Session: Patient Involvement – 11:00 – Tuesday 7th July
Bio: Dr. Laupacis is Editor-in-Chief of CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) and a specialist in internal medicine.
He has published over 370 peer-reviewed articles covering a variety of topics in clinical epidemiology, health services research, health technology assessment and health policy and founded the web site www.healthydebate.ca
Dr. Laupacis is a Professor at the University of Toronto in the Faculty of Medicine and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation. He previously held faculty positions with Western University, the University of Ottawa and has served as CEO of ICES (formerly the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences).
He has served on numerous academic and governmental advisory committees, most recently as board chair for Health Quality Ontario. Dr. Laupacis has been awarded the Justice Emmett Hall Laureate (2010), the Health Services Research Advancement Award from the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (2011), CIHR’s Barer-Flood Prize in Health Services and Policy Research (2013), and the FNG Starr Award of the Canadian Medical Association (2018). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2015).
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