Craig Kuziemsky is the recipient of the inaugural Telfer School of Management Young Researcher of the Year Award presented annually to a faculty member who has made exceptional contributions to research and the training of students within the first seven years as a full-time professor. The award comes with a research grant of $5,000; the winner becomes the Telfer School of Management’s nominee for the Young Researcher of the Year Award at the University of Ottawa.

A prolific researcher, Craig Kuziemsky is developing a novel methodological approach for integrating the diverse information flows and work processes of collaborative healthcare teams. This research will design information and communication technologies to integrate the different healthcare providers who make complex decisions based on different levels of knowledge while they work at different locations.

Associate Professor at the Telfer School, Craig is Director of the M.Sc. Health Systems Program. He teaches courses in the Master of Health Administration (MHA) and Master of Science Health Systems programs as well as at the undergraduate level. He joined the Telfer School of Management as Assistant Professor in June 2007 after completing his Ph.D. in Health Information Science from the University of Victoria in British Columbia.

What approaches to innovation provide the foundation for identifying and creating value? The question was explored by Professor Mark Freel in a masterclass titled “Output Driven Innovation – Making Innovation Accessible [This link is no longer available]” given at Lancaster University Management School (LUMS), in England last September.

One of Professor Mark Freel’s main research interests is the question of how “new value” can be an alternative or complementary innovation within business. He examines the importance of understanding the nature of value: what it is, what it’s worth and who defines it.

Mark Freel is the RBC Financial Group Professor in the Commercialization of Innovation at the Telfer School and a Visiting Fellow of the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development at LUMS. Originally trained as an economist, he has studied and consulted on issues relating to innovation policy and practice for over 15 years.

Professor Gurprit Kindra of the Telfer School of Management is a keynote speaker at the Annual Conference of the Emerging Markets Conference Board in India, 9-11 January 2014. This event brings together international scholars to advance the understanding of marketing in emerging markets and facilitate collaboration in emerging markets research. The theme of the conference is ‘Listening to Consumers in Emerging Markets.’

The Centre for Marketing in Emerging Economies (CMEE) is organizing this conference, which will be held at the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (IIML), Noida Campus, in Noida, India.

The Final Call for Papers is available at this link. [This link is no longer available]

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Professor Doug Angus of the Telfer School was a member of the Strategic Planning Leadership Committee for the 2013-2016 cardiovascular health plan for Champlain region. The Champlain Cardiovascular Disease Network Strategy and Action Plan launched earlier this month is designed to mitigate the costs and the negative health outcomes of cardiovascular disease, the number one cost driver in Ontario’s healthcare budget. The plan is a roadmap for how partners in primary care, public health, acute care, and community settings will work together to address cardiovascular disease. Five strategic directions are identified to improve the cardiovascular health of Champlain residents and build a system of excellence in cardiovascular disease prevention that can serve as a model for the province of Ontario and Canada.

Doug Angus is a Full Professor in the Telfer School with expertise in health economics and health policy. He has research activities at the international, national, provincial and regional levels in areas related to health economics, health policy, program evaluation and health care management. Professor Angus recently served as a member of one of the expert working groups which helped produced a report on the issue of resident duty hours for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.