Our Pan-Québec Unit brings together experts whose skills and research are key to enabling the health and social services network to become a learning organization.

The Unit offers tools, consultation, training, facilitation and networking to all individuals or organizations active in research, healthcare and social services. These services are offered by:
- Scientific teams and field teams (1/ major University Health and Social Services Networks) led by scientist-patient duos
- A team of practice facilitators specialized in continuous quality improvement
- A mobilization team specialized in project and operations management, communication and technopedagogy
- Experiences’ provincial patient partner community and Indigenous Partner Circles
5 scientific axis and their patient partners develop scientific and experiential knowledge

- Partenership Axis
- Data Management Axis
- Data to Knowledge Axis
- Change Management Axis
- Capacity-Building Axis
4 SSA-RUISSS teams (field teams) and their partners apply knowledge to improve practices

- Université de Montréal SSA-RUISSS team
- McGill SSA-RUISSS team
- Université Laval SSA-RUISSS team
- Université de Sherbrooke SSA-RUISSS team
Management
Catherine Wilhelmy
Patient Partner Comanagement of the Unit's Scientific Management and of the Université de Sherbrooke SSA-RUISSS team, scientific co-promotion, project ”practices and trajectory of services for people with common mental disorders in primary care” of the PATIenTS program as well as coleadership of the patient partners community "Expériences"
Rénald Breton
Administrative Services Management
France Légaré
Scientific Comanagement of the Change Management axis (ULaval branch)
Marie-Soleil Hardy
Scientific Comanagement of the Université Laval SSA-RUISSS team and scientific co-promotion, project ”Improving the trajectory of seniors in the transition from home to residential care” of the PATIenTS program (replacement until December 2024)
Maude Laberge
Scientific Comanagement of the Université Laval SSA-RUISSS team/ Health Economics and scientific co-promotion, project ”Improving the trajectory of seniors in the transition from home to residential care” of the PATIenTS program
Alexandra de Pokomandy
Scientific Comanagement of the McGill SSA-RUISSS team and scientific co-promotion project ”Care trajectory related to respiratory infections” of the PATIenTS program
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Isabelle Gaboury
Scientific Comanagement of the Université de Sherbrooke SSA-RUISSS team and scientific co-promotion, project ”practices and trajectory of services for people with common mental disorders in primary care” of the PATIenTS program
Amal Abdel-Baki
Scientific Comanagement of the Université de Montreal SSA-RUISSS team
Denis Chênevert
Scientific Comanagement of the Change Management axis (HEC branch)
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Denis Boutin
Patient Partner Comanagement of the Data Management axis
Louis Valiquette
Scientific Comanagement of the Data Management Axis
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Optimized, ethical and transparent data management expertise
Marie-Dominique Poirier
Patient Partner Comanagement of the program for scholarship holders
Tracie A Barnett
Scientific Comanagement of the Data to knowledge axis and scientific Representation of the Partnership branch of the McGill SSA-RUISSS team
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Vincent Dumez
Patient Partner Comanagement of the Partnership axis
Sonia Lussier
Patient partner Comanagement of the axis Data to knowledge and of the partnership branch of the McGill SSA-RUISSS team as well as patient co-promotion project ”Care trajectory related to respiratory infections” of the PATIenTS program
Marie-Pascale Pomey
Scientific Comanagement of the Partnership axis and scientific representative of the Partnership branch of the Université de Montréal SSA-RUISSS team
Antoine Groulx
Scientific Comanagement
Expertise
Amédé Gogovor
Equity, diversity, inclusion, sex and gender sub-committee
Oscar Labra
Equity, diversity, inclusion, sex and gender sub-committee
Maude Laberge
Scientific Comanagement of the Université Laval SSA-RUISSS team/ Health Economics and scientific co-promotion, project ”Improving the trajectory of seniors in the transition from home to residential care” of the PATIenTS program
Catherine Bouffard-Dumais
Medical advisor to the scientific director/ GMF apprenant
Anaïs Lacasse
Scientific Management of the TorSaDE research community / Population data and Equity, diversity, inclusion, sex and gender sub-committee
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Bilkis Vissandjee
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Robert-Paul Juster
Sex and Gender Analysis
Yves Couturier
Accès Recherche portal
Project Management
Nadia Benomar
Project Manager
Camille Bolduc-Boyer
Project Management
Malorie Vuillemin
Project Manager
Fanny Leblanc
Manager of the project ”Improving the pathway of seniors in the transition from home to residential care” of the PATIenTS program
Claude Bernard-Uwizeye
Project Management
Araceli Gonzalez Reyes
Manager of the project ”Improving a care pathway related to respiratory infections” of the PATIenTS program
Viviane Tran
Manager of the project ”Improving the pathway for people without a family doctor going through the Guichet d’accès à la première ligne (GAP)” of the PATIenTS program
Andrée-Anne Clément
Project Management
France Lemieux
Portfolio Management
Yessica-Haydee Gomez Sandoval
Manager of the project ”Improving practices and service pathways for people with common mental disorders in primary care” of the PATIenTS program
Executive team
Malorie Vuillemin
Project Manager
Johanne Boutin
Finance
Sophie Boies
Coordination/ "GMF apprenant"
Lucie Devos
LHS Leader – RUISSS Université Laval
Valérie Grenier
LHS Leader – RUISSS McGill
Katherine Desjardins
LHS Leader – RUISSS Université de Montréal
