Frances Carr

Area of Study / Keywords

Quality improvement benzodiazepine deprescribing virtual comprehensive geriatric assessments

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About

Personal Statement:

My work in quality improvement is aimed at identifying gaps / areas requiring improvement within Geriatric Medicine, with a goal to optimize how we provide and deliver care to older adults, to improve patient safety.  

Dr. Frances Carr received her medical degree from Leeds University in the UK. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, followed by a Geriatric Medicine subspecialty residency at the University of Alberta. She subsequently joined the Division of Geriatric Medicine in 2015.  She is also a graduate of the Department of Medicine’s Master of Science program in Translational Medicine (2020).

Leadership and Collaborations:

Dr. Carr has been the Divisional lead for Quality Improvement since 2016, and Connect Care since 2018, in the Department of Medicine. She was also the Clinical Knowledge Provincial Lead for Seniors Health from 2017 through to 2021.

Clinical Interests:

Dr. Carr cares for patients at the University of Alberta Hospital, as part of the Geriatric Assessment Team in-patient consultation team, and as an attending physician with the Acute Care of the Elderly (ACE) unit. She is also a member of the Westview Geriatric Assessment Team, where she has an outpatient clinic in addition to providing outpatient services at the Kaye Edmonton Clinic, both virtually and in-person. 

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Research

Dr. Carr has received 11 grants (from local, provincial and national funding agencies) for both Quality Improvement and non-Quality improvement research projects. Her research is focused on using Quality Improvement to improve the clinical practice of Geriatric Medicine, with a particular focus on benzodiazepine deprescribing, and service delivery, including the use of virtual (electronic) comprehensive geriatric assessments. She also created a new Quality Improvement curriculum for the Geriatric Medicine Subspeciality residency program, which has been implemented since 2020. She has authored (and co-authored) publications in such peer-reviewed journals as Age and Ageing, PLoS1, Canadian Geriatric Journal, BMJ Open, and Medical Legal Journal. Her research in financial decision-making in people with aphasia involved the development and validation of a new visual communication aid to support financial decision-making capacity assessments in people with aphasia. She is a research affiliate with the Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital.

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Teaching

In addition to classroom teaching on geriatric subjects, Dr. Carr gives clinical instruction to medical students and residents during outpatient clinics, ward services and inpatient consultations at the University of Alberta Hospital. She is also involved in delivering continuing medical education sessions on topics in geriatrics for allied health professionals. She is also involved in non-clinical teaching, including Quality Improvement and Patient Safety.

Sarah Maat, Frances Carr, Megan Kennedy, Peggy Chi, Whitney Berta, Adrian Wagg

Canadian Geriatrics Journal. 2026 June; 10.5770/cgj.29.901

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Frances Carr, Andrea Gruneir, Jeffrey Chow, Jean Triscott

BMJ Open Quality. 2026 January; 10.1136/bmjoq-2025-003705

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Frances Carr, Pamela Mathura, Jennifer Symon

BMJ Open Quality. 2025 April; 10.1136/bmjoq-2024-003195

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BMJ Open. 2023 January; 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-069543

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Canadian Geriatrics Journal. 2023 January; 10.5770/CGJ.26.630

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Medico-Legal Journal. 2022 May; 10.1177/00258172221094121

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Canadian Geriatrics Society 41st Annual Scientific Meeting 2021 . 2022 February;

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Leung K.K., Carr F.M., Russell M.J., Bremault-Phillips S., Triscott J.A.C.

Age and Aging. 2022 January; 51 (1) 10.1093/ageing/afab194

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Age and Ageing. 2022 January; 10.1093/ageing/afab194

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Canadian Geriatrics Society 40th Annual Scientific Meeting 2021 . 2021 March;

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Charles L., Torti J.M.I., Brémault-Phillips S., Dobbs B., Tian P.G.J., Khera S., Abbasi M., Chan K., Carr F., Parmar J.

Canadian Geriatrics Journal. 2021 March; 24 (1):26-35 10.5770/CGJ.24.400

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Canadian Geriatrics Journal. 2021 January; 10.5770/CGJ.24.400

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Canadian Journal of Surgery. 2019 January; 10.1503/cjs.016817

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The Medico-legal journal. 2016 January; 10.1177/0025817216669092

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BMJ Case Reports. 2014 January; 10.1136/bcr-2013-201665

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Canadian Geriatrics Journal. 2013 January; 10.5770/cgj.16.29

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BMJ Case Reports. 2011 January; 10.1136/bcr.12.2010.3616

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