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Tuesday, June 5, 2007 Closing Keynote  Dr. Alejandro (Alex) Jadad Chief Innovator and Founder, Centre for Global eHealth Innovation Canada Research Chair in eHealth Innovation Rose Family Chair in Supportive Care Professor, Faculty of Medicine University Health Network and University of Toronto Dr. Alex Jadad’s mission is to help improve health for all, through information and communication technologies (ICTs). Born and educated in Colombia, he obtained his medical degree in 1986, specializing in anaesthesiology. In 1990 he joined the University of Oxford where he obtained a doctorate in pain management, becoming one of the first physicians in the world with a doctorate in knowledge synthesis and meta-analysis of clinical trials. In 1995, he moved to Canada and joined 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 & Biostatistics. In 2000, Alex joined the University of Toronto and the University Health Network, where he created the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, and became the Rose Family Chair in Supportive Care and the Canada Research Chair in eHealth Innovation. The Centre, designed as a simulator of the future, acts as a flexible configurable movie set-like space to study and optimize the use of ICTs before their widespread introduction into the health system. He is also spearheading the creation of a ‘mini-model’ of the world, a network of people, tools and settings working together to assess the impact of ICTs in health and health care, globally. He is developing virtual clinical tools to transform the encounter between patients and health professionals, interactive tools to promote knowledge translation and education of health professionals and the public, and a platform to respond to major public health crises (e.g., pandemics) and to enable young people to shape the health system. Dr. Jadad has received numerous awards, including a 'National Health Research Scholars Award', by Health Canada (1997), one of 'Canada's Top 40 Under 40' awards (1998), a 'Premier's Research Excellence Award' (1999), the New Pioneers Award in Science and Technology (2002). In 2001 and 2002, he was featured by Time Magazine as one of the new Canadians who will shape the country in the 21st century, and as one of the leading medical researchers in the country. In 2004, he received the Canadian Latin Achievement Award, as one of the people who have made important contributions to the relationship between Canada and the Hispanic world. |
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