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.
