Dear Colleagues, 

 

I am delighted to announce that the Academic Board has approved the appointment of Professor Adalsteinn Brown as Director of the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME) for a five-year term commencing July 1, 2012. 

 

Adalsteinn Brown is a Professor in the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, and in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health.  He has held the inaugural Chair in Public Health Policy at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and is appointed as Scientist in the Keenan Research Centre of the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute at St. Michael’s.  Professor Brown has served as Assistant Deputy Minister, in both the Health System Strategy Division in Ontario’s Ministry of Health and Long-term Care and in the Science and Research Division in Ontario’s Ministry of Research and Innovation. His work in government spanned quality improvement, cancer screening, the promotion of evidence-based policy in health, and renewing the government's innovation agenda.

 

Professor Brown was the principal investigator for the Hospital Report Research Collaborative, developing scorecards for acute care, emergency department care, chronic care, rehabilitation and mental health care in hospitals across Ontario as well as for Cancer Care Ontario. He has also served as an advisor to the World Health Organization, major hospital networks, HMOs, insurance companies, and investment banks in Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia.

 

Professor Brown graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and received his DPhil from the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.   He has received awards for innovation, entrepreneurship, and leadership from public and private sector organizations.  In 2003 he was named one of Canada’s “Top 40 Under 40” in recognition for his work on performance measurement in health care.  A dedicated teacher, Professor Brown is the recipient of the Eugenie Stuart Award for excellence in teaching in the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation.

 

May I extend sincere thanks to Louise Lemieux-Charles for her outstanding leadership of the Department, now Institute, of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation since 2002. 

 

Please join me in warmly welcoming Adalsteinn Brown to his new role in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto.

 

Sincerely,

 

Catharine Whiteside, MD, PhD, FRCPC

Dean, Faculty of Medicine