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Donald Redelmeier, MD, MSHSR, FRCPC, FACP

Senior scientist

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
2075 Bayview Ave., Room V1 51
Toronto, ON
M4N 3M5

Phone: 416-480-6999
Fax: 416-480-6048

Administrative Assistant: Karen Arbour
Phone: 416-480-6100 ext. 63780
Email: karen.arbour@ices.on.ca

Education:

  • MD, 1984, University of Toronto, Canada
  • MSHSR, 1989, Stanford University, U.S.
  • FRCPC, 1990, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
  • FACP, 1993, American College of Physicians, U.S.

Appointments and Affiliations:

  • Senior scientist, Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Trauma, Emergency & Critical Care Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute
  • Staff physician, division of general internal medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
  • Professor, department of medicine, University of Toronto 
  • Professor, Institute for Health Policy Management & Evaluation, U of T
  • Senior scientist, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences
  • Canada Research Chair in Medical Decision Sciences

Research Focus:

  • Medical decision science

Research Summary:

Medical decision science explores how people reason, formulate judgments and make decisions. The term "medical" is used in the broad sense to include all actions that contribute to health. The term "people" is used in the broad sense to include clinicians, patients and policymakers. This field is not limited to doctors or confined to clinical care. The main rationale for this field is that medical care requires judgment, judgment raises the risk of error and error provides an opportunity for improvement.

Selected Publications:

See current publications list at PubMed.

  1. Redelmeier DA, Yarnell CJ, Thiruchelvam D, Tibshirani RJ. Physicians' warnings for unfit drivers and the risk of a road crash. N Engl J Med. 2012;367:1228–36.
  2. Redelmeier DA, Vermeulen M. Emergency department visits during an Olympic gold medal broadcast. Open Medicine. 2011;5:112–9.
  3. Redelmeier DA, Tibshirani RJ. Driving fatalities on U.S. presidential election days. JAMA. 2008;300:1518–20.
  4. Redelmeier DA, Tibshirani RJ, Evans L. Traffic law enforcement and risk of death from motor vehicle crashes: a case crossover study. Lancet. 2003;361:2177–82.
  5. Redelmeier DA, Stewart CL. Driving fatalities on Super Bowl Sunday. N Engl J Med. 2003;348:368–9.
  6. Redelmeier DA, Singh SM. The survival of academy award winning actors and actresses. Ann Intern Med. 2001;134:955–62.
  7. Bell CM, Redelmeier DA. Mortality among patients admitted to hospitals on weekends as compared to weekdays. N Engl J Med. 2001; 345:663–8.

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