Donald Juzwishin

Don has 40 years of experience in global, national, provincial and local health care administration, research, consulting and education. His areas of interest are the effective application of science and values to inform health policy, decisions, health care reform and informatics. He specializes in the creation and application of health technology assessment to inform decisions of clinical and cost effectiveness of health care interventions. He is Editor-in-Chief of Healthcare Management Forum (2018 – present) and is work package lead for AGE-WELL Canada’s technology and aging network (2014 – present). Don currently leads the health care and service delivery challenge area for AGE-WELL and is Chair of the Alberta Genome Canada Research Oversight Committee (2018 – present). He was Director of Health Technology Assessment at Alberta Health Services (2009 – 2018) and the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research (1999 – 2007). He served as Executive Director of the Health Council of Canada (2007 – 2008). He served on the Boards of the Canadian Coordinating Office for Health Technology Assessment (Chair and Director), the Canadian Society for International Health (Director and Treasurer) and Health Technology Assessment International (Treasurer). He served as member of the Alberta Advisory Committee for Health Technology (2009 – 2018). Don has been a technical committee and leadership and governance working group member of Health Standards Organization updating the standards of Accreditation Canada (2018 – present). Don is adjunct professor at the University of Alberta and adjunct associate professor at University of Calgary. Don has been an adjunct in the Health Information Science program since 1990 and has taught the following courses. HINF 325 Fiscal Management in Health Care 1990 – 1994 HINF 240 Governance and structure of health care systems 1995 – 1999 HINF 552 Evaluation of E-Health Technologies 2018 HINF 572 Overview of Health Informatics 2018 - present HINF 503 Research Methods in Health Informatics 2019 – present HINF 140 Introduction of the Canadian Health Care System 2021 – present Social media links are: Orcid ID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7788-8712 Twitter: @drdonj LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donald-juzwishin-1026597/