The
Bernie J. O'Brien Education Fund
The Bernie J. O Brien Education Fund
McMaster University
Bernie O Brien was an internationally renowned health
economist who built and led a worldclass research team
to study the cost-effectiveness and cost-utility
of health care interventions. He was a pioneer in medical decision making,
especially in assessing the benefits and costs of health
technology. He received many national
and international awards for his outstanding work and held a prestigious Senior
Investigator Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Bernie
was a professor in the department of Clinical Epidemiology
and Biostatistics in the
Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster University, and an associate of the
Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis (CHEPA)
at McMaster. He was director
of Clinical Effectiveness Research for the Father Sean O Sullivan Research
Centre and associate director of the Centre for Evaluation
of Medicines at St. Josephs
Healthcare Hamilton. He was also the founding director of the newly established
Program for Assessment of Technology in Health (PATH). To honour Bernie and
his outstanding contributions as a leader and innovator
in the field of health technology
assessment, his family, friends, former students and colleagues would like
to establish a Bernie J. O Brien Education Trust Fund
at McMaster University. To
remember Bernies enthusiasm for supporting and mentoring young researchers
in his field, the endowment will be dedicated to the
support of a post-doctoral
fellowship or a graduate student bursary in health economics and clinical-effectiveness
research at McMaster. Kindly send your donations to:
Nancy Kolenski
Faculty of Health Sciences
Health Sciences Centre, Room HSC-2E4
McMaster University
1200 Main Street West
Hamilton, Ontario L8N 3Z5
Make cheques payable to McMaster University and
indicate Bernie OBrien in
the memo
section of the cheque or in your covering note.
The OBrien family will be notified of your gift unless
you prefer to remain anonymous. All
donors will receive a charitable donation receipt.
Many heartfelt thanks for your generous support.
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