Denis Côté
Regional Continuous Quality Improvement Officer (ARACQ) in the RUISSS Université Laval
Karina Prévost
Patient Partner Coleadership of the patient partners community "Expériences" and member of the executive committee
Adama Ousmane Mamadou
Regional Continuous Quality Improvement Officer (ARACQ) in the RUISSS Université de Montréal
Karine Gagnon
Regional Continuous Quality Improvement Officer (ARACQ) in the RUISSS Université de Montréal (replacement of a maternity leave)
Virginie Belval-Nadeau
Technopedagogy
Éric Savoie
Regional Continuous Quality Improvement Officer (ARACQ) dans le RUISSS Université de Sherbrooke
Safa Regragui
Regional Continuous Quality Improvement Officer (ARACQ) in the McGill RUISSS
Johannie Laliberté-Gagné
Facilitation of clinical and organizational practices
Mireille Plouffe-Malette
Provincial Continuous Quality Improvement Coordination
France Lemieux
Portfolio Management
Mylène Lévesque
Scientific Management assistance
Myra Drolet
Communications
Sylvie Noël
Executive secretary
SSA-RUISSS Université de Montréal team
Marie-Thérèse Lussier
Scientific co-promotion, project ”Trajectory for people without a family doctor going through the Guichet d’accès à la première ligne (GAP)” of the PATIenTS program
Clara Dallaire
Patient co-promotion, project ”Trajectory for people without a family doctor going through the Guichet d’accès à la première ligne (GAP)” of the PATIenTS program
Viviane Tran
Manager of the project ”Improving the pathway for people without a family doctor going through the Guichet d’accès à la première ligne (GAP)” of the PATIenTS program
Marie-Anne Fillion
Patient Partner of the partnership branch of the Université de Montréal SSA-RUISSS team
Katherine Desjardins
LHS Leader – RUISSS Université de Montréal
Amal Abdel-Baki
Scientific Comanagement of the Université de Montreal SSA-RUISSS team
Marie-Hélène Goulet
Young learning health systems leader
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Marie-Pascale Pomey
Scientific Comanagement of the Partnership axis and scientific representative of the Partnership branch of the Université de Montréal SSA-RUISSS team
SSA-RUISSS Université de Sherbrooke team
Catherine Wilhelmy
Patient Partner Comanagement of the Unit's Scientific Management and of the Université de Sherbrooke SSA-RUISSS team, scientific co-promotion, project ”practices and trajectory of services for people with common mental disorders in primary care” of the PATIenTS program as well as coleadership of the patient partners community "Expériences"
Isabelle Gaboury
Scientific Comanagement of the Université de Sherbrooke SSA-RUISSS team and scientific co-promotion, project ”practices and trajectory of services for people with common mental disorders in primary care” of the PATIenTS program
Matthew Garriss
Patient Partner of the partnership branch of the Université de Sherbrooke SSA-RUISSS team
Ariane Girard
Young learning health systems leader
Project: Application of the learning health system approach to improving clinical follow-up of people with common mental disorders
Yessica-Haydee Gomez Sandoval
Manager of the project ”Improving practices and service pathways for people with common mental disorders in primary care” of the PATIenTS program
SSA-RUISSS Université Laval team
Marie-Soleil Hardy
Scientific Comanagement of the Université Laval SSA-RUISSS team and scientific co-promotion, project ”Improving the trajectory of seniors in the transition from home to residential care” of the PATIenTS program (replacement until December 2024)
Fanny Leblanc
Manager of the project ”Improving the pathway of seniors in the transition from home to residential care” of the PATIenTS program
Maude Laberge
Scientific Comanagement of the Université Laval SSA-RUISSS team/ Health Economics and scientific co-promotion, project ”Improving the trajectory of seniors in the transition from home to residential care” of the PATIenTS program
Samira Amil
Patient Partner Comanagement of the Université Laval SSA-RUISSS team and the Partnership branch of the Université Laval SSA-RUISSS team, Patient co-promotion of the project ”Improving the trajectory of seniors in the transition from home to residential care” of the PATIenTS program and Equity, diversity, inclusion, sex and gender sub-committee
Marie-Pierre Gagnon
Scientific Representative of the Partnership branch of the Université Laval SSA-RUISSS team
Lucie Devos
LHS Leader – RUISSS Université Laval
Maxime Sasseville
Young learning health systems leader
Mathieu Hotton
Young learning health systems leader
McGill University SSA-RUISSS team
Anne-Danielle Grenier
Patient partner, SSA-RUISSS McGill team
Alexandra de Pokomandy
Scientific Comanagement of the McGill SSA-RUISSS team and scientific co-promotion project ”Care trajectory related to respiratory infections” of the PATIenTS program
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Araceli Gonzalez Reyes
Manager of the project ”Improving a care pathway related to respiratory infections” of the PATIenTS program
Valérie Grenier
LHS Leader – RUISSS McGill
Paula Bush
Methodology
Frédérique Poncet
Young learning health systems leader
Project: Interventions to improve participation among people with acquired brain injuries: development, implementation and evaluation of new innovative practices (free translation)
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Tracie A Barnett
Scientific Comanagement of the Data to knowledge axis and scientific Representation of the Partnership branch of the McGill SSA-RUISSS team
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Find out more about our Patient-Public-Organizational Partnership expertise
Sonia Lussier
Patient partner Comanagement of the axis Data to knowledge and of the partnership branch of the McGill SSA-RUISSS team as well as patient co-promotion project ”Care trajectory related to respiratory infections” of the PATIenTS program
Governance
