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Affiliate Investigator, Clinical Epidemiology, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Implementation of Shared Decision Making in Primary Care
Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Université Laval
Scientist and group leader, Centre de recherche du Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec, Knowledge Transfer and Health Technology Assessment
Biographical Sketch
France Légaré, who describes herself as a lifelong learner, studied architecture before earning a degree in medicine. A family health practitioner in Quebec since 1990 with a master's in community health, France is an associate professor with the Department of Family Medicine at Laval University. In 2005, she obtained a doctoral degree in the Population Health PhD Program at the University of Ottawa under the supervision of Annette O'Connor. Her thesis project aimed at implementing the Ottawa Decision Support Framework, a framework that facilitates shared decision making, in primary care medical practices. In 2005, she got a new clinical scientist award from the Fonds de la recherche en santé du Québec (FRSQ) for her research program: "Primary care providers: from knowledge brokers to decision brokers". Since June 1st 2006, she holds a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Implementation of Shared Decision Making in Primary Care.
Research
France's research interest lies in the implementation process of shared decision making in primary care. She received funding from the Canada Foundation of Innovation to implement a large network of primary care practices in the Québec city area that provided the infrastructure that is needed for the research program of the Canada Research Chair in Implementation of Shared Decision Making in Primary Care for which she is recipient.
Areas of interest
- Identifying and developing the strategies needed to implement SDM in clinical practice;
- Monitoring the impact of these strategies on the implementation of SDM in clinical practice
- Evaluating the impact of implementing SDM on health professionals and on patient outcomes.
- Use of antibiotics in upper respiratory infection
- Prenatal genetic screening
- ICEBERG (http://www.iceberg-grebeci.ohri.ca/index.html)
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