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Dr. Eyal Cohen

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Biography

Dr. Eyal Cohen received academic training at the University of Toronto (medicine) and McMaster University (health research methodology), and clinical training at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and the Children's Hospital at Westmead in Sydney, Australia. Dr. Cohen co-founded the Complex Care Program with his colleagues in the Division of Pediatric Medicine at the Hospital for SickKids. He is currently the Program Head in Child Health Evaluative Sciences in the SickKids Research Institute and Co-Executive Director of the Leong Centre for Healthy Children. Dr. Cohen is a Professor of Pediatrics and Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. He is also a Scientist with the CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research at McMaster University and an adjunct scientist at ICES. Dr. Cohen serves in a number of advisory roles for the Provincial Council of Maternal and Child Health, BORN Ontario, and the Ontario Public Drug Program.

Area of Focus

Inpatient care, Models of care coordination for children with complex chronic conditions, Barriers to research involving children, Pneumonia

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