Presentations

• Poster : Eight legs of success for primary care project teams. Family Medicine Forum (FMF): November 2025

• Presentation: Lessons Learned Conducting a Deprescribing Research / QI Collaborative. Family Medicine Forum (FMF): November 2025

• Poster : Eight legs of success for primary care project teams. University of Toronto Department of Family & Community Medicine (DFCM) Conference : May 2025

• Virtual SPIDER Symposium: Réseau de recherche en soins primaires (RRSPUM): April 2025

• Workshop : A pragmatic RCT on deprescribing for older adults in community-based primary care across Canada: lessons learned. North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG) November 2024

• Poster : SPIDER: A structured approach to quality improvement and deprescribing in older patients; Preliminary results of the RCT. Trillium Primary Health Care Research Day: October 2024

• Presentation: SPIDER study essentials: Eight Legs of Success- Lesson learned from managing a large multi-jurisdictional PBRLN RCT in primary care. Trillium Primary Health Care Research Day: October 2024

• Presentation: SPIDER: a structured approach to quality improvement and deprescribing in older patients; preliminary results of the RCT.  North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG) Practice-Based Research Network (PBRN) Conference: June 2024

• Poster : SPIDER: a structured approach to quality improvement and deprescribing in older patients; preliminary results of the RCT. University of Toronto Department of Family & Community Medicine (DFCM) Conference : May 2024

• Poster: Family Medicine Forum (FMF): November 2023

• Presentation: Family Medicine Forum (FMF): November 2023

• Poster : A Multidisciplinary Approach to Deprescribing Potentially Inappropriate Prescriptions. Association of Family health teams of Ontario (AFHTO) Conference: October 2023.

• Presentation: Trillium Primary Health Care Research Day: October 2023

• Presentation: Canadian Primary Care Research Network Conference (CPCRN) launch and Celebration: May 2023

• Presentation: Choosing Wisely Canada’s National Meeting: May 2023

• Presentation 2: Practice-Based Research Network (PBRN) Conference: June 2022

• Presentation 1: Practice-Based Research Network (PBRN) Conference: June 2022

• Poster: University of Toronto DFCM Conference: May 2022

• Presentation: North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG) Conference: Oct 2021

• Poster: North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG) - International Conference on Practice Facilitation (ICPF): Aug 2021

• Poster: Trillium Primary Health Care Research Day: Jun 2021

• Presentation: Practice-Based Research Network (PBRN) Conference: June 2021

• Presentation: Family Medicine Forum (FMF): November 2020

• Presentation: North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG) Annual Meeting: Nov 2020

• Presentation: Practice-Based Research Network (PBRN) Conference: Aug 2020

• Poster: Shack & Lui, Toronto International Conference on Quality in Primary Care: Nov 2019

• Poster: North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG) Conference: Nov 2019

• Poster: Family Medicine Forum (FMF): Oct 2019

• Presentation: International Conference on Practice Facilitation (ICPF): Jun 2019

• Poster: ICPF: Jun 2019

• Presentation: PBRN Conference: Jun 2019

• Poster: Trillium Primary Health Care Research Day: Jun 2019

• Presentation: SPOR PHICI Network Leadership Council Meeting: May 2019

• Workshop: University of Toronto Department of Family & Community Medicine (DFCM) Conference: Apr 2019

• Poster: University of Toronto DFCM Conference : Apr 2019

• Poster: FMF: Nov 2018

• Poster: NAPCRG Conference: Nov 2018

• Presentation: Meta-LARC: January 29, 2018

Publications

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

• Greiver et al. 2025. Structured Process Informed by Data, Evidence and Research (SPIDER) framework: Eight legs of success for running projects in primary care practices

• Greiver et al. 2019. Improving care for elderly patients living with polypharmacy: Protocol for a pragmatic cluster randomized trial in community-based primary care practices in Canada

• SPIDER-NET, A Structured Process Informed by Data, Evidence and Research-Network: An approach to support primary care practices in optimizing the management of patients with complex needs

Media | News, Videos & Articles

• Canadian Primary Care Research Network (CPCRN) put the Spotlight on the release of the infographic of the “SPIDER Study Essentials: Eight Legs of Success”.

• Canada’s Drug Agency has launched a new interactive map showcasing 25 appropriate use programs from across the country, including our very own SPIDER study!

• The Medical Post – February 2024 Research Issue : “You can’t improve what you don’t measure: Why the time is right to participate in EMR-based primary care research” Featured SPIDER projects and EMR-based research; interviews with Dr. Singer and Dr. Michelle Greiver. (Printed version)

• Canadian Primary Care Research Network (CPCRN) put the Spotlight on the Research Project SPIDER.

• Video Presentation: Improving Care for Elderly Patients Living with Polypharmacy - Preliminary Results of Toronto Feasibility - by Dr. Michelle Greiver

• Congratulations to Dr. M Shack and E Lui for their outstanding collaboration in winning the People’s Choice Award at Toronto Int’l Conference on Quality in Primary Care

• Dear Silo Buster: What Are We Learning from Practice-Based Research?

• CIHR Funds Two DFCM Projects to Support Canadian Primary Care

• Research Spotlight: Dr. Michelle Greiver

• Team gains $2.6 million to battle ‘polypharmacy’