Dr. Sylvie Lambert

Biography

Sylvie Lambert joined the Ingram School of Nursing at McGill University in 2013 after completing post-doctoral studies at the University of New South Wales, Australia. With a background in nursing, she leads research focused on developing and evaluating low-cost self-care illness self-management interventions to enhance translation into usual care. Her work includes implementing real-world patient-reported outcome (PRO) and caregiver-reported outcome (CRO) screening programs and adapting evidence-based self-management interventions to meet the needs of patients from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Sylvie employs advanced psychometric approaches to improve the precision and efficiency of outcome evaluations. She has teaching experience centered on health education and research methods and holds national and international recognition in areas such as patient education and caregiver research. Her notable contributions include being a recipient of the 2018 Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator Award in Psychosocial Oncology. Sylvie's significant studies include leading Australia’s longitudinal caregiver well-being study and developing self-directed coping skills training for patients facing cancer. Currently, she is leading the largest implementation of a patient-reported outcome screening program in Quebec.

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