MEET DR. SARA GUILCHER
Sara Guilcher, BSc, MSc, MScPT, PhD
Scientific Director, OPTI-HEx Lab |
Dr. Sara Guilcher is an applied health services researcher, research leader, and Scientific Director of the OPTI-HEx Lab. Dr. Guilcher's research focuses on improving how healthcare is experienced and delivered, particularly for people navigating complex health and social needs.
With extensive experience leading interdisciplinary teams and collaborative research programs, Dr. Guilcher brings together diverse perspectives to address complex healthcare challenges. This includes building partnerships across academic, clinical, health system, and community settings, while mentoring and supporting the next generation of researchers. Research within the OPTI-HEx Lab brings together people with lived experiences, care partners, clinicians, researchers, and health system leaders to understand healthcare challenges and develop practical solutions. The program draws on person-oriented and health services research, mixed methods, implementation science, and learning health system approaches, with a strong emphasis on understanding and improving what matters most to people. Central to Dr. Guilcher's research and leadership is a commitment to moving beyond describing healthcare problems toward building the partnerships, evidence, solutions, and innovation needed to improve healthcare delivery, experiences, and outcomes. |
