Participants

__RESEARCHERS __
I am a family physician at Women's College Hospital and a PhD candidate at University of Toronto, Canada. I was the lead author of the recent Cochrane systematic review and meta-regression for audit and feedback and the PI for this meeting grant.
 * Noah Ivers **[[image:noahbiopic.jpg width="67" height="90" align="left"]]

I am a CIHR and KT Canada Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Department of Clinical Epidemiology, University of Ottawa, Canada, and I work under the supervision of Jeremy Grimshaw. I was the lead on a systematic review that investigated the use of theory and theoretical constructs in studies of audit and feedback.
 * Heather Colquhoun **[[image:whatiskt/Photo on 2010-10-12 HC.jpg width="91" height="69" align="left"]]

I am Professor at the University of Ottawa, with a Canada Research Chair in Health Knowledge Transfer and Uptake, and the PI of Knowledge Translation Canada (KT CANADA), an interdisciplinary network of over 50 knowledge translation researchers from six academic health science centres in three provinces.
 * Jeremy Grimshaw **[[image:jeremy_grimshaw.jpg width="68" height="84" align="left"]]

I am a Scientist with the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine at the University of Ottawa, and a CIHR New Investigator in the area of Knowledge Translation. I am interested in using cognitive theory to better understanding the way that AF can change health care provider behaviours.
 * Jamie Brehaut **[[image:Jamie Brehaut Pic.jpg width="75" height="75" align="left"]]

I am the lead primary care researcher at IQ healthcare, a scientific centre for research, education and support of quality, safety and innovation in healthcare in the Netherlands. I would like to contribute to an international collaboration focusing on AF research in the role of coordinator and collaborator in many projects that use AF and as scientist who is generally interested in enhancing the science of knowledge implementation in healthcare.
 * Michel Wensing **

I am a senior lecturer in clinical epidemiology, health innovation, & quality improvement at the University of Auckland, NZ and currently in the US on a Harkness fellowship. Our team uses clinical databases to provide feedback to over 400 general practices regarding management of cardiovascular risk.
 * Sue Wells **

I am director of the UK National Institute for Health Research Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care for Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland (NIHR CLAHRC for LNR). I have participated in undertaking audit and feedback personally, teaching other health professionals and students how to undertake audit and feedback, and researching the effectiveness of audit and feedback.
 * Richard Baker **

