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Biography

Dr. Samuel Vaillancourt is a specialist emergency physician and trauma team leader practicing at St. Michael’s Hospital. He is currently an Associate Scientist at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital. He is interested in the potential for data and patient-community participation to improve care integration and outcome. He currently leads a project on developing a patient-reported outcome measure for emergency care. From 2013-2015, he was a health policy research fellow under the supervision of Andreas Laupacis and Michael Schull. He also worked as an innovation fellow at Women’s College Hospital’s Women’s College Hospital Institute for Health System Solutions and Virtual Care (WIHV) on the creation of an innovation incubator and the application of design thinking methodology to healthcare.

He completed his specialty training in 2013 at the University of Toronto and previously received his medical degree from McGill University. In 2012, he completed a master of public health in health policy and management at Harvard University and an internship at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Sam teaches point-of-care ultrasound in Toronto and Rwanda.

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Expertise

Design Thinking; Quality Improvement; Patient Reported Outcomes; Trauma

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Contact Information

Samuel.Vaillancourt@unityhealth.to

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Publications

Archambault, PM, Rosychuk, RJ, Audet, M, Bola, R, Vatanpour, S, Brooks, SC et al.. Accuracy of Self-Reported COVID-19 Vaccination Status Compared With a Public Health Vaccination Registry in Québec: Observational Diagnostic Study. JMIR Public Health Surveill. 2023;9 :e44465. doi: 10.2196/44465. PubMed PMID:37327046 PubMed Central PMC10278735.

Roberts, T, Carlton, E, Booker, M, Voss, S, Vaillancourt, S, Jafar, AJN et al.. Cross-cultural adaptation and its impact on research in emergency care. Emerg Med J. 2023;40 (6):396-403. doi: 10.1136/emermed-2022-212337. PubMed PMID:36941034 .

Mallakin, M, Dery, C, Vaillancourt, S, Gupta, S, Sellen, K. Web-Based Co-design in Health Care: Considerations for Renewed Participation. Interact J Med Res. 2023;12 :e36765. doi: 10.2196/36765. PubMed PMID:36595738 PubMed Central PMC10012179.

To view more of Dr. Vaillancourt’s publications, visit ResearchGate.