I am:

• Director of the Division of Clinical, Social and Administrative Pharmacy in the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada [on leave 2009-10].
• Associate professor in the Faculty of Pharmacy, and the School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Toronto.
• Adjunct associate professor in the Department of Economics, McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada.
• Supported by a Premier's Research Excellence Award; I held the Rx&D/CIHR Research Career Award in Health Sciences from 2000-2005.
• Collaborator in the Research Program on the Social and Economic Dimensions of an Aging Population which is major collaborative research program funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
• Associate editor of Health Economics and serve on the editorial board of Canadian Public Policy

My research interests are in health economics and applied micro-econometrics. In particular, I am interested in various aspects of pharmaceuticals use, insurance and reimbursement; intellectual property and other economic aspects of the pharmaceutical industry; and methods for program evaluation using observational (health survey and administrative health care claims and vital statistics) data.