Boris Sobolev

Boris Sobolev is a Russian-born Canadian health services researcher.^[1] He is an author of Analysis of Waiting-Time Data in Health Services Research ^[2] and Health Care Evaluation Using Computer Simulation: Concepts, Methods and Applications,^[3] and is Editor-in-Chief of the Handbook of Health Services Research series, a major reference work commissioned by Springer Science+Business Media.

Biography

Boris Sobolev received a University Diploma in Applied Mathematics from Tomsk State University in 1983, a PhD in Applied Statistics from the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1989, and completed his post-doctoral training at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria in 1990. He came to Canada to work at Queen’s University in Kingston Ontario in 1996. Later, Boris Sobolev joined the University of British Columbia, Canada, where he is a professor at the School of Population and Public Health.^[4] There he has taught a variety of courses, and introduced a new course on causal inferences into the curriculum.^[5] He also leads the Health Services and Outcomes Research Program at the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation.^[6]

Research

Boris Sobolev started his academic career at the Radiation Epidemiology Institute at the National Academy of Science of Ukraine, studying cancer risk in relation to exposure resulting from the Chernobyl accident.^[7] At Queen’s University, Boris Sobolev worked at the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, examining how people get access to health care, what services they use, and what happens to patients as a result of this care. Boris Sobolev pioneered the epidemiological approach to studying risk of adverse events in relation to time of receiving medical services. ^[8] Currently, he leads the research on hip fracture care. ^[9]

Honours and awards

Boris Sobolev was awarded a Young Scientist Summer Program Fellowship at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Vienna in 1990,^[10] was the 2004 PWIAS Early Career Scholar award recipient,^[11] and became the Canada Research Chair in Statistics and Modeling of the Health Care System in 2003 - a distinction he held through to 2013.

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