About


Overview of the Team
Investigators

        Doug Angus         Melissa Brouwers         Martin Eccles         Jill Francis         Gaston Godin         Ian Graham         Jeremy Grimshaw         Steve Hanna         Margaret Harrison         Louise Lemyre         Jo Logan         Merrick Zwarenstein
New Investigators

        Onil Bhattacharyya         Michelle Driedger         France Légaré         Linda Li         Rosemary Martino         Marie-Pascale Pomey
Students

        Shawn Bugden         Gaby Doumit         Sandy Dunn         Jennifer Eyvindson         Noah Ivers         Annie Leblanc         Justin Presseau         Micheal G. Wilson
Collaborators

        Jacqueline Tetroe
Team Coordinator

        Vanessa Lybanon
   


Doug Angus
Doug Angus c.v.

  • Full Professor, Tenured Member of the FGPS, School of Management, University of Ottawa


Research Interests

  • Health care reform
  • Strategic management
  • Health economics
  • Health policy
Doug Angus

Biography

Doug Angus is a Health Economist and Full Professor in the School of Management , University of Ottawa. He also is the Director of the PhD Program in Population Health, one of the Interdisciplinary Studies Programs which are led by the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies.

Previously, he was Vice Dean and Associate Dean (Academic) (from 1999 to 2002), Director of the Master of Health Administration Program (from 1997 to 2001) at the University and, before that, was the Director of the Queen's-University of Ottawa Economic Projects on Cost-Effectiveness of the Canadian Health Care System, and is the lead author of its major report, Sustainable Health Care for Canada.

Professor Angus has research activities at the international, national, provincial, and regional levels, particularly in the areas of health care reform, strategic management, health economics (cost analysis and economic evaluation of health programs), and health policy.

 


Major Research Activities

Research activity Funding
Research program on implementing patient safety practices in pediatrics and adult health care 2006-2010 CHSRF
Identification, concept and bibliometric analyses of organizational change theories/frameworks 2005-2006 CIHR
Comparisons of models of primary health care in Ontario 2004-2006 Ministry of Health & Long-Term Care, Ontario
Canada Prime: Process modeling in implementation research 2004-2006 IRSH-CIHR
Bibliometric analysis of knowledge translation theories 2004-2005 IRSH-CIHR
Development of a transdisciplinary team for improving the quality of health care 2003-2008 IRSH-CIHR ICE
Impact de l'agrément du CCASS sur les établissements de santé canadiens en terme de dynamique de changement et d'implantation de démarches qualité et sécurité 2003-2006 CIHR
Development and evaluation of an Ontario training centre in health services and policy research 2002-2012 CIHR/CHSRF


Selected Publications

  • Reid R., Papadakis S., Coyle D., Beaton L., Dafoe W., Oldridge N., Morrin L, Mayhew A., and Angus D. E.. Co-Effectiveness of Cardiac Rehabilitation in Patients at Varying Risk for Disease Progression or Different Reasons for Referral. Canadian Journal of Cardiology. 2003; October: 19
  • Wilson K., MacDougall L., Pinard B., Amin M. A., Ferguson D., Graham I., Angus D. E., Blajchman M., Freedman J., and Hébert, P. How Should Canada Fund the Blood System? An Evaluation of the Chargeback Proposal. Healthcare Quarterly (formerly Hospital Quarterly). 2003; Spring: 47-54
  • Papadakis S., Reid R., Coyle D., Beaton L., Dafoe W., Oldridge N., Movrin L., Mayhew A., and Angus D. E. Cost-Effective of Standard versus Alternative Cardiac Rehabilitation Program Delivery. Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation. 2003; 23(5)
  • Angus D. E.‘’Challenges of Telemedicine: Lessons Learned from the Eastern Ontario Telehealth Network’’, in Issues in Health Economics and Health Management, Birch, S., Bridges, J., Papanikos, G. (Eds.). 2003. Athens Institute for Education and Research, Athens, Greece, pp. 161-176.
  • Alcock D., Angus D. E., Diem E., Gallagher E., Medves J. Home Care or Long-Term Care Facility: Factors that Influence the Decision. Home Health Services Quarterly. 2002; 21(2): 35-48.
  • Diem E., Alcock E., Gallagher E., Angus D. E., Medves J. Looking Beyond Caseload Numbers for Long-Term Home-Care Case Managers. Case Management. 2001; 3(1): 2-7.
  • Angus D. E. Better Management, Not More Cash, Prescribed for Canadian Health Care System? Canadian Business Economics. 1999; 7(1): 15-20
  • Szick S. , Angus D. E. , Nichol G. , Harrison M. B. , Page J. , Moher D. Health Care Delivery in Canada and the United States: Are There Relevant Difference in Health Care Outcomes?1999. Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences , Toronto, ON
  • Angus D. E. , Cloutier J. E. , Albert T. , Chénard D. , Shariatmader A. The Economic Burden of Unintentional Injury in Canada. 1998. SmartRisk Foundation , Toronto, ON
  • Angus D. E. ‘’Health Care Costs: Canada in Perspective’’, in Health and Canadian Society: Sociological Perspectives (Third Edition), Coburn, D., D'Arcy, C., Torrence, G. (Eds.). 1998. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, ON, pp. 23-42.
  • Angus D. E. ‘’Health Care Costs and the Fiscal Realities in Canada’’, in Pinched: A Management Guide to the Canadian Health Care Archipelago, Zeibarth, S. (Ed.). 1996. Pinched Press, Ottawa, ON, pp. 10-25.
  • Angus D. E. ‘’Cost-Effectiveness of Canadian Health Care’’, in La réinvention des institutions et le rôle de l'État, Coulombe, S., Paquet, G. (Eds.). 1996. Association des économistes québécois, pp. 303-324.
  • Angus D. E. , Auer L. , Cloutier J. E. , Albert T. Sustainable Health Care for Canada. 1995. Queen's - University of Ottawa Economic Projects , Ottawa, ON
  • Auer L. , Angus D. E. , Cloutier J. E. , Comis J. Cost-Effectiveness of Canadian Health Care. 1995. Queen's - University of Ottawa Economic Projects , Ottawa, ON
  • Manga P., Angus D. E., Swan W. R. Findings and Recommendations from an Independent Review of Chiropractic Management of Low Back Pain. Journal of Neuromusculoskeletal System. 1994; 2(1): 1-8
  • Angus D. E., Lemay P. ‘’Medical and Health Services Research’’, in Science and Technology in Canada, de la Mothe, J., Dufour, P. (Eds.). 1993. Longman, London, pp. 230-249.
  • Angus D. E., Manga P., Swan W. R. Effective Management of Low Back Pain: It's Time to Accept the Evidence. Journal of Canadian Chiropractic Association. 1993; 37(4): 221-29

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