Appointments

Ross Baker Promoted to Full Professor

Ross Baker was promoted from Associate to Full Professor in the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation.

Dr. Baker is currently supervising three students pursuing Masters and PhD degrees and is involved in teaching several graduate courses. His current research focuses on organizational factors influencing patient safety and clinical improvement, and strategies and tools for improving the use of performance information in healthcare.

Together with Peter Norton at the University of Calgary he conducted a survey of current patient safety activities in Canada. With funding from the Canadian Institute for Health Information and the Canadian Institute for Health Research, Dr. Baker will be leading an investigation of Adverse Events in Canadian Hospitals, along with co-investigator Peter Norton. Through systematic review of hospital charts, the study will examine the extent of adverse events in Canadian actue care hospitals and the availability of data that could be used to support continuous monitoring and reduce these events. This is the first study of its kind in Canada and results of the study are expected to be released to the public in 2004.

Ross Baker assumes the Chair of the Association of University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA) in July 2002. He also serves as a member of the National Steering Committee on Patient Safety chaired by Dr. John Wade.

Recent School of Graduate Studies Appointments

• Patricia Baranek, Associate Member
• Pascale Lehoux, Associate Member
• Dianne MacFarlane, Associate Member
• Muhammad Mamdani, Associate Member
  

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