Sharon Straus

Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada

Dr. Straus is a geriatrician/general internist/clinical epidemiologist who was awarded a Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Translation in 2004. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto and the Director of the Knowledge Translation Program at the LiKaShing Knowledge Institute at St. Michael’s Hospital. Her recent contributions include development and evaluation of strategies to bring evidence to the point of care, and the evaluation of other interventions to facilitate knowledge translation and promote quality of care. Currently, she holds more than $13 million in peer-reviewed grants as a principal investigator from the CIHR, CHSRF, and the Premier’s Research Excellence Award amongst others. In 2004, she received the Young Educators Award from the Association of Canadian Medical Colleges; in 2005, the Canadian Society of Internal Medicine Young Investigator Award; and, in 2007, the Watanabe Distinguished Scientist Award for Overall Excellence at the University of Calgary. She has created a transdisciplinary research team which includes colleagues from human factors engineering, computer science, health informatics, and clinical epidemiology amongst others. More than 25 graduate students have been involved with research in this program which focuses on developing and evaluating strategies for effective knowledge translation. Along with co-authors Brian Haynes, Paul Glasziou and Scott Richardson, she is author of a best-selling book on EBM.