People

	Dawn Stacey, RN, PhD Dr. Dawn Stacey is a Scientist in the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute Clinical Epidemiology Program and an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Ottawa. She is also the director of the Patient Decision Aids Research Group. Her research is focused on exploring methods for health professionals to support patients/public in preparing for making health decisions. Her expertise includes: patient decision aid development, evaluation, and appraisal; decision coaching; and implementation of decision support into clinical practice and nursing curriculum. She leads the Cochrane Collaboration systematic review of patient decision aids and is on the Steering Committee of the International Patient Decision Aids Standards (IPDAS) Collaboration.
	Annette M. O'Connor, RN, PhD, FCAHS Dr. Annette O'Connor is an Emeritus Professor and a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Ottawa. She is a pre-eminent leader in her field and established the Patient Decision Aids Research Group. Her research has improved knowledge, tools and standards for informing patients about difficult treatment decisions and has led to new policies and legislation to promote shared decision making between patients and health professionals. Professor O'Connor is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and has received the Exemplary Leadership Award from the Society for Medical Decision Making.
	Jamie Brehaut, PhD Dr. Jamie Brehaut is a Scientist in the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute Clinical Epidemiology Program and an Assistant Professor in the University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine (Epidemiology and Community Health). Jamie is a Career Scientist with the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care. A cognitive psychologist trained at McMaster University, he is studying how cognitive factors affect decisions made by doctors and patients employing decision support. Other interests include cognitive biases and decision aids, Web-based decision support, computer usability methods, ADHD and Ritalin use, and issues of memory and attention.
	Geoffrey Dervin, MD Dr. Geoffreyt Dervin is Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine and Chair of the Division of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Ottawa. He is Head of the Division of Orthopaedic Surgery and Director of Research in the division at The Ottawa Hospital. As an orthopaedic surgeon, his subspecialties are sports medicine and ACL reconstruction.
	Valerie Fiset RN, MScN, CHPCN(C) Valerie completed her undergraduate degree in nursing at Queen’s University, and her Master of Science in Nursing degree at the University of Ottawa. For her Master's thesis she developed and evaluated a decision aid for patients with advanced lung cancer making the decision about chemotherapy. She has held positions in advanced practice nursing, management, education and research. She is now a full-time faculty member at Algonquin College, teaching and coordinating in the Collaborative Bachelor of Science in Nursing Program. Her current research interests include curriculum development in undergraduate programs, interprofessional education, and decision support for students making difficult academic and social decisions.
	Ian Graham, PhD Dr. Ian Graham is Vice-President of the Knowledge Translation (KT) at Canadian Institutes of Health Research and on leave from his position as Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, University of Ottawa and Senior Social Scientist in the Clinical Epidemiology Program of the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. His research has largely focused on KT and he has developed two planned action models, the Ottawa Model of Research Use and the Knowledge to Action Model. He is co-editor of Knowledge Translation in Health Care (2009) that includes patient decision aids as an example of patient mediated KT interventions.
	Jeremy Grimshaw, MBChB, PhD, FRCGP PhD Dr. Jeremy Grimshaw is Senior Scientist in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. Dr. Grimshaw is also a Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine at the University of Ottawa and holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Health Knowledge Transfer and Uptake. His KT Canada grant funds the Patient Decision Aids Research Group to maintain key global resources such as Patient Decision Aids (PtDAs), methods, systematic reviews, standards, and training. This also includes international standards and a global inventory of evaluated PtDAs, the Ottawa website, and expanding toolkits. KT tools include: a) an online auto-tutorial on how to develop and evaluate PtDAs using a simpler template that meets international standards; b) a template for ‘patient preference reports’ after patients use PtDAs which can be used in patients’ electronic records; c) training modules for clinicians to interpret the preference reports and close the loop on decision making with patients; and d) a re-design our ongoing systematic review database so that researchers can conduct reviews on sub-sets of data or meta-regressions to identify the most active ingredients of PtDAs.
	France Légaré, MD, MSc, PhD, CCMF, FCMF Dr. France Légaré is a full professor with the Department of Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine at Laval University and Canada Research Chair in Implementation of Shared Decision Making in Primary Care. She obtained a doctoral degree in the Population Health PhD Program at t he University of Ottawa under the supervision of Annette O'Connor. Her thesis project aimed at implementing the Ottawa Decision Support Framework in primary care medical practices. Her interests include a dyadic approach to the decision making process occurring between patients and their healthcare provider, interprofessional shared decision making and implementation of shared decision making in clinical practice with a focus on continuing professional development strategies. She leads the Cochrane Collaboration systematic review of interventions for improving the adoption of shared decision making by healthcare professionals.
	Margaret Lawson, MD, MSc, FRCP Dr. Margaret Lawson is a Pediatric Endocrinologist and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Ottawa and Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO). In 2008-09, Dr. Lawson undertook a one-year research sabbatical with Dr. O'Connor focusing on shared decision making and development of decision aids in pediatric endocrinology. Following this, she received funding from the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-term Care Innovation Fund to develop and implement a decision support program at CHEO. Dr. Lawson is currently the Medical Director of CHEO Decision Services, helping families make tough healthcare decisions.
