Rate My Professor Michelle Greiver

Dr. Michelle Greiver is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. She holds an MD and an MSc and is a family physician and primary care researcher based at North York General Hospital. Dr. Greiver serves as Acting Director of UTOPIAN, the University of Toronto Practice-Based Research Network, where she oversees the Electronic Medical Record data system and clinical research activities for the largest PBRN in Canada, encompassing over 1,400 family physicians. She is a founding member of the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network (CPCSSN) and directs its Toronto network, the largest single contributor of data to the national chronic disease surveillance system. Dr. Greiver has held leadership roles including chair of the PBRN national Action Group and membership on the Council of the Section of Researchers at the College of Family Physicians of Canada. She previously completed a five-year term as the Gordon F. Cheesbrough Chair in Family Medicine Research at North York General Hospital and led the Health Informatics Goal Group for the CIHR SPOR Network Diabetes Action Canada, contributing to the development of a national Diabetes Data Repository. Her research focuses on the meaningful use of electronic medical records to support primary health care development, quality improvement, chronic disease management, and the translation of data into improved clinical practice. She was a founding member and leader in NorTReN and has mentored investigators within practice-based research networks. In 2012, Dr. Greiver received the Canadian Family Physician Best Original Research Article Award for her work on the implementation of electronic medical records and their effect on preventive services in a pay-for-performance environment. Additional honors include the 2015 Research Excellence (Junior) award from the University of Toronto Department of Family and Community Medicine and the 2001 Pfizer Investigator-in-Practice Award from the North American Primary Care Research Group. She has secured multiple grants as principal investigator and co-investigator from CIHR and other agencies supporting projects on data-informed care optimization and primary care networks.