Category: Principle Investigators

Fiona Clement

Fiona Clement has extensive training in Health Services Research, Health Economics and Health Policy. She is the Director of the Health Technology Assessment Unit within the O’Brien Institute of Public Health, University of Calgary; a policy responsive research unit that completes evidence synthesis, economic evaluations, health technology assessments and reassessments in response to decision-makers’ needs. Her research interests include drug and non-drug technology reimbursement and cost containment policy, evidence in decision-making, and evidence in health policy development.

Dr. Clement was selected as the Canadian Harkness fellow in 2014; a unique opportunity to study US healthcare policy. She has also received the Maurice McGregor Award for outstanding leadership and excellence in HTA in Canada. She is the first from Alberta to be awarded either of these awards. As a result, in 2015, she was named one of Calgary’s Top 40 under 40 for her work in health policy.

September 17, 2020
Sharon Straus

Sharon E. Straus is a geriatrician and clinical epidemiologist who trained at the University of Toronto and the University of Oxford. She is the Director of the Knowledge Translation Program and Deputy Physician-in-Chief, St. Michael’s Hospital; Director, Division of Geriatric Medicine, University of Toronto; Vice Chair, and Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto.

Dr. Straus currently holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Translation and Quality of Care and has authored more than 400 peer-reviewed publications and 3 textbooks in evidence-based medicine, knowledge translation and mentorship. She is in the top 1% of highly cited clinical researchers as per Web of Science. She holds more than $57 million in peer reviewed research grants as a principal investigator. She has received national awards for mentorship, research and education.

September 17, 2020
Andrea Tricco

Andrea C Tricco, PhD, MSc

@ATricco

@andreatricco.bsky.social

Dr. Andrea Tricco holds a MSc in Epidemiology and PhD in Population Health. She is a Scientist and the Executive Director of the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto. She is a Professor at the University of Toronto in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health & Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation. She is also an Adjunct and Associate Graduate Faculty with Faculty of Health Sciences at Ontario Tech University. She is Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology.

Dr. Tricco’s research interests are related to responding to decision-makers (including policy-makers, healthcare providers, and patient partners) through knowledge synthesis. Her research focuses on advancing the science of knowledge synthesis and she is leading research projects related to rapid reviews, network meta-analysis, and scoping reviews. She currently holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Synthesis for Knowledge Users and has been recognized as one of the most highly cited researchers in the world.

September 17, 2020
Annie LeBlanc

Annie LeBlanc, Ph.D., is a full professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of Université Laval and a researcher at VITAM Sustainable Health Research Center. She is the Scientific Director of PASSERELLE, the national training entity of the Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) dedicated to inclusively and collectively developing, supporting, and maintaining scientific and practical capacities in patient-oriented research in Canada. She also holds a Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Mobilization and Integration in Practice. Her expertise focuses on mobilizing evidence within the healthcare system, advancing research methods and practices in real-world care contexts, and capacity building to optimize healthcare delivery while providing rapid and significant benefits for patients.

Annie LeBlanc, Ph. D., est professeure titulaire au Département de médecine de famille et de médecine d’urgence de la Faculté de médecine de l’Université Laval et chercheuse à VITAM Centre de recherche en santé durable. Elle est Directrice scientifique de PASSERELLE l’Entité nationale de formation de la Stratégie de recherche axée sur les patient.e.s (SRAP) dédiée à développer, soutenir et maintenir de manière inclusive et collective les capacités scientifiques et pratiques en recherche axée sur les patient.e.s au Canada. Elle est également titulaire de la Chaire de recherche du Canada en mobilisation et intégration des connaissances en pratique. Son expertise porte sur la mobilisation des données probantes au sein du système de soins de santé, l’avancement des méthodes et pratiques de la recherche dans un contexte réel de soins, et le développement des capacités dans l’optique d’optimiser la prestation de soins de santé tout en apportant des bénéfices rapides et significatifs pour les patient.e.s.

September 15, 2020