Trillium Primary Health Care Research Day

Trillium Primary Health Care Research Day is a one day event for researchers, policy makers, patients and clinicians interested in primary health care research. This year the event was held virtually on October 23, 2020. Faculty, graduate students and staff members from the Department and Family Medicine, and the Centre for Studies in Family Medicine contributed to 6 oral and 15 poster presentations.

Oral Presentations

Becoming a family physician leader in health system change – the Push-Pull of Engaging

Presenter: Judith Belle Brown PhD

Bridget L Ryan PhD, Amanda L Terry PhD, Saadia Hameed Jan MBBS MClSc(FM), Rebecca E. Clark MSc, Cathy Thorpe MA

Barriers and strategies to engage frontline family physicians in health care system change

Presenter: Cathy Thorpe MA

Bridget L Ryan PhD, Amanda L Terry PhD, Saadia Hameed Jan MBBS MClSc(FM), Rebecca E. Clark MSc,  Judith Belle Brown PhD

Pandemic Planning for Primary Care: Lessons From Four Provinces

Presenter: Maria Mathews PhD

Lindsay Hedden PhD, Julia Lukewich PhD, Emily Gard Marshall PhD, Maria Alexaiadis MSc, Shabnam Asghari PhD, Kris Aubrey-Bassler MD, Caitlyn Ayn MSc, Judith Belle Brown PhD, Richard Buote MSc, Erin Christian, Catherine Faulds MD, Tom Freeman MD, Le Gao BN, Rick Gibson, Paul Gill MD, George Kim MD, Tiffany Liu BSc, Maddi McKay BSc, Rita McCracken PhD, Leslie Meredith Med, Sue Nesto MA, Sujit Ranade, Bridget L Ryan PhD, Dana Ryan MA, Gordon Schacter MD, Shannon L Sibbald PhD, Steve Slade MSc, Nardia Strydom MD, Alex Summers MD, Amanda L Terry PhD, Emily Volpe BSc, Steve Wetmore MD, Jamie Wickett MD, Eric Wong MD, Jennifer Young MD

Does the “pay-for-performance” Access Bonus correlate with patients' experiences accessing primary care? New insights from urban Ontario

Presenter: Kamila Premji MD PhD(c)

Ewa Sucha PhD, Richard H Glazier MD MPH, Michael E Green MD MPH, Walter P Wodchis PhD, William E Hogg MD MSc, Tara Kiran MD MSc, Eliot Frymire MA, Thomas R Freeman MD MClSc, Bridget L Ryan PhD

The experiences of family physicians in caring for patients diagnosed with borderline personality disorder

Presenter: Sherine Lillianne Rita Alsalhani

Bridget L Ryan PhD, Judith Belle Brown PhD

Virtual Care during COVID-19 and Implications for Future Care Delivery

Presenters: Jennifer Rayner PhD, Sara Bhatti MPH

Poster Presentation Awards

Congratulations to poster award winners:

Alison Howie MSc, Merrick Zwarenstein MBBCh PhD, Neil Klar PhD, Danielle Nash PhD, Jennifer N Reid MSc. “Printed Educational Materials Directed At Ontario Primary Care Physicians Fail To Improve Adherence To Guideline Recommendations For The Management of Diabetes Complications: A Pragmatic, Factorial, Cluster Randomized Trial”.

Ravninder Bahniwal MPH, Jacqueline K Kueper MSc, Leslie Meredith MEd, Daniel J Lizotte PhD, Amanda L Terry PhD. “Identifying the Connection Between Artificial Intelligence and Primary Care Challenges in Response to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic”.

