Janusz Kaczorowski

Université de Montréal

C-SPIN: Knowledge Translation Program (C-CUSP)

Janusz Kaczorowski MA PhD is a medical sociologist with research background in family medicine, epidemiology, psychology, and sociology, He is Professor and Research Director in the Department of Family Medicine at the Université de Montréal. He is a holder of the Dr. Sadok Besrour Chair in Family Medicine and the GlaxoSmithKline-CIHR chair in Optimal Management of Chronic Disease. He directs the Health Care Systems and Services Evaluation research theme at CRCHUM.

He plays leadership roles in hypertension, stroke and primary care research communities in Canada. He has an active, collaborative and multi-disciplinary research agenda that includes optimal use of therapeutics in primary care, primary prevention of cardiovascular disease and stroke, knowledge transfer, health services research and population health.

He has over 20 years’ experience in developing, coordinating, and completing all aspects of research studies in primary care. He has held a number of large grants both as principal investigator and co-investigator and has co-authored over 180 peer-reviewed articles.