	Susan L Mitchell, MD, MPH Dr. Susan Mitchell a geriatrician and clinical researcher, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Senior Scientist at the Hebrew Senior Life Institute for Aging Research in Boston. She is a graduate of the University of Ottawa Medical School, and completed Internal Medicine residency at the Ottawa Hospital. Dr. Mitchell also has a Master’s degree in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Mitchell’s research focuses on decision-making, health outcomes and resource utilization for older persons with advanced dementia. She is currently the Principal Investigator on several large NIH funded grants that aim to improve the end-of-life experience for patients with advanced dementia and their families.
	Sarah Mullan, MSc Sarah has been working as a Clinical Research Assistant with the Patient Decision Aids Research Group since 2009. She has been involved in several projects including evaluation and implementation of patient decision aids in clinical practice and data extraction for the Cochrane Review of Patient Decision Aids. Sarah has a masters degree in Public Health (Health Promotion) from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
	Mary Ann Murray RN PhD CON(C) GNC(C) CHPCN(C) Dr. Mary Ann Murray is the Advanced Practice Nurse and Clinical Manager of the Ottawa Hospital Home Dialysis Unit and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Ottawa, School of Nursing. Her research focuses on exploring and promoting shared decision making and evidence-informed practice for patients living with advanced persistent illness and complex multi-system disorders. Research areas in which Dr. Murray is currently working include knowledge translation, shared decision making, patient decision aids, inter-professional practice and evidence informed health care. Dr. Murray has taken on several nursing leadership roles such as President of the College of Nurses of Ontario, co-lead a Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO) Best Practice Guideline (BPG) development panel for Decision Support for Adults with Chronic Kidney Disease and an RNAO BPG development panel for Care in the Last Days and Hours of Life.
	Anton Saarimaki, MCS Anton is the database, website and technical administrator and analyst for the Patient Decision Aids Research Group. He is responsible for database design and maintenance, the smooth operation of this website, and research equipment like the Mini Digital Video Usability Lab. Previous he worked for 8 years as the Informatics Core Manager for the New York University School of Medicine General Clinical Research Center and 3 years as a programmer for the Hospital for Sick Children Research Computing Services.
	Rajiv Samant, MD Dr. Rajiv Samant is a Radiation Oncologist at the Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa. His research is primarily focused on improving radiation therapy for oncology patients and improving the quality of treatment decisions. For example, Dr. Samant is involved in evaluating educational interventions to improve the quality of shared decision making between medical residents and their patients and evaluating the implementation of decision aids for men newly diagnosed with early stage prostate cancer.
	Peter Tugwell, MD, MSc, FRCPC, FRCP Dr. Peter Tugwell is a Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of Ottawa and holds a Canada Research Chair in Health Equity. Dr. Tugwell is the lead investigator in The Cochrane Collaboration Musculoskeletal Review Group. His team uses the results of the reviews to build patient decision aids for rheumatological conditions.
	George A. Wells, PhD, MSc Dr. George Wells is a Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology & Community Medicine at the University of Ottawa. He is Director of the Cardiovascular Research Methods Centre and Senior Scientist in the department of Clinical Epidemiology at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. Dr. Wells is an editor on The Cochrane Collaboration Musculoskeletal Review Group. He helps the group to build decision aids by advising them on the use of the Wells Calculator to convert outcomes data measured on scales to proportions benefiting and harmed by treatment.
Graduate Students / Post-doctoral Fellows
	Alexis de Rosenroll
	Bryan Feenstra, RN, BScN Bryan Feenstra is a nursing graduate student at the University of Ottawa. His MScN thesis relates to shared decision making in the pediatric setting. In particular, he is interested in the effectiveness of decision coaching guided by the Ottawa Personal Decision Guide with parents and youths who face health related decisions. His research will also examine the level of agreement between parents and youths regarding the importance they place on goals and concerns of outcomes for decision options, and the pressures they face.
	Aubri Hoffman, PhD, MS Dr. Aubri S. Hoffman is an NIH Research Fellow at the Center for Aging Research, Dartmouth College. Working with Drs. Steve Bartels and Dawn Stacey, Dr. Hoffman investigates the best methods for supporting patients and families as they navigate complex health decisions. She recently authored the chapter "Shared Decision Making" in the Encyclopedia of Medical Decision Making and is currently developing a decision support website for families planning long term care for an aging parent.
	Janet Jull
	Jennifer Kryworuchko, RN CNCC(C) BScN Jennifer Kryworuchko is an Assistant Professor at the University of Saskatchewan College of Nursing and a PhD candidate at the University of Ottawa, School of Nursing. Her mixed method dissertation research is titled Development and evaluation of an intervention to engage interprofessional health care teams, patients and families in shared decision making about the level of care in the Intensive Care Unit. She is particularly interested in how interprofessional teams involve patients and their families in their healthcare decisions. Her research is complemented by her interest in systematic reviews, knowledge translation and implementation science.
	Marie-Chantal Loiselle Mary-Chantal Loiselle is a Professor at the University of Sherbrooke School of Nursing Sciences. She is responsible for the first year BScN biological sciences course. She is also involved in the post-baccalaureate program of the Primary Health Care Nurse Practitioner in the course related to the therapeutic health care for chronic diseases, specifically chronic kidney disease. She practiced as a clinical nurse specialist in renal dialysis for more than seventeen years. She collaborated on several action-research projects that involved patients, their families and nurse professionals in renal dialysis in collaboration with researchers at the University of Sherbrooke. For the past few years, she has been interested in shared decision making and decision support interventions. Her PhD thesis subject is the development and evaluation of a decision support intervention to assist in the choice of renal replacement therapy for patients with advanced chronic kidney disease.