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Laura Desveaux

ResearcherPediatricsUniversity of Toronto

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Laura Desveaux

Researcher

Pediatrics

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
41 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 15 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 7 research grants (7 CIHR), most recently in 2025.
Supervisor on 3 trainee awards (3 CIHR), most recently in 2025.

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Publications

684

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Research

Antimicrobial Resistance Antimicrobial Stewardship Inpatient Care Peer-Comparison Feedback Reporting Pragmatic Randomized Trial Implementation Science Mixed Methods Quality Improvement

Latest papers

Patient and caregiver priorities for quality improvement on general medical wards: a multicentre group concept mapping study
BMJ Quality and Safety · 2026
Who chooses to engage? Understanding the characteristics of physicians who voluntarily engage with an audit and feedback intervention: a retrospective cohort study.
BMJ quality & safety · 2026 · senior author
Compassion in Practice: A Realist Review of Mentorship as a Catalyst for Healthy Workplaces.
Journal of advanced nursing · 2026

All 88 publications

Latest funding

Evaluating Learning Health Systems: A Jurisdictional Scan
CIHR · 2025 · Supervisor
$1,900
Developing IMPACT: Insights Matrix for Promoting Adaptive Change and Transformation
CIHR · 2025 · Principal investigator
$363,376
Shaping Enabling Environments for Canada's Learning Health Systems: Developing a Collaborative Research and Implementation Agenda
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$9,976

All 25 grants and awards

88 publications.

Patient and caregiver priorities for quality improvement on general medical wards: a multicentre group concept mapping study

Lapointe-Shaw L, Salahub C, Lee M, Verma AA, Razak F, Ambasta A, Refaei M, Carpenter T, Moses B, Shetty N

BMJ Quality and Safety2026

DOI: 10.1136/bmjqs-2026-020280

Who chooses to engage? Understanding the characteristics of physicians who voluntarily engage with an audit and feedback intervention: a retrospective cohort study.

Chu C, Ivers N, Terpou B, Tadrous M, Gungor C, Rouleau G, Desveaux L

BMJ quality & safety2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1136/bmjqs-2025-019490 PMID: 41386964

Compassion in Practice: A Realist Review of Mentorship as a Catalyst for Healthy Workplaces.

Bird M, Desveaux L, Lagunju A, Carlin K, Panesar B, Steele Gray C

Journal of advanced nursing2026

DOI: 10.1111/jan.70578 PMID: 41879490

Supporting Cultural and Learning Enablers for a Learning Health System (SCALE): A Program Theory Approach.

Desveaux L, Wang R, Joshi J, Bird M

Learning health systems2026First author

DOI: 10.1002/lrh2.70082 PMID: 42077668

Designed for simplicity, used for complexity: The systemic pressures shaping walk-in clinic practices and outcomes

Terpou BA, Lapointe-Shaw L, Wang R, Martin D, Tadrous M, Bhatia S, Shuldiner J, Berthelot S, Thakkar N, McBrien K

PLoS ONE2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0325793

Applying an implementation science lens to understand physician-level variation in patient length of stay in internal medicine.

Srinivasan D, Wang R, Roberts SB, Lapointe-Shaw L, Tang T, Birken SA, Harris A, Ivers NM, Lorencatto F, McCleary N, Presseau J, Rouleau G, Tadrous M, Minotti SC, Razak F, Verma A, Desveaux L

BMC health services research2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1186/s12913-025-13304-5 PMID: 41044639

Insights Into How Digital Health Interventions Shape Outcomes for Emerging Adults Living With Type 1 Diabetes: Qualitative Realist Process Evaluation.

Wang R, Panesar B, Sonnenberg M, Landry A, Brazeau AS, Greenberg M, Nakhla M, Zenlea I, Mok E, Kichler JC, Goldbloom EB, Booth GL, Henderson M, Shulman R, Desveaux L

Journal of medical Internet research2025Senior author

DOI: 10.2196/70401 PMID: 40910693

Translational framework for implementation evaluation and research: implementation strategies derived from normalization process theory.

May CR, Hillis A, Albers B, Desveaux L, Gilbert A, Girling M, Kislov R, MacFarlane A, Mair FS, Potthoff S, Rapley T, Finch TL

Implementation science : IS2025

DOI: 10.1186/s13012-025-01444-5 PMID: 40717109

Practice Facilitation to Support Primary Care Physicians With COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Shuldiner J, Shah NU, Bar-Ziv S, Kaplan DM, Green ME, Bahniwal R, Bogoch II, Nowak DA, Desveaux L, Taljaard M, Presseau J, Witteman HO, Lofters A, Kiran T, Mauti J, Gill S, Ariyarajah A, Chishtie J, Tsang D, Tradrous M, Warshafsky D, Hu J, Vohra-Miller S, Ivers N

JAMA network open2025

DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.9967 PMID: 40366656

Rethinking Healthcare: Why Paradox Science Is Core to the Future of Health and Health Leadership.