Poster Presentations

A qualitative analysis of r/ostomy: What Reddit can teach us about patients with ostomies and their eating experience

Lisa Blundell RD MPH PhD Candidate, Maria Mathews PhD

Addressing the Impact of COVID-19 by Generating a Policy-Oriented Action Plan to Strengthen Mental Health Services in Primary Health Care

Maya Dancey Hon BSc, Rachelle Ashcroft PhD, Keith Adamson PhD, Toula Kourgiantakis PhD, Anne Kirvan PhD(c), Lisa Dolovich PhD, Catherine Donnelly PhD, Judith Belle Brown PhD, David Verrilli MD, Kavita Mehta MBA, Sandeep Gill MSc, Deepy Sur PhD

Barriers and strategies to engage frontline family physicians in health care system change

Cathy Thorpe MA, Bridget L Ryan PhD, Amanda L Terry PhD, Saadia Hameed Jan MBBS MClSc(FM), Rebecca E Clark MSc, and Judith Belle Brown PhD

Capacity Building Future Primary Health Care Researchers: Impact of an Interdisciplinary Training Program

Amanda L Terry PhD, Judith Belle Brown PhD, Robert Van Hoorn MA, Eugene Law BSc, Moira Stewart PhD

Community Paramedicine to Support Palliative Care

Andrew Rosa BHSc, Melanie Dissanayake MSc, Dustin Carter AEMCA, CM III EMS Professional, Shannon L Sibbald PhD

Does the “pay-for-performance” Access Bonus correlate with patients' experiences accessing primary care? New insights from urban Ontario

Kamila Premji MD PhD(c), Ewa Sucha PhD, Richard H Glazier MD MPH, Michael E Green MD MPH, Walter P Wodchis PhD, William E Hogg MD MSc, Tara Kiran MD MSc, Eliot Frymire MA, Thomas R Freeman MD MClSc, Bridget L Ryan PhD

Exploring Successful Implementation of Team-Based Care in Chronic Disease Management: A Case Study

Madelyn daSilva, Vaidehi Misra, Shannon L Sibbald, PhD

Evaluating the Implementation of a Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Management Program Using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research: A Case Study

Stefan Paciocco BHSc MSc, Shannon L Sibbald PhD

Factors associated with hospitalizations among Newfoundland and Labrador adults with diabetes mellitus.

Richard Boute MSc, Julia Lukewich PhD, John Knight PhD, Maria Mathews PhD

Family Physician Virtual Visits during Pandemics – Early Findings from London-Middlesex

Bridget L Ryan PhD, Judith Belle Brown PhD, Thomas R Freeman MD CCFP FCFP, Moira Stewart PhD, Keith Thompson MD CCFP, Sonny Cejic MD MSc CCFP, Sonja Reichert MD MSc CCFP, Richard Boot PhD, Salimah Shariff PhD, Amanda L Terry PhD, Hazel Wilson, Maria Mathews PhD, Leslie Meredith MEd, Yun-Hee Choi PhD

Identifying the Connection Between Artificial Intelligence and Primary Care Challenges in Response to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic

Ravninder Bahniwal MPH, Jacqueline K Kueper MSc, Leslie Meredith MEd, Daniel J Lizotte PhD, Amanda L Terry PhD.

Learning from patients’ experiences with synchronous virtual encounters in primary care during the COVID-19 pandemic

Rachelle Ashcroft PhD, Simone Dahrouge PhD, Judith Belle Brown PhD, Catherine Donnelly BSc (OT) MSc PhD, Bridget L Ryan PhD, Kavita Mehta RN MBA, Jennifer Rayner PhD, Lisa Dolovich PhD, Javed Alloo Jean Grenier PhD, David Verrilli, Sandeep Gill MSc

Necessary factors for sustainability of a program to enhance seniors health in Sarnia-Lambton

Amanda L Terry PhD, Eugene Law BSc, Leslie Meredith MEd, Amardeep Thind MD PhD, Shannon L Sibbald PhD, Anita Trusler MPH

Patient Engagement in Interprofessional Team-Based Chronic Disease Management: Preliminary Results

Benson Law, Prabhnoor K Chhatwal, Shannon L Sibbald PhD

Printed educational materials directed at Ontario primary care physicians fail to improve adherence to guideline recommendations for the management of diabetes complications: a pragmatic, factorial, cluster randomized trial

Alison Howie MSc, Merrick Zwarenstein MBBCh PhD, Neil Klar PhD, Danielle Nash PhD, Jennifer N Reid MSc