Knowledge Translation in Health Care

Sharon Straus MD, MSc, FRCPC is Assistant Professor, Departments of Medicine and Geriatric Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto and Principal Investigator, Knowledge Translation Program, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. She is lead editor of the latest edition of Evidence-based Medicine (the original handbook by David Sackett et al) and a renowned educator and researcher in the evidence-based medicine field. Jacqueline Tetroe is Senior Advisor, Knowledge Translation, at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Ian Graham is Vice- President of Knowledge Translation at CIHR (Canadian Institutes of Health Research) and Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, University of Ottawa and Senior Social Scientist and Associate Director of the Clinical Epidemiology Program of the Ottawa Health Research Institute. He holds cross-appointments in the Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology & Community Medicine and is an adjunct professor in the School of Nursing at Queen's University. Dr. Graham obtained a PhD in medical sociology from McGill University, a Master of Arts degree in sociology from the University of Victoria, and a Bachelor of Arts degree with 1st class honours in sociology from McGill University.