SQuIRE Leadership
     
  Leahora Rotteau, PhD, is the manager of the Centre for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (C-QuIPS) and oversees the general operations and the strategic priorities and activities of the centre. She also contributes to the Centre-based research programs and brings expertise in strategic management and qualitative healthcare care research to the team. Dr. Rotteau received her PhD from the University of Toronto, Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME). Her primary research interests include the use of social theory to better understand how and why certain interventions are taken up and spread in practice and the exploration of the social and structural factors that enable the integration of care across acute, primary and community sectors.
     
 

Kaveh Shojania, MD, is a Full Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto, where his research focuses on identifying effective strategies for improving patient safety and healthcare quality more generally. He has more than 200 publications indexed in Medline, including in leading journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and Lancet. Google Scholar lists over 25,000 citations to his work with an h-index of 74. From 2011-2020, Dr. Shojania was Editor-in-Chief (and then Co-Editor-in-Chief) of BMJ Quality and Safety. More recently, he has taken on a role as Associate Editor at JAMA Network Open. 
     
  Brian Wong, MD, FRCPC, is the Director of CQuIPS, a staff general internist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. Dr. Wong received his MD and subsequent specialty training in General Internal Medicine at the University of Toronto. After completing his residency training in 2007, he undertook a research fellowship in patient safety funded by the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation. He has co-led several major QI training programs at the University of Toronto, including the Faculty-Resident Co-Learning Curriculum, the Certificate Course in QIPS and EQUIP, and worked with academic departments at the University of Toronto to establish criteria to recognize QI and PS activities for the purposes of academic promotion. Outside of Toronto, Dr. Wong has worked with several national and international organizations, including the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, Choosing Wisely Canada, the Canadian Patient Safety Institute, the Association of American Medical Colleges and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, to establish training programs and standards to build QI and patient safety capacity across the learning continuum.