
DR. LUCAS CHARTIER
EMERGENCY MEDICINE BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Lucas Chartier is an emergency medicine physician at the University Health Network (UHN) emergency departments (EDs), where he also serves as the organization's Vice President of Quality & Safety and Chief Patient Safety Officer. In these roles, he leads initiatives aimed at improving patient outcomes and experiences, reducing preventable harm and promoting an excellent safety culture - leveraging this work to disseminate best practices globally.
Dr. Chartier completed medical school at McGill University and specialty training in emergency medicine at the University of Toronto (UofT). He also holds a Master of Public Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, a Global Executive Master of Business Administration in Healthcare and Life Sciences from the Rotman School of Management of the UofT, as well as a being a Diplomate of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in Patient Safety and Quality Improvement.
Dr. Chartier's academic interests reside in building infrastructure & governance for quality and a culture of safety, as well as resource stewardship and sustainability. He has published and presented extensively on these topics, and he has led taskforces and taught at the provincial, national and international levels.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
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Infrastructure building & governance for quality
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Culture of safety
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Resource stewardship and sustainability
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Read more about Dr. Chartier’s research here:
Pubmed profile: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=chartier+lucas
ResearchGate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lucas_Chartier
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