14th Organisational Behaviour in Health Care Conference

Previously, he was an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. His current research focuses on complex collaboration in settings as diverse as health care organizations, knowledge teams, and online communities. He is also interested in how emergent social technologies are transforming organizations and allowing new forms of coordination and organizing to emerge. He has published over 130 journal articles, refereed proceedings, and book chapters in outlets such as: Academy of Management Journal, Management Science, Organization Science, MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of Applied Psychology, Business Horizon, OMICS, and Annals of Emergency Medicine. He has served as Senior Editor at both Organization Science and Information Systems Research. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Organization Science and Information and Organization. He has won multiple best published paper awards; most recently, the AOM OCIS division 2021 Best Published Paper Award, the AOM Healthcare division 2018 Best Theory to Practice paper award, the 2018 FNEGE Prix Académique de la Recherche en Management, the AOM OCIS division 2016 and 2018 Best Paper Award; the AIS 2012 Best Published Paper Award, as well as the 2013 Desautels best doctoral advisor award. Institutions such as SSHRC, NSF, IBM, the Fulbright foundation, and the Government of Quebec have funded his research. He is currently a Research Fellow at the Cambridge Judge Business school, a Fellow at the Cambridge University Digital Innovation Center and has been a visiting professor at HEC-Paris, VU University (Amsterdam), and a Senior Fulbright Scholar at the American University of Beirut. He is one of the highly cited Management scholars in Canada recognized by 5 ISI Highly Cited Papers awards and appr. 28,000 Google Scholar citations. 

Her research seeks to celebrate and retain the traditional and humanistic aspects of medicine while also embracing the exceptional opportunities of contemporary science and technology to improve health outcomes and relieve suffering. Her past research has covered the evaluation and improvement of clinical services at the primary-secondary care interface, particularly the use of narrative methods to illuminate the illness experience in ‘hard to reach’ groups; the challenges of implementing evidence-based practice (including the study of knowledge translation and research impact); the adoption and use of new technologies (including electronic patient records and assisted living technologies) by both clinicians and patients; and the application of philosophy to clinical practice.  She has brought this interdisciplinary perspective to bear on the research response to the Covid-19 pandemic, looking at diverse themes including clinical assessment of the deteriorating patient by phone and video, the science and anthropology of face coverings, and policy decision-making in conditions of uncertainty. Trish is the author of over 400 peer-reviewed publications and 16 textbooks.  She was awarded the OBE for Services to Medicine by Her Majesty the Queen in 2001, made a Fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences in 2014, and elected an International Fellow of the US Academy of Medicine in 2021. She is also a Fellow of the UK Royal College of Physicians, Royal College of General Practitioners, Faculty of Clinical Informatics and Faculty of Public Health.