{"id":1314,"date":"2018-01-04T12:16:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T17:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reltoronto.ca\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=1314"},"modified":"2018-01-04T12:16:20","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T17:16:20","slug":"brian-chan-mo-money-mo-problems-economic-analyses-in-spinal-cord-injury","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/reltoronto.ca\/index.php\/lecture\/brian-chan-mo-money-mo-problems-economic-analyses-in-spinal-cord-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Chan &#8211; Mo\u2019 money, mo\u2019 problems: economic analyses in spinal cord injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Abstract<\/h3>\n<p>In a financially constraint health care environment, economic analyses are becoming increasingly important to health care administrators and decision-makers.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the concepts, methods and application of health economics are not clearly understood by most clinicians and scientists.\u00a0 In this lecture, I will present a high level overview of economic evaluations in health care, explore the landscape of economic analyses in spinal cord injury and highlight ongoing and future research in this area by the Neural Engineering and Therapeutics team at Toronto Rehab Institute.<\/p>\n<h3>About the Speaker<\/h3>\n<p>Brian Chan is a Post-doctoral Fellow with the Neural Engineering and Therapeutics Team at Toronto Rehabilitation Institute.\u00a0 He received his Doctorate of Philosophy from the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Bachelor and Masters of Science degrees from the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Toronto.\u00a0\u00a0 His Doctoral work examined the &#8220;Economic burden of chronic ulcers&#8221;. Brian\u2019s research interests are in economic analyses of spinal cord injury.\u00a0 His strengths are in decision modelling, developing cost-of-illness studies and economic evaluations using administrative health care data and translating economic evidence to stakeholders. Brian is currently co- supervised by Dr Cathy Craven and Dr Walter Wodchis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Abstract In a financially constraint health care environment, economic analyses are becoming increasingly important to health care administrators and decision-makers.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the concepts, methods and application of health economics are &#8230;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"pgc_meta":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reltoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/1314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reltoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reltoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reltoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reltoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reltoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/1314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1315,"href":"https:\/\/reltoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/1314\/revisions\/1315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reltoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reltoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reltoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1314"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reltoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=1314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}