is an adjunct professor in nursing sciences at Université Laval and researcher at the VITAM research centre in Québec, Canada. He has a PhD in health sciences research from Université de Sherbrooke and a postdoc from Université Laval in digital measurement and interventions. He has obtained multiple prizes and recognition for the quality of his knowledge translation products and implications. He is part of multiple research teams and endeavors for his skills and expertise in clinical measurement and evaluation, digital health interventions and applied AI to health interventions. He is a TUTOR-PHC alumni from 2015-2016. His research interest focus on patient-reported outcomes, digital implementation of outcome measures, psychometrics and multimorbidity.

Annie LeBlanc is a clinical epidemiologist, Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Laval University, Investigator in the Research Center of the Quebec Institute of Primary Healthcare and Social Services, Quebec, Affiliate Investigator, Knowledge and Evaluation Research Unit, Mayo Clinic, USA, and Interim Director, Capacity Building & Professional Development Core, Strategy for Patient Oriented Research (SPOR) Quebec SUPPORT Unit, Quebec.

Dr. LeBlanc’s research centers around the translation of comparative effectiveness research into practice through the design, evaluation, implementation, and sustainability of patient-centered interventions and their impact on patient important outcomes. She lives in Quebec City with her husband and two children.