Sidney Sax Fellow, Dept of Health Care Policy
About
Dr Adam Elshaug (pronounced 'elshaw') is Sidney Sax Fellow with joint appointments in the School of Population Health and Clinical Practice at The University of Adelaide and at Harvard Medical School in Boston where he is based. Adam trained in clinical epidemiology and health services and policy research. He has focused in the area of refining use of low-value health services; evidentiary, clinical and policy barriers to reform and implementation. Increasingly referred to as disinvestment, this work involves the development and application of epidemiologic, economic, ethical and policy appraisals of existing, entrenched health care practices that are thought to be ineffective, less effective or inappropriately applied with a view to reducing these in favour of offering more effective health care services.
Dr Elshaug collaborates and consults with government health agencies (federal and provincial) in Australia and internationally (Spain, U.K., Canada) to advance methods and policy reform in this area. He is currently working with the Australian government to design and implement a formal disinvestment policy agenda within Medicare. Dr Elshaug serves as an Associate Editor for the journal BMC Health Services Research and has published in journals such as the BMJ, Quality and Safety in Health Care, and Medical Journal of Australia. He is chief investigator on two large disinvestment research grants, is recipient of numerous awards as a new or emerging researcher, and has received over 85 invitations to address conferences as well as government, academic, insurance and health technology assessment groups internationally.
Additional Bio material:
http://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/adam.elshaug
Contact Information
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| Address: | 180 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA elshaug@hcp.med.harvard.edu |
