Terry Klassen MD, MSc, FRCPC

Dr. Klassen became the CEO and Scientific Director for the Children\’s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba and Associate Dean, Academic in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, in charge of the George and Fay Yee Center for Healthcare Innovation in September, 2010.

From 1999 to 2009 Dr. Klassen served as Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Alberta. During the same period Dr. Klassen was the Director of the Alberta Research Centre for Health Evidence and Director of the Evidence-based Practice Center at the University of Alberta. He is a clinician scientist whose clinical base is Pediatric Emergency Medicine, and has been active in Pediatric Emergency Research Canada collaborating on a national research program involving randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews and knowledge translation. He has a consistent record of national and international peer reviewed funding, along with a publication record that has included many articles in the highest impact medical journals.