Category: Invited Presentations

Presentation on “Is Canada Odd?” for The Petrie-Flom Centre for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology & Bioethics Workshop at Harvard Law School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 1 February, 2010.

Plenary presentation at the 6th Conference of the Health Services Research Association of Australia and New Zealand. This is a forum for researchers who wanted to meet as health services researchers and to promote the dialogue between research and policy with the goal of improving the quality of research, and increasing its policy relevance and impact. Plenary session presenter on “Research for a self-improving health system”. November 25-27, 2009, Brisbane, Australia.

Plenary (invited) presentation on “Challenging Health Care Rationing” to Health Professions and Health Services Appeal and Review Boards. September 21, 2009, Toronto, Ontario.

Presentation on “Priority Setting and Rationing of Drugs and Health Technologies: Challenges in and out of the Courtroom in Canada and Down-under” at the Fourth meeting of “’UK Forum on Priority Setting in Health Care’ Courts V Decision Makers”. September 15, 2009, University of Manchester.

Participated in joint CIHR-Mental Health Commission of Canada, Café Scientifique Q & A on Mental Health with Senator Michael Kirby. September 3, 2009, Toronto, Ontario.

Presentation on “Valuing Applied and Multidisciplinary Research Building on our Strengths” at Public Policy Forum – Science Day, a special one-day symposium convened by the Public Policy Forum which brings together a cross-section of leaders from the research and policy-making communities in governments, industry, universities and colleges. May 27, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario.

Presentation at University of Ottawa with Masters in Health Administration students – “Courts vs. Medicare: how do we improve Accountability?” February 19, 2008, Ottawa, Ontario.

Invited speaker to conference on health services research, hosted by the Health Council of the Netherlands /Advisory Council on Health Research. The topic of the conference was the communication between researchers and users of knowledge such as policy makers and health care professionals. January 22-23, 2008, the Netherlands.

Presentation on “Courts vs. Medicare” for the Dr. Duncan G. Sinclair Lectureship in Health Services and Policy Research at Queen’s University, November 26, 2007, Kingston, Ontario.

Plenary presentation at The World Affairs Forum at the Stamford, CT Campus of the University of Connecticut “Universal Health Care—What Other Countries Do”. November 14, 2007, Stamford, Connecticut, USA.