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Mount Sinai Hospital
Joseph & Wolf Lebovic Health Complex
600 University Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
M5G 1X5
Tel.: 416-586-4800
► The Prosserman Centre for Population Health Research
► Web of Science Researcher ID
U-9147-2018
Dr. Lianne P. Jeffs
SENIOR CLINICIAN SCIENTIST
Dr. Jeffs is the inaugural Research and Innovation Lead and Scholar in Residence at Sinai Health.
In this role, she is establishing a strategic roadmap to evolve nursing and health discipline scholarship and innovation across Sinai Health. She also is a Senior Clinician Scientist with the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute and continues to evolve her research program on system performance and organizational learning.
Dr. Jeffs has extensive leadership experience and an impressive track record in clinical and health services research with a focus on quality improvement and patient safety. She has published over 90 peer-reviewed articles in high impact journals and has secured over $10 million in funding as principal and co-investigator.
Her program area of research focuses on improving care transitions for complex patients; optimizing the use of performance data to drive quality care; and translating evidence to enhance quality care, organizational learning and health system performance.
Dr. Jeffs currently holds an Associate Professor status with the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing and the Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. She has also held a variety of leadership positions in policy and research that have included the development of evaluation frameworks and performance measures to evaluate impact of new models of care and interventions.
Dr. Jeffs holds a PhD from the University of Toronto and is a Fellow of the Academy of American Nurses.
At a Glance
Dr. Jeffs is the inaugural Research and Innovation Lead and Scholar in Residence at Sinai Health.
She has previously held a variety of leadership positions in policy and research that has included the development of evaluation frameworks and performance measures to evaluate impact of new models of care and interventions.
Major Research Activities
Dr. Jeffs research program examines improving care transitions for complex patients; and optimizing the use of performance data to enhance quality care, organizational learning and health system performance.
