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Alejandro (Alex) R. Jadad (MD, DPhil, FRCPC) Canada Research Chair in eHealth Innovation Rose Family Chair in Supportive Care Professor, Departments of Anaesthesia, and Health Policy, Management and Evaluation University Health Network and University of Toronto Phone : 416-340-4800, ext. 6903 Fax: 416-340-3595 Email: ajadad@healthinnovation.org |
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Biography Dr. Jadad has made it his mission in life is to improve health thorough information and communication technologies (ICTs). Born and educated in Colombia, he completed his medical degree in 1986, specializing in anesthesiology. At 20, while still in medical school, he became a medical expert on cocaine in Colombia, and was in demand internationally as a speaker. In 1990 he joined the University of Oxford (Balliol College and the Oxford Pain Unit), where he obtained a Ph.D. in pain management, becoming one of the first physicians in the world with a doctorate in knowledge synthesis and meta-analysis of clinical trials. Before moving to Toronto in 2000, Dr. Jadad was based at McMaster University where he was Chief of the Health Information Research Unit; Director of the McMaster Evidence-based Practice Centre; Co-Director of the Canadian Cochrane Network and Centre; Associate Medical Director of the Program in Evidence-based Care for Cancer Care Ontario and Professor in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics. At UHN and U of T, he created the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation to study and optimize the use of ICTs before their introduction into the health system, and is heading up the creation of a network of people, tools and settings working together to assess the impact of ICTs in health and health care globally. He is also developing virtual clinical tools to change the patient/health professional encounter, interactive tools to promote knowledge translation and education of health professionals and the public, and a platform to respond to major public health crises, and to enable young people to shape the health system. Dr. Jadad has received many awards, including being named in 2005 by his fellow Top 40 Under 40 Award Recipients as one of “'The Best of the Best” for achievements in Health and Science, and by his peers in Colombia as the scientist who probably has had the greatest impact in the country’s history.
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