Kevin Imrie

Affiliate scientist
kevin.imrie@sunnybrook.ca
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Phone: 416-480-4592
Fax: 416-480-6191

Research Assistant:

Claudette Chambers
Phone: 416-480-4592
Email: department.medicine@sunnybrook.ca

Dr. Imrie’s principal research interest in recent years has been focused on educational research and scholarship with an emphasis on competency-based education and fatigue risk management and mitigation.

He has been active in clinical trials in malignant lymphoma. He has served as local or national principal investigator on major clinical trials in malignant lymphoma. He is a member of the National Cancer Institute of Canada hematology site group and was a member of the clinical trials group from 2009 to 2013.

A further area of research activity is practice guideline development and translation into practice. He has served as chair of the hematology disease site group for Cancer Care Ontario’s program in evidence-based care. His work in this area resulted in seven published practice guidelines and influenced the funding of new cancer drugs in Ontario.

Education

  • Hon. B.Sc., 1984, University of Ottawa, Canada
  • MD, 1988, University of Ottawa, Canada
  • FRCPC, 1991, internal medicine
  • FRCPC, 1993, hematology

Appointments and Affiliations

Affiliate scientist, Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Odette Cancer Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute
Physician-in-chief, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Professor, department of medicine, University of Toronto
President, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada

Research Foci

  • Assessment of competency
  • Clinical trials
  • Competency-based education
  • Knowledge translation
  • Malignant hematology

Publications

Affiliated Labs & Programs

Selected Publications

  1. Brydges R, Stroud L, Wong BM, Holmboe ES, Imrie K, Hatala R. Core competencies or a competent core? A scoping review and related synthesis of invasive bedside procedural skills training in internal medicine. Academic Medicine. 2017.

  2. Prica A, Baldassarre F, Hicks LK, Imrie K, Kouroukis T, Cheng M, members of the Hematology Disease Site Group of the Cancer Care Ontario Program in Evidence-Based Care. Rituximab in lymphoma and chronic lymphocytic leukaemia: a practice guideline. Clin Oncol. 2017.

  3. Lieff SJ, Zaretsky A, Bandiera G, Imrie K, Spadafora S, Glover Takahashi S. What do I do? Developing a competency inventory for postgraduate (residency) program directors. Medical Teacher 2016.

  4. Imrie KR, Frank JR, Parshuram C. Resident duty hours: past, present, and future. BMC Med Ed. 2014.

  5. Wilson J, Amit M, Fitzgerald W, Dagg P, Bullock G, Steeves J, Robbins N, Snell L, Imrie K. Generalism: achieving a balance with specialization. Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. 2011 Jan.

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