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Kaveh G. Shojania

Kaveh G. Shojania MD

Healthcare Management, Internal Medicine and General Medicine
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Dr. Kaveh Shojania is Director of the Centre for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (C-QuIPS) at the University of Toronto and a general internist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. He has published over 125 peer review articles, including in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Lancet, and the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), with over 9,000 citations to his work. In 2004, Dr. Shojania received one of the John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety Awards from the US Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and the National Quality Forum for work in patient safety that has had an impact at a national level. And, he has twice delivered invited lectures to the US Institute of Medicine. He held a Canada Research Chair from 2005-2013. And, since January 2011, he has been the Editor-in-Chief of BMJ Quality and Safety, the leading scientific publication in the fields of patient safety and healthcare quality improvement.
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