Rate My Professor Donald Redelmeier

Donald Redelmeier is a Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto and holds the Canada Research Chair in Medical Decision Sciences. He received his MD from the University of Toronto in 1984 and completed postgraduate training in internal medicine. He obtained a master's degree in health services research as a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar at Stanford University in 1989. Redelmeier serves as staff physician in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, director of clinical epidemiology at Sunnybrook, senior scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, and senior scientist at the Sunnybrook Research Institute. His research emphasizes the psychology of medical decision-making, the epidemiology of motor vehicle trauma, clinical effectiveness, clinical economics, health services delivery, and public and population health. He has published over 200 articles in the scientific medical literature. Notable publications include “Association between cellular-telephone calls and motor vehicle collisions” in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1997, “Survival in Academy Award-winning actors and actresses” in the Annals of Internal Medicine in 2001, and “Physician warnings for unfit drivers and the risk of trauma from a road crash” in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2012. Redelmeier is a member of the CMAJ Governance Council. His honors include the CMAJ Bruce Squires Award in 2016 and recognition as one of Toronto’s 30 best doctors by Toronto Life magazine in 2014.