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Colleen M. Flood 2011 Curriculum Vitae

Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy Past Scientific Director, CIHR – Institute of Health Services and Policy Research, 2006-2010

Associate Professor, Faculty of Law and the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation and the School of Public Policy, University of Toronto

39 Queen’s Park Crescent East, Toronto, ON M5S 2C3, Canada voice: (416) 978-5241 • fax: (416) 978-5171 • e-mail: [email protected]

PART I: ACADEMIC HISTORY A. Degrees and Qualifications S.J.D (Toronto); LL.M. (Toronto); B.A.-LL.B (Honours) (Auckland, New Zealand) Barrister & Solicitor (Auckland, New Zealand) B. Academic Appointments 2006-2010 Scientific Director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research – Institute of

Health Services and Policy Research 2003 Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy 2003 Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto and cross-appointed

into the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation 1999 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto 1997-1999 Associate Director, Health Law Institute, Dalhousie University; Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law and cross-appointed to the School of

Health Services Administration C. Professional Experience 1990-1993 Solicitor at the firm of Chapman Tripp Sheffield and Young in Auckland, New

Zealand

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D. Honours and Scholarships 2010 Invited to serve on the editorial board for Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2009 Invited to be the legal editor of the journal Health Economics, Policy & Law, a

journal based at the London School of Economics. 2009 Senior Fellow and member of Corporation, Massey College. 2007 Keynote address on “Getting Out of the Ivory Tower and Into Practice” for the

Jerry Lee Lecture at the 7th Annual International Campbell Collaboration Colloquium on Quality, Credibility and Utility: The Relevance of Systematic Reviews, London, England, 14-15 May, 2007. I was the first woman and Canadian to be awarded the prestigious Jerry Lee Lectureship in London, England.

2007 Awarded the Picard lecture at the Faculty of Law, University of Alberta.

Presentation at “Picard Panel on Health Care Reform” at the National Health Law Conference Visions in Banff, Alberta, 8-9 November 2007.

2007 Awarded the Duncan G. Sinclair Lectureship in Health Services and Policy

Research by Queen’s University. Presentation on “Courts vs. Medicare”, 26 November 2007

2006 Appointed as the new Scientific Director of the Canadian Institutes of Health

Research, Institute for Health Services and Policy Research. As Scientific Director of the CIHR - Institute of Health Services and Policy Research, I directly determined the research priorities for $8 million per annum. In addition, I together with the President, Vice-Presidents and 12 other scientific directors managed the full $1 billion federal dollars for health research in Canada.

2006 Appointed to the Corporation of Massey College 2005 Appointed editor Healthcare Policy in Canada (resigned 2006) 2004 Senior Fellow of Massey College 1999 Awarded the Labelle Lectureship in Health Services Research at McMaster

University, Canada. This lectureship is awarded to an individual who is “engaged in multi-disciplinary research; challenging or extending existing methods or approaches; receiving emerging recognition for exemplary work; and is capable of communication to a general interest audience”. Presentation on “Reinventing Health Care: A Legal, Economic and Political Analysis of Reform in New Zealand and Canada”.

1996 The Rita Catherall Travel Scholarship, Massey College, University of Toronto,

Canada 1995 The Honorary William Southam Fellowship, Massey College, University of

Toronto, Canada


1994 New Zealand Federation of University Women Fellowship Independent

institution, Hamilton, New Zealand 1994 Connaught Scholarship, University of Toronto, Canada 1994 John M. Olin Law and Economics Foundation Scholarship (renewed 1995 and

1996) University of Toronto, Canada 1993 Spencer Mason Trust Award Award, renewed in April 1994. Independent trust,

Auckland, New Zealand 1989 Senior Prize in Law. University of Auckland, New Zealand 1987 Senior Prize in Geography. University of Auckland, New Zealand 1986 Auckland Geographical Society -- Annual Prize. University of Auckland, New

Zealand E. Research Grants Current Grants

2009-2014 CIHR Training Program in Health Law & Policy. I am the principal investigator of

a $1.95 million Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) training grant to develop capacity in health law and policy scholarship through funding for graduate students. Over the life of the program to date, we have successfully trained over 80 Canadian and international LLM and SJD students. Approximately 55% of our program graduates were based at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, and over $868,000 in scholarships has been awarded to University of Toronto Law students.

2009 Law Foundation of Ontario Small Grant. I was principal investigator on a

successful application for a $25,000 grant from the LFO, to support the Michael Trebilcock Symposium, October 1-2, 2009. The grant money went towards travel and accommodations for speakers of the event. I am presently filing a final report to the LFO.

2008-2013 Canada Research Chair in Health Law & Policy 2006-2011 Scientific Director Research Program Supplement Grant $600,000 - Canadian

Institutes of Health Research Operating Research Grant for Scientific Directors

Previous Grants 2006-2010 Canadian Institute of Health Research – Institute of Health Services and Policy

Research. $4 million – Institute Support Grant (funds institute activities).


2002-2008 CIHR Training Program in Health Law & Policy. $1.8 million training grant to facilitate development of capacity in health law and policy scholarship. This was a joint initiative with two other institutions led respectively by Jocelyn Downie (Dalhousie) and Tim Caulfield (Alberta).

2003-2007 Defining the Medicare Basket. $214,000.00 Canadian Health Services Research

Foundation (CHSRF) program research grant to explore how to better improve the processes for deciding what is and is not publicly funded and how to better incorporate technical evidence and public participation. This funding was matched both in cash and in kind by other sponsors (including the Ontario Ministry of Health, Health Canada, the Canadian Medical Association, the Ontario Medical Association, the Centre for Innovation, Law and Policy and Merck Frosst), for a total grant of $516,000.00. I was the principal investigator on this grant with co-investigators, Carolyn Tuohy (political science) and Mark Stabile (economics).

2001-2005 $65,000 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). 3 year

grant to explore the regulation and accessibility of the privately financed health sector. I am the principal investigator with co-investigators Carolyn Tuohy and Mark Stabile.

2001 $1,000,000 Genome Canada (over 5 years), for the law and ethics component of

the Canadian Program on Genomics and Global Health (Principal Investigator is Peter Singer). The leader of the law and ethics component is Trudo Lemmens.

2001 $3,737,523 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) grant

(over 3 years), "From Hospital to Home and Community: Analyzing Local Realities and Global Logics in Canadian Health Care". The principal investigator on this project is Paul Williams (Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation).

2001 $1,173,476 Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) grant (over 5 years)

for "M-THAC, From Medicare to Home and Community: Overtaking the Limits of Publicly Funded Health Care in Canada". The directors of this project are Paul Williams and Raisa Deber (Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation).

2000 $20,000 Connaught grant to explore regulation of the privately-financed health

sector in particular drugs, home care and genetic services. 2000 $10,000 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) grant to

explore regulation of the privately-financed health sector. 2000 $5,000 Wright Foundation grant to explore regulation of the privately-financed

health sector. 2000 $1,500 from the Institute for Research and Public Policy to explore the conflict

between health policy values and charter values. 2000 $1,500 from the Dialogue on Health Reform to document regulation across the


10 provinces prohibiting extra-billing and supplementary private insurance. 2000 $10,000 from Ontario Medical Association (jointly with Carolyn Tuohy and Mark

Stabile) to explore public/private dynamics in health care systems. 1999 $10,000 Connaught New Staff Matching Grant 1999 $3,000 grant from Tecknowledge to explore the legal aspects of North America’s

largest telehealth system. 1998 $3,800 Maritime Centre of Excellence grant for Women's Health to conduct

interdisciplinary research, with four other investigators, on the health and economic implications for women of a federal home care program.

1996 $6,000 Centre for State and Market, University of Toronto, grant to analyze the

prospects for competition-oriented health care reform. PART II: SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL WORK Publications A. Books Published Books 1. Data, Data, Everywhere: Access and Accountability? (editor) (Montreal: McGill Queen’s

University Press, 2011). 2. Canadian Health Law and Policy (4th edition) (co-edited with J. Downie & T. Caulfield)

(Toronto: LexisNexis, 2011). 3. Administrative Law in Context (co-edited with Lorne Sossin) (Toronto: Emond

Montgomery, 2008). 4. Exploring Social Insurance: Can a Dose of Europe Cure Canadian Health Care

Finance? (co-edited with Mark Stabile and Carolyn Tuohy) (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008).

5. Canadian Health Law and Policy (3rd edition) (co-edited with J. Downie & T. Caulfield)

(Toronto: LexisNexis, 2007). 6. Just Medicare: What’s In, What’s Out, How We Decide (editor) (Toronto: University of

Toronto Press, 2006). 7. Access to Justice, Access to Care: The Legal Debate over Private Health Insurance (co-

edited with Kent Roach and Lorne Sossin) (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005). This book was cited by the widely read Globe & Mail as one of the top three books on Charter analysis in Canada that Canadians should read to mark the 25th anniversary of the Charter.


8. Canadian Health Law and Policy (2nd edition) (co-edited with Jocelyn Downie & T.

Caulfield) (Markham, Ont.: Butterworths, 2002) 9. International Health Care Reform: A Legal, Economic and Political Analysis (London:

Routledge, 2000). This book, originally published in hardcover, was re-released as a paperback in 2003 [Link to abstract] [Link to full text PDF].

Books In Development 1. Comparative Health Rights at the Public Private Intersection (co-edited with Aeyal

Gross). 2. Administrative Law in Context (2nd edition) (co-edited with Lorne Sossin) (Toronto:

Emond Montgomery). B. Journals Published 1. Co-editor (with Iacobucci, Anand and Duggan) of the Trebilcock Symposium Issue of the

University of Toronto Law Journal (Spring 2010) 60(2) UTLJ [Link to full text]. 2. Guest editor with Lawrence Gostin of Georgetown University of a special edition of the

Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics entitled “International and Comparative Health Law and Ethics: A 25-Year Retrospective as a Tribute to Professor Bernard Dickens” (2004) 32(4) JL Med & Ethics [Link to issue index].

3. Guest editor with Lawrence Gostin and Lance Gable of a special edition of the Journal of

Law, Medicine and Ethics entitled “Legislating and Litigating Health Care Rights Around the World” (2005) 33(4) JL Med & Ethics [Link to issue index].

C. Chapters in Books Forthcoming Chapters 1. “Setting Limits on Health Care: Challenges In and Out of the Courtroom in Canada and

Down-Under” (with Insiya Essajee) in Andre den Exter (ed.) Health Care Rationing, (Maklu Press Antwerpen/Oxford, 2012)

2. “An Introduction to (the Effervescence of) Administrative Law” in Colleen M. Flood &

Lorne Sossin (eds.) Administrative Law in Context (2nd edition) (Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2012).

3. “Health Rights at the Public/Private Divide in Canada” in Comparative Health Rights at

the Public Private Intersection (co-edited with Aeyal Gross).


Published Chapters 1. “Introduction: The Big Tent Theory of Health Law” in Canadian Health Law and Policy

(4th edition) (with J. Downie & T. Caulfield) (Toronto: LexisNexis, 2011). 2. “Searching for a Sweet Spot: How Do We Trade-Off Research Benefits with Health

Information Privacy Concerns? (with Bryan Thomas) overview chapter for Data, Data, Everywhere: Access and Accountability (Colleen M. Flood, ed.) (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011).

3. “Charter Rights & Health Care Funding: A Typology of Canadian Health Rights Litigation” (with Y.Y. Chen) (45 pages/14,500 words) in Grand Challenges in Health Law and Policy, Catherine Regis & Robert Kouri (eds.) (Montreal: Éditions Yvon Blais/Thomson Reuters, 2010).

4. “Health Care Rights in Canada: The Chaoulli Legacy” (with Sujith Xavier) in Andre den Exter (ed.), International Health Law: Solidarity and justice in health care (Apeldoorn, the Netherlands: Maklu, 2008) [Link to Google Books copy].

5. “An Introduction to (the Effervescence of) Administrative Law” in Colleen M. Flood &

Lorne Sossin (eds.) Administrative Law in Context (Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2008). 6. “Introduction: Seeking the Holy Grail: Financing for Quality, Accessibility and

Sustainability in Health Care Systems” in Colleen M. Flood, Mark Stabile and Carolyn Tuohy (eds.), Exploring Social Insurance: Can a Dose of Europe Cure Canadian Health Care Finance? (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008).

7. “Conclusion" in Colleen M. Flood, Mark Stabile and Carolyn Tuohy (eds.), Exploring

Social Insurance: Can a Dose of Europe Cure Canadian Health Care Finance? (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008).

