Dr. Mohsen Sadatsafavi – MD, MHScMD, MHSc, Ph.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Mohsen Sadatsafavi
MD, MHSc, Ph.D.
Dr. Sadatsafavi is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Associate Director of Research, Collaboration for Outcomes Research and Evaluation at UBC. He received his M.D. degree from Tehran University of Medical Sciences in 2002, his MHSc degree in Epidemiology from UBC in 2007, and his Ph.D degree in Health Outcomes Research from UBC in 2012. Dr. Sadatsafavi leads the Respiratory Evaluation Sciences Program, a comprehensive program of outcomes research in chronic respiratory diseases. RESP consists of three inter-related and synergistic themes of 1) burden of disease studies, 2) comparative effectiveness research, and 3) economic evaluation of respiratory health technologies. His work in the first two themes involves sophisticated analysis of clinical and administrative health databases. Through this line of work, RESP has emerged as a leading research group documenting the burden of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in Canada. The third theme involves decision-analytic modeling and computer simulation to predict the cost-effectiveness of existing and emerging respiratory health technologies. For his research, Dr. Sadatsafavi has received New Investigator Salary Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Scholar Award from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, and Early Research Leaders Initiative Award from the Canadian Respiratory Research Network (CRRN). Dr. Sadatsafavi is the Theme Leader of the Health Economics Platform of CRRN and is a member of the international Respiratory Effectiveness Group.