
Liisa Jaakkimainen
M.Sc., MD
Associate scientist
liisa.jaakkimainen@ices.on.ca
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Phone: 416-480-6100 ext. 63868
Fax: 416-480-6048
Research Assistant:
Leigh-Anne Yeung
Phone: 416-480-6100 Ext: 62764
Fax: 416-480-6048
Email:
Leigh-Anne.Yeung@ices.on.ca
- Primary health care services access, quality, continuity of care, cost-effectiveness, including co-editorial leadership for “Primary Care in Ontario: An ICES Atlas”
- Primary health care indicators and benchmarks
- Measuring wait times from primary to specialist care
- Improving the coordination of care in primary care
- Caring for marginalized and frail seniors in the community
- Performance feedback to primary care providers
Education
- B.Sc., 1985, life sciences, Queen’s University, Canada
- M.Sc., 1988, community health and epidemiology, Queen’s University, Canada
- MD, 1995, McMaster University, Canada
- Fellowship, 1999, health services research, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Canada
Appointments and Affiliations
- Associate scientist, Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Integrated Community Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute
- Senior scientist, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences
- Staff physician, department of family medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
- Associate professor, department of family and community medicine, University of Toronto
Research Foci
- Health services research in primary care
- Primary care for frail seniors
- Using electronic medical records to measure performance in primary care
- Wait time measurements from primary care
Publications
Affiliated Labs & Programs
In the News
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Medical specialist wait times longer than thought: study (Toronto Star)
February 7, 2014
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Metro Morning (CBC Radio)
February 7, 2014
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First-ever measurement shows wait times before seeing specialists (Ottawa Citizen & Montreal Gazette)
February 6, 2014