Richard Glazier

Dr. Glazier is a Senior Scientist and Leader of the Primary Care and Population Health Program at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Toronto, a clinician at St. Michael's Hospital and a Scientist in its Centre for Research on Inner City Health. 

Dr. Glazier is an Associate Professor and Research Scholar in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto, and is cross-appointed in its Dalla Lana School of Public Health (formerly the Department of Public Health Sciences).  Dr. Glazier received his medical degree from the University of Western Ontario, and completed his training in public health and preventive medicine at Johns Hopkins University and the World Health Organization.  

Dr. Glazier's awards include excellence in teaching (2000,2006/07), in research (2000,2003), in publications (2001,2004,2006), and he was also named 2005 Family Medicine Researcher of the Year by the College of Family Physicians of Canada. His research interests include the delivery of primary care health services, the health of disadvantaged populations, and population-based and geographic methods for improving equity in health. 

In addition to numerous articles published in peer-reviewed journals, reports, presentations and invited lectures throughout his career, Dr. Glazier is also Co-Editor of Neighbourhood Environments and Resources for Healthy Living - A Focus on Diabetes in Toronto: An ICES Atlas (November, 2007) which continues to garner interest from decision-makers, media and the public. 

See St. Michael's Hospital website for more information.