8. “Introduction” in Canadian Health Law and Policy (3rd edition) (co-edited with J. Downie

& T. Caulfield) (Toronto: LexisNexis, 2007). 9. “Judicious Choices: Health Care Resource Decisions and the Supreme Court” (with

Michelle Zimmerman) in Jocelyn Downie and Elaine Gibson (eds.) Health Law at the Supreme Court of Canada (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2007).

10. “What is In and Out of Medicare? Who Decides?” (with Mark Stabile and Carolyn Tuohy)

in Timothy Stoltzfus Jost (ed.) Readings in Comparative Health Law & Bioethics (2nd edition) (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2007).

11. “Chaoulli’s Legacy for the Future of Canadian Health Care Policy” in Bruce Campbell

and Greg Marchildon (eds.) Medicare: Facts, Myths, Problems, Promise (Toronto: James Lorimer & Company Ltd., 2007).

12. “What is In and Out of Medicare? Who Decides?” (with Mark Stabile and Carolyn

Tuohy) in Just Medicare (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006). 13. “Introduction” (with Kent Roach and Lorne Sossin) in Access to Justice, Access to Care:


The Legal Debate over Private Health Insurance (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005).

14. “Finding Health Policy ‘Arbitrary’: The Evidence on Waiting, Dying, and Two-Tier

Systems” (with Mark Stabile and Sasha Kontic) in Access to Justice, Access to Care: The Legal Debate over Private Health Insurance (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005).

15. “Section 7 ‘Safety Valves’: Appealing Wait Times Within A One-Tier System” (with

Caroline Pitfield) in Access to Justice, Access to Care: The Legal Debate over Private Health Insurance (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005).

16. “Strengthening the Foundations: Securing the Modernity of the Canada Health Act”

(with Sujit Choudhry) in T. McIntosh, P-G Forest, and G. P. Marchildon (eds), The Governance of Health Care in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004) at 346-387.

17. “A Complex Taxonomy: Health Care Technology Assessment in Canada” (with E.

Nauenberg and P.Coyte) in T. Jost (ed.), Health Care Coverage Determinations: An International Comparative Study (New York: Open University Press, 2005).

18. “Galvanizing Publicly Funded Health Care Systems Through Accountability” in P. Leatt &

J. Mapa, Government Relations in the Health Care Industry (Westport. CT: Praeger, 2003) at 49 [Link to Google Books copy].

19. “The Anatomy of Medicare” in J. Downie, T. Caulfield, & C. Flood (eds.) in Canadian

Health Law and Policy (2nd edition) (Markham, Ont.: Butterworths, 2002) at 1-54. This is a revised and updated version of an earlier chapter, "The Structure and Dynamics of the Canadian Health Care System" in J. Downie & T. Caulfield (eds.), Canadian Health Law and Policy (Markham, Ont.: Butterworths, 1999).

20. “Moving Medicare Home: The Forces Shifting Care Out of Hospitals and Into Homes” in

T. Caulfield & B von Tigerstrom (eds.), Health Care Reform & the Law in Canada (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2002).

D. Articles Submitted Articles 1. “A Patient Charter of Rights: Paving the Way for System Improvement?” (with Kathryn

May) (2011) – submitted to Canadian Medical Association Journal. 2. “The Data Divide: Managing the Misalignment in Canada’s Evidentiary Requirements for

Drug Regulation and Funding” (with Patrick Dyke) (2011) – submitted to UBC Law Review.


Published Articles 1. “Canadian Medial Malpractice Law in 2011: Missing the Mark on Patient Safety” (with

Bryan Thomas) (2011) 86(3) Chicago-Kent Law Review 1053. [Link to abstract]. 2. “Cosmetic Surgery Regulation and Regulation Enforcement in Ontario” (with Bryan

Thomas and Leigh Harrison-Wilson) (2011) 36 Queen’s Law Journal 31 [Link to abstract].

3. "Charter Rights & Health Care Funding: A Typology of Canadian Health Rights

Litigation" (with Y.Y. Brandon Chen) (15,000 words) (2010) 19 Annals of Health Law 479-526 [Link to abstract].

4. “The evidentiary burden for overturning government’s choice of regulatory instrument:

The case of direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs” (2010) 60(2) University of Toronto Law Journal 397.

5. “Blurring of the Public/Private Divide: The Canadian Chapter” (with Bryan Thomas) (20

pages/7000 words) (2010) 17 European Journal of Health Law 257-278 [Link to abstract].

6. “Is Canada Odd?: A Comparison of European and Canadian Approaches to Choice and

Regulation of the Public/Private Divide in Health Care” (with Amanda Haugan) (2010) 5 Health Economics, Policy and Law 319-341 [Link to full text].

7. “Is the Canadian System Right for the United States?” (2009) 34(4) Journal of Health

Politics, Policy and Law 585 [Link to first page of article]. 8. “Tough Choices: The Private Sale of Drugs in Public Hospitals" (2010) (with Lorian

Hardcastle) 182(4) Canadian Medical Association Journal 374 [Link to full text]. 9. “Health Care Rights in Canada: The Chaoulli Legacy” (2008) (with Sujith Xavier) 27

International Journal of Law and Medicine 617 [Link to full text]. 10. “Chaoulli: Political Undertows and Judicial Riptides” (2008) Health Law Journal (Special

Edition) 211 [Link to full text]. 11. “Canadian Media and Health Policy Research: The Limits of Stories” (with Nuala P.

Kenny and Meghan McMahon) (2007) 7(8) The American Journal of Bioethics 19-21. 12. “The Private Sale of Cancer Drugs in Ontario’s Public Hospitals: Tough Issues at the

Public/Private Interface in Health Care” (with Lorian Hardcastle) (2007) 1:1 McGill Health Law Publication [Link to full text PDF].

13. “The contextual turn: Iacobucci’s legacy and the standard of review in administrative law”

(with Lorne Sossin) (2007) 57(2) University of Toronto Law Journal 581-606 (Cited by the Supreme Court of Canada in Dunsmuir v. New Brunswick, 2008 SCC 9, [2008] 1 SCR 190) [Link to first page of article].

14. “Chaoulli’s Legacy for the Future of Canadian Health Care Policy”, (2006) 44(2)


Osgoode Hall Law Journal 273-310. 15. “Just Medicare: The Role of Canadian Courts in Determining Health Care Rights and

Access” (2005) 33(4) Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 669-691 [Link to abstract]. 16. “Introduction: Legislating and Litigating Health Care Rights Around the World” (with

Lance Gable and Lawrence O. Gostin) (2005) 33(4) Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 636-641 [Link to full text].

17. “Courting Trouble: The Supreme Court’s Embrace of Private Health Insurance” (with

Steven Lewis) in (2005) 2(1) Healthcare Policy, 26-36 [Link to full text]. This article received the most hits of all articles published in this inaugural volume.

18. “Supreme disagreement: the highest court affirms an empty right” (with Terry Sullivan) in

(2005) 173(2) Canadian Medical Association Journal 142 [Link to full text]. 19. “The Boundaries of Medicare: Tensions in the Dual Role of Ontario’s Physician Services

Review Committee” (with Joanna Erdman) (2004) 12 Alberta Health Law Journal 1-16 [Link to full text].

20. “The First Ministers' Accord on Health Renewal and the Future of Home Care in

Canada” (with Sanober S. Motiwala, Peter C. Coyte and Audrey Laporte (2005) 2: 4 Longwoods Review 2-10 [Link to full text].

21. “Steering and Rowing in Health Care: The Devolution Option?” (with Duncan Sinclair &

Joanna Erdman) (2004) Vol. 30, Queen’s Law Journal, 156-203 [Link to full text]. 22. “Devolution – A Solution for Ontario: Could the Lone Wolf Lead the Pack?” (2004) 5: 1

HealthcarePapers, 63-69 [Link to full text]. 23. “Waiting Times and Waiting Lists: What Role for a Patients’ Bill of Rights” (with Tracey

Epps) (2004) 49: 3 McGill Law Journal, 515-555 [Link to full text]. 24. “A Tale of Toronto: National and International Lessons in Public Health Governance from

the SARS Crises” (with Anthea Williams) (2004) 12 Michigan St. J. Int’ L., 229-246 [Link to full text].

25. “How Does Private Finance Affect Public Health Care Systems: Marshalling the

Evidence from OECD Nations”, (with Carolyn Tuohy and Mark Stabile), (2004) 29: 3 Jnl of Health Politics Policy and Law, 359-396 [Link to full text].

26. “A Patients’ Bill of Rights: A Cure for Canadians’ Concerns About Medicare?” (with

Tracey Epps) (2002) Vol.12 Institute for Research in Public Policy, Policy Matters, 1-44 [Link to full text PDF].

27. “The Implications of the NAFTA for Medicare: Have We Traded Away the Opportunity

for Innovative Health Care Reform?” (with Tracey Epps) (2002) 47 McGill L.J. 745-787 [Link to full text].

28. “The Borders of Solidarity: How Countries Determine the Public/Private Mix in Health


Care” (with Carolyn Tuohy and Mark Stabile), (2002) 12:2 Health Matrix, 297-356 [Link to abstract]. (Cited by Madame Justice Deschamps, Supreme Court of Canada in Chaoulli v. Quebec (Attorney General) [2005] 1 S.C.R. 791 at paras 79-80).

29. “The Illegality of Private Health Care in Canada” (with Tom Archibald) (2001) 164(6)

CMAJ 825-830 [Link to full text] . 30. “Conundrums in Causation and Informed Consent” (2000) 23 Advocates Quarterly 217-

233. 31. “New Zealand’s No-Fault Accident Compensation Scheme: Paradise or Panacea?”

(1999/2000) 8 Health Law Review 3-11. 32. "Contracting Out for Health Services in the Public Sector” (1999) 31 Canadian Business

Law Journal 175-208. 33. "Accountability of Health Service Purchasers" (1998) 20: 2 Dalhousie Law Journal 470-

531 [Link to full text]. 34. "Regulation of Telecommunications in New Zealand -- Faith in Competition Law and the

Kiwi Share" (1995) 3:2 Competition & Consumer Law Journal 199-221. 35. "Exit and Voice in New Zealand's Health Care Sector" (with Michael Trebilcock)

Contracting in the Health Sector (Auckland: Legal Research Foundation, 1994), 1-42. E. Major Reports 1. Defining the Medicare Basket (with Mark Stabile and Carolyn Tuohy); submitted to the

Canadian Health Services Research Foundation, June 2007 [Link to full text]. This research was specifically profiled in an article in the national newspaper, the Globe & Mail 7 Feb. 2007.

2. “Is Canada Odd? An examination of the Public/Private Divide in Six Countries” (with

Stefan Greß & SashaKontic); submitted to the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, April 2007.

3. “Hamstrung and Hogtied: Cascading Constraints on Citizen Governors in Medicare”

(with Tom Archibald); paper commissioned by Canadian Policy Research Networks, 45 pp, May 2005 [Link to full text].

4. Strengthening the Foundations: Securing the Modernity of the Canada Health Act (with

Sujit Choudhry); commissioned as part of the research program for the Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada (the Romanow Commission), February 2002 [Link to full text].

5. The Ramifications of the NAFTA and GATS for Canada’s Health Care System (with

Tracey Epps); report prepared for Health Canada, March 2002.


6. Lessons From Away: What Canada Can Learn From Other Health Care Systems (with Mark Stabile and Carolyn Tuohy); report for the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science And Technology, 30 April 2001 [Link to full text PDF].

7. Access to HIV Drugs: A Policy Analysis (with Elaine Gibson, Jocelyn Downie, Mark

Stabile, Fred McGinn); report for the Provincial Ministers of Health, May 2001. 8. IRPP Task Force on Health Policy, Recommendations to First Ministers (with Michael

Decter, Monique Begin, Claude Forget, Henry Friesen, Maureen Quigley, Duncan Sinclair and Carolyn Tuohy) (IRPP: Montreal, 2000) [Link to full text PDF].

F. Comments and Notes 1. “Heaven or Hell? The Canada Health Act” (1000 words) PolicyMatters.ca, 30 November

2010 [Link to full text]. This piece was an invited contribution for an online symposium at PolicyMatters.ca.

2. “Alternative Medicine: It’s the impact that counts”, CIHR website Research Profile, February 2010 [Link to full text].

3. “Commissions in Health Care: Running Vigorously on the Spot?” (Nexus, Spring 2008) [Link to full text PDF].

