Claire Godard-Sebillotte

Dr. Claire Godard-Sebillotte is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Geriatrics of the McGill University Department of Medicine and a geriatrician at the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC). Her research program focuses on health service research to improve care trajectories of older adults in situations of vulnerability, especially persons with dementia. Dr. Godard-Sebillotte has a strong expertise in suboptimal care trajectories of vulnerable older adults, including their definition and prevention, with a focus on avoidable hospital use related to gaps in care. She also specializes in health administrative database analysis and the use of cutting-edge causal inference methods for the evaluation of non-randomized interventions. Dr. Godard-Sebillotte has built strong and ongoing collaborations with key stakeholders like the Quebec Ministry of Health, the Institut National de Santé Publique du Québec (INSPQ) and the Alzheimer’s Society. She uses an equity lens to understand how social determinants of health play into the care of older persons with dementia and to develop recommendations to improve the care of all persons with dementia.

Areas of interest: Quality Improvement

Quality Improvement training:

MSc epidemiology, PhD health service research

Top 3 quality improvement interests:

• Improve care trajectories of persons with dementia

• Improve hospital to primary care communication

• Improve primary care to specialist communication (eConsult / geriatre repondant)

Open to supervising trainees in QI research?

Yes, as a primary or co-supervisor