Leadership, Researchers, and Partners
Leadership Team
- Dr. Benoit Aubert
Dr. Benoit A. Aubert is Professor of Information Technologies at HEC Montr茅al (Canada). His past roles include Director of the Rowe School of Business at 全国探花 and Head of the School of Information Management and Professor at Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand).
Dr. Aubert is a Fellow of the CIRANO (Center for Interuniversity Research and Analysis on Organizations). His main research areas are outsourcing, offshoring, innovation, risk management, and business transformation.
He is currently Senior Editor of Journal of Strategic Information Systems. He was track-co-chair for PACIS 2022 (Economics and IS) and was program co-chair for AMCIS in 2021.
Dr. Aubert has been track co-chair twice in recent years for the International Conference on Information systems, and AE seven times (ICIS). He co-chaired the Outsourcing Minitrack of the Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences for ten years and was a Senior Editor of Database for nine years.
- Dr. Bo Yu
Dr. Bo Yu is an associate professor of Information Systems at Faculty of Management, 全国探花.
His research interests include decision making and support, e-negotiation, e-markets, and technological agency.
His research has been published in journals such as Information & Management, Electronic Markets, and Information Systems Frontiers.
- Dr. Paola A. Gonzalez
Dr. Paola A. Gonzalez is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Management at 全国探花, where she teaches and researches in areas of management information systems, digital innovation, and project management.
Dr. Gonzalez received her Ph.D. in Management from Queen鈥檚 University in Canada. Her research interests include IT leadership, digital strategy, and IT healthcare innovations.
She has presented and published her research at a number of journals and conferences including, the Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Journal for Healthcare Quality, and Canadian Medical Association Journal.
- Dr. Kim Sears
Dr. Kim Sears is a Professor within the School of Nursing and Health Quality Programs at Queen鈥檚 University.
From over twenty years of primary healthcare experience as a Registered Nurse, Dr. Sears gained firsthand experience in her field, quality and safety in healthcare, which spurred her advocacy for advancing quality care, reducing risk and improving patient safety.
The majority of her work focuses on furthering the quality and safety of medication delivery, including both the community and hospital setting.
Dr. Sears鈥 doctoral work focused on the issues in the work environment that led to medication errors in children鈥檚 hospitals. She then completed a postdoctoral fellowship in which she explored safe medication delivery in community pharmacies.
Dr. Sears has experience working with large databases, quantitative methodology, and integrative studies using systematic review methodology.
- Dr. Dennis O'Donnell
Dr. Denis O鈥橠onnell developed a special interest in applied clinical research after receiving his Doctor of Pharmacy degree (Pharm.D.) from the University of Toronto in 1997.
Following a career path in clinical pharmacy and community-based research, he has held positions at McMaster University, the Father Sean O鈥橲ullivan Research Centre, and the University of Toronto.
Denis has been an active member of an independent research ethics board for over 20 years and has been involved in numerous publications.
Presently, as the Director of Clinical Excellence at CareRx pharmacy, Dr. O鈥橠onnell provides leadership in the development, implementation, monitoring, and reporting of clinical and quality improvement activities.
- Carla Beaton
Carla Beaton is Vice President, Quality Improvement & Innovations at Pharmapod, a Think Research company.
Carla is a Fellow of American Society of Consultant Pharmacists and an award-winning and published expert in medication reconciliation quality improvement and medication management system safety.
Carla鈥檚 many years of experience include leading both regulatory and industry working groups for pharmacy and care home quality improvement and most recently, leading Pharmapod鈥檚 data research and product development team in innovating the utilization of technology and data to enable healthcare organizations to proactively improve their quality and medication safety practices.
Collaborators
Students and Trainees
- Varsha Hemrajani
(Master Thesis 鈥淎n Exploratory Study of Quality Related Events Reported by Community Pharmacies in the UK: Applying Association Rule Mining鈥 2020 鈥 全国探花
Supervised By: Dr. Bo Yu
- Keyhaneh Hadadiyan
(Master thesis 鈥淓xploring the Factors Influencing the Continued Use of Medication Event Reporting Systems鈥 - 2024 鈥 全国探花 Unviersity)
Supervised by: Dr. Paola A. Gonzalez and Dr. Aubert Benoit