4. “Direct-to-consumer advertising: CanWest’s Charter Challenge” (with Michelle

Zimmerman) CIHR - IHSPR Research Spotlight, August 2006 [Link to full text]. 5. “The Mazankowski Report: Can We Fix Medicare With More Private Financing?” (2002)

2:4 HealthcarePapers, 61-67 [Link to full text]. 6. “How Does Private Finance Affect Public Health Care Systems? Marshalling the

Evidence from OECD Nations” (with Carolyn Tuohy and Mark Stabile) (2000) October Ontario Medical Review, 23-31.

7. “Comment: Bill 11, Health Care Protection Act” (with T. Caulfield and B. von Tigerstrom)

2000 9: 1 Health Law Review 22-27 [Link to full text PDF]. 8. “Accountability, Flexibility and Integration: How to Fix Medicare” (May 2000) 21:4 Policy

Options 17-19 [Link to full text PDF]. 9. “Preface” (1998) 20: 2 Dalhousie Law Journal 313-320. 10. "Will Supplementary Private Insurance Reduce Waiting Lists?" (1996) 11 Canadian

Health Facilities Law Guide 1-3 [Link to abstract]. 11. "Competing Crown Health Enterprises: Efficiency Or Waste?" (1995) 118 Planning Law

Quarterly: Journal of the New Zealand Planning Institute 12-13. 12. "Keep the Change: New Zealand's Health Care System" in D.J. McCready and W.R.

Swan (eds.) Change and Resistance: Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Health


Economics (Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University, 1995) at 203–244. G. Book Reviews 1. "Judges" (1989) 6:2 Auckland University Law Review 300-303. H. References in Major Reports 1. References to work in The Health of Canadians – The Federal Role, Final Report,

Volume Six: Recommendations for Reform by the Standing Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology (the “Kirby Report”) (October 2002) at pages 14, 19, 100-102, 297, 300, A-31, A-38, A-44 [Link to full text].

2. References to work in Building on Values: The Future of Health Care in Canada by the

Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada (the “Romanow Report”) at pages 59-65, 235-237, 272-273 [Link to full text PDF].

I. Background and Working Papers

1. Medicare Basket Background papers. Available on-line at

<http://www.law.utoronto.ca/healthlaw/basket/index.html>. Titles include: “The Legal Framework for Health Governance in Ontario” "The Boundaries of Medicare: The Role of Ontario's Physician Services Review Committee"; "The Physician Services Committee: The Relationship between the Ontario Medical Association and the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care "The Boundaries of Canadian Medicare: The Role of Medical Directors and Public Participation in Decision Making"; “Financial Incentives and Clinical Practice Guidelines” (with Natalie de Paulsen and Lisa Minuk); “Criteria for Listing on Provincial Drug Formularies” (with Natalie de Paulsen and Lisa Minuk); "What is In and Out of Medicare? Who Decides?"; “The Conflict Between Health Policy Values and Charter Values”; “The Prospects for a National Pharmacare Plan: Lessons from Australia”

J. Presentations at Meetings and Symposia Invited Presentations

1. Speaker at “Reference re. Assisted Human Reproduction Act - Implications of the

Supreme Court’s Decision” at University of Toronto Law School. November 4-5, 2011 2. Presented “Is Canada Odd? European and Canadian Approaches to Choice and

Regulation of the Public/Private Divide” at University of Toronto Law, Health Law, Ethics & Policy Seminar Series. October 27, 2011.

3. Presented “Is Canada Odd? European and Canadian Approaches to Choice and

Regulation of the Public/Private Divide” at Victoria University, Wellington NZ. September


1, 2011. 4. Speaker at the “Health Care Rationing Conference” at Erasmus Observatory on Health

Law (Erasmus University, Rotterdam) an international conference discussing health care rationing from a wide range of perspectives. December 9-10, 2010, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

5. Presented “Canadian Medical Malpractice Law in 2011: Missing the Mark on Patient Safety Medical Malpractice Law in Canada” in Vienna at a conference entitled “Medical Malpractice Liability and Compensation from a Global Perspective”. December 2, 2010, Vienna, Austria.

6. Presented opening remarks at the symposium on “Drug Promotion, Quality and Patient Safety”. The aim of the symposium was to provide researchers and policy-makers an opportunity to explore drug promotion regulation in terms of quality of information and impacts on patient safety. It also included discussion of the results of a comparative study examining the quality of information provided to primary care physicians by pharmaceutical sales representatives in the United States, France and Canada. November 29, 2010, Toronto, Ontario

7. Presented opening remarks at a Café Scientifique “Will You Be There When I’m Old?: How Canada’s Aging Population will Impact the Health Care System.” November 25, 2010, Toronto, Ontario

8. Presenter at the NHMRC Scientific Symposium and Workshop “Evidence into primary care – research translation and improved outcomes for patients”. This workshop consisted of short presentations from leading researchers followed by a workshop with invited government and non-government leaders in policy and practice. The goal of this workshop was to help NHMRC develop ideas as to how we can embed research and evidence into the provision of healthcare. November 10, 2010, Canberra, Australia

9. Invited to Washington and Lee University to present a paper entitled “Charter Rights & Health Care Funding: A Typology of Canadian Health Rights Litigation”. October 4, 2010, Lexington, Virginia.

10. Moderated and organized an in-camera exchange with the Saskatchewan government

on “Developing and Implementing a Framework for Patient and Family-Centred Care”. October 6, 2010, Regina, Saskatchewan.

11. Invited presentation to the Board of the Canadian Health Services and Policy Research

Foundation. October 7, 2010, Ottawa, Ontario. 12. Presented at workshop on Health Rights at the Public/Private Intersection at the

University of Toronto. This conference brought together health law and policy scholars from around the world, to discuss the impact of health rights litigation on equality of access to health care. In addition to presenting on health rights in Canada, I co-hosted the event with Aeyal Gross. October 22, 2010, Toronto, Ontario.

13. Moderated and led a workshop with deputy ministers and assistant deputy ministers from all provinces and territories – Financing, Sustainability and Governance Workshop.


October 13, 2010, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

14. Plenary presentation at the “First Global Symposium on Health Systems Research – Science to Accelerate Universal Health Coverage” (organized by The World Health Organization and partners). See: <http://www.hsr-symposium.org/>. At this four-day meeting, 1200 researchers, policy-makers, funders, and other stakeholders representing diverse constituencies gathered to share evidence, identify significant knowledge gaps, and set a research agenda that will reflect the needs of low and middle-income countries. November 16-19, 2010, Montreux, Switzerland.

15. Keynote speaker at Knowledge Utilization Colloquium on Public Policymaking

Environments. June 10, 2010, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

16. Panelist at the Annual Canadian Association of Health Services and Policy Research Conference, as part of a panel on “The financing and sustainability of Canada’s health care system: What evidence is needed to inform a Health Accord renegotiation?” May 12, 2010, Toronto, Ontario.

17. Presented at the Annual Canadian Association of Health Services and Policy Research Conference, presentation titled “The Evidentiary Burden for Overturning Government’s Choice of Regulatory Instrument: Direct-to-Consumer Advertising”. May 11, 2010, Toronto, Ontario.

18. Speaker at an invitation-only workshop on prescription drug financing and sustainability. The objective of this workshop was to stimulate candid and informed discussions about prescription drug financing options that may be viable alternatives to the status quo in Canada. May 10, 2010, Toronto, Ontario.

19. Speaker at Health Services Research Workshop on Building Capacity within the

Maternal, Child, & Youth Sector. Presented on “Health Services Capacity Needs in Canada”. The workshop was hosted by the CIHR Institute of Health Services and Policy Research in partnership with the Canadian Child and Youth Health Coalition. February 18, 2010, Toronto, Ontario.

20. 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.

21. Opening and Closing Remarks at CIHR Primary Healthcare Summit - a multidisciplinary

primary care collaboration among decision makers, administrators, clinicians, researchers and patient representatives as a catalyst for new collaborations and innovative thinking in primary healthcare titled, “Patient-oriented Primary Healthcare – Scaling up Innovation”. January 18-19, 2010, Toronto, Ontario.

22. 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.


23. Presentation on at the National Health Law Conference hosted by the graduate program

in Health Law and Policy of the Faculté de droit of the Université de Sherbrooke in Montreal on “Grand Challenges regarding Privatization and Commoditization”, October 2-3, 2009, Montreal, Quebec

24. Plenary (invited) presentation on “Challenging Health Care Rationing” to Health

Professions and Health Services Appeal and Review Boards. September 21, 2009, Toronto, Ontario.

25. 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.

26. 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.

27. 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.

28. Presentation on "Evidence, the Judiciary, and Public Policy" at CHSPR’s 2008

conference, Evidence Soup for the Policy Maker’s Soul, session entitled “Health is up, opinion is down, courts are engaged…”, March 4-5, 2008. Vancouver, British Columbia.

29. Presentation at University of Ottawa with Masters in Health Administration students –

“Courts vs. Medicare: how do we improve Accountability?”. February 19, 2008, Ottawa, Ontario.

30. 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.

31. 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.

32. 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.

33. Plenary presenter at the “Picard Panel on Health Care Reform” at the National Health

Law Conference Visions. November 8-9, 2007, Banff, Alberta. 34. Plenary presenter on “Building on the Evidence - Putting Healthcare Innovations to Work

(Lessons learned from Europe)”, sponsored by Hospital Employees’ Union. November 6,


2007, Vancouver, British Columbia. 35. Presentation on “Wait Times and Patient Efficiency in Canada” at the Canada-

Netherlands Health Seminar. The meeting was comprised of high level ministry representatives from both countries gathered to discuss best practices in health care reform including patient safety, performance measures, ICT, waiting times, and change management. September 5-7, 2007, The Hague, the Netherlands.

36. Presentation given at the “Making Research Work for Canada’s Healthcare Leaders”

session of the CAHSPR Conference 2007 – Leading, Linking and Listening: Knowledge Exchange at the Frontiers of Health Services and Policy Research. June 12, 2007, Toronto, Ontario.

37. Keynote address on “Getting Out of the Ivory Tower and Into Practice” for the Jerry Lee

Lecture at the 7th Annual International Campbell Collaboration Colloquium on Quality, Credibility and Utility: The Relevance of Systematic Reviews. May 14-15, 2007, London, England.

38. Opening remarks at the 5th Annual Global Health Research Conference on The

Convergence of Health and Law – International Perspectives. May 8, 2007, Toronto, Ontario.

39. Spoke on “Equity and the Supreme Court post-Chaoulli” in Session #3: “Financing to

Achieve Greater Equity” of the S.O.S. Medicare 2: Looking Forward Conference at the Queensbury Convention Centre. May 3-4, 2007, Regina, Saskatchewan.

40. Plenary Address at the S.O.S. Medicare 2: Looking Forward Conference and the

Keynote Address “Courts vs. Medicare” with Greg Marchildon at Session #1 of the Conference, at the Queensbury Convention Centre. May 3-4, 2007, Regina, Saskatchewan.

41. Presentation on “Public/Private Partnerships: The Alberta Court Challenge” at the

Harkness Canadian Policy Briefing Tour. May 2, 2007, Regina, Saskatchewan. 42. Participant in a roundtable discussion on developing a research agenda pertaining to

health integration and quality improvement in home care at The Change Foundation Symposium: Showcasing Successes in Health-care Change, Framing Future Challenges. May 25, 2007, Toronto, Ontario.

43. Keynote speaker at The Public-Private Debate: Best Practices and Future Directions,

Executive Forum Conference. April 18, 2007, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. 44. Presentation on “Courting Trouble: The Supreme Court’s Embrace of Private Health

Insurance”, for Faculty of Law seminar, University of Windsor. February 19, 2007, Windsor, Ontario.

45. Presentation for the Health Policy Initiative, University of Western Ontario, “Courting

Trouble: The Supreme Court’s Embrace of Private Health Insurance”. February 2, 2007, London, Ontario.


46. Presentation on “The Chaoulli decision and the privatization of health care in Canada: Will more private health insurance result in a better health care system?” to VIC One students, University of Toronto (coordinated by Andrew Baines) January 31, 2007, Toronto, Ontario.

47. Presentation with Mark Stabile on Public/Private Financing (six-country study) with Janet

Minor, Michele Sanborn, Lauren Montrose, Carol Appathuri and Aviva Rubin, Ontario Ministry of Health. December 18, 2006, Toronto, Ontario.

48. Keynote speaker “Seeking the Grail: Financing for Quality, Accessibility and

Sustainability in the Health Care System”, for the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority Annual General Meeting. October 17, 2006, Winnipeg, Manitoba.

49. Presentation on “The Foundation of Medicare” to the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute

Board of Directors. October 12, 2006, Toronto, Ontario. 50. Keynote speaker on “The Future of Health Care and the Role of Health Services

Research” for the Integrated Centre for Care Advancement through Research (iCARE) opening Symposium. October 4, 2006, Edmonton, Alberta.

