Speaker

Jeremy Grimshaw

Jeremy Grimshaw, MBChB, PhD, FRCGP, FCAHS, 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 a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Health Knowledge Transfer and Uptake. He is Co-Chair of the Cochrane Collaboration Steering Group, Director of Cochrane Canada and Co-coordinating Editor of the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care group. He is also the Principal Investigator of Knowledge Translation Canada (KT CANADA), a CIHR and CFI funded interdisciplinary network of over 50 knowledge translation researchers from six academic health science centres in three provinces. He has over 400 peer reviewed publications.