Dr. Lisa Puchalski Ritchie (UToronto)

Dr. Lisa Puchalski Ritchie (MD, FRCPC, PhD) is a Scientist at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute in the Knowledge Translation Program, an emergency physician at University Health Network, and an Assistant Professor in the Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, and with the Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation (status only), at the University of Toronto.

She is a clinical epidemiologist with a research focus on the use of knowledge translation strategies to improve health care delivery and outcomes, with a particular focus on resource limited health care settings. She has worked in global health since 2006, where she has worked with local stakeholders to build research and implementation capacity, and to develop and evaluate evidence-based approaches to improve uptake of evidence into clinical practice, and through this to improve clinical care and patient outcomes for high-burden, locally identified, priority health conditions, across a range of clinical areas.