HPME Faculty and Student Achievements
Baker Awarded 2007 Filerman Prize for Innovation
This spring, the Association of University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA) recognized Professor G. Ross Baker for his outstanding contributions to the field of healthcare management education. Baker was awarded the 2007 Filerman Prize for Innovation in Health Services Management Education for introducing modern quality improvement and patient safety knowledge into the health administration curriculum and creating effective relationships between academic programs, practitioners and health association leaders in the US and Canada. The Filerman prize was established to honour Gary L. Filerman, the first President of AUPHA. Baker is the first Canadian to be awarded this prize.
Detsky Named as One of JAMA's 8 Contributing Writers
HPME's Dr. Allan S. Detsky has been appointed one of eight new Contributing Writers to the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). These writers will contribute to JAMA's initiative to expand the publication of scholarly articles that will inform readers about the political, philosophical, ethical, economic, historical and cultural aspects of medicine and public health. Detsky is currently the Physician-in-Chief at Mount Sinai Hospital and a Senior Scientist at the Keenan Research Centre of the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St Michael's Hospital. He received his PhD and MD from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, specializing in health economics.
Check out his recent Commentaries in JAMA:
2007 Students Awards
Congratulations to the following HPME students who were successful in a steeply competitive funding environment:
CIHR Canada Graduate Scholarship
- Margo Orchard, MSc (Supervisor: Jan Barnsley): "Patterns of transition and retention of emerging healthcare professions in Ontario: From hospital to community"
- Kelley A. Ross, MSc (Supervisor: Barbara Secker): "Why Canadian families or individuals agree to or refuse organ donation"
CIHR Doctoral Fellowship
- Gabrielle M. Van Der Velde, PhD Clinical Epidemiology (Supervisor: Murray Krahn / Sheila Hogg-Johnson): "Cost-effectiveness analysis of a return-to-work model of care for occupational musculoskeletal injuries"
CIHR Institute of Health Services and Policy Research
- Robert R. Quinn, PhD Clinical Epidemiology (Supervisor: Jan Hux / Andreas Laupacis): "Hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis: The impact of modality choice on mortality"
Lupina/OGS Doctoral Fellowship
- Zahava Rosenberg-Yunger, PhD Health Administration
Ontario Graduate Scholarship
- Stephanie Soo, MSc Health Administration
- Sara Guilcher, PhD Clinical Epidemiology
- Olga Gajic-Veljanoski, PhD Clinical Epidemiology
- Dina Franchi, PhD Health Administration
- Wendong Chen, PhD Health Administration
- Zahava Rosenberg-Yunger, PhD Health Administration
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