51. Presentation on "Health Services Research and the Future of Medicare" as part of the

Health Law Institute Seminar Series. October 2, 2006, Edmonton, Alberta. 52. Presentation Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation board members. September

28, 2006, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. 53. Opening Plenary Presentation, “Moving Out of the Ivory Tower” part of the “Blazing the

Trail to a Stronger Health Services and Policy Community”, Annual Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research (CAHSPR) Conference (with Philip Davies and Jonathan Lomas). September 18, 2006.

54. Presentation about issues of public/private funding and the Chaoulli case to Canadian

Opthalmological Society (COS) Annual Meeting and Exhibition. June 22, 2006, Toronto, Ontario.

55. Presentation on Chaoulli decision to management network at Mount Sinai, June 21, 2006, Toronto, Ontario.

56. Presentation at “30th Annual Health Law Teachers Conference”, University of Maryland

School of Law on “Courting Trouble: the Supreme Court of Canada’s Embrace of Private Health Insurance”. June 2, 2006, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

57. Presentation on “Courting Trouble: The Supreme Court’s Embrace of Private Health

Insurance”, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University. May 16, 2006, St John’s, Newfoundland.

58. Presentation on “How the Supreme Court of Canada Got it Wrong in Chaoulli”, at Future

of Medicare Forum – Alliance of Seniors Health Care Forum, Toronto City Hall Council Chambers. May 8, 2006, Toronto, Ontario.


59. Presentation on Canada’s Health Care Decision, Faculty of Law, University of South Carolina. April 5, 2006, Columbia, South Carolina, USA.

60. Presentation on “Forces Behind the Fall of Medicare”, Dalhousie Law School. March 24,

2006, Halifax, Nova Scotia. 61. Presentation on the “Perils and Pitfalls of Multi-disciplinary Research” at Health

Canada’s Health Regulation Research Conference. March 23, 2006, Ottawa, Ontario. 62. Presentation on the Chaoulli decision – Opening speaker for the Canadian Perspectives

Series, for Alumni of the University of Toronto. March 22, 2006, Toronto, Ontario. 63. Presentation on Chaoulli at the 3rd National Health Law Conference. February 23-24,

2006, Halifax, Nova Scotia. 64. Presentation at the 2006 Health Care Policy Invitational Forum, Langdon Hall. February

8-10, 2006, Cambridge, Ontario. 65. Presentation to the University of Toronto Medical Society on Private Health Care in other

Jurisdictions, 23 January, 2006. 66. Presentation to the Canadian Association of University Women, on the Supreme Court

of Canada’s decision in Chaoulli. January 14, 2006. 67. Presentation at the Centre for Constitutional Studies and the Faculty of Law, University

of Alberta, “Courting Trouble: The Supreme Court’s Embrace of Private Health Insurance”. November 24, 2005, Edmonton, Alberta

68. Presentation on the Chaoulli decision at the Medical Reform Group, Faculty of Law,

University of Toronto. November 14, 2005, Toronto, Ontario. 69. Invited to be the after-dinner speaker at the Association of Canadian Academic

healthcare Organizations, Fall Invitation Conference on “Courting Trouble: The Supreme Court’s Embrace of Private Health Insurance.” November 3-4, 2005, Westin Hotel, Ottawa, Ontario.

70. Presentation at the Osgoode Professional Development Conference: Chaoulli and the Restructuring of Health Care in Canada. October 26, 2005, Toronto, Ontario.

71. Presentation at the Ontario Ministry of Health on “Is Devolution the Solution?” This

paper was instrumental in the government’s new mandate to create “Local Health Integration Networks.” This is one of the most significant health policy initiatives in Ontario in the last decade. June 2, 2004.

72. Invited presentation “Should New Zealand Copy Canada’s Ban on Private Insurance?”,

National Healthcare Leadership Conference on “What is in and out of the Medicare Basket?”. June 1, 2004, Quebec City, Quebec.

73. Invited presentations to the Ministry of Health, May 25, 2005, Auckland, New Zealand:


a. “A Tale of Toronto: National and International Lessons in Public Health Governance from the SARS Crisis”

b. “Rights and Rationing in Health Care: A Canadian Story” c. “What’s In and Out of the Medicare Basket”

74. Faculty seminar for the Faculty of Law, University of Auckland on “Litigating Health Care

Rights in Canada”. May 13, 2005, Auckland, New Zealand. 75. Presented “A Tale of Toronto: National and International Lessons in Public Health

Governance from the SARS Crisis” to the School of Public Health colloquium, Tamaki Campus, Auckland University. May 3, 2005, Auckland, New Zealand.

76. Participation in a debate at the Public Health Law Conference, “Regulators should back

off in public health”. Argued in the affirmative. April 21-22, 2005, Auckland, New Zealand.

77. Invited Public Lecture, Faculty of Medicine, University of Otago, “Should New Zealand

Copy Canada’s Ban on Private Health Insurance?”. March 23, 2005, Dunedin, New Zealand.

78. Invited Lecture, Faculty of Law, University of Otago, “Rationing and Rights to Health

Care: The Role of Canadian Courts”. March 22, 2005, Dunedin, New Zealand. 79. Invited Lecture, Bioethics Group, University of Otago, “What’s In and Out of Medicare?

Who Decides?”. March 21, 2005, Dunedin, New Zealand. 80. Presentation at the conference “For Profit Healthcare: What is the Big Deal?”, Society of

Graduates in Health Policy, Management and Evaluation and the Toronto Chapter of the Canadian College of Health Services Executives. January 17, 2005, Toronto, Ontario.

81. Plenary (invited) Presentation to the CIHR Health Policy Conference, “Why We Need A

Health Council”. November 23, 2003, Montreal, Quebec. 82. Presentation to “The Role Of Government Research Panel”, University Of Toronto,

“Steering And Rowing In Health Care: The Devolution Option”. June 17, 2003, Toronto, Ontario.

83. Plenary (invited) Presentation at the Council of Canadian Health Care Conference,

Excellence in Human Resources, speaking on the health of human resources. April 2003, The Sheraton Hotel, Toronto.

84. “The Prospects for a National Pharmacare Plan: Lessons from Australia,” Institute for

Research in Public Policy, “National Aspects of Pharmacare”. September 2002, Toronto, Ontario.

85. “Strengthening the Foundations: Securing the Modernity of the Canada Health Act”

Alberta Health Law Institute, 25th Anniversary Conference. September 2002, Edmonton, Alberta.

86. “Private Financing? Private Delivery? Two Tier Healthcare?” National Healthcare


Leadership Conference. May 27-28, 2002, Halifax, Nova Scotia. 87. “NAFTA, Have We Traded Away our Capacity for Innovative Health Reform?”, Centre for

Health Services and Policy Research, 14th Annual Health Policy Conference. November 9, 2001, Vancouver, British Columbia.

88. “Contracting Out for Home Care Services”, at the Karolinska Institute. June 2001,

Stockholm, Sweden. 89. “What the Canada Health Act (CHA) Really Says”, The Canadian Health Services

Research Foundation, 2nd Annual Invited Exchange. May 31 and June 1, 2001, Glenerin Inn, Erin Mills, Ontario.

90. Chair of panel on “International Health Issues” at the Canadian Health Economics

Research Association conference, Health, "Economics and the Future: The 9th Canadian Conference on Health Economics". May 23-26, 2001, Toronto, Ontario.

91. Plenary Speaker at the Canadian Bioethics Society Conference, "Technology, Private

Financing and the Sustainability of the Canada Health Act". October 19-21, 2000, Quebec City.

92. “Health Policy and Outcomes in Canada and the US”, paper presented at the Queen’s

International Institute on Social Policy. August 23, 2000, Kingston, Ontario. 93. “The Illegality of Private Health Care in Canada”, paper presented on the Dialogue on

Health Reform Roundtable. June 28, 2000, Toronto, Ontario. 94. "Reinventing Health Care: A Comparison of Reform in Canada and New Zealand” paper

presented to the New Zealand Treasury. May 26, 2000, Wellington, New Zealand. 95. “Conundrums in Causation and Informed Consent”, Paper presented to the Superior

Court of Justice, Spring Education Seminar. April 26-28, 2000, London, Ontario. 96. “Rights to Health Care in Canada”, paper presented at Erasmus Health Policy Institute.

March 2000, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. 97. "Reinventing Health Care: A Comparison of Reform in Canada and New Zealand”,

presented to the Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto. February 2000, Toronto, Ontario.

98. "Reinventing Health Care: A Comparison of Reform in Canada and New Zealand”, the

1999 Labelle Lecture, McMaster University. October 1999, Hamilton, Ontario. 99. “Conundrums in Causation and Informed Consent”, Paper presented to the National

Judicial Institute Conference, Tort Law for the Twenty-First Century. May 19-21, 1999, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

100. “Legal Aspects of Infection Control Strategies”, Paper presented to the Canadian

Association for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Disease’ 66th Conjoint Meeting on Infectious Diseases. November 10, 1998, Toronto, Ontario.


101. "Regulating the Shifting Sand at the Public/Private Divide” and “Regulatory Options”

invited plenary speaker at the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis, 11th Annual Health Policy Conference (First speaker to have been invited two consecutive years). May 27-29, 1998, Hamilton, Ontario.

102. "Challenging the System: Strategies and Support from Law and Ethics," a panel

presentation at the Registered Nurses' Association of Nova Scotia, 1998 Annual General Meeting and Education Conference. May 12, 1998, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

103. "Pharmacists and the Law: Legal Liability Arising from Patient Counselling," invited

plenary speaker at the Canadian Pharmacy Students Professional Development Week 1998. February 6, 1998, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

104. "International Trends in Health Care Reform: The Economist's Contribution," invited

workshop presented at the Canadian Bioethics Society 9th Annual Meeting. October 1997, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

105. "Legal and Economic Analysis of Public and Private Insurance Coverage of Drug Costs

for People Living with HIV and AIDS," invited speaker at HIV/AIDS Education Conference: Employers and Insurers. May 27, 1997, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

106. "Legal Issues in Contracting Out for Health Services in the Public Sector," invited

plenary speaker at the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis, 10th Annual Health Policy Conference. May 21-23, 1997, Hamilton, Ontario.

107. "Beyond the Rhetoric: Health Reform and Policy," invited speaker and plenary panelist

at "Challenge to Change!: A Provincial Women's Forum," Nova Scotia Advisory Council on the Status of Women. April 24-26, 1997, Baddeck, Nova Scotia.

108. "Reconciliation of Professional Interest and the Public Interest in an Era of Reform:

Nova Scotia Registered Nurses," invited speaker at the Annual Regional Meeting of the Registered Nurses' Association of Nova Scotia. April 23, 1997, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

109. "Contracting Out for Health Services in Canada," presented at the 1997 Canadian Law

and Economics Association Annual Conference. September 1997, Toronto, Ontario. Conferences (Peer-reviewed Abstracts) 2. Presentation at the 5th International Conference on Priorities in Health Care. I presented

in the session about “Who calls the shots?– the role of key players in priority setting”. November 3-5, 2004, Wellington, New Zealand.

3. Presentations, 1st Conference of the Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research, May 25-28, 2004, Montreal, Quebec:

a. Presented (as part of referred competition for papers) “Is Devolution the Solution?” with Duncan Sinclair.

b. Organized a special session on the Medicare Basket. I presented “What is in and out of the Medicare Basket.” Other presenters included Peter Coyte and Julia Abelson.


4. International Health Economics Association 2001 meeting in York, England,

“Reinventing Health Care: A Legal, Economic and Political Analysis of Reform in Canada and New Zealand”.

5. Canadian Health Economics Research Association, “Marshalling the Evidence”, at the

conference, Health, "Economics and the Future: The 9th Canadian Conference on Health Economics". May 23-26, 2001, Toronto, Ontario.

6. "The Prospects For Competition-Oriented Health Care Reform," Canadian Law and

Economics Association Annual Conference. September 27-28, 1996, Toronto, Ontario. 7. "Prospects For New Zealand's Reformed Health Care Allocation System," paper

presented at the inaugural meeting of the International Health Economics Association. May 19-23, 1996, Vancouver, British Columbia.

8. "Keep the Change: New Zealand's Health Care System" presented at the Canadian

Health Economics Research Association annual conference, August 25, 1995, Wilfred Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario.

Other Presentations 1. CIHR Best Brains Exchange co-hosted by Health Canada and the Canadian Institutes of

Health Research (CIHR) on the topic, “Health System Renewal in Atlantic Canada”. November 2, 2011, Fall River, Nova Scotia.