I am a professor of primary care at the Leeds Institute of Health Science, University of Leeds, UK and Deputy Editor of the journal, Implementation Science. I have conducted several randomised and quasi-experimental evaluations of implementation strategies, including audit and feedback.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Robbie Foy **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">I am a Professor of Health Services Research, at City University London, UK and also Professor of Health Psychology at the University of Aberdeen. With colleagues in Oxford (UK), Leeds (UK), Aberdeen (UK), UCL (UK) and Ottawa, I am about to commence a 5-year programme of research, using Carver and Scheier’s behavioural self-regulation theory to optimise AF, aiming to reduce inappropriate blood transfusions, and have extensive experience in behavioural approaches to KT more generally, with several current projects located in Canada, Australia and the UK.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Jill Francis **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">I am professor of medical sociology at University of Leicester, UK. I have found that feedback of data, if done well, can be a positive force, but is also vulnerable to gaming and other unintended consequences.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Mary Dixon-Woods **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">I am professor of mechanical and industrial engineering at the University of Toronto, Canada, specializing in human factors and user interface design. I'm interested in a more nuanced view of audit and feedback where the value of feedback depends on how strong the relationship is between actions and outcomes and the extent to where there are other intervening variables moderating the causal relationship.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Mark Chignell **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">**Gro Jamtvedt** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">I am head of Department for Knowledge Synthesis at the Norwegian Knowledge Centre for Health Services. In addition to collaborating on the recent Cochrane review of AF, I have been co-author for a policy summary and book chapter related to use of AF to improve quality and safety of health care.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">I am senior researcher at the Norwegian Knowledge Centre for Health Services. In addition to collaborating on the recent Cochrane review of AF, I have been co-author for a policy summary and book chapter related to use of AF to improve quality and safety of health care.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Signe Flottorp **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">I am professor of medicine and endowed chair in patient health management at the University of Alberta, Canada. I have been involved in the design and conduct of several trials that incorporated AF, particularly the audit component as it relates to targeting providers and performance measurement. I look forward to using the results from this meeting to inform future interventions and get a better understanding of what the funding landscape in this area holds.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Sumit Majumdar **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">I am a Senior Research Fellow at the School of Health Sciences, University of Melbourne. I am particularly interested in interventions that aim to improve care for people with musculoskeletal problems in primary care settings.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Simon French **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">I am Professor of Health Psychology, Director of the Health Psychology Research Group at University College London, UK and lead the Implementation Research Theme for UCL Mental Health. I have led the development of a theoretical approach to understanding A&F mechanisms of action, which has been used to guide Cochrane review analyses (Gardner et al, 2010; Ivers et al, 2012).
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Susan Michie **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">I am the founder of the Practice Partner Research Network (PPRNet) and Professor of Family Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina, USA. I have conducted a number of trials that used AF in multifacteted interventions aiming to improve preventive services delivery, medication safety, acute and chronic disease management in primary care.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Steve Ornstein **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">I am Assistant Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Medical University of South Carolina, USA. I am interested in using informatics and practice-based research networks to support primary care quality improvement.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Cara Litvin **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">I am a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University, editor with the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care Group and associate editor with Implementation Science. My research interests include understanding, measuring and changing health professional behaviour to increase evidence uptake.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Denise O’Connor **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">I am Professor, Division of Nursing Business & Health Systems, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA and a Research Scientist at the Center for Clinical Management Research, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, also in Ann Arbor. My research focuses on developing robust, efficient, and reliable methods of implementing best evidence into practice, as well as understanding how theories about mechanisms of action can inform intervention design, and have conducted AF studies in long-term care settings.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Anne Sales **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">I am the director of the Centre for Studies in Family Medicine, Western University, Canada. My research focuses on pragmatic trials with embedded qualitative evaluation of complex quality improvement interventions aiming to improve care for patients with chronic disease.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Merrick Zwarenstein **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">I am an Industrial/Organizational Psychologist and Assistant Professor of Medicine, Section of Health Services Research, at Baylor College of Medicine and Research Investigator of the Health Policy and Quality Program at the Houston VA Medical Center HSR&D Center of Excellence (HSR Center). I am interested in organizational mechanisms that could explain observed performance changes, and how leaders at high and low performing facilities use audit and feedback to maintain and improve performance.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Sylvia Hysong **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">I am the assistant supervisor of the PA/NP group, Department of Emergency Medicine, Mayo Clinic. I have a doctorate in organizational science and behavior. My research interests revolve around provider behavior, team dynamics, and workforce topics and I am very interested in further examination and studies involving AF.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Michael Halasy **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">I am a Postdoctoral Fellow working with Jeremy Grimshaw, focused on development of an evidence based implementation strategy for clinical decision rules, especially the use of theory to determine how to tailor interventions.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Janet Curran **

__<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">KNOWLEDGE USERS AND OTHER STAKEHOLDERS __
<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">I am the director of the Planning, Research & Analysis Branch of the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care. I am interested in AF because new legislation in Ontario calls for increasing accountability to improve quality of care. Understanding how to use the results of implementation research to accomplish this is important to the success of our strategies.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Alison Paprica **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">I am the Manager of the Knowledge Program for the Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation and I am interested in learning how our researchers and government stakeholders can best use AF within multifaceted quality improvement initiatives.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">George Collier **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">I am the Director of Knowledge Transfer Initiatives at Alberta Innovates – Health Solutions and we are interested in learning how our stakeholders can best use AF within multifaceted knowledge translation initiatives. In particular, we are keen to know how to advise researchers and users of research evidence on the relative effectiveness of AF as a knowledge translation tool in comparison to other techniques and tools and what the ideal conditions are for implementation.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Donna Angus **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">I am the Executive Director of Professional Affairs at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and have been active in promoting audit and feedback as one of the (formative) educational strategies included within the Maintenance of Certification Program. I have been involved in developing the standards for performance assessment and feedback as well as strategies to mandate assessment within the new Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Craig Campbell **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">I am the Director of Medical Education for the Colorado Permanente Medical Group and the Permanente Federation in Oakland, CA, a Kaiser Permanente family physician and co-Director of the Center for Health Education, Dissemination and Implementation Research at the K-P Institute for Health Research. My research focuses on mental health issues in primary care, translation of evidence into practice, health care disparities, and the effectiveness of educational interventions.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">David Price **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">I am the Executive Director of the Centre for Effective Practice (CEP). CEP is a self-funding, not-for-profit organization that has partnered with many Canadian academic and primary care providing bodies to develop interprofessional outreach and knowledge products to make health care practitioners more effective.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Tupper Bean **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">I am the manager of capacity building and quality improvement plans at Health Quality Ontario. I am interested in learning how HQO can use audit and feedback in the most beneficial manner to facilitate practice change.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Lynn Dionne **