2023 Labelle Lecture: Healthcare to Keep People Out of Hospital
The interconnectedness of home, hospital, long-term and primary care in Ontario was the topic of the 32nd annual Labelle Lecture, presented by Dr. Lauren Lapointe-Shaw, MDCM, PhD, on October 25, 2023.
Her presentation, entitled Healthcare to Keep People Out of Hospital, drew on her work as a General Internist and Health Services Researcher, which gives her a bird’s eye view of the system gaps that drive demand for acute and unplanned hospital care.
Dr. Lapointe-Shaw is an Assistant Professor and Clinician Scientist in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto, Staff Physician of General Internal Medicine & Geriatrics at the University Health Network, and has research appointments at the Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, the Women’s College Institute for Health System Solutions and Virtual Care (WIHV) and ICES.
In 2019 she defended her doctoral thesis relating to the transition of patients from hospital to home. She received a CIHR Fellowship Award, the CIHR-IHSPR’s Rising Star Award, and was supported throughout her research training by the Eliot Phillipson Clinician-Scientist Training Program at the University of Toronto.
In her research, she uses health administrative data and observational research methods to measure the quality of healthcare. Recently, her research has focused on in-hospital and outpatient care, as well as the organization of physician services. Follow her on X (formerly Twitter): @lapointeshaw.
In her Labelle Lecture she focused on the interconnectedness of home, hospital, long-term and primary care in Ontario, including policy history and research-based insights. She also highlighted methodological challenges along the way, as well as some areas of uncertainty and controversy.
The Labelle Lectureship was established in memory of Roberta Labelle, who was a founding member of CHEPA. Her death, in 1991, occurred when broad recognition for her health economics research was beginning to emerge. The Labelle Lecture is presented annually in her memory by a ‘rising star’ health services researcher with emerging recognition and an inter-disciplinary approach to research.
Read more about the history of the Labelle Lecture HERE.
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