Rate My Professor Stephenson Strobel

Stephenson Strobel is an Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct) in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University, with additional academic affiliations in the departments of Health Policy and Economics. He is a clinician-researcher and emergency physician practicing across multiple emergency departments in the Niagara Health System. Strobel holds an MD and completed residency training in Family Medicine at the University of Toronto. He earned a PhD in Public Policy from Cornell University. He received his Honours BA in Economics from McMaster University in 2010 and an MA from Queen’s University.

His research focuses on health services and labor economics, with emphasis on physician behavior, information transmission in clinical settings, and the design of health systems and policy. He applies modern causal inference methods to administrative, clinical, and historical datasets. Projects include studies of emergency department triage and admission decisions, urgent-care closures and system effects, physician taxation and labor supply, and historical public health interventions. Strobel aims to bridge economic theory with institutional detail from frontline clinical experience to produce policy-relevant evidence.