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

October 23 - 26, 2016

Sharon E. Straus, MD, MSc, FRCPC

Deputy Physician-In-Chief, Director of the Knowledge Translation Program
St. Michael’s Hospital
30 Bond St.
Toronto, ON
Canada M5B 1W8

Biographical Sketch: Dr. Straus is a Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto. She holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Translation and Quality of Care and more than $30 million in peer reviewed research grants as a principal investigator. She has >300 publications, and has supervised >25 graduate students from different disciplines including clinical epidemiology, health informatics and human factors engineering. She is co-PI of KT Canada, a CIHR and CFI funded national, Clinical Research Initiative, PI of KT CanadaÂ’s CIHR-funded Strategic Training Initiative in Health Research and PI of a network meta-analysis team grant for the Drug Safety and Effectiveness Network. She is Division Director of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Toronto and Director of the KT Program at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. MichaelÂ’s. She has authored three books. Evidence-based medicine: How to practice and teach it is in its fourth edition, and has been published in 9 languages; Knowledge Translation in Health Care, is now in its second edition; and the first edition of Mentorship in Academic Medicine.

Papers:
WOMEN IN SMDM: ADVANCING CAREERS, IMPACT AND HAPPINESS