Our Team

The Centre for Implementation Research includes professionals from multidisciplinary fields. The interdisciplinary and complementary nature of our expertise promotes the application of a range of theories, methods and tools to a variety research areas and healthcare priorities and ensures every project is considered from multiple perspectives.

Multidisciplinary Fields

  • Cognitive psychology
  • Epidemiology
  • Health economics
  • Health psychology
  • Health services research
  • Knowledge translation science
  • Medical sociology
  • Medicine
  • Nursing
  • Population health
  • Statistics
  • Other health and behavioural sciences

Scientists

Angel Arnaout

Scientist, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Professor of Surgery, University of Ottawa
Surgical Oncologist, The Ottawa Hospital

  • De-implementation of low-value care in cancer and surgery
  • Knowledge mobilization and physician practice change in cancer
  • Real world implementation of AI (Artificial Intelligence) and digital therapeutics

Sylvain Boet

Scientist, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Associate Professor, University of Ottawa
Anesthesiologist, The Ottawa Hospital

  • Knowledge translation and implementation science
  • Medical education
  • Simulation
  • Metaresearch
  • Critical care
  • Prehospital emergency medicine

Jamie Brehaut

Senior Scientist, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Full Professor, University of Ottawa

  • Cognition and decision-making 
  • Decision support
  • Psychological theories as applied to knowledge translation/implementation science 
  • Ethics of clinical research and informed consent 
  • Health of parents of children with health problems
  • Psychometric evaluation/tool development

Melissa Brouwers

Director and Professor, School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa

  • Knowledge translation
  • Implementation science
  • Practice guidelines
  • Evaluation
  • Measurement
  • Evidence-based/ Evidence-informed decision making

Ian Graham

Senior Scientist, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Professor, University of Ottawa

  • Implementation research
  • Integrated knowledge translation
  • Health services research

Jeremy Grimshaw

Senior Scientist, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Full Professor, University of Ottawa

  • Professional behaviour change
  • Implementation research
  • Cluster randomized trials
  • Systematic reviews

David Moher

Senior Scientist, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Associate Professor, University of Ottawa

  • Systematic reviews
  • Meta-analyses
  • Journalology (publication science)

Krystina Lewis

Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa
Affiliate Researcher, University of Ottawa Heart Institute

  • Integrated knowledge translation
  • Implementation research
  • Shared decision-making
  • Decision support interventions
  • Patient and family engagement
  • Cardiovascular nursing

Justin Presseau

Scientist, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Associate Professor, University of Ottawa

  • Behavioural medicine
  • Prioritization and multiple behaviour change
  • Knowledge translation/implementation research
  • Health behaviour change
  • Health care professional behaviour change
  • Habit, routines, and automaticity
  • Theory-based process evaluation of interventions alongside trials

Janet Squires

Senior Scientist, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Full Professor, University of Ottawa

  • Healthcare professional behaviour change
  • Knowledge translation/implementation research
  • Intervention design
  • Organizational context
  • Measurement (survey development and psychometric evaluation)
  • Quantitative and mixed methods research
  • Systematic reviews

Dawn Stacey

Senior Scientist, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Professor, University of Ottawa

  • Knowledge translation to patients
  • Patient decision aid development
  • Evaluation and appraisal
  • Decision coaching
  • Implementation of decision aids and decision coaching into practice
  • Telephone based- care
  • Interprofessional approaches to shared decision-making

Monica Taljaard

Senior Scientist, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Associate Professor, University of Ottawa

  • Design, analysis, and reporting of cluster randomized trials
  • Longitudinal data analysis
  • Multilevel modeling
  • Missing data
  • Quasi-experimental designs
  • Clinical prediction rules
  • Risk-adjustment and provider profiling

Kednapa Thavorn

Scientist, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa

  • Health economics
  • Health technology assessment
  • Pharmacoepidemiology
  • Pharmaceutical policy
  • Health services research
  • Health equity/access to care
  • Health behaviours/health promotion
  • Medication safety
  • Care for patients with complex needs

Visiting Scientists

Noah Ivers

Visiting Scientist, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
Family Physician, Women's College Hospital

  • Complex interventions
  • Implementation science
  • Knowledge translation
  • Pragmatic trials
  • Program evaluations
  • Systematic reviews on health system quality improvement

Holly Witteman

Visiting Scientist, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Associate Professor, Université Laval

  • Human-computer interaction in health education
  • Communication and decision making
  • Design methods
  • Human-centred/User-centred design
  • Usability and user experience
  • Risk communication
  • Values clarification
  • Values-congruent decisions
  • Visualization
  • Digital and social media in health communication
  • Designing for equity, access and inclusion

Jill Francis

Visiting Senior Scientist, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Professor Implementation Science, School of Health Sciences, University of Melbourne

  • Knowledge translation/implementation research
  • Application and development of complex intervention methodology in randomized trials
  • Use of applied research to test and develop theories

Staff

Kelly Carroll

Research Coordinator

Dr. Jacob Crawshaw

Senior Methodologist

Mackenzie Dowson

Research Assistant

Emily Gibson

Research Coordinator

Dr. Cole Etherington

Senior Research Associate

  • Gender equity in medicine
  • Interprofessional teamwork in acute care
  • Sociology of knowledge translation
  • Patient engagement
  • Gender and health
  • Non-technical skills measurement
  • Social/structural factors in health care

Alyssa Grant

Research Assistant

  • Aging
  • Health Economics
  • Health Services Research
  • Ocular Epidemiology
  • Pharmacoepidemiology

Dr. Natasha Hudek

Research Coordinator

  • Implementation science
  • Syncope in emergency department
  • Big data
  • Child and youth health/ mental health

Stefanie Linklater

Research Program Manager

  • Audit & feedback
  • De-implementation
  • Implementation science
  • Theoretical Domains Framework

Chris McCutcheon

Manager, Integrated Knowledge Translation Research Network

  • Integrated Knowledge Translation/research co-production
  • Policy learning, policy mobilities and the social determinants of health
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Sameh Mortazhejri

Research Coordinator

  • De-implementation

Dr. Jen Olson

Senior Methodologist

Alfonso Ortiz

Research Coordinator

  • De-implementation
  • Critical care nutrition
  • Fundamentals of clinical trials
  • Clinical epidemiology
  • Systematic reviews & meta-analysis
  • Knowledge translation

Amelia Palumbo

Research Assistant

  • Behavioural science
  • Health behaviour change
  • Stigmatized populations

Dr. Andrea Patey

Senior Research Associate

  • Behavioural medicine
  • De-implementation vs. implementation
  • Knowledge translation/ implementation research
  • Health care professional behaviour change
  • Application of theory and systematic methods to develop and evaluate complex behaviour change interventions
  • Theory-based process evaluation of interventions alongside trials

Maryam Shah

Research Assistant

Isabella Thomas

Research Assistant

  • Global health
  • Community health

Min Xi

Research Assistant

  • Health services research
  • Health technology assessment
  • Inequities in healthcare access
  • HIV
  • Neuromuscular conditions

Sharlini Yogasingam

Research Coordinator

  • Evidence synthesis
  • Living systematic reviews