Professor and Vice Chair (Quality & Innovation), University of Toronto; Canada

Dr. Kaveh Shojania is Professor and Vice Chair (Quality & Innovation) in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto. Dr Shojania’ s research has focused on identifying effective strategies for improving patient safety and healthcare quality more generally. He has published approximately 200 papers indexed in Medline, including the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA and the Lancet. Google Scholar lists over 25,000 citations to his work with an h-index of 74. From 2011-2020, Dr Shojania was Editor-in-Chief at BMJ Quality & Safety, during which time the journal’s impact factor rose to consistently rank in the top few spots among the 90+ journals in its category, including not just health care quality, but also health services research, clinical informatics, health policy, and medical education. Currently, he is as an Associate Editor at JAMA Network Open.