Mentor
Research Focus:
- Research Methods
- Health Services and Policy/Pharmaceutical Policy
- Meta-analysis
- Knowledge Translation/Implementation Science
Affiliations:
- Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Translation and Quality of Care
- Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto
- Division Director, Geriatric Medicine, University of Toronto
- Vice Chair, Mentorship, Equity and Diversity, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto
- Director, KT Program, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital
- Deputy Physician-In-Chief, St. Michael’s Hospital
Biography
Dr. Sharon 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 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. Michael’s. She is Deputy Physician-In-Chief, St. Michael’s and Vice Chair, Mentorship, Equity and Diversity, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto. 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.