Desveaux L

Journal of healthcare leadership2025First author

DOI: 10.2147/jhl.s512053 PMID: 40007854

Evaluating Learning Health Systems: A Jurisdictional Scan

SupervisorCIHR2025Travel Awards - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Bird, Marissa

Keywords: Counterfactual; Evaluation; Evaluation Maturity; Ics Travel Awards; Jurisdictional Scan; Learning Health System

$1,900

Developing IMPACT: Insights Matrix for Promoting Adaptive Change and Transformation

Principal investigatorCIHR2025Project Grant

Principal investigators: Bird, Marissa; Desveaux, Laura

Keywords: Case Study; Health System Conditions; Health Workforce; Learning Health System; Organizational Culture; Tool Development

$363,376

Shaping Enabling Environments for Canada's Learning Health Systems: Developing a Collaborative Research and Implementation Agenda

Co-investigatorCIHR2024Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Bird, Marissa; Vanderhout, Shelley; Whitmore, Carly

Keywords: Conference; Enabling Environments; Implementation Agenda; Learning Health Systems; Research Agenda; Workshop

$9,976

Patient and Caregiver Priorities for Quality Improvement on General Medical Wards

Co-investigatorCIHR2023Project Grant - PA: Patient-Oriented Research: Early-Career Investigator

Principal investigators: Lapointe-Shaw, Lauren; Ambasta, Anshula; Carpenter, Travis; Castellani, Lucas; Jensen, Lorraine F; Kiran, Tara; Moses, Brian; Razak, Fahad; Refaei, Mohammad; Shetty, Nabha; Verma, Amol

Keywords: Hospital Medicine; Patient-Oriented Research; Performance Measurement; Quality Improvement

$100,000

Development of a theory-informed intervention to support effective delivery of minor ailments services by community pharmacists

SupervisorCIHR2023Doctoral Research Award: Canada Graduate Scholarships

Principal investigators: To, Daphne

Keywords: Behaviour Change; Implementation Science; Mixed Methods; Pharmacy; Quality Improvement

$105,000

Exploring the Impact of Evaluation on Learning and Health Innovation Sustainability: A Realist Synthesis

SupervisorCIHR2023Travel Awards - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Bird, Marissa

Keywords: Ics Travel Awards

$1,995

A pragmatic randomized trial to evaluate the effect of a peer-comparison feedback letter on antimicrobial use in hospital-based physicians

Principal investigatorCIHR2023Project Grant

Principal investigators: Razak, Fahad; Daneman, Nick; Desveaux, Laura; Ivers, Noah M; McIntyre, Mark; Morris, Andrew M; Schwartz, Kevin L; Taljaard, Monica; Verma, Amol

Keywords: Antimicrobial Resistance; Antimicrobial Stewardship; Inpatient Care; Peer-Comparison Feedback Reporting; Pragmatic Randomized Trial

$634,949

A pragmatic randomized trial to evaluate the effect of a peer-comparison feedback letter on antimicrobial use in hospital-based physicians

Principal investigatorCIHR2023Project Grant - PA: ECR Antimicrobial Resistance Multi-Year Grant

Principal investigators: Razak, Fahad; Desveaux, Laura; Ivers, Noah M; McIntyre, Mark; Morris, Andrew M; Schwartz, Kevin L; Taljaard, Monica; Verma, Amol

Keywords: Antimicrobial Resistance; Antimicrobial Stewardship; Inpatient Care; Peer-Comparison Feedback Reporting; Pragmatic Randomized Trial

$300,000

Patient and Caregiver Priorities for Quality Improvement on General Medical Wards

Co-investigatorCIHR2022Project Grant - PA: Patient-Oriented Research: Early-Career Investigator

Principal investigators: Lapointe-Shaw, Lauren; Ambasta, Anshula; Castellani, Lucas; Jensen, Lorraine F; Kiran, Tara; Moses, Brian; Razak, Fahad; Shetty, Nabha; Verma, Amol

Keywords: Hospital Medicine; Patient-Oriented Research; Performance Measurement; Quality Improvement

$100,000

National and Provincial Policies to support the Face of Primary Care

Co-investigatorCIHR2022Cat Gr:Policy Res. for Health Sys. Transf.- Canadian Healthcare Workforce

Principal investigators: Ivers, Noah M; Kaplan, David M

Keywords: Health Policy; Medical Office Assistant; Primary Care

$149,855

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Laura Desveaux

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Patient and caregiver priorities for quality improvement on general medical wards: a multicentre group concept mapping study

Who chooses to engage? Understanding the characteristics of physicians who voluntarily engage with an audit and feedback intervention: a retrospective cohort study.

Compassion in Practice: A Realist Review of Mentorship as a Catalyst for Healthy Workplaces.

Supporting Cultural and Learning Enablers for a Learning Health System (SCALE): A Program Theory Approach.

Designed for simplicity, used for complexity: The systemic pressures shaping walk-in clinic practices and outcomes

Applying an implementation science lens to understand physician-level variation in patient length of stay in internal medicine.

Insights Into How Digital Health Interventions Shape Outcomes for Emerging Adults Living With Type 1 Diabetes: Qualitative Realist Process Evaluation.

Translational framework for implementation evaluation and research: implementation strategies derived from normalization process theory.

Practice Facilitation to Support Primary Care Physicians With COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Rethinking Healthcare: Why Paradox Science Is Core to the Future of Health and Health Leadership.

Frequent collaborators

Noah Ivers

Dina Brooks

Justin Presseau

Mina Tadrous

James Shaw

Lianne Jeffs

Marianne Saragosa

Tara Kiran

Payal Agarwal

Monica Taljaard

Roger Goldstein

Danielle Martin

Jennifer Shuldiner

Geetha Mukerji

Lauren Lapointe-Shaw

Onil Bhattacharyya

Aisha Lofters

Celia Laur

Simon Berthelot

Kerry McBrien

Marla Beauchamp

Karen Weyman

Marley Greenberg

Carolyn Steele Gray

Kednapa Thavorn

Sunita Mathur

Anne-Sophie Brazeau

Rayzel Shulman

Meranda Nakhla

Kimberly Devotta

Muhammad Mamdani

Rita McCracken

Ian Zenlea

Venkatesh Thiruganasambandamoorthy

Jay Shaw

Sheryl Spithoff

Anshula Ambasta

Travis Carpenter

Kevin Schwartz

Lisa Wickerson