About Us

HKC (Health Knowledge Central) is a project of the Ontario Program for Optimal Therapeutics (OPOT), which receives arms length funding from the Ontario Ministry of Health. The directive of HKC is to create multi-faceted health knowledge support to enable best practice.

  Our Plan

Our goal is to make it easier for clinicians to do the right thing. We hope to provide toolkits and services that combine some of the following features:

• Best evidence
• Sensitive to barriers in the busy clinic
• Come in a variety of formats (eg., 1-pagers, Web, etc.)
• Collate worldwide and local best resources
• Incorporate front-line user's feedback

  Dr. Mike Evans, MD, CCFP

• Principal Investigator in the Knowledge Translation Program
• Research Scholar in the Family Healthcare Research Unit
• Staff physician at the Toronto Western Hospital (UHN)
• Associate Professor in the Department of Family & Community Medicine at the University of Toronto.
• Director of Patient Education in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
• Director of the Health Knowledge Lab at the Centre for Effective Practice, University of Toronto
• Investigator in the Knowledge Translation Program, University of Toronto
• Research focus is the evaluation and implementation of multi-media to make it easier to "do the right thing" in the primary care setting
• Course Director, Mini-Med School at the University of Toronto

  Christine Papoushek, PharmD

• Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Ambulatory Care (Family Medicine)
• University Health Network - Toronto Western Hospital
• Assistant Professor, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto
• Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto

Christine Papoushek currently practices as a pharmacist within the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the Toronto Western Hospital. In addition to patient care activities, she is actively involved in interdisciplinary education within the Department of Family and Community Medicine, she participates and supervises various practice-based research and quality projects by pharmacy & medical students and family practice residents, acts as chair of the Quality Committee within the Department of Family and Community Medicine, participates in staff development activities within family medicine and participates in pharmacy related initiatives as it pertains to teaching and patient education.

Christine's practice interest pertains to optimizing drug therapy in chronic illnesses, primarily Type 2 Diabetes. Research interests include quality-based projects, anticoagulation, Type 2 Diabetes and patient empowerment/education.