The University of Ottawa welcomes four new Canada Research Chairs, each of them dealing with an aspect of medicine or health policy.
Three of the new posts bring to the University researchers who have been doing outstanding work at institutions outside of Canada, including in the UK and the US. The fourth chair establishes a position for an investigator, who has been working at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO).
Description of chairs
- Amir Attaran, Chair in Law, Population Health, and Global Development Policy
An associate fellow with Britain’s Royal Institute of International Affairs, Amir Attaran will examine how foreign policy can make a difference in the lives of people in the world’s poorest countries.
- Khaled El Emam, Chair in Electronic Health Information
A senior scientist with the CHEO Research Institute, Khaled El Emam will help frame guidelines and standards for ensuring the highest quality of data in medical records kept electronically.
- Julian Little, Chair in Human Genome Epidemiology
A professor in the Department of Epidemiology and a professor at the University of Aberdeen, Dr. Julian Little will examine the complex sequences of biochemical actions that emerge from the interaction of various genes, which could hold the key to understanding the origin of various diseases and to therapeutic possibilities.
- Kaveh Shojania, Chair in Patient Safety and Quality Improvement
An assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, Dr. Kaveh Shojania will focus on the nature of medical errors and how they can be minimized.
The University of Ottawa now has 35 Canada Research Chairs.
