As a Head & Neck Cancer Health Services Researcher with the Ohlson Research Initiative, Dr. Sauro’s research focuses on improving the quality and safety of care for patients with Head and Neck Cancer, especially those who undergo major surgical treatment, to optimize the health of these patients. Dr. Sauro has a particular interest in leveraging routinely collected administrative data to evaluate the quality of healthcare and the application of knowledge translation and quality improvement methodologies for improving healthcare delivery. She uses diverse methodologies (qualitative and quantitative) in order to ask and appropriately answer clinically relevant research questions.
Dr. Sauro is also the Associate Director (Health Systems) for the O’Brien Institute for Public Health


