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Areas of Interest

Dr. Melissa Brouwers is an Associate Professor and Head, Health Services Research in the Department of Oncology, McMaster University; the Provincial Director of the Program in Evidence-based Care, Cancer Care Ontario and the Project Lead for the Capacity Enhancement Project of the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer Corporation. She holds a B.Sc. in Psychology from the University of Toronto and an MA and PhD in Psychology from the University of Western Ontario.

In addition to her work with the PEBC and the CEP, Dr. Brouwers holds an additional $4.7M in funding from CIHR as a principal investigator and co-investigator.Of particular note, Dr. Brouwers has been a world leader in advancing the gold standard of guideline development, reporting and appraisal as the Principal Investigator of the CIHR-supported international research team the AGREE Next Steps Consortium (see www. agreetrust.com). Just completing two randomized controlled trials and additional studies, Dr. Brouwers and the Consortium is set to release AGREE 2.0, the new international standard, in Spring 2009.

She is a member of the Clinical Guidelines (CG) Action Group of the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer Corporation (CPACC), and the former Lead of the Health Technology Utilization Guidelines of Ontario (Health TUGO). She is also a member of the KT-ICEBeRG team and McMaster University's Collaboration for Health KT Stream. She holds several peer review funded grants both as a principal investigator and co-investigator.

Melissa's primary research interests include the development, dissemination, implementation and evaluation of evidence-based decisions products such as clinical practice guidelines, standards, and quality indicators, models of decision-making, and knowledge translation and/or brokering. Her teaching interests include research methods, behaviour sciences and social sciences.

Selected Publications

• Brouwers M, Stacey D, O'Connor A. The Knowledge to Action Cycle: Knowledge Creation: synthesis, tools and product. (Submitted to CMAJ 2009).
• Kho ME, Duffett M, Willison DJ, Cook DJ, Brouwers MC. Does written informed consent introduce selection bias in observational studies using medical records? A systematic review. BMJ 2009; (In Press).
• Browman GP, Makarski J, Robinson P, Brouwers M. Practitioners as experts: the influence of practicing oncologists "in the field" on evidence-based guideline development. J Clin Oncol. 2005;23(1):113-9.
• Brouwers MC, Graham ID, Hanna SE, Cameron DA, Browman GP. Clinicians' assessments of practice guidelines in oncology: The CAPGO survey. Int J Technol Assess Health Care. 2004;20(4):421-6.
• AGREE Collaboration Writing Group: Cluzeau F, Burgers J, Brouwers M, Grol R, Mäkelä M, Littlejohns P, Grimshaw J, Hunt C. Development and validation of an international appraisal instrument for assessing the quality of clinical practice guidelines: the AGREE project. Qual Safe Health Care. 2003;12:18-23.

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