38th Annual North American Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making

October 23 - 26, 2016

Susan Law, PhD

Principal Scientist and Associate Professor
St. Mary's Research Centre & McGill University
3830 Avenue Lacombe
Montreal, QC
Canada H3T 1M5

Biographical Sketch: Susan Law is a Principal Scientist at St. Mary’s Research Centre in Montreal and Associate Professor at McGill University in the Department of Family Medicine. She has a Master’s in Health Administration from the University of Toronto and PhD from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK. Her research spans health services research, patient engagement, personal experiences of illness, and knowledge translation. She leads Health Experiences Research Canada - a McGill-St. Mary’s team that is part of an international collaboration with 10 countries involved in collecting and sharing people’s health experiences. The first two modules are complete on family caregiving and women’s experiences of breast cancer; pilot projects on immigrant mental health, perinatal mental health and end of life are in progress. She is working with the McGill Centre for Medical Education to design teaching modules for interprofessional education to enhance the diversity of patient voices in the classroom.

Papers:
SYMPOSIUM: HEALTH EXPERIENCES RESEARCH, ENGAGEMENT, AND DECISION MAKING