Members

Director

Liisa Jaakkimainen MD, M.Sc., CCFP

• Primary care health services research
• Family medicine quality of care indicators
• Measuring the role of interdisciplinary care
• Chronic disease management

Members

Jana Bajcar, MScPhm, EdD, FCSHP

• Collaborative medication management in primary care 
• Reduction of preventable medication-related problems 
• Improving patient’s medication experience in chronic illnesses 
• Medication information management (patient education, information transfer)

Jocelyn Charles MD, CCFP

• Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias
• Long-term care
  • quality of care
  • dementia care
  • environmental design
• Geriatric primary care

Lisa Del Guidice MD, CCFP

• Primary care and cancer
• Cancer screening
• Women’s health
• Palliative care
• Health services research

Sharon Domb, MD, CCFP

• Obstetrical care in family practice

Debra Elman MD, CCFP

• Obstetrical care in family practice
• Undergraduate education

Philip Hébert MD, PhD, CCFP

• Ethics
• End-of-life care
• Medical error
• Teaching of medical ethics

Leslie Nickell MD, CCFP

• Medical education
• Chronic care of the elderly
• Ambulatory care
• Generalism
• Menopause
• Physician-patient communication

Shawn Tracy B.Sc, PhD (Candidate)

• Primary care research (devising models of care for chronic disease)
• Public health ethics research (planning for pandemic influenza)
• Social gerontology research (improving care for dementia)
• Multiple methods research (qualitative & quantitative methodologies)

Ross Upshur BA (Hon), MD, MA, M.Sc., CCFP, FRCPC

• The concept of evidence in health care: questions around how qualitative research and normative discourse have status as evidence
• Bioethics research: issues in communicable disease control
• Environmental epidemiology: the concept of causation with a special interest in the health impacts of the Aral Sea disaster
• Time series applications in the analysis of health services data
• Clinical research in primary care
  • diagnostic reasoning
  • anticoagulation and atrial fibrillation
  • the impact of information framing on the willingness to take medication
  • communication of uncertainty in clinical practice

Anne Wideman MD, CCFP

• Obstetrical care in family practice

Sherylan Young, MD, CCFP

• Women's health
• Primary paediatric care