Moira Stewart PhD
Distinguished University Professor Emeritus & Adjunct Research Professor
Department of Family Medicine
Office: PHFM 2148
Phone: 519.661.2111 X22132
Dr. Moira Stewart PhD, is a Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at the Centre for Studies in Family Medicine at Western University and formerly the Dr. Brian W. Gilbert Canada Research Chair in Primary Health Care Research (2003-2017). Dr. Stewart has published widely on the topic of Patient-Centered Care and has edited, with colleagues, an international series of books applying the patient-centered clinical method. She is Co-Principal Investigator of a CIHR Community-based Primary Health Care Team Grant on Patient-Centered Innovations for Persons with Multimorbidity. An innovation, that she led and evaluated, integrated family physician and nurse practitioner care with home care and secondary care. She has been a National leader in capacity building for research as the Principal Investigator on a CIHR Strategic Training Grant on interdisciplinary primary health care research called TUTOR-PHC. Dr. Stewart created a researchable database of the Electronic Medical Record data in Southwestern Ontario. She works closely with policy-makers and patients at the provincial level on INSPIRE-PHC and the Ontario SPOR Support Unit. Dr. Stewart received the James Mackenzie Medal of the Royal College of General Practitioners (2004), The College of Family Physicians of Canada Family Medicine Researcher of the Year Award (2007), was Co-recipient of the Dean’s Award of Excellence – Team Award at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry and received the Maurice Wood Award for Lifetime Contribution to Primary Care Research from the North American Primary Care Research Group (2017).
