Dr. Jeremy Grimshaw is trained as a family physician prior to undertaking a PhD in health services research at the University of Aberdeen. His research focuses on the evaluation of interventions to disseminate and implement evidence-based practice. Dr. Grimshaw is a Senior Scientist, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, a Full Professor in the Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa and a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Health Knowledge Transfer and Uptake. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal College of Edinburgh. He was formerly the Director of Cochrane Canada and the Co-coordinating Editor of the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care group. He is the President of the Board of the Campbell Collaboration.

Dr. Andrea Patey is a Senior Clinical Research Associate within the Centre for Implementation Research at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and an Assistant Professor (Adjunct) at Queen’s University in Kingston. She holds a PhD in Health Psychology from City, University of London. Her interests in Knowledge Translation and Implementation Research include the application of psychology theories and methods to explain and change health professional behaviours across a range of clinical settings. Andrea’s interest in behaviour change focuses specifically around whether de-implementation differs from implementation and if interventions to address each should be designed targeting the possible differences. The broad objectives of her research are to promote the use of theory and rigorous methods to improve the delivery of evidence-based healthcare through the development and evaluation of complex behaviour change interventions.

Dr. Amanda Hall is an Assistant Professor at the Primary Healthcare Research Unit (PHRU), Memorial University of Newfoundland. She is also the Knowledge Translation Academic Advisor for Newfoundland and Labrador’s SPOR Primary and Integrated Health Care Innovation Network. She holds a PhD in Medicine from the University of Sydney (in conjunction with the George Institute for Global Health) which focused on the effects of exercise on musculoskeletal pain. Her post-doctoral work at the University College of Dublin and the University of Oxford focused on methods for implementing evidence-based guidelines into practice – primarily related to chronic musculoskeletal pain. Amanda leads a program of research that intersects musculoskeletal health, implementation science, and knowledge translation. Her work is largely concentrated on improving the management of low back pain and arthritis using biopsychosocial interventions and by improving uptake of evidence-based guidelines and building robust partnerships with knowledge users to narrow the evidence-practice gap.

Dr. Shannon Ruzycki is a general internist in Calgary, Alberta and Assistant Professor in the Cummings School of Medicine at the University of Calgary. She is also the Associate Director of Physician Wellness and Vitality in the Department of Medicine and a physician collaborator for Well Doc Alberta. Dr. Ruzycki research focuses on perioperative quality improvement and equity, diversity, and inclusion in the medical workplace.

Dr. Kyle Kirkham is an anesthesiologist and lecturer at the University of Toronto in the Faculty of Medicine. Dr. Kirkham’s clinical focus is preventing pain and optimizing less invasive approaches to anesthesia and surgery as a tool for helping patients leave hospital earlier and with improved recoveries. He is the director of the Anesthesia Preadmission Clinic at Women’s College Hospital where patients are counselled and prepared for their upcoming surgeries. Dr. Kirkham’s research focus examines the preparation that patients receive for outpatient surgery and finds ways to ensure that patients receive the testing they need while supporting a sustainable and evidence-based health care system.