Biography

Dr. M. Ehsan Karim is

• an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) in Health Data Science in the School of Population and Public Health ( SPPH), The University of British Columbia ( UBC),
• a Scientist at the Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences ( CHEOS), St. Paul’s Hospital, and
• an Associate Member, UBC Statistics.
• He was also a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research ( MSFHR) Scholar.

He obtained his Ph.D. in Statistics from UBC, supported by a studentship from the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada ( MSSOC). He completed his postgraduate training in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health at McGill, supported by a fellowship from the Canadian Network for Observational Drug Effect Studies ( CNODES).

His current program of research focuses on developing causal inference and pharmacoepidemiological methodologies, and applications of data science approaches in the large healthcare data analysis context to answer real-world comparative effectiveness research questions. His program of research is supported by grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada ( NSERC) and the BC SUPPORT Unit. He supervises graduate students from both SPPH and Statistics Department.

He also conducts, supports, collaborates and implements patient-oriented research as well as pragmatic / clinical trial design and analysis. Within SPPH, he developed and teaches a core PhD capstone course that integrates state-of-the-art epidemiological, data science, and data analytic methods. He regularly offers workshops and webinars about emerging methods nationally and internationally. Publication list and selected services can be accessed from the current website.