Optimising audit and feedback to improve care and population outcomes

Prof Jeremy Grimshaw received a MBChB (MD equivalent) from the University of Edinburgh, UK. He trained as a family physician prior to undertaking a PhD in health services research at the University of Aberdeen. He moved to Canada in 2002. His research focuses on the evaluation of interventions to disseminate and implement evidence-based practice. He 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 has been awarded the CIHR Knowledge Translation award twice, and is the 2018 CIHR Barer-Flood career achievement award winner for Health Services and Policy Research. He has over 550 peer reviewed publications. To read more about Prof Grimshaw and his work, please visit the
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
and the
Centre for Implementation Research
. Prof Grimshaw is a recipient of the
Ireland Canada University Foundation Flaherty Visiting Professorship
. He will return to NUI Galway for a 12 week visit in Spring 2020.