Murray D. Krahn, BA, MD, MSc
Staff Physician, General Internal Medicine, UHN
Professor, Department of Medicine, Unversity of Toronto
Murray Krahn completed his undergraduate medical training at the University of Manitoba, and completed an Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Toronto. He subsequently went on to do both a Master’s Degree in Clinical Epidemiology at McMaster University, and a Clinical Fellowship in Medical Decision Making at the New England Medical Centre in Boston. His research interests are in the application of economic evaluation and decision analytic modeling to broad clinical policy questions.
For the past few years he has been working in the area of modeling outcomes in prostate cancer, designing disease specific utility instruments, working with administrative data to develop longitudinal cost models, developing clinical policy models, and exploring the interface between evidence based medicine and health economics/decision science.
He is currently Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto, the F. Norman Hughes Chair in Pharmacoeconomics, Faculty of Pharmacy, and the Director of the Toronto Health Economics and Technology Assessment Collaborative. He is an adjunct Scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, and Senior Scientist at the Toronto General Research Institute (TGRI), University Health Network.