CART-GRAC - Key Persons
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- Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Nursing, Dalhousie University
Dr. Janusz Kaczorowski, is a medical sociologist with research background in family medicine, epidemiology, psychology, and sociology. He is Professor and Research Director in the Department of Family and Emergency Medicine at the Université de Montréal. He is a holder of the Dr. Sadok Besrour Chair in Family Medicine, the GlaxoSmithKline Chair in Optimal Management of Chronic Disease, and CIHR-ICRH/Heart & Stroke/Hypertension Canada Chair in prevention and control of hypertension. He is deputy head of the Health Innovation and Evaluation Hub at CRCHUM research center.
He plays leadership roles in hypertension, stroke and primary care research communities in Canada. He has an active, collaborative and multi-disciplinary research agenda that includes optimal use of therapeutics in primary care, primary prevention of cardiovascular disease and stroke, knowledge transfer, health services research and population health.
He has over 25 years of experience in developing, coordinating, and completing all aspects of research studies in primary care. He has held a number of large grants both as principal investigator and co-investigator and has co-authored over 250 peer-reviewed articles.
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- Professor in the UBC School of Population
Dr. Kimberlyn McGrail is a Professor in the UBC School of Population and Public Health and Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, Director of Research for UBC Health, and Scientific Director of Population Data BC and Health Data Research Network Canada. Her research interests are quantitative policy evaluation and all aspects of population data science. Kim is Deputy Editor of the International Journal of Population Data Science, the 2009-10 Commonwealth Fund Harkness Associate in Health Care Policy and Practice, 2016 recipient of the Cortlandt JG Mackenzie Prize for Excellence in Teaching, 2017 recipient of a UBC award for Excellence in Clinical or Applied Research, and in 2019-2020 participated as a member of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Task Force on AI4Health. She holds a PhD in Health Care and Epidemiology from the University of British Columbia, and a Master's in Public Health from the University of Michigan.
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Dr. Laura Schummers, ScD, is a reproductive and perinatal epidemiologist. After completing her Doctor of Science in epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health, Dr. Schummers joined the Contraception and Abortion Research Team in the Department of Family Practice at UBC as a postdoctoral fellow. Dr. Schummers's research uses large population-based administrative health databases to examine health services, policy, and clinical research questions related to women's reproductive and perinatal health and integrated knowledge translation methods to translate findings to practice and policy. She holds a CIHR Patient-Oriented Research Leadership award and a Research Trainee award from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research and is a Trainee with ICES McMaster. Her current work focuses on the impact of the Canada's uniquely deregulated policies for the medical abortion drug mifepristone on abortion access, outcomes, and costs, optimal pregnancy spacing for high-risk obstetric populations, and postpartum opioid prescribing.
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- Assistant Dean of Midwifery at Mc
Dr. Liz Darling is the Assistant Dean of Midwifery at McMaster University and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Her qualifications include an Honours BArtsSc (McMaster), a BHSc in Midwifery (McMaster), an MSc in Health Research Methodology (McMaster), and a PhD in Population Health (Ottawa).
She holds a CIHR Early Career Investigator Award in Maternal, Reproductive, Child and Youth Health that supports a mixed methods research program investigating the impact of funding expanded midwifery care models in Ontario. Her research interests include midwifery services, health disparities, access to care, health policy, and perinatal health outcomes. She has particular expertise in the midwifery data collected in Ontario's perinatal registry (BORN-Ontario). She is committed to building research capacity within the midwifery profession, and currently mentors undergraduate and graduate students in a variety of academic programs.
Dr. Darling practiced midwifery in Ottawa and was a part-time faculty member with the Midwifery Education Program at Laurentian University prior to joining McMaster full-time in 2017. She is also an Adjunct Scientist at ICES-McMaster and holds an Associate appointment in the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact at McMaster University. She has represented the midwifery profession in clinical and research committees at the provincial and national level, including serving as a member of the Expert Advisory Committee for the Canadian Perinatal Surveillance System.
She is the recipient of academic awards which include a CIHR Early Career Investigator Award (2019), the Association of Ontario Midwives' Excellence in Midwifery Research Award (2019), the Joseph De Koninck Doctoral Thesis Award (2015), a CIHR Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (2011), and a CIHR Health Professional Fellowship (2011 - declined).
