- Ross Upshur
Ross Upshur, FRCPC, is a
Canadian physician and researcher. He is the Director of theUniversity of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics , Director of the Primary Care Research Unit and a staffphysician at the Department of Family and Community Medicine,Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre .Biography
He received his BA degree (Hons.) in philosophy from the
University of Winnipeg in 1982, MA degree in philosophy fromQueen's University in 1983, before receiving his MD degree fromMcMaster University in 1986. After 7 years of rural primary care practice in southernOntario , he returned to university to complete an MSc inepidemiology and fellowship training in Community Medicine and Public Health at theUniversity of Toronto in 1997.He was appointed by the University of Toronto as Assistant Professor in 1998 and Associate Professor in 2004 in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, with Cross-Appointment to the Department of Public Health Sciences. Since 2000, he has been the Director of the Primary Care Research Unit at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. In 2006, he was appointed Director of the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics.
He holds other academic positions, including the
Canada Research Chair in Primary Care Research, Director of thePAHO /WHO Collaborating Centre for Bioethics, Adjunct Scientist at theInstitute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences , affiliate of the Institute of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto. He is an Associate Member of the Institute of Environment and Health and Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Geography and Earth Sciences at McMaster University. At the University of Toronto, he has designed and taught courses in the undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate curriculum in ethics andepidemiology , as well as supervising doctoral and master’s candidates, in addition to serving as a clinical supervisor for the post-graduateFamily Medicine Residency program.He has served on advisory boards for the
International Joint Commission ,Doctors Without Borders , andScidev.net and consulted with theWorld Health Organization .Research
He has published over 100 articles in scientific journals such as
Lancet ,British Medical Journal ,Canadian Medical Association Journal , among others.His research interests include: the concept of evidence in health care, medical
epistemology , clinical reasoning, public health ethics, ethics and health information, empirical approaches in bioethics, primary care research methods,time series applications inhealth services research ,communicable disease andenvironmental epidemiology .A list of Ross Upshur's publications is available on
PubMed , [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=PureSearch&db=pubmed&term=Upshur%20R%5BAuthor%5D click here] .External links
* [http://www.utoronto.ca/jcb/about/upshur.htm Biography: Ross Upshur]
* [http://sunnybrook.ca/team/member.asp?t=13&m=175&page=172 Researcher Profile: Ross Upshur]
* [http://www.chairs.gc.ca/web/chairholders/viewprofile_e.asp?id=1937& Canada Research Chairholder Profile: Ross Upshur]
* [http://sunnybrook.ca/research/?page=pcruhome Primary Care Research Unit home page]
* [http://www.utoronto.ca/jcb University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics home page]References
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