Date: 6/30/2007
Tehran university of medical sciences, Public relations news service: Dr. Upshur canadian researcher in medical ethics will discuss different aspects of primary care ethics in second international congress of medical ethics in Tehran.
Dr. Upshur is the Canada Research Chair in Primary Care Research and a Research Scholar and Associate Professor, Departments of Family and Community Medicine and Public Health Sciences and Adjunct Scientist at the Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences at the University of Toronto.
His research interests include the concept of evidence in health care, medical epistemology, clinical reasoning, public health ethics, ethics and health information, empirical approaches in bioethics, primary care research methods, time series applications in health services research, communicable disease and environmental epidemiology. He has published peer reviewed studies in each of these domains. At the University of Toronto, he has designed and taught courses in the graduate, post graduate and undergraduate curriculum in ethics and epidemiology as well as supervising doctoral and master’s candidates and being a clinical supervisor in the post graduate Family Medicine Residency program. He has served on Advisory Boards for the International Joint Commission, Doctors Without Borders, and Scidev.net and consulted with the World Health Organization.
The 2nd International Congress of medical ethics in Iran will be held in Tehran on November 22-24, 2007 with participation of some of world's most famous researchers in this field to discuss the ways of how to reach common perspectives.
http://publicrelations.tums.ac.ir/english/news/detail.asp?newsID=4033
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