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- Post - Doctoral Fellow, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, UBC
- Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia
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- Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Nursing
- Student at the School of Nursing, Dalhousie University
Dr. Martha Paynter is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of New Brunswick, where her clinical teaching and research focus on the intersection of reproductive health and the criminal justice system. She is the Affiliate Scientist for the Nova Scotia Women's Choice Clinic, and the founder and past chair of Wellness Within: An Organization for Health and Justice, the only organization in Canada dedicated to advancing reproductive justice for people experiencing criminalization. She is the author of Abortion to Abolition: Reproductive Health and Justice in Canada, which was published in Spring 2022 by Fernwood Publishing.
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- Implementation and Outcomes of the Nurse Practitioner
- Professor
Dr. Ruth Martin-Misener, is a Professor and the Director of the School of Nursing and Assistant Dean, Research, at the Faculty of Health, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She is also the Co-Director of the Canadian Association of Advanced Practice Nursing at McMaster University and an Affiliate Scientist with Nova Scotia Health as well as the Maritime Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research Support Unit.
Dr. Martin-Misener's research evaluates the implementation and outcomes of the nurse practitioner role and innovative team-based care. Her research supports evidence-informed policy formation for decision-makers in organizations and in government through rigorous evaluation of the implementation and impact of nurse practitioners on patient, system and provider outcomes. Results of her research have been used provincially, nationally and internationally to inform policy related to nurse practitioner scope of practice, education, regulation and deployment across sectors and with different populations.
Her research has had a sustained impact on the integration of nurse practitioner roles in Canada through its application to health policy for role implementation and regulation, particularly in primary health care and long-term care.
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About: Sarah Munro, PhD, MA, BA (Hons), Scientist, is a qualitative health services researcher whose focus is on knowledge translation and implementation science. Her research focuses on the investigation of factors that influence implementation of patient-centred practice and policy, and the development and evaluation of tools that support shared decision-making for patients and their care teams.
Dr. Munro conducts research related to implementation of patient-centred care for choice of next birth after caesarean, choice of contraception, medical abortion practice, and breastfeeding. Through this research, Dr. Munro partners closely with stakeholders (patients, health care professionals, and policy makers) to produce evidence that is action-oriented, relevant, and supports patients and their care teams to make informed, shared healthcare decisions.
Dr. Munro completed her postdoctoral training in implementation science with the Canadian Contraception and Abortion Research Team and Dartmouth College. She is also a Scientist with the Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences.
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- Emertis Director
- Associate Director, Research
- Research Director of the Family Practice Health Centre of Women 's College Hospital
Dr. Wendy Norman, CIHR-PHAC Chair in Family Planning Research, is leading innovative research into the contraceptive needs of women in BC and throughout Canada. A Women's Health Survey is currently underway across BC. This door-to-door survey will provide critical information about supporting equitable access to family planning knowledge, services and methods for the average woman.
Dr. Guilbert is a member of several professional associations, including the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC), the Society of Family Planning and the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals. Dr. Guilbert is a member of the advisory committee of the Contraception Awareness Project of SOGC and leads the implementation in the province of Quebec of increased access to hormonal and intrauterine contraception through collaborative agreements and Protocole de contraception du Québec. She also co-chairs the Committees of SOGC producing Canadian guidelines on Contraception and Abortion.
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- Master
- Student at the School of Health and Human Performance at Dalhousie University
Emma Cameron, Master's student at the School of Health and Human Performance at Dalhousie University
Jessica Holmes, Communications Officer, jessica.holmes@phsa.ca, 778-877-6784, PHSA Media line: 778-867-7472
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- Access Project Coordinator
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- Master of Public Health Student, School of Population and Public Health, UBC
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- Clinical Associate
- Principal Investigator
Dr. Regina-Maria Renner is a Clinical Associate Professor at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of UBC where she first joined in December 2012. Since May 2015 she is the Fellowship Co-Director of the Family Planning Fellowship at UBC. In March 2013 she also joined the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital. She has been a CART member since 2011.
She completed her Family Planning Fellowship at Oregon Health & Science University, OR USA (OHSU, 2011), where she also did her residency. She completed a Master of Public Health at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, USA (2005).
In 2018 she completed a certificate in quality improvement. Her recent research has focused on in implementation of mifepristone for medical abortion in Canada. She currently is the principal investigator on a CIHR grant to survey Canadian abortion providers.
Her prior research in pain management of first trimester surgical abortion has led to a Cochrane review and several randomized controlled trials on this topic. Additional research of Dr. Renner has focused on midlevel providers in abortion care, youth and abortion care, pregnancies with an IUD in situ, and IUD efficacy.
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- Mentorship Networks and Knowledge Translation Coordinator
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- Student, School of Population and Public Health
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- Research Assistant at the CART Canadian Nurse Practitioner Mifepristone Implementation Study