Using "Big Data" to Provide Insights into Early Adopters of Continuing Professional Development: An Example from

Allison Crawford1, Sanjeev Sockalingam, Eva Serhal

  • 1Dr. Crawford, Medical Director, Outreach and Virtual Care; Chief Medical Officer, Canada Suicide Prevention Service, Co-Chair ECHO Ontario Superhub and ECHO Ontario Mental Health, Clinician Scientist, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, and Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON; Dr. Sockalingam, VP, Education at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, CAMH Clinician Scientist; Professor of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON; Dr. Serhal, Senior Director of Virtual Mental Health, ECHO Ontario Mental Health, and Canadian Suicide Prevention Service, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON; Dr. Zhou, Lecturer and Staff Psychiatrist, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON; Dr. Gambin, Research Coordinator, Virtual Mental Health, ECHO Ontario Mental Health, and Canadian Suicide Prevention Service, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON; Dr. de Oliveira, Independent Scientist and Senior Health Economist, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, and Associate Professor, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON; Ms. Iwajomo, Research Coordinator, Institute for Mental Health Policy Research (CAMH), and Appointed Analyst, Mental Health and Addictions Research Program at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES), Toronto, ON; and Dr. Kurdyak, Director of Health Outcomes and Performance Evaluation, Institute for Mental Health Policy Research, Medical Director of Performance Improvement at CAMH, Lead of the Mental Health and Addictions Research Program at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES), and Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.

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