HSPR Talks: 2025 Article of the Year
“Actioning the Learning Health System: An applied framework for integrating research into health systems”
Presented by Dr. Robert Reid
Dr. Robert Reid is Chief Scientist Emeritus at Trillium Health Partners and a global expert and thought leader in population health, learning health systems and primary care. He is best known for leading the development of the Learning Health System (LHS) Action Framework that is now being used across Canada to guide system-based learning approaches. He is also well known for his ground-breaking work in developing and evaluating a patient-centred medical home at Group Health Cooperative, now Kaiser Permanente, work used across the world to redesign primary care systems. Until recently, Dr. Reid was the inaugural Chief Scientist and the Hazel McCallion Research Chair in Learning Health Systems at the Institute for Better Health (IBH) at Trillium Health Partners.
At the University of Toronto, Dr. Reid holds an academic appointment as Professor (status) with the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME), and the Department of Family and Community Medicine. He is also a Professor with McMaster University’s Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact. In 2024, Dr. Reid was awarded the Louise Lemieux-Charles Health System Leadership Award by the University of Toronto. Dr. Reid is currently providing expertise in the re-design of Ontario’s health care system through the Ontario Health Teams initiative. Dr. Reid co-leads of the Rapid Improvement and Support Exchange (RISE) which provides technical support for rapid learning and improvement.
Board certified in preventive medicine, Dr. Reid received his medical degree from the University of Alberta and completed a Master’s degree in Epidemiology and a Ph.D. in Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins University.
Join us virtually!
Monday, June 16, 2025
12:00pm - 1:00PM ET
About the Moderators
Maggie Keresteci is the Executive Director at CAHSPR. She is an active participant in many provincial and pan-Canadian advisory panels where she provides strategic advice on achieving integration in the health system, including insights about the importance of patient, caregiver and family partnership in research, co-design of care and clinical interactions. Throughout her career Maggie has influenced the delivery of programs and models of care, conceived of and tested health services hypotheses that led to the development of evidence driven policies and leveraged innovation to improve care. She is a volunteer Board director with Emily’s House, Toronto’s only paediatric hospice and is a member of the core group for one of the newly announced Ontario Health Teams.
Dr. Rick Glazier is Scientific Director of the Institute of Health Services and Policy Research at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and a Senior Core Scientist at ICES. He is also a staff family physician at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto and a Scientist in its Centre for Urban Health Solutions, a Professor at the University of Toronto in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, and Dalla Lana School of Public Health. His research interests include evaluating health system transformation, primary care health services delivery models, health of disadvantaged populations, management of chronic conditions, and population-based and geographic methods for improving equity in health.
