About Us
The Centre for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (CQuIPS) was established in 2009 as a partnership between the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and two of its major teaching hospitals, the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. With it’s renewal in 2020, under the leadership of Dr. Brian Wong, Women’s College Hospital (WCH) joined as a new partner hospital. In 2025, Michael Garron Hospital became CQuIPS’ fourth partner hospital.
Designated as an an extra-departmental unit (EDU) of the University of Toronto, CQuIPS is a multidisciplinary hub for advancing research, education, and collaboration in quality improvement and patient safety that spans traditional disciplines. Building on its strong foundation in capacity building and scholarly excellence established by founding Director, Kaveh Shojania (2009-2020), the Centre’s 2024 academic review and self-study reaffirmed its leadership nationally and internationally.
CQuIPS’ renewed strategic focus and updated vision and mission emphasizes health equity, system resilience and partnership for impact. The Centre strives to energize its research and scholarship activities by working collaboratively with new and current partners to ensure that its scholarship impacts tangible health system needs, including assuming oversight of the SQuIRE writing guidelines in 2023, expanding its global influence on quality improvement reporting and practice.
Our Vision
Everyone striving for better health outcomes for all
Our Mission
quality and patient safety
Our Impact
Through our Strategic Plan “Quality for a Changed World” we mapped out the guiding foundation to the work that we do. During this unique time in history, we have chosen to embed two key themes into our strategic plan: health system resilience and health equity.
CQuIPS has engaged in both a five-year and a ten-year standard external review process as an EDU at the University of Toronto. Both reviews were extremely positive demonstrating the exceptional progress of the Centre.
Who We Are
CQuIPS is an extra-departmental unit (EDU), defined by the University as a flexible, multidisciplinary entity organized around emerging research and teaching areas that cut across traditional disciplines and departments. As an EDU, we do not appoint faculty members or admit students. Consistent with the model for other multi-departmental academic units at the University of Toronto, the governance of the Centre for Patient Safety consists of an executive committee and an advisory council.
