New Faces in HPME
Leading Health Economist Appointed to New Research Chair
Dr. Tony Culyer, an internationally renowned health economics scholar, will join the HPME faculty as the Ontario Research Chair in Health Policy and System Design, effective December 1, 2007.
A respected advisor to government in both the United Kingdom and Canada , Dr. Culyer is the former Vice-Chair of the UK 's prestigious National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), and currently chairs its Research and Development Committee.
Under Dr Culyer's leadership, York University (England) established the world's largest Health Economics MSc program, the Health Economics Consortium, the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, the Centre for Health Economics (the largest collection of health economists in the Western world entailing several interdepartmental collaborations), as well as York's new Department of Health Sciences.
Dr. Culyer joined the Institute for Work and Health in Toronto in 2003 and is currently a Senior Scientist with the Institute.
"We're delighted to have Tony join us," says HPME Chair Louise Lemieux-Charles . "His strong academic and research background is matched by his extensive practical experience in policy development and implementation. His expertise in health economics, particularly in evidence-based decision-making, will significantly enhance HPME's leadership in this area."
The Ontario Research Chairs were established by the Ontario government in 2005 to build public policy capacity in Ontario universities. The Ontario Research Chair in Health Policy and System Design is one of three Chairs awarded to the University of Toronto. The Chair is appointed to HPME, a department of the Faculty of Medicine, and will have linkages with the faculties of Nursing, Pharmacy. and Law, the Rotman School of Business, and individual researchers in the Faculties of Arts and Science. New Faculty Enhance Health Policy and Health Informatics Programs
The Department of HPME is pleased to welcome two new faculty, Fiona Miller and Aviv Shachak. Miller joins new Ontario Research Chair Anthony Culyer and HPME faculty Paul Williams and Raisa Deber in building HPME's health policy teaching and research portfolios. Bringing two research staff and two post-doctoral fellows with her, Miller's research program in health technology policy is supported by a New Investigator Award from CIHR as well as research grants from CIHR, the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care and Genome Canada.
After completing her PhD in History at York University, she did a Post-doctoral Fellowship at the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis (CHEPA), McMaster University, where she then held positions as Assistant and Associate Professor before accepting her current position in HPME.
Through his joint appointment to the Faculty of Information Studies and the Department of HPME, Aviv Shachak is one of the core staff involved in the development of HPME's proposed Master of Health Informatics (MHI) program. He brings international experience in health informatics research in the areas of physician use of electronic medical records, evidence-based medicine, simulation-based training, and diffusion and implementation of information systems in the health (and biomedicine) arena.
Shachak completed his post-doctoral Fellowship with the Technion-Israel Institute Of Technology in 2007 and his doctorate in information sciences at the Bar-Ilan University, Israel, in 2005. Shachak's training and expertise will be a great asset to both students and faculty involved in research on the use of information technology in health care delivery, management, and policy. Welcome, Fiona and Aviv.
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