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Past Events

Spring 2025

Byron J. Powell, PhD, LCSW:ÌýAdvancing the development and evaluation of contextualized approaches to implementing evidence-based interventions

Speaker: Byron J. Powell Ph.D. LCSW Associate Professor & Associate Dean for Research, Brown School & Division of Infectious Diseases, Institute for Public Health, Washington University in St-Louis

March 14, 2025; 12:30-14:00

Virtual Event

France Légaré C.Q., BSc. Arch, MD, MSc, PhD, CCMF, FCMF: Updates on the Knowledge Base for effective scaling of health innovations

Speaker: France Légaré C.Q., B. Sc. Arch, MD, MSc, Ph.D., CCMF, FCMF Full Professor & Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in KT and Shared Decision-Making, Department of Family and Emergency Medicine, Université Laval

April 17, 2025; 9:00-10:30

Hybrid Event

Natalie Taylor Ph.D.: "I think we do this anyway": Intuition and Theory in Implementation Science

Associate Professor, Implementation to Impact, School of Population Health, University of New South Wales

May 29, 2025; 9:00-10:30

Hybrid Event

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2024

Dr. Jeremy Grimshaw, MBCHB, PhD, FRCGP, FCAHS

"You have to wait for doctors to retire or die to change practice" - A 35 year reflection on the evolution of implementation science

Speaker Bio: Dr Jeremy Grimshaw received a MBChB (MD equivalent) from the University of Edinburgh, UK. He trained as a family physician prior to undertaking a PhD in health services research at the University of Aberdeen. He moved to Canada in 2002. His research focuses on the evaluation of interventions to disseminate and implement evidence-based practice. Dr. Grimshaw is a Senior Scientist, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, a Full Professor in the Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa and held a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Health Knowledge Transfer and Uptake (2002-2022). He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal College of Edinburgh. He has been awarded the CIHR Knowledge Translation award twice and received the 2018 CIHR Barer-Flood career achievement award for Health Services and Policy Research. He has over 717 peer reviewed publications. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he was co-lead of COVID-END. He is the co-lead of the Global Commission on Evidence to Address Societal Challenges.

Poster for lecture by Dr. Jeremy Grimshaw in May 2024

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