Dr. Tom Feasby

Dean, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary

Dr. Tom Feasby is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Calgary where he served since 2007. Previously he was Vice-President of Academic Affairs at Capital Health and Associate Dean in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Alberta. He is a practising neurologist and a health services researcher, who studies the appropriateness of health care interventions. Dr. Feasby has been a long time member of the Institute of Health Economics Board and was recently appointed to serve on the Ministers Advisory Committee on Health. He completed his BSc and MD at the University of Manitoba, followed by a research fellowship at Institute of Neurology in London, England and professorships in neurology at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ont. From 1991 to 2003, as well as leading the U of C Faculty of Medicine's Department of Clinical Neurosciences, he was also head of the Calgary Health Region's regional Department of Clinical Neurosciences, where he assembled an internationally-recognized clinical neurosciences group.

His record of research excellence is reflected in more than 100 research publications in areas such as neurologic diseases and the appropriateness of health care interventions, his supervision of numerous graduate students, and his involvement in professional societies and organizations including the CIHR Institute of Health Services and Policy Research, the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and the American Academy of Neurology.