2. CIHR Best Brains Exchange co-hosted by Health Canada and the Canadian Institutes of

Health Research (CIHR) on the topic, “Whether results based on current data sources and pharmacoepidemiological research methods will be sufficiently robust for decision makers”. March 29, 2010, Toronto, Ontario.

3. CIHR Best Brain Consultation on “Clearing a path to mental health: How can we improve

access to effective mental healthcare services”. Hosted by: CIHR Institute of Health Services and Policy Research in partnership with the Mental Health Commission of Canada. February, 2010, Montreal, Quebec.

4. Participant at the 4th Annual Canadian Congress for Research on Mental Health and

Addiction in the Workplace, the leading Canadian forum dedicated to exchanging scientific evidence to improve the working environment and the mental health of workers. During this 2½-day congress, hundreds of researchers, business leaders, policy-makers, service providers and workers gathered to share information on the latest research and practical, evidence-based policies, programs and tools. October 28-30, 2009, Westin Harbour Castle, Toronto, Ontario.

5. Plenary panelist on Workplace Mental Health Research titled “In Conversation with the

CIHR Institute Directors”. October 28-30, 2009, Toronto, Ontario. 6. CIHR Café Scientifique – Moderator for café “As seen on TV! The risks and benefits of

direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription-only drugs”. March 3, 2008, Vancouver, British Columbia.


7. CIHR Café Scientifique – Moderator for café “Private Finance and Canadian Medicare”.

February 27, 2008, Ottawa, Ontario. 8. CIHR Café Scientifique – Moderator for café “All I ever do is wait! Putting an end to

health care wait times”, February 19, 2008, Ottawa, Ontario 9. CIHR Café Scientifique – Moderator for café “Whose Life is it Anyway? Assisted Suicide

in Canada”, Halifax, Nova Scotia, February 18, 2008. 10. Welcome and Opening Remarks “Best Brain Consultation: Improving Chronic Disease

Management and Prevention with Electronic Health Records”, Hosted by: CIHR Institute of Health Services and Policy Research and the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care e-Health Team. February 4, 2008, Toronto, Ontario.

11. Opening remarks at the “Of What Difference: Reflections on the Judgment and Abortion

in Canada Today” symposium to mark the 20th Anniversary of R v. Morgentaler, sponsored by the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto and the National Abortion Federation at the University of Toronto. January 25, 2008, Toronto, Ontario.

12. Opening remarks for Access to Care Research Synthesis Workshop, hosted by:

Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Conference of Provincial and Territorial Deputy Ministers of Health and Health Canada. January 15, 2008, Toronto, Ontario.

13. Presentation given at the “Making Research Work for Canada’s Healthcare Leaders”

session of the CAHSPR Conference 2007 – Leading, Linking and Listening: Knowledge Exchange at the Frontiers of Health Services and Policy Research. June 12, 2007, Toronto, Ontario.

14. Participant in a roundtable discussion on developing a research agenda pertaining to

health integration and quality improvement in home care at The Change Foundation Symposium: Showcasing Successes in Health-care Change, Framing Future Challenges. May 25, 2007, Toronto, Ontario.

15. Plenary Address at the S.O.S. Medicare 2: Looking Forward Conference and the

Keynote Address “Courts vs. Medicare” with Greg Marchildon at Session #1 of the Conference, at the Queensbury Convention Centre. May 3-4, 2007, Regina, Saskatchewan.

16. Panelist in Session #3: “Financing to Achieve Greater Equity” of the S.O.S. Medicare 2:

Looking Forward Conference at the Queensbury Convention Centre. May 3-4, 2007, Regina, Saskatchewan.

17. Discussant for “Confronting difficult choices in wait time management – the New-

Zealand experience”, presented by Ray Naden, The Taming of the Queue conference. April 3, 2007, Ottawa, Ontario.

18. Presentation during Introduction to Health Services and Policy Research “Courts v.

Medicare”, at the CIHR Workshop for Health Reporters, University of Toronto. (In collaboration with CIHR Marketing and Communications, Ottawa, ON). March 26-27,


2007, Toronto, Ontario. 19. Presentation on “Access to Health Care and Services: Developing Priorities for First

Nations, Inuit and Metis People”; at a workshop hosted by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research – Institute of Aboriginal Peoples’ Health, Institute of Health Policy and Services Research and the First Nations and Inuit Health Branch, Health Canada. February 27, 2007, Ottawa, Ontario.

20. Presentation on “Building Rural Health Research Capacity – A National Update” to the

New Brunswick Rural Health Network, Rural Health Research Symposium. February 20, 2007, Fredericton, New Brunswick.

21. Presentation at “Building a Health Human Resources Research and Knowledge

Translation Exchange Agenda” workshop in collaboration with Jamie Hockin, Public Health Agency Canada and Robert Shearer, Health Canada. February 13, 2007, Vancouver, British Columbia.

22. Faculty seminar on “The Canadian Institutes of Health Research: Funding Research and

Researchers and Opportunities for Legal Scholars”, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. October 23, 2006, Toronto, Ontario.

23. Presentation on “Seeking the Grail: Financing for Quality, Accessibility and Sustainability in the Health Care System”, (with Mark Stabile and Carolyn Tuohy) for the conference on Social Insurance for Health Care: Economic, Legal and Political Considerations, School of Public Policy & Governance, University of Toronto. November 9, 2006, Toronto, Ontario.

24. Presentation at “Tribute to Frank Iacobucci”, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto: The Contextual Turn: Iacobucci’s Legacy and the Standard of Review in Administrative Law (with Lorne Sossin). October 19-20, 2006, Toronto, Ontario.

25. Presentation on the Chaoulli decision at the Health Law and Policy Seminar Series.

March 2, 2006, Toronto, Ontario. 26. Presentation at the Faculty of Nursing on the Structure and Dynamics of the Canadian

Health Care System, January 19, 2004. 27. Presentation at the Health Law Teacher’s Curriculum Network Meeting on the Health

Law and Policy Workshop, January 22, 2004. 28. “How Decisions Are Made About What is In and Out of Medicare”, National Health Law

Conference 2004. January 23-24, 2004, Toronto, Ontario. Presentation available on conference website: <www.law.utoronto.ca/conferences/healthlaw04.html>.

29. Chair of a workshop, sponsored by the Canadian Medical Association on “The Medicare

Basket”, March 4, 2004. 30. Participated in panel discussions at the “Open Forum - Plasma Self-sufficiency in

Canada - is it a matter of safety?” National Blood Safety Council. March 29-30, 2001, Vancouver, British Columbia.


31. "How Does Private Finance Affects Public Health Care Systems? Marshalling the

Evidence from OECD Nations", Health Law and Policy Seminar, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. March 15, 2001, Toronto, Ontario.

32. Participated in the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Open Forum. February 27,

2001, Scarborough, Ontario. 33. Participated in a panel considering patient rights legislation organized by the Ontario

Hospital Association and the Ontario Medical Association. January 23, 2001, Toronto, Ontario.

34. Presentation at the First Annual Health Law Day, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto,

"Health Care Reform: The Prospects for Lawyers". October 27, 2000, Toronto, Ontario. 35. Participation in the Ontario Medical Association Roundtable, "Canada Health Act:

Continuing the Dialogue". October 17, 2000. 36. "Reinventing Health Care: A Comparison of Reform in Canada and New Zealand”,

presented at the Toronto Law Faculty lunchtime meeting. February 2000, Toronto, Ontario.

37. “Commentary on Universal Access and Cross-subsidies” presented at “Breaking the

Mould: Reconceiving Telecommunications Regulation”, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. February 2000, Toronto, Ontario.

38. “Deinstitutionalization and the Shift to Home Care”, Paper presented as part of the

Dalhousie Health Law Institute’s Health Law and Policy Seminar Series. January 19, 1999, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

39. Member of Panel, Challenges in Modern Day Genetics: Insurance, Genetics, and Fair

Distribution, Atlantic Research Centre. May 28, 1999, Halifax, Nova Scotia. 40. “Can Government Be Reinvented?” by Michael Trebilcock, which I presented on his

behalf at the conference on "Reconfiguring the State," Faculty of Commerce and Administration. July 1994, Wellington, New Zealand.

41. "Exit and Voice in New Zealand's Health Care Sector" presented as the keynote speech

at the Legal Research Foundation's symposium on "Contracting in the Health Sector" June 1994, Auckland, New Zealand.

K. Media: Interviews, Op-eds, etc. 1. Interviewed on CBC: The Sunday Edition on the implications of the Supreme Court of

Canada’s Insite decision (2011) <http://www.cbc.ca/video/news/audioplayer.html?clipid=2153821720>

2. “How Do We Compare? Lifting Our Game on Healthcare Performance” (2011) Longwoods.com, <http://www.longwoods.com/content/22370>. Versions of this commentary were published in the new Canadian edition of the Huffington Post ("Time


for Canada to Improve Our Health Care Performance," May 27, 2011, <http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/colleen-m-flood/health-canada_b_867652.html>) and in the Victoria Times-Colonist ("Three steps to improve health care system," June 9. 2011, <http://www.timescolonist.com/health/Three+steps+improve+health+care+system/4917456/story.html>).

3. “It Pays to Drive a Hard Bargain”, The Mark, 14 June 2011,

<http://www.themarknews.com/articles/5536-it-pays-to-drive-a-hard-bargain>.

4. Interview in “The business of health care reform”, Canadian Business, 10 June 2011, <http://www.canadianbusiness.com/blog/business_briefings/29745--the-business-of-health-care-reform>.

5. “Three steps to improve health care system”, Times Colonist, 09 June 2011,

<http://www.timescolonist.com/health/Three+steps+improve+health+care+system/4917456/story.html>.

6. “Wrestling with Big Pharma”, The Toronto Star, 2 June 2011,

<http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1001101--wrestling-with-big-pharma>.

7. “Time for Canada to Improve Our Health Care Performance”, Huffpost Canada, 27 May

2011, <http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/colleen-m-flood/health-canada_b_867652.html>.

8. Opinion editorial, "Get Up Off Our Laurels and Improve Healthcare Performance", for the Evidence Network, 24 May 2011.

9. Interview with Andre Picard, on what can/should the Harper government do differently on

the healthcare file now that it has a majority, The Globe and Mail, 10 May 2011.

10. Interviewed by the Medical Post for an editorial series on health system sustainability and quoted by Colin Leslie, May 2011.

11. “Heaven or Hell? The Canada Health Act” (1000 words) PolicyMatters.ca, 30 November

2010 [Link to full text]. This piece was an invited contribution for an online symposium at PolicyMatters.ca.

12. Interview in “Health is Everything” video, online at the CIHR youtube channel.

<http://youtu.be/BuXBSC3esSM>.

13. Streaming webcast of my presentation at the First Global Symposium on Health Systems Research – Science to Accelerate Universal Health Coverage, November 16, 2010: <http://www.hsr-symposium.org/index.php/hsr-webcast>.

14. Television interview with Sue Sgambati, CP24 “On the implications for Canada as a result of the US health Reform”. March 2010.

15. Telephone conversation with Melinda Dalton, reporter working on a series of stories for

the Metroland chain of publications on the Canadian Health Care system on “The legalities of private health care in Ontario (both from the standpoint of clinics and


practitioners themselves as well as insurance)”. April 2009. 16. “Canadian Medicare: Careful Comparison Required” The Hill Times, 21 January, 2008. 17. “Privatized medical care no cure for waiting lists” (with Meghan McMahon), Toronto Star,

18 September 2007. 18. Interviewed on the pros and cons of the Canadian health-care system vis-à-vis the

American, XM Satellite Radio, 21 June 2007. 19. Interviewed on private knee-replacement surgery and system implications, Ontario

Today Program, CBC Radio, 15 March 2007. 20. “Chaoulli cited to argue for public funding for operation”, Lawyer’s Weekly, 9 February

2007. 21. CIUT Mainline radio interview “Supreme Court of Canada decision in Chaoulli allowing

the purchase of private health insurance, and how other countries really regulate the public/private divide”, 29 January 2007.

22. “Pressure builds on OHIP over foreign surgery,” Toronto Star, 22 January 2007. 23. CBC Radio interview, 30 November 2006. 24. “Nota bene - Awards, honours and happenings”, Edge Magazine, Fall/Winter 2006. 25. “One Tier Medicine Goes on Trial” (with Mark Stabile and Katie Kontic), Rotman

Magazine, Winter 2006 [Link to full text PDF]. 26. “Kiwi model best in world,” Toronto Star, 18 October 2006. 27. Op-ed, “Kiwi No-Fault for Medical Error? Should We Try It?” (with Lorian Hardcastle),

Toronto Star, 16 October 2006. 28. “New Scientific Director at CIHR – Expert on Canadian Healthcare System”, CIHR

Health Research News, September 2006. 29. “The Rise of private care in Canada”, Maclean’s, 25 April 2006. 30. Television interview on ichannel – Panel discussion on health care (1 hour show), 7

March 2006. 31. Interview for CTV Morning AM television, discussing the Alberta proposals for reform of

the health care system, 2 March 2006. 32. Radio interview with CBC Winnipeg discussing the Alberta proposals for reform of the

health care system, 2 March 2006. 33. Interview for The National, CBC, discussing the Alberta proposals for reform of the

health care system, 1 March 2006.


34. CBC Edmonton AM, interview on the Chaoulli decision, 24 November 2005. 35. Participated in an open forum on the Chaoulli decision for “the House”, CBC Radio, aired

on 29 October 2005. 36. Interview with CBC French radio on the Health Services Appeal and Review Board, 27

July 2005. 37. Television interview on CBC Morning News regarding how provinces make decisions

about what drugs to fund, 27 July 2005. 38. Op-ed, “You can appeal long wait times” (with Greig Hinds), Toronto Star, 25 July 2005. 39. “Will private health insurance deliver?”, Toronto Star commentary, 3 July 2005. 40. “Longer waits in private system: Dosanjh”, Vancouver Sun, 21 June 2005. 41. “Private health care isn't a Canadian reality: Insurance may not be banned, but rules

work against it in practice”, Montreal Gazette, 19 June 2005. 42. Participation in CBC Cross Country Check-up with Rex Murphy discussing the Chaoulli

decision, 12 June 2005. 43. “Canada may move toward U.K. system”, Globe and Mail, 10 June 2005. 44. Chaoulli decision, CHUM-FM, 9 June 2005. 45. Featured in an article, “Private Cover no solution to waiting list”, by John Gibb, Otago

Daily Times (New Zealand) 26-7 March 2005, p. 8. 46. Radio interview, Otago radio station, New Zealand, on public/private financing of health

care, 25 March 2005. 47. “Health-care reform: The debate continues”, Follow-up opinion editorial in the National

Post, in response to Margaret Sommerville of McGill University, 3 August 2004, p. A11. 48. “Two-tier medicine isn't the answer”, opinion editorial in the National Post, on whether

Canada should embrace two-tier private insurance, 21 Jun 2004, p. A10. 49. Interview and quoted in “The End of Health Care”, The Walrus, June 2004. 50. Interview with Mary Janigan on waiting lists and times for an article appearing in

Maclean’s on 19 April, 2004. 51. Interview with Radio Canada International on SARS as an opportunity for reform of the

public health care system, 29 April 2003. 52. Interview with CBC Network News on SARS as an opportunity for reform of the public

health care system, 28 April 2003.


53. Appearance on Global TV, debating a Supreme Court Challenge under s. 7 to

restrictions on two-tier health care in Quebec. At the time, Global Sunday was Canada's No. 1-ranked current affairs discussion program. It was produced from Calgary and hosted by Danielle Smith. 2 June 2003.

54. Appearance on Global TV, “Agenda” reacting to the findings of a Pollara Poll looking at

Health Care. The show aired the week of 9 June 2003. 55. CBC radio interview with Michael Enright on the future of Medicare, broadcasted 30

November 2003. 56. CBC television interview with Beatrice Poledi, broadcast on 10 September 2003 at 6.30

pm. 57. “Lessons From SARS: Now is the time for public health reform”, Op-ed in the National

Post, 30 April 2003, p. A16. 58. “Time to listen once again” (with Tom Kent, Dr. Robert Y. McMurtry, Charles E. Pascal,

and Dr. Terry Sullivan), open letter on the need for a Health Council, published in the Toronto Star, 1 December 2003.

59. Appearance on CBC Radio, “The Current” to discuss reactions to the Romanow Report,

6 December, 2002. 60. Appearance on Rogers Television, “Agenda” to discuss the Romanow Report, 2

December, 2002, 10 am – 12 p.m. (replayed 4 times through the week on Rogers Cable and MSNBC Canada).

61. Appearance on CBC Radio show, to discuss the Romanow Report, 29 November 2002. 62. Interview with CTV television, discussing the Romanow Report, 28 November 2002. 63. Interview with CBC Newsworld, discussing the Romanow Report, 28 November 2002. 64. Interview on CBC, “The National”, 22 and 23 November 2002. 65. Appearance on Rogers Television, “Agenda” to discuss the “State of Health Care”, 4

November, 2000, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. (replayed 4 times through the week on Rogers Cable and MSNBC Canada).

66. Appearance on the CBC radio show “This Morning” to discuss the Mazinkowski report, 9

January, 2002. 67. Television presentation in Ottawa to debate the Canada Health Act, special session

convened by the Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada, March 2002. 68. Television presentation on “Counterspin” in Toronto, discussing health care reform,

March 2002.


69. Radio interview on CBC on health policy, 15 November 2001. 70. Member of the CBC Town-Hall Debate, “Medicare: Crisis What Crisis???”, a special

forum discussion on the state of Canada's Medicare System. Recorded 27 September 2000 and broadcast 2 October 2000. Other panel-members included Allan Rock, Peter Barrett, Patricia O'Reilly, Andrew Coyne and David Gratzor.

71. CBC radio interviews on various health reform issues with stations in Halifax, Sydney,

Quebec City, Calgary, Kelowna, Fredericton, Thunder Bay, Ottawa, St. John's, Montreal, and Edmonton, January 2000.

72. Global television interview on the issue of public funding of in vitro fertilization services,

July 1999. 73. New Brunswick newspaper and CBC radio in New Brunswick interview speaking on the

Health Care Funding Guarantee Act, July 1999. 74. CBC radio interview in Halifax on the issue of public funding of in vitro fertilization

services, June 1999. 75. CBC radio interview in Halifax on “two-tier” medical care and the impact on waiting lists,

January 1999. Quoted in Print 1. "Another health system coming apart at the seams", by L. Mallinder, Irish Times, page 7,

11 January, 2011.

2. "Time to get our Health Act together" by A. Picard in the Globe and Mail, page A8, 8 November, 2010.

3. "The outspoken surgeon medicare advocates love to hate", by R. Mickleburgh, Globe and Mail, page A16, 6 November, 2010.

4. “Tough choices: private sale of drugs in public hospitals”, by Colleen Flood and Lorian Hardcastle (2010) 182 Canadian Medical Association Journal 374-376, DOI:10.1503/cmaj.081137, First published 8 February 2010, Published in CMAJ on 9 March 2010 [Link to full text].

5. “CIHR pledges to tackle primary health care”, Paul Christopher Webster (2010) 182:4

Canadian Medical Association Journal, DOI:10.1503/cmaj.109-3160, First published 21 January 2010, Published in CMAJ on 9 March 2010 [Link to full text].

6. “Outcome of health-related legal challenges is sometimes surprising”, by Ann Silversides (2009) 181:11 Canadian Medical Association Journal, DOI:10.1503/cmaj.109-3075, First published 13 October 2009, Published in CMAJ on 24 November 2009 [Link to full text].

7. “Chaoulli a brisé un tabou en réclamant le droit de contracter une assurance privée”, by

Jonathan Trudel in L’Actualité, 15 April, 2008.


8. “Abortion, gunshot wounds, lung cancer: Who pays?” by Andre Picard in the Globe and

Mail, page L5, 7 February 2008. 9. “Public-Private Medicine: Quebec opens door to more private health care”, by Rheal

Seguin and Gloria Galloway in the Globe and Mail, page A1, 20 February, 2008. 10. “The doctor auction; Perks to attract new family physicians are pitting cities against each

other” by Ann Lukits, Kingston Whig Standard, December 2007. 11. “Two new case studies” (Editorial) in The Medical Post (Toronto), 20 November, 2007. 12. “Report decries for-profit clinics plan” by Kerry Gillespie in the Toronto Star, 1 October,

2007. 13. “Charter of Rights a ‘blunt instrument’ when it comes to health care. Researcher says

there’s a better way to fight health policy” by Michael MacLean in the Sault Star, 18 August 2007.

14. “Winnipeg Solution the wrong remedy Re: Public health may need private cure, July 31”,

letter to the editor in the Winnipeg Free Press, 7 August 2007. 15. “Docs offer wrong prescription…”, letter to the editor by Guy Caron in The Calgary Sun,

5 August 2007. 16. “Fixing medicare is the only answer”, letter to the editor by Sharon Sholzberg-Gray in the

National Post, 3 August 2007. 17. “Private MDs will lengthen waiting lists”, letter to the editor by Sharon Sholzberg-Gray in

The Ottawa Citizen, 3 August 2007. 18. “Private health care system not answer to wait times” letter to the editor by Guy Caron in

the The Windsor Star, 3 August 2007. 19. “Assault on medicare”, letter to the editor by Maija Kagis in The Leader-Post (Regina),

19 May 2007. 20. “Expanding coverage may say the system” by Karen Brownlee in The Leader-Post

(Regina), 4 May 2007. 21. “How much is your health worth to the bottomline?” by Julie Fortier in the Ottawa

Business Journal, 16 April 2007. 22. “A ticking political time bomb” by Mary Janigan in Maclean’s 117:17, 26 April 2004 p. 14. 23. “What's a wait worth?” by Mary Janigan in Maclean’s 116:2, 13 January 2003, p. 39. 24. “Stretching the Medicare envelope” by Mary Janigan in Maclean’s 113:14, 3 April 2000,

p. 46.


Other Media 1. “Inconsistencies in cardiac surgery wait time benchmarks, according to new study”,

quoted in the Heart & Stroke Foundation Press release, 21-24 October, 2007. 2. “Report decries for-profit clinics plan” by Kerry Gillespie in the Toronto Star, 1 October,

2007. 3. “Charter of Rights a ‘blunt instrument’ when it comes to health care. Researcher says

there’s a better way to fight health policy” in the Sault Star, 18 August, 2007. 4. “Docs offer wrong prescription…” (editorial) in The Calgary Sun, 5 August, 2007. 5. “Private health care system not answer to wait times” by Guy Caron in the The Windsor

Star, 3 August, 2007.

6. “IHSPR SD, Dr. Colleen Flood, first woman in history bestowed with Jerry Lee Guest Lecturer honour” in ‘Around the Globe’: Highlights of CIHR’s International Connections (July 2007) 2:4.

7. “CIHR Workshop for Health Reporters”, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, 26-27 March

2007. As mentioned above, this workshop was an opportunity for health and science reporters to meet face to face with some of Canada’s most renowned researchers in the field of health-care services research. Reporters in attendance included: Pauline Anderson, Editor, Family Health, Canadian Living magazine; Marilyn Linton, Health Editor, Sun Media; Tanya Talaga, reporter Toronto Star; Joe Hall, reporter, Toronto Star; Megan Ogilvie, reporter, Toronto Star; Kim Honey, Health editor, Toronto Star; Gillian Woodford, editor, National Review of Medicine; Sam Solomon, reporter, National Review of Medicine; Jennifer Laliberté, reporter, National Review of Medicine; Evelyne Michaels, Freelancer reporter; Lisa Priest, Globe and Mail; Marg Leyland, health freelancer; Lindsay Borthwick, freelancer; Tom Walkom, Toronto Star; Hannah Hoag, Globe and Mail; Rosanna Tamburry, Reporter, University Affairs magazine; Pauline Dakin from CBC Radio and Edwin Gailits, Director, WDR productions.

8. “New CIHR scientific director seeks to improve health care services”, News@UofT, 5

September 2006.

9. “Law Professor joins CIHR”, News@UofT, 2 May 2006. 10. “Dr. Colleen M. Flood Appointed New Scientific Director of CIHR’s Institute of Health

Services and Policy Research,” CIHR website, 27 April 2006. 11. Featured in Fall/Winter 2006 issue of Edge magazine. Online:

<http://www.research.utoronto.ca/edge/fall2006/2.html>. L. Other Professional Activities 2011 Member of the Board for the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Studies (Ontario’s

data centre for health services research and an international leader in the use of


secondary data) and to chair a committee on stakeholder engagement. 2011 Member of the Canadian Institute for Health Information’s Strategic Analytic

Advisory Committee 2009 Nationally I have made significant contributions as the Scientific Director of the

Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Institute of Health Services and Policy Research (IHSPR). Overall, as Scientific Director, I set research priorities and strategic directions for IHSPR that are crucial to supporting research excellence, building research capacity, and advancing knowledge translation efforts – all in an effort to strengthen Canada's health care system and improve the health and quality of life of all Canadians.

2007 Selected by the Ontario Ministry of Health & Long-Term Care to serve on an

advisory committee regarding an integrated Ontario health research strategy. 2007 Selected as part of the Health Canada delegation to the Netherlands to compare

health systems. 2007 Served on an External Advisory Committee to the iCARE Governing Board,

University of Alberta. 2007 Invited participant to a roundtable discussion of the Canadian government’s new

science and technology strategy, Mobilizing Science and Technology to Canada’s Advantage, coordinated by Health Canada, Ottawa, ON, 9 October, 2007.

2007 Chair, Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF), Listening for

Direction III translation workshop. 2007 Meeting with Deputy Minister Rosenberg, Deputy Minister of Health, 20

December, 2007, Ottawa, ON. 2007 Promotion of CIHR – Institute of Health Services and Policy Research, programs

and funding opportunities occurred throughout 2007 – 2008 via Town Hall Forum (30 April, 2007, University of Toronto; 1 May, 2007, McMaster University; 13 June, CAHSPR Conference; 14 June, Dalhousie University; 13 September, University of Saskatchewan; 14 September, University of Regina; 10 October, University of British Columbia; 11 October, University of Alberta; 10 December, 2007, Queen’s University; 18 February, 2008, Dalhousie University)

2007 One of two external reviewers of the Centre for Health Services and Policy

Research (CHSPR), Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, 23 – 24 October 2007. 2007 Coordinated meetings with U of T researchers in health law and policy and

hosted meeting with the Hon. Minister Peter Dunne, Minister of Revenue, Associate Minister of Health, New Zealand, re: Canada’s medicines, drug, pharmaceutical strategy, Toronto, ON, 27 September 2007.

2006 Charter Challenge on Public Medicare - consultation with potential intervenors for

Chaoulli-style challenge in Alberta.


2003-06 Peer Reviewer, Canadian Institutes for Health Research

External peer reviewer on 4 operating grants between 2003-2006 Operating Grant (2006) Operating Grant – Priority Announcement: Knowledge Translation (2006) Institute of Health Services and Policy Research – Operating Grant (2006) Operating Grant (2003)

2003 Awarded Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy at the University of

Toronto 2003 Peer Reviewer, Social Science and Humanities Research Council 2003 Participation at the CIHR training program in Halifax, 30 April – 2 May.

Mentoring and feedback to graduate students in health law and policy 2003 Participation in the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation, Invited

Exchange, “Finding the Fulcrum, What Are the Effective Levers for Change in Health Care?”, 29-30 May, Glererinn Inn, Erin Mills, Ontario. This is an annual exchange to which 30 policy-makers (many deputy-ministers of health attend) and leading policy analysts are invited.

2003 Invitational workshop on inter-generational justice held in Ottawa on 4 September

2003 (sponsored by Canadian Policy Research Networks and the Change Foundation).

2002 The Health Council. Organized and was the lead author on an editorial,

submitted and published by the Toronto Star, calling for the establishment of a Health Council as promised in the First Ministers’ Accord, 2003. This was signed by some 50 leading policy analysts and academics across the country.

2002 Consultant to the CBC on their coverage of the Romanow report – November 20. 2002 Invited to participate in the Four Country Conference, Potsdam, Germany, 11-13

July 2002 “Diffusion of Medical Technologies: Innovation and Policy Response”. 2002 Invited by Federal Minister of Health, Anne McClelland to discuss health care

reform issues, Ottawa, 10 April 2002. 2001 Invited by Gary Mar, Minister of Health for Alberta to present on health care

reform initiatives to the Cabinet of Alberta, 27 June 2001. 2001 Invited by the Institute for Research in Public Policy to act in advisory capacity on

the development of health law and policy expertise and funding provided for teaching relief.

2001 Invited by the Romanow Commission to provide a paper on the sustainability of

the Canada Health Act and options for reform. 2001 Invited to participate in the Four Country Conference, Gananoque, Canada, July


12-14 2001, “Aging and Health Policy in the US, Canada, Germany and the Netherlands”.

2000-2001 Invited to present before the Senate Social Affairs Committee on Medicare on

four separate occasions over the course of 2001-2002 on health care reform and to prepare four reports looking at what lessons Canada can learn from reform in other jurisdictions.

2000 Invited to appear before the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs,

Science and Technology for its study on the health care system on 10 May 2000. 2000 Invited by the Institute for Research and Public Policy to be on a national

taskforce to generate health reform proposals for the First Minister’s meeting in September 2000.

1999 Participated in workshop in Kananaskis with experts from around Canada on

“Providing Genetic Testing through the Private Sector”. 1999 Member of the Dialogue Committee: Sustaining Confidence in Canada’s Health

Care System. 1998-2000 Member of the Renewal and Restructuring of the Health System Peer Review

Committee for the National Health Research and Development Program, Ottawa. 1999 Provided consulting advice to the Nova Scotia Dept. of Health on the policy

issues inherent in charging for flu vaccines. 1998-1999 Assisted the Multicultural Centre with a guide for health care for new immigrants. M. Conference & Seminar Organization 1. Organized a workshop on Health Rights at the Public/Private Intersection. Aeyal Gross

and I are overseeing a major research project that looks at the impact of health rights litigation on equality of access to health services. This workshop was the first in-person meeting of our contributors, and provided an opportunity to present and discuss first drafts. October 22, 2010, Toronto, Ontario.

2. Coordinated the Health Law and Policy Seminar Series at the Faculty of Law, 1999-

2009. See <http://www.law.utoronto.ca/healthlaw/>. 3. Co-organizer and speaker for Symposium in honour of Prof. Michael Trebilcock. The

two-day symposium hosted over 40 presenters and moderators from universities from across Canada and around the world including U of T, UBC, Queen’s and University of Montreal in Canada, Haifa and Hebrew University in Israel, Manchester and Kent in England, Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins, UC Berkeley and NYU in the United States and the University of Otago in New Zealand. Participants included senior academics, university presidents and Supreme Court justices. Panellist: Re-inventing Government Panel, “The Evidentiary Burden for Overturning Government's Choice of Regulatory Instrument: The Case of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising of Prescription Drugs”. October


1-2, 2009, Toronto, Ontario. 4. Led the organization of a pan-Canadian summit on primary healthcare entitled “Patient-

Oriented Primary Healthcare: Scaling Up Innovation”. This two-day event was held in January in Toronto and attracted more than 480 participants with 64 speakers from International and Canadian organizations which include a variety of stakeholder groups, including researchers, healthcare providers, policy makers, and patient and provider organizations.

5. With substantial financial support to a combined total of $137,000 from 15 partners

including 10 CIHR Institutes, Canadian Medical Association, Canadian Nurses Association, Canadian Institute of Health Information, Canadian Health Services Research Foundation and The College of Family Physicians, Canada, CIHR IHSPR was able to leverage its limited financial and in-kind contributions to maximize the impact of the Summit and catalyze momentum to improve Primary Healthcare research.

6. This extensive partner involvement signalled that primary healthcare is indeed a matter

of concern across a broad range of health system stakeholders. The event was a success, and featured 64 speakers and leading thinkers from Canada and abroad in plenary talks, panel sessions, and over twenty concurrent workshops. January 18-19, 2010, Toronto, Ontario.

7. Coordinated a national conference on Health Information – “Access to Data:

Accountability and Responsibility,” October, 2008, Toronto, Ontario. 8. Coordinated a Grant Writing Workshop and Seminar at the 2008 Canadian Association

for Health Services and Policy Research conference. May 25-28, 2008, Gatineau, Quebec.

9. Coordinated (with Lorne Sossin) Administrative Law Text Symposium, June 11, 2007,

Toronto, Ontario. 10. Co-host (Faculty of Law, University of Toronto) with Greg Marchildon (Graduate School

of Public Policy, University of Regina) of the S.O.S. Medicare 2: Looking Forward Conference at the Queensbury Convention Centre, Regina, Saskatchewan, May 3-4, 2007. The Conference was one of the most important gatherings of thinkers, policy-makers and activists concerned about the future of the Canadian medicare system at a critical juncture in its history. With over 500 attendees and speakers from across North America and Europe, it offered a broad perspective of the challenges, possible solutions, and hopes for the Canadian healthcare system. Sponsors included the Canadian Health Coalition, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Canadian Health Coalition, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Saskatchewan Health, Douglas-Coldwell Foundation, CUPE-SCFP, CAW-TCA Canada, Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Province of Manitoba, Canadian Federation of Nurses, Canadian Doctors for Medicare, United Steelworkers, United Nurses of Alberta, Canadian Alliance of Community Health Centre Associations, SEIU – Locals 299, 336, and 333, Canadian Labour Congress, Saskatchewan Federation of Labour, CUPW-STTP, The Council of Canadians, National Union, CUPE Saskatchewan, PSAC-AFPC, Canadian Nurses Association, Parkland Institute, Saskatchewan RN Association, Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, The Atkinson Charitable Foundation, RNAO, IBEW, InterPares, Health


Sciences Association of Saskatchewan, CAW-TCA Canada, Regina Qu’Appelle Health Region, Saskatchewan Health Council, Ecumenical Health Care Network, Regina Hotel Association, and the American Federation of Labor & Council of Industrial Organization: Building-Construction Trades Dept.

11. “The Convergence of Health and Law International Perspectives” 5th Annual Global

Health Research Conference, (Centre for International Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto in collaboration with the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto). May 7-8, 2007, Toronto, Ontario. Some of the topics that be discussed at this conference were: fair distribution of medicines; corporate responsibility; vulnerable populations – unjust health disparities; determinants of health.

12. “CIHR Workshop for Health Reporters”, University of Toronto, March 26-27, 2007,

Toronto, Ontario. (In collaboration with CIHR Marketing and Communications, Ottawa, Ontario). This workshop was an opportunity for health and science reporters to meet face to face with some of Canada’s most renowned researchers (and up-and-coming stars) in the field of health-care services research. Researchers engaged with reporters to learn more about this complex field and benefit from direct interaction with these experts.

13. “Building a Health Human Resources Research and Knowledge Translation Exchange

Agenda” workshop (in collaboration with Jamie Hockin, Public Health Agency Canada and Robert Shearer, Health Canada), February 13, 2007, Vancouver, British Columbia. This workshop encouraged discussion among researchers, health research funding organizations, and health system policy and decision makers to help generate health system level HHR research and KTE priorities.

14. “CIHR Training Program in Health Law and Policy – 4th Network Curriculum Meeting” (in

collaboration with Jocelyn Downie and Tim Caulfield). November 16-17, 2006, Montreal, Quebec.

15. “Social Insurance for Health Care: Economic, Legal and Political Considerations”

conference, School of Public Policy & Governance, (with Mark Stabile and Carolyn Tuohy), University of Toronto, November 9-10, 2006. This two-day conference brought together leaders in healthcare financing to discuss how to prevent healthcare from buckling under the strain of rising costs. It explored alternative ways of financing health care that are consistent with Canadian values but that go beyond the traditional publicly financed system. Discussion also included how to provide more equitable coverage for prescription drugs and how to increase the level of satisfaction with the tax-funded system.

16. “Administrative Law in Context” workshop, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, (with

Lorne Sossin). September 15, 2006, Toronto, Ontario. 17. “Access to Care, Access to Justice: The Legal Debate Over Private Health Insurance”

With Lorne Sossin and Kent Roach - organized the Chaoulli conference on September 16, 2005 at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario. We had over 250 people in attendance. We co-edited the papers presented at the conference. The result is a book called Access to Care, Access to Justice: The Legal Debate Over Private Health Insurance in Canada – 27 separate chapters. This was published within a mere two


weeks of the date of the conference by the University of Toronto Press in early October 2005 “Healing with Dollars and Sense: The Ethics of Cost-Effectiveness”, December 9-10, 2004. A Workshop funded the CHSRF Medicare Basket and Health Canada. This was done in conjunction with Gopal Sreenivsan, Department of Philosophy.

18. “Careful Consideration: Decision Making in Health Care”. This conference was held on

November 30, 2004 in Toronto, Ontario and funded by the CHSRF Medicare Basket project and Health Canada. The audience was a mix of academics, policy makers, and representatives from other organizations from within the health care community. See <http://www.law.utoronto.ca/healthlaw/basket/conference_careful_content.html>.

19. “The SARS Crisis” I organized an open public forum on the SARS crisis, Faculty of Law,

University of Toronto, May 6, 2003 and presented at this. Other presenters included Michael Trebilcock, Trudo Lemmens, Tom Archibald, Bernard Dickens and Kent Roach.

20. Organized National Health Law Conference entitled “Who Gets It? Who Decides? Issues

of Access and Allocation in Health Care” which was held on January 22-24, 2004 at the Sutton Place Hotel, Toronto, Ontario. This conference addressed issues of allocation and access in health care both in Canada and around the world. Speakers included the majority of health law scholars and teachers in Canada as well as invited guests from other jurisdictions. The conference was used as an opportunity to celebrate the work of Bernard Dickens who has now retired. Professor Larry Gostin (Georgetown University) gave a public lecture in honour of Bernard on the topic of the effect of SARS on public health planning. Michael Decter-- appointed Chair of the National Health Council – also spoke at lunch on the second day of the conference.

21. Organized a roundtable on “Life after Kirby and Romanow: Will Real Change Happen?”

at the Faculty of Law on December 10, 2002, Toronto, Ontario. The panellists were Carolyn Tuohy, Michael Decter, Hugh Segal and myself.

22. Coordinator of the 2nd Annual Health Law Day, “A Patients’ Bill of Rights for Ontario?”

October 12, 2001 at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario. Speakers included Ron Paterson (Health and Disability Commission, New Zealand), Wendy K. Mariner (Boston University School of Law), Gilbert S. Sharpe (Cassels Brock & Blackwell) and myself.

23. Coordinator of the 1st Annual Health Law Day, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto,

October 27, 2000. Speakers included Bernard Dickens (Faculty of Law, University of Toronto), Rebecca Cook (Faculty of Law, University of Toronto), Sujit Choudhry (Faculty of Law, University of Toronto), Gilbert Sharpe (Cassels Brock & Blackwell) and myself.

24. Coordinator of the Health Law and Policy Workshop Series at Dalhousie Health Law

Institute, 1998-2000. 25. Chair of Organization Committee, SGS--Massey College Symposium, "The Internet:

Web or Cocoon?", March 27, 1996, Toronto, Ontario. PART III: TEACHING


A. Courses 1. Comparative Health Law & Policy, 2008/09, 2009/10, 2010/11 2. Health System Law and Policy, 1998/99, 1999/00, 2000/01, 2001/02, 2002/03, 2003/04,

2004/5, 2005/2006, 2006/2007, 2007/2008. (I conceived of and designed this course and materials)

3. Administrative Law, 2000/01, 2001/02, 2002/03, 2003/04, 2005/06, 2011/12 4. Regulated Industries, 1998/99, 1999/2000, 2000/01.

(I designed this course and materials) 5. Human Genome Bridge Week, 2000/01, 2001/02, 2002/03, 2003/04

(Together with Trudo Lemmens, I designed this course and materials) 6. Legislating and Litigating Health Care Rights Bridge Week, 2006

(I designed this course and materials) 7. Health Law and Policy Workshop, 2002/2003, 2003/04, 2005/06, 2006/07, 2007/08,

2008-09, 2009-10. (I conceived of and designed this course and supporting materials.) B. Student Supervision Graduate Supervision 1. Y.Y. Brandon Chen (SJD candidate). Thesis “International Migrants’ Right to Health in

the Era of Medical Tourism -- Potential Legal and Policy Implications of Medical Tourism on International Migrants’ Access to Health Care in Receiving Countries” (draft title). – ongoing.

2. Shannon Gibson (LLM candidate). Thesis "The Role(s) of Social Media in Direct-to-

Consumer Advertising of Pharmaceuticals" (draft title). – ongoing. 3. Lijing Cao (LLM candidate). Thesis "The Prospect for Health Care Rights in China"

(draft title). – ongoing. 4. Lorian Hardcastle (SJD candidate). Thesis “Governmental Liability for Health Care in

Canada” (draft title). I have also been involved in significant mentoring activities with Lorian (sub-contracting research contracts; etc.) – ongoing.

5. Part of the thesis committee for Tom Archibald (SJD candidate). Thesis “Labour Policy

vs. Health Policy”. I have also been involved in mentoring activities with Tom (employed as a research assistant, co-writing papers, etc.). Tom completed, upon my initiation, a successful contract with Health Canada examining the legal ramifications of wait time guarantees in a number of jurisdictions.

6. Part of thesis advisory committee for Laura Esmail (PhD Candidate, Leslie Dan Faculty

of Pharmacy, University of Toronto). Thesis: “Institutional Differences in Access to Medicines Policy: Canada’s Access to Medicines Regime and the WHO


Intergovernmental Working Group on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property”.

7. Ruby Dhand, LL.M. Thesis (2009) “Challenging Exclusion: A Critique of the Legal

Barriers Faced by Psychiatric Consumer/Survivors from Ethno-Racial Communities in Ontario” [Link to full text].

8. Mark Geiger, LL.M. Thesis (part-time) (2008) “Primary care reform in Ontario: What's the

hold up? An economic, legal, historical, and comparative analysis of the primary care reform initiatives in Ontario from 2000 to 2008” [Link to abstract].

9. Juhee Makkar, LL.M. Thesis (2008) “Access to Cancer Drugs”. 10. Catherine Régis, SJD Thesis (2008) “Mind over matter: Using law & psychology to

optimize conflict resolution in health care” [Link to abstract]. 11. Rami Shoucri, LL.M. Thesis (2008) “Accelerating bridge building between intertwined

paths: Legal governance of the delivery and financing of health care services in the context of Crown-Aboriginal relationships in Canada” [Link to abstract].

12. Jennie Baek, LL.M. Thesis (2007) “Policy And Government Treatment Of Stem Cell

Research: Bringing It Out Of The Shadows Of Assisted Reproductive Technologies” [Link to abstract].

13. Part of the thesis committee for Lisa Forman (supervisor Patrick Macklem), SJD Thesis

(2007) “A transformative power? The role of the human right to medicines in accessing AIDS medicines: International human rights law, TRIPS and the South African experience” [Link to abstract]. Also involved in mentoring activities with Lisa (employed as a research assistant etc.). Lisa now holds a CIHR post-doctoral fellowship and is based in the Munk Centre, University of Toronto.

14. Regiane Garcia, LL.M. Thesis (2007) “A critical analysis of public participation in health

policy choice in Brazil” [Link to abstract]. 15. Lorian Hardcastle, LL.M. Thesis (2006) “Tort accountability of governments and

institutions in the Canadian Health Care System” [Link to abstract]. 16. Oscar Cabrera, LL.M. Thesis (2006) “Legal preparedness and proportionality of social

distancing measures in Ontario's legislation” [Link to abstract] (Research concerned the extent to which Canadian public health law and institutions are prepared for an Avian flu epidemic).

17. Demitry Papasotirou-Laneigne, LL.M. Thesis (2006) “Towards a paradigm shift to an

inclusionary immigration application model of the Canadian Charter and the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights” [Link to abstract] (Research concerned legal mechanisms of immigrants and refugees to ensure access to health care).

18. Obiajulu Nnamuchi, LL.M. Thesis (2006) “Access to health care: A right or farce?” [Link

to abstract] (Research concerned the potential of litigating rights to health care in middle-income developing countries like Nigeria).


19. A. Sasha Kontic, LL.M. Thesis (2005) “Assessing the effectiveness of the prescription

drug post-market surveillance system in Canada: The need for a more active regulatory role” [Link to abstract].

20. Simon Rabinovitch, LL.M. Thesis (2004) “The legitimacy of cross-border pharmacy from

Canada to the United States” [Link to abstract]. 21. Catherine Régis, LL.M. Thesis (2004) “Enhancing Patients’ Confidence in Access to

Health Care: The Ontario or Quebec Way?”. 22. Anthea Williams, LL.M. Thesis (2004) “A decision-making framework for government

settlement decisions in health accident claims” [Link to abstract]. 23. Caroline Pitfield, LL.M. Thesis (2003): “Giving patients a louder voice in the health care

system? : a critical evaluation of the Ontario Health Services Appeal and Review Board”. 24. Tracey Epps, LLM Thesis (2001) “Merchants in the Temple? The Implications of the

GATS and NAFTA for Canada’s Health Care System” [Link to full text]. Also involved in significant mentoring activities with Tracey (co-writing papers; sub-contracting research contracts; etc.).

25. Cathy Anderson, LL.M Thesis (2000) “The Legal and Political Evolution of Federal

Tobacco Control Legislation” [Link to full text]. 26. Participated in the graduate symposium, “Making the Most of the Doctoral Years: Things

to Accomplish During the SJD Program”, 11 October 2006. 27. Toronto Coordinator of the CIHR training program in health law and policy. This

provides graduate stipends to a number of students but also provides additional networking and mentoring opportunities. I host a lunch every year with all trainees as well as drinks and invite faculty and leading scholars and practitioners in health law and policy. I also provide a run-through of presentations on all the students’ theses (not just those I supervise. The CIHR students are funded to present in either Alberta, Halifax or Toronto on their thesis topic each year. They get feedback and mentoring from the faculty of all three universities and experts in health law and policy

C. Supervision of Research Associates/Fellows/Research Assistants: The CHSRF Medicare Basket Project and CIHR grant has allowed me to engage and supervise several research assistants in the summers and through the academic year.

Arthur Wilson (Research Associate) Melissa Casco (Project Manager) Greig Hinds (Research Associate) Bryan Thomas (Research Associate) Lorian Hardcastle (SJD) Michelle Zimmerman-Day (SJD) Oscar Cabrera (LLM)

Karen Arcot (JD) Ryann Atkins (JD) Marta Balcewicz (JD) Y.Y. Brandon Chen (JD) Lily Coodin (JD) Alanna Courtright (JD) Patrick Dyke (JD)


Jennifer Dolling (LLM) Juhee Makkar (LLM ) Rami Shoucri (LLM) Michael Thomas (LLM)) Clara Wong (LLM) Matthew Wong (LLM) Sujith Xavier (LLM)

Insiya Essajee (JD) Amanda Haugan (JD) Ryan MacIsaac (JD) Rebecca Majerczyck (JD) Kathryn May (JD) Geoff Read (JD) Amy Stein (JD)

PART IV: UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION A. University Committees 2009 Steering and Review Committee for the Comparative Program on Health and

Society, Munk Centre for International Studies. This committee reviews applications for doctoral, post-doctoral and visitors to the Munk centre under the auspices of the Lupina Fellowship. I am the law school representative on the committee.

2009 Member of School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Toronto,

publication committee (part of advisory committee for a new student-lead magazine on public policy issues)

2007 - Member of Ontario Research Chair (ORC) Committee (Department of Health

Policy, Management and Evaluation, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto) 2007 - Member of School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Toronto,

publication committee. 2006 - Member of Academic Advisory Committee, Collaborative for Health System

Performance (with Brian R. Golden, chair, Rotman Chair in Health Sector Strategy at the University of Toronto and the University Health Network Director, Rotman Centre for Health Sector Strategy).

2004 Investigator with Home Care Evaluation and Research Centre, University of

Toronto (co-directors, Drs. Peter Coyte and Patricia McKeever) 2000 Member of the Liberty Health Chair in Health Management Strategies Advisory

Committee (with Vivek Goel, Edward Sellors, Terry Sullivan, Gery Barry and Laura Menc)

2000 Steering and Review Committee for the Comparative Program on Health and

Society, Munk Centre for International Studies (Chaired by Janice Stein) 2000 Search Committee to select the Dean of the Faculty of Law 1997-1999 Member of the Ethics Committee, Faculty of Health Professions, Dalhousie

University 1994-1996 Graduate Students' Representative, University Appeals Board, University of

Toronto


B. Law School Committees 2011 - Research Advisory Committee, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto 2007 - Information and Technology Committee, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto 2006 - International Advisory Committee 2005-2006 Course Assignments Committee; Appointments Committee 2003–2004 Research Ethics Officer 2003–2004 Course Assignments Committee 2003–2004 Chair of Reading Committee for Tenure File of a colleague. 2000-2004 Financial Aid Committee 1999-2004 Graduate Studies Committee, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto 1999-2000 Information Technology Committee, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto 1997-1999 Continuing Legal Education Committee, Faculty of Law, Dalhousie University 1999-1997 Graduate Studies Committee, Faculty of Law, Dalhousie University 1997-1999 Admissions Committee, Faculty of Law, Dalhousie 1997 Health Law Institute representative working with the Law Journal Committee,

Dalhousie University, on a special issue of the journal, focusing on health reform 1993-1994 Graduate Social Committee, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto 1993-1994 Graduate Representative, Faculty